Non-Aligned

Solism

Demonym: Solist

Holy text: The Uru

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

Uronism

Demonym: Uronist

Holy text: Uron's Revelations

This religion believes that Humans once dwelled among a god-like species who imparted divine wisdom upon their species about how to live and how the universe functions. However, the Humans were viewed as unworthy of dwelling there and were exiled to prove themselves in the world. Humanity, now in a fallen, primitive form, must become its best incarnation. They call this the Test of Divinity. Humans contain both a god-like portion of themselves and a primitive beast-like portion of themselves. It is in choosing their divine self and rejecting their bestial half that they rise to a higher level.

This religion stems from the writings of Uron. A Human who lived through what is now called The First Pilgrimage, an arduous and deadly journey from some unknown location starting in the jungles of the Zerus Treescape to what is now called Hotus. Uron died upon the arrival to Hotus and his body is now interned there under a statue in his likeness. Uronists strive to journey from their homelands to Hotus still to this day so that they may pray before the statue of Uron, hoping for divine wisdom. 

Uronism is not the most popular religion among Humans in the modern day. It is seen as heretical to the Orderists, as it does not have doctrine condemning mages. Most of its adherents are either in the rural peasantry, in places where the Orderist temples have not been installed, or in Zachariah's Steppe, where many settlements have freed themselves from the yoke of Farhaven and its Orderists.

Central Figure(s): Uron