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Oriaca

Demonym: Orionists

Holy text: The Uru

Tenets: Oriaca is a religion which believes that acquisition of knowledge is the highest good and that destruction of knowledge is the lowest sin. This principle, although worrying at first, is actually joined together often with injunctions about life as storehouses of knowledge and thus preservation of life is often a central moral theme. However, the texts spend far more time discussing the beauty of learning, of uncovering secrets, and of divining past the veil of mystery. For this reason, Orionists are often scholars, academics, technicians, and other sorts of knowledge workers but tend to be buried in books far more often than they can be found acting in the world.

Adherents of this religion believe that dream and waking are the same; that the life lived while sleeping is just as existentially complete as the life lived awake. The dream world is not a hallucination, but a full world in itself. The being who sleeps is therefore not only alive in their incapacitated corporeal form, but are equally living their life in the realm of dreams. Adding to the credibility of this claim, there are cases where those Orionists who delve deep into dreams permanently lose their corporeal form, disappearing from the physical world in a dissipating prismatic haze. Tempermentally, Orionists are often detached and cryptic, speaking in abstract riddles which lead just as often to hidden knowledge as they do to obtuse rabbit-holes, terminating purposelessly in a seldom-known trivia. 

Central Figure(s): Telimure