Paragons of Doxa
The Paragons of Doxa is the religion of Doxa, God of Competition in the Expanse and one the six Walking gods of the The Children of Fortune. Members of the Paragons of Doxa, known as Doxians, are common all across the Expanse.
Tenets of Faith
The Paragons of Doxa have six basic tenets:
- Train. Strive to be the best at what the things you set out to do.
- Fight. Engage in competition; keep yourself and your contemporaries sharp.
- Win. When you fight, do your utmost to win.
- Pride. Take pride in your victories.
- Learn. Take lessons from your failures.
- Teach. Apprentice others beneath you and teach them of your skill.
Ethics
The Sin of Complacency
To the Paragons of Doxa, refusing to improve is choosing to fail. One must always be striving for greater skill, reaching for greater heights, or else they will slip back into mundanity and irrelevance. Such an act is dishonorable before Doxa, dishonorable before your competitors, and dishonorable before yourself.
The Virtue of Victory
To win is to prove that your skills and the effort you have put into making yourself greater are worthy. There is no greater calling than victory in what you seek, than to prove your dominance over other competitors and crest to the peak of competency in your chosen field.
The Virtue of Grace and Honor
When you lose, you must do so with grace, understanding that your competitor is your better and knowing that you must find a way to improve yourself and overcome them later on. Do not besmirch their victory and do not seek to defeat them by underhanded means outside the bounds of your competition.Worship
Doxa is worshiped through competitions of any variety. Testing your knowledge against another scholar, testing your strength against another warrior, testing your skill against another thief, testing your wit against another conversationalist. Simply by doing these things, by proving a victor and a loser in each, is worship enough for Doxa.
