Non-Aligned

Name: Solism

Demonym: Solist

Holy text: The Uru

Tenets: Solism is a religion which centers itself upon the path to achieving daemonhood. It is the oldest religion of Nyra, having been discovered through a true divine revelation in ancient Ponderan society, wherein the Uru was dictated by an unknown entity to Rakosh Seeph, at that point an ascetic vagrant living in the gutters. Rakosh Seeph was a latent archmage, the first to have ever been born. However, he received his revelations too soon, before his powers had sufficiently developed and thus he was cursed with a rapidly devolving body which he could not cure. He set upon a path to discover the depth of the revelations he was given as his body degraded. After finding an even deeper truth, his mind was nearly broken. Knowing his time was short, he rushed to convey what had been revealed to him to a narrow group of disciples who were also vagrants, but who went on to become famous popularizers of his ideas.

Solism is a non-denominational religion, recognizing a unified conception of the magical realm, seeing the different elements as lower emanations of a singular encompassing universal power. The path to daemonhood is laid out in explicit detail, wherein mages are told they must adhere clearly to a philosophy of their element and sacrifice their bodies and minds completely to that idea. Even then, it is not guaranteed that they will ascend. The dictates within this religion are often so brutal that they turn away even very powerful mages.

Central Figure(s): Rakosh Seeph