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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 4134970" data-attributes="member: 70">Religion & DivinitiesDivine beings in the Shadowend fall into one of five categories: The Elder Host, Dalerain, Envidier, Typhos, and cults.  Only members of the first two groups are truly divine; Envidier, Typhos, and cults, while divinely natured, cannot bestow divine power, and instead confer it through occult bargains and pacts.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Elder Host are the primal gods, the first-born and the creators of the mortal races.  They created most of the common races, the Typhos, and eventually the Dalerain.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Typhos, or the False Host, are the "true" children of the Elder Host.  They are without exception amoral, selfish monstrosities.  A few found service among the Elder Host, but most went their own way, ruled by nothing more than whim and fancy. Eventually the Elder Host grew aware of the stunted and destructive nature of the Typhos, and turned their attentions to the mortal races instead. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Dalerain, or the Middle Host, are the children of the Elder Host and mortal beings - the multitude of divinities which mortals find the most familiarity and comfort in. The Dalerain, in their turn, had their own relations among mortals, and a few of their children became Dalerain in turn.  A very few mortals have acquired enough divine power to become true divinites; these are known as the Ascended Host, and considered among the Dalerain for all purposes except blood lineage.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Envidier, or the Host of Heroes, are either the children of the Dalerain and mortal beings, or mortals who have somehow wrested a tiny spark of divinity from somewhere or something.  They serve the Dalerain and the Elder Host, and are the most frequent emissaries of the divine in the mortal realm.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cults are willfully sham religions established by various creatures (usually Typhos or evil Dalerain) to serve as blinds in their schemes.  Cultists, as noted above, are not true (divine) priests, and utilize occult magic instead.  Two prominent cults are The Cult of the Rat Mother and The Fellowship of the Unholy Hand.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The World, or The Wyrld, is sometimes ranked as a sixth category of divine being.  The World preceded the Elder Host, but is without sentience, purpose, or will.  Druids are thought to draw upon The World for their divine magic, and the minor spirits may also be empowered by the World in some way.  As The World has never given any sign of intelligence, reason, desire, purpose, or anima, there is much uncertainty about its' actual nature and relevance.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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