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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Loincloth of Armour" data-source="post: 3315761" data-attributes="member: 28201">The religion still exists, the church still conducts open services, people can still publically be members of the Blood of Vol.However, it no longer has the backing of the government that it once enjoyed.  Before, royal proclimations would have had a line like, "Declared as law by his Majesty, King Kaius I, lord of Karrnath and Seeker of the Blood of Vol."  Government events would have ended with something like, "And may the Blood of Vol protect Karnnath and her people, for we embrace the power of Blood."Now days, no proclimation would have such a line.  Government services would not mention the Blood of Vol, but the Soverign Host (or no religion at all).Nope, just unpopular in certain circles of power.  No one will hunt you down for being a member of the Blood of Vol in Karrnath... but they might give you the cold shoulder.The origins of the Blood of Vol trace their way back to certain necromatic practices during the Giant empires of Xen'drik (40,000 years ago).  When the elves fled before the Dragon Devastation, some elves took those practices and started to develop a religious basis to them.  The conflicted with what was to become the Undying Court, but at that point it was more philisophical agruments than anything violent.The line of Vol (a powerful elven noble house) was the leading proponents of the necromatic 'religion' of undead, and they developed their ideas over millienia.  Eventually they became so powerful that there was serious fear from the Undying Court about them.Then the line of Vol and some rogue dragons did something that was too shocking and horrific and a blatant grab for power (or just too forward thinking for everybody else and the best chance for true peace... take your pick) and elves and more conservative dragons banded together and destroyed the House of Vol.  Some elves who believed in the Line of Vol were not destroyed, but were instead exiled to what is today Karnnath and the Lhazzar Principalities.  Secretly hidden among these refugees was the Witch-Queen Vol herself... but almost no one knew that.Fast forward centuries.  The elves who had fled/been exiled kept their religion alive, and the humans who came to live in the region with them started to adopt elements of this religion.During the early days of the Last War, Karrnath nearly fell to a series of misfortunes and natural distaters (perhaps orchestrated by someone), and when Vol secretly came before Kaius I and offered support, the king felt the only way to save his kingdom was to accept Vol's aid.  Part of that aid included making the Blood of Vol Karnnath's state religion.Remember, almost nobody knows Vol the lich exists.  They worship the ideas the Blood of the line of Vol set up thousands of years ago.  For the people of Karrnath, in their nation's darkest hour their king saved their nation by bringing the power of the Blood of Vol and aligning it with the state.  It worked, the nation was spared.  In gratitude (and in behind the scenes power plays), the Blood of Vol was named the state religion.</blockquote>

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