Religion¶
The gods of Terrun are not native to it. They arrived as the Einar, brought order out of the Elemental Chaos, forged the Throne of Law, broke it, and have been quarrelling over its shards ever since. Every pantheon on Terrun is a faction in that quarrel, and every faith is a mortal attempt to live under one of them. This section holds the gods, the beings mortals worship as gods, and the theologies that grew around them. The orders and priesthoods that serve them are Factions.
The gods as beings¶
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| The Einar | The gods as a kind: their arrival, the Elder and Younger generations, the Throne of Law and its shards, and the states a god can fall into (awake, sleeping, dead, Riven). |
| Ascendants | Mortals and lesser immortals raised by a god, the Fallen, Avatars and Incarnates, and the Elder Gods' -spex servants. |
| Death and the Afterlife | What happens to a soul when the body dies, why the dead walk, and how the living faiths disagree about it. |
The pantheons¶
The 2026 revision of the gods sorts the Younger Gods into four pantheons by whom they patronise.
| Pantheon | Patrons of | Overview |
|---|---|---|
| Elder Gods | The first generation of the Einar, overthrown and imprisoned by the Younger Gods; now waking. | Elder Gods |
| The Kalari | Humankind. Kalar the Creator and his kin, most of them now dead or sleeping. | Kalari Pantheon |
| The Rakkarim | The wild races, orcs, goblins and dragonkin, under Rakkar. | Rakkarim |
| The Dark Gods | Chaos and destruction; they seek the end or complete reordering of the world. | Dark Gods |
| The Unaligned | The lesser races, beasts and niche causes; the "Lesser" Gods. | Unaligned Gods |
| The Sancturi Pantheon | The Fifth Age pantheon of the Sancturi Imperium, built from the Dark Gods under new names. | Sancturi Pantheon |
| The Divine | Sharuvas, the god from the Uk'Zarai homeworld who took Kalar's shards and remade the City of the Gods. | The Divine |
| The Archdemons | The seven Demon Princes who hold the Hells and are worshipped as gods by their cults. | Archdemons |
| Demigods | Beings of tremendous power who are worshipped without being Einar: Astral Dust holders, local gods, living mountains. | Demigods |
Faiths¶
The religions, cults and clergies of mortals, as distinct from the gods they serve, are gathered under Faiths.