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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 1240906" data-attributes="member: 926">I have several pantheons and a monotheistic religion or two.  The Verandi desert dwellers worship various angels as representatives of the high god VHRN, each tribe having its own patron archangel.  Their are seven archangels, one of which is fallen into evil, but still included among their number.  The Verandi conquered most of the world at one point and forced their religion upon their subjects, and over the centuries the denominations have become extremely divergent.  In truth the archangels were the second beings to arrive on the world, after Abomination came down from the Outer Dark, and began their war upon it by summoning the Elves from another place, to aid them against Abomination and his demons.The Goth cultures worship a pantheon of thousands of gods, not all of them even named, and all are gods of war.  The Goth gods are actually the Ascension Warlords, the last survivors of a previous prime material plane that shattered under the weight of magical and divine wars, each being the last representative of his/her/it's race risen to demi-godhood, and they continually strive to reforge the lost plane with he/she/it as the only true god.  They use the souls of their human worsippers as the cannon fodder (and sometimes currency for extraplanar mercenaries) in their eternal wars.The Medean people are a subset of the Goth that once worshipped the great god Medaea, an Ascension Warlord, but rebelled at his obscenity and embraced a philosophic searh for Truth, and at one time ruled an entire continent in their enlightenment.  Thier search for Truth led them to the discovery of psionics, and many actually derive divine magic from the struggle to understand divinity and its relation to ultimate enlightenment.The Zhentao and Zhenvao people are animistic and recognize that all things have spirits connected too them, but many believe that the spirits of men are the most powerful, and there is a split between sorcery and kami worship as their religion.  The most powerful sorcerers among them rule as if by divine right, and the families with the most and most powerful sorcerers have the highest standing.  Detailed lineages are kept for every family in the two empires, and the most powerful House rules as a divine family.The Elves recognize the existence of many spirits as do the Zhentao, and also recognize the Verandi angels, but do not bow down to them.  They hold themselves to be the equals of any spirit in the universe, and in fact believe themselves to be angels themselves.  If the Elves can be said to have any religion it is magic itself, a pursuit that all elves embrace almost obsessively, seeking ways to prevent their souls being used as pawns in extraplanar struggles.  Many elves have lived to be tens of thousands of years old by way of the magical might.The Dwarves recognize the many spirits, but hold the elementals as the highest.  They worship the elements of Earth and Fire most of all, but many have been converted to the worship of VHRN.Their are various devil worshipping cabals across the world, worshipping Sammael and his assembled fallen spirits taken from the various heavens.Hidden behind all of the religions are the Outer Gods, whom many insane and evil creatures worship and believe to be the true powers of the universe, ruling it from Outside.  The center for the worship of the Outer Gods is Abomination, the representative of them on the planet, who was imprisoned on the dark side of the moon hundreds of thousands of years ago by the Verandi archangel Sammael, before Sammael himself fell into evil.  It is said by the worshippers of Abomination the he is the true owner of the world, and it is true that he inhabitied it long before any of the currently dominant races.Dang, didn't mean to be so wordy.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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