The Spiritual Extinction

History remembers the Etayen ascension as an unrivaled period of enlightenment among mortals. It was through Atûn’s people that definitive revelations of the Eshanic mythos were presented. Wisdom was forged throughout a previously ignorant world. Yet, this obstensibly benign education was accompanied with terrible cultural costs- the spiritual extinction. This was the wholesale annihilation of entire religious or spiritual canons across Etayen Qadal. The statue cults, sunpool worshippers, and reincarnationists of Othos were thrown down in the west. Aebasterianism, Mesianism, along with a slew of Everosi faiths crumpled and buckled. The retreat of the faithful caused the largest demographic disruption in that continent’s history. Seymenasi in the south was completely overrun and its traditions trodden underfoot and held true among a minority. Untold others suffered without respite. In the place of these traditional religions came iterations of the Eshanic canon. Aebaster, Atûn, Mesian, Qazun, the First Feud, Ebal’eshan, Nith’eshan, Ácolitus, Eshabal and Kovûl, the endless Void, the nature of Esha itself- all these things were asserted and reinforced by the triumph of the Etayen race above all competition.
Enlightenment might be well remembered as a necessary step toward the maturing of Qadal, but something was lost. A certain richness and color among mortal peoples was eradicated beneath the sobering reality of a singular canon. Scholars lament how much history was ruins beyond memory. Indeed, even this present record forged by Eshanic hands cannot save everything. Unspoken gaps riddle the pages.