Súdnóst's Precepts

"Those who will not live by Súdnóst's Precepts shall face everlasting condemnation"

— The Reverend Father Pascal Saint-Yves.

Following the Cataclysm of the Gods, Súdnóst formed a pact with the peoples of Eirath. He gave a promise to all the faithful nations that while the Gods must leave Eirath to prevent another Cataclysm, they would be ever watching from Acenase, land of the Divine. In return for the Gods providing protection and guidance, the leaders of the last nations swore to uphold the ideals and commands of the Gods. To seal this Pact Súdnóst gave a small handheld orb to each of the twelve leaders of the faithful nations and bound their leaders it. Súdnóst also gave a list of divine rules for the peoples of Eirath to follow, these rules became known as Súdnóst's Precepts.

Purpose

Súdnóst's Precepts are a set of principles relating to civic rules, ethics and worship. These are fundamental to the polytheistic religion that most on Eirath adhere to.

Document Structure

Clauses

Súdnóst's Precepts is a list of 14 rules that the people of Eirath are expected to obey. Each line is a separate rule.

Publication Status

Copies of Súdnóst's Precepts are usually placed in most homes and can always be found in Temples and Government Buildings.

Legal status

Although Súdnóst's Precepts is not a legally binding document, all nations have enacted laws which codify the Precepts (in some part) as law.

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Súdnóst's Precepts

Only the twelve are divine. Speak to none but they.

Nations of the twelve are sacrosanct, they will not make war upon one another.

Revere the days of divergence, keep them sacred.

Violence upon others, except in the defense of the weak is forbidden.

Only the divine can confer eternal punishment, for all earthly matters you shall punish fairly and justly.

For as progeny shall revere their progenitors, so to shall progenitors revere their progeny.

Do not forge false evidence or speak falsely about others, or oneself.

Hubris is a treacherous ally and greatest of all evils. It consumes from within, until all it leaves is suffering.

To desire and covet what others have, or to find elation at another’s misfortune ushers sorrow and hatred.

The desire for mortal riches and all temporal things leads to corruption.

Take no more from the land than you need.

To reward the laziness of others is to summon rancor and apathy.

Do not act with hatred in your heart.

Passion for the flesh of one other than a betrothed is forbidden.

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Type

Decree, Religious

Medium

Paper