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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8519924" data-attributes="member: 6790260">The One, revered by the Safiqi priesthood, is omnipresent, but the full intensity of the One's presence can only be felt in Al-Jana, True Heaven, which cannot be reached except by departing the spheres of the world entirely. You leave the mortal world and all its mirrors and connections behind when you go there, because there is no coming back from perfection. When the perfect comes, what is imperfect disappears, not because it is destroyed, but because it is finally made complete.The Kahina do not really have "gods" per se, they revere the spirits, and spirits are...basically everywhere. Not omnipresent like the Safiqi beliefs about the One, but rather...there are spirits in almost all places and many things, particularly those that are old. An orchard, for example, that has existed for several generations has spirits of all of its trees, but it will also begin to manifest the whispers of a full forest-spirit, which arises from having so many tree-spirits together in one place for so long. The Spirit of All Winds is technically present in every wind that blows anywhere in the world, but only very limitedly; it takes a lot of effort to reach out to such a being, and drawing its attention is not always wise. (Not because it's malevolent, it's just very divorced from mortal concerns and its attention may have undesirable consequences for a mortal.)No other major faiths have been directly considered, but presumably they do exist. The El'Adrin who had lived in the elf-forests to the south apparently had some kind of trefoil symbolism and knew of celestials (which are totally unknown in the present day, to the point that only religious scripture claims they exist; no well-documented celestial encounter has ever occurred). So presumably they also had a religion, one that differed from the religion of the Tarrakhuna region, but they all disappeared long ago so it's hard to say. Perhaps, when they are summoned back, they'll tell more.</blockquote>

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