Religion Overview

Dude-e-ism : Is the oldest of the monotheistic religions, usually depicted as a bearded guy in a robe. History has not been kind to them, but they "abide".

Monoism - Originally a splinter group of the Dudes, as apocalyptic cult proclaiming the "end of times". With the apotheosis of the cult leader to true godhood, piercing the unpierceable veil, it slowly grew in power, surpassing the polytheistic Greko-Romans. It greq in soze over several centuries till made the state religion by the Roman Emperor Constantine, which laid the groundwork for the painful transition from the Roman Empire to the Divine Empire, during the time known as The Domination.

Salam - Around 600 A.D. a "Divinely Inspired" Bashir (praise be his name) basically created a new religion as a modernization of Monoism. This eventually grew into the Great Caliphate. Conflict with the Dominator laid waste to much of North Afrika and the Caliphate withdrew to east of the Red Sea, where it is a prosperous empire to this day.

The British Universalist Church was created when King Henry VIII broke religious ties with the Divine Empire. Basically the same religion, but without the Pontifex between the King and God.

Omnism is a general term for a variety of cults and churches created during the rise of literacy. The first schism occurred in 1517 with Martin Luther's "95 Theses" and there have been any more since.

French Culture, while still technically Monistic, was heavily influenced by Celtic Gauls and added a great deal of animism and elementalism to their rituals and beliefs. The "Galatian Catholic Church" supports the divine right of kings. France is currently a regency, under Phillip d'Orleans, with Louis XIV having just died and Louis XV being age 5.

In Spain, the Church and State are closely linked. The conflict between the authority of the church and the authority of the state evolved into a religious culture of Dualism. Churches tend to have altars at each end, each used as appropriate. Such dualities include:


 * State vs God
 * God of Love and Forgiveness vs Angry and Jealous God
 * Church as Master vs Church as Servant
 * Abyssal vs Celestial

Most other cultures (Dwarvish, Gnomish, Usan, Egytpian, Celtic, Greek, etc) tend to be something polythiestic and pentalist. Pentalists keep it down to five gods (usually some variant of father, mother, son, daughter, and bastard/stranger) while Polythiests tend to have as many as they want. At the far end of the spectrum are the Usan, who tends towards animist and have a different god for frickin' everything.