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<blockquote data-quote="Imperialus" data-source="post: 6329661" data-attributes="member: 893"><p>Just a couple notes on the Church of Typhon and particularly its relationship with Tyche.</p><p></p><p>Something important to remember about religion in Dwimmermount is that although the gods are all lawful, they are not equal, nor are they all what most people would describe as good. Typhonians in particular tend to be power hungry, self interested, and very very intolerant both in how they deal with others and each other. The Church of Typhon is the most powerful religious institution in Adamas but they are far from the most popular. Typhonians tend to serve the established order and care very little for the lower classes. Charity is something of a foreign word to them apart from the occasional giving of bread and alms on very specific feast days. Tyche and Caint are actually the most popular deities among the common folk, and this tends to irritate the Typhonians to no end. Tyche is the second most powerful of the sects within the great church as her clerics and followers along with the Typhonians were instrumental in the overthrow of Turms Termax, but at the end of the day Typhon got the greater share of glory.</p><p></p><p>On the side of the Tychians they have never really forgiven the Typhonians for brutal inquisition they headed up nearly a hundred years ago that seemed to specifically target Tychian priests. The Typhonians claimed that Tyche's power over fortune and destiny showed chaotic influences, and many high ranking Tychean clerics were persecuted, tortured, and executed. The most notorious incident of the pogrom was a massacre on Fates Day, Tyche's holy day when a group of Typhonian Templars barricaded the doors of the great temple to Tyche in Adamas and set it on fire killing over one hundred people. Nearly a month of bloody sectarian violence gripped Adamas in the aftermath before the Depot was able to restore order. The Templars claimed to be acting alone and the Church of Typhon dismissed them as misguided zealots before they were executed but many Tychians continue to believe that the entire affair was orchestrated by the highest ranked priests of Typhon in Adamas specifically to weaken or destroy Tyche, as the church of Typhon emerged from the fray almost none the worse for wear whereas Tyche has still not completely recovered from the loss not only of their most learned members, but also the quantity of religious relics, books and scrolls that were lost in the fire.</p><p></p><p>The Termaxians are also an important factor to consider. They are considered heathens and apostates by all of the eight gods, and they like their god Turms Termax tend towards Chaos, but that does not necessarily make them evil. The Great Church of the Eight Gods was created by the Thulians, and served the Thulians. The Thulian Empire was a highly stratified society and quite brutal towards members of its lower classes, magic users, demihumans, and anyone else who didn't fit into the Thulian ideal. Termax began as a populist, and many of the reforms carried out by the Termaxians were indeed good for the people in general, with many of the most brutal laws being overturned during the reign of the Termaxian emperors. Many of those who support Termax, even if they aren't full blown cultists tend to be drawn to the cult because of fears they have that the rule of the Despot of Adamas has allowed the pendulum to swing too far back towards the brutality of the Thulian empire. They are highly occult in their meetings and worship, but graffiti praising Termax is a common enough sight even in highly ordered places like Muntburg and Adamas.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Imperialus, post: 6329661, member: 893"] Just a couple notes on the Church of Typhon and particularly its relationship with Tyche. Something important to remember about religion in Dwimmermount is that although the gods are all lawful, they are not equal, nor are they all what most people would describe as good. Typhonians in particular tend to be power hungry, self interested, and very very intolerant both in how they deal with others and each other. The Church of Typhon is the most powerful religious institution in Adamas but they are far from the most popular. Typhonians tend to serve the established order and care very little for the lower classes. Charity is something of a foreign word to them apart from the occasional giving of bread and alms on very specific feast days. Tyche and Caint are actually the most popular deities among the common folk, and this tends to irritate the Typhonians to no end. Tyche is the second most powerful of the sects within the great church as her clerics and followers along with the Typhonians were instrumental in the overthrow of Turms Termax, but at the end of the day Typhon got the greater share of glory. On the side of the Tychians they have never really forgiven the Typhonians for brutal inquisition they headed up nearly a hundred years ago that seemed to specifically target Tychian priests. The Typhonians claimed that Tyche's power over fortune and destiny showed chaotic influences, and many high ranking Tychean clerics were persecuted, tortured, and executed. The most notorious incident of the pogrom was a massacre on Fates Day, Tyche's holy day when a group of Typhonian Templars barricaded the doors of the great temple to Tyche in Adamas and set it on fire killing over one hundred people. Nearly a month of bloody sectarian violence gripped Adamas in the aftermath before the Depot was able to restore order. The Templars claimed to be acting alone and the Church of Typhon dismissed them as misguided zealots before they were executed but many Tychians continue to believe that the entire affair was orchestrated by the highest ranked priests of Typhon in Adamas specifically to weaken or destroy Tyche, as the church of Typhon emerged from the fray almost none the worse for wear whereas Tyche has still not completely recovered from the loss not only of their most learned members, but also the quantity of religious relics, books and scrolls that were lost in the fire. The Termaxians are also an important factor to consider. They are considered heathens and apostates by all of the eight gods, and they like their god Turms Termax tend towards Chaos, but that does not necessarily make them evil. The Great Church of the Eight Gods was created by the Thulians, and served the Thulians. The Thulian Empire was a highly stratified society and quite brutal towards members of its lower classes, magic users, demihumans, and anyone else who didn't fit into the Thulian ideal. Termax began as a populist, and many of the reforms carried out by the Termaxians were indeed good for the people in general, with many of the most brutal laws being overturned during the reign of the Termaxian emperors. Many of those who support Termax, even if they aren't full blown cultists tend to be drawn to the cult because of fears they have that the rule of the Despot of Adamas has allowed the pendulum to swing too far back towards the brutality of the Thulian empire. They are highly occult in their meetings and worship, but graffiti praising Termax is a common enough sight even in highly ordered places like Muntburg and Adamas. [/QUOTE]
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