Religions
in World Encyclopedia
Conjunctivism
diverse, disorganized series of sects who discuss locally their thoughts on the Conjunction. their dogma differs. small like Acts-era christianity. but probably have a group of tenets that reflect foundational beliefs about the conjunction. unitarian. compared to other religions, this is where orcs go when they religion.Olympianism
a catholike organization in which an Olympian has accepted his position of divinity and abuses it or uses it in a way that should become suspicious to the player characters.Elven Duology
needs a name. But elves venerate two concepts. some seek balance, others suggest that at times, one or the other extreme is needed in order to bring balance. Change and Protection. could rename those a big. change includes creation, destruction, and death. protection includes tradition, knowledge, and not-changing. there is a second elven faith/practice that may overlap with those non-deist ideals. this one is about penitance. restoration of nature. more goddy.Galvanism
They have an actual godking at the center of their society. model on pharaohs probably. Only Galvan participate in this theology, but there are probably others scattered who are obsessed with/worship the galvan. maybe saved by a galvan intervention and now offer their own ideas of what worship should be. this confuses the galvan. (galvan are incarnate light, so incorporate that into the name maybe). Galvanism is a little too silly to use because of its similarity to calvanism. (or is it perfect?)the rest are very small in impact (until you get to the cults)
Human Pantheon
(essentially extinct) Once a very greek pantheon, now it maybe has daughter religions - like the cult that follows mammon. or some necro cultists who still worship/deal with shin-rath. separate from that, we could have a very low-maintenance religion (like modern norse) that sort of venerates lazilly the various concepts from a distance.Orcish Animism
First, i need to define orc themes and the conflicts in their world and cities.i dunno. what is the experience of an animist religion like? should they have a pantheon instead? one that is external (as opposed to the internal pantheon of the humans). (could do something with stars?) (a cross between the kami + platonic ideals. where the gods do not *want* us to do anything - ashmorkians fulfil themselves while not being dicks to the kami. sporkans pursue human platonic ideals). consider a form of animism in which case 'the divine resides in all of us' - each of us have god within us. that fits into the arete thing, as well as the more existentialist verson of 'be your own god'). orc philosophy believes that souls are not created by a god - we have souls because we are part of nature and every living or natural thing has a soul. we have souls simply because we are.