The Hundred Gods Heresy

Will · Geplaatst: 24 Feb 2024 13:55

The “Hundred Gods Heresy” is a blanket term applied by the Immaculate Philosophy to the worship of deities without Immaculate moderation, dating back to a terrible revolt centuries ago. In developed areas of the Blessed Isle, virtually anything that can be interpreted as worship material is banned, and possession of certain common items in combination is considered unlucky and a sign of possible heresy. In the capitals of the Realm’s tributary states and the Blessed Isle’s hinterlands, no uncontrolled worship sites are permitted and private worship is discouraged or prohibited depending on the strength of the Philosophy’s hold. In the rural hinterlands of the Threshold satrapies, worship of local deities goes unimpeded, although even the grandest rituals amount to services held in floating locations involving a few hundred
individuals at most, and not great festival events involving tens of thousands.

The gods, in turn, can rarely muster more than quiet misbehavior in hinterlands shrines in the face of the might of the Realm and its Immaculate monks. That may be changing, however. Many gods fear for locales, trades, things or concepts they represent in the face of Dragon-Blooded civil discord, and seek alternatives to increasingly erratic Terrestrial rule. Others scent opportunity, seeking to better their station by allying themselves with Tenchi insurgents. All these deities, seeking to assert themselves and defend the places and nations they are inextricably linked to, form natural allies of the resurgent Celestial Tenchi. This is well known to the Immaculates, who have increased their pressure on captive populations to cease all private worship.