The Church of Gond
The Church of Gond is the primary religious organization of the Kingdom of Chalcedon and is devoted to the worship and dissemination of the teachings of Gond.
There are temples to Gond throughout Chalcedon, but the two main temples are The Casting in the city of Galena and The Bloomery in Minster.
The Church is headed by the Forgemaster, the highest-ranking priest in the church who advises the Bearer of the Gearheart Coronet.
The church recently became responsible for the shared oversight and approval of members of Gond's Innovators, a royally commissioned group of inventors, tinkerers, and engineers who are also devotees of the church.
Mythology & Lore
After their near victory over the Southerners, now Prehnites, the people of the North, now Chalcedonians, were more convinced than ever before that only technological innovation would provide them the edge they required to subdue and overcome their savage neighbors. It is said that a mighty and powerful figure wreathed in smoke and wielding a hammer revealed himself to a particularly loyal citizen of Chalcedon and identified himself as Gond, the god of innovation, invention, and technology. He promised to unveil a myriad of unimaginable secrets to the Chalcedonian, a man named Theophrastus von Hohenheim, if he swore to spread Gond's teachings and build his church. Hohenheim upheld his end of the bargain, establishing the Church of Gond and becoming its first Forgemaster. While no one knows what secrets Gond revealed to Hohenheim, he was instrumental in the development of a number of groundbreaking discoveries and inventions that helped launch Chalcedon into the modern era.
Divine Order Through Innovation's Embrace
Founding Date
Mondas, 10th of Last Seed, Year 10,556 of the Age of Earth
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Religious, Organised Religion
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Gondian
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