03-16-2016, 02:27 PM
What follows is my understanding of the Gods we live under. These words are mine, and I mean them to teach and persuade others to see things as I see. We carry confusion as to the nature and ways of the gods, and I seek to remedy that.
This work shall be split into multiple parts. I ask that I receive enough time to post all my words before people start sharing their own thoughts. This work is meant to suffer consideration as a whole.
On Overgods:
Light, Dark, and Grey stand as the most powerful beings we know. Each rules part of the upper planes, has its own motives, and works toward its own desires. These overgods possess not personalities like we mortals know them. These beings represent and embody moral forces in tangible ways. Think not of them as people, however. Their minds reach beyond our ability to comprehend. This, I believe, explains our mortal desire to worship their undergods.
On Undergods:
These beings stand far beyond mortal power, yet we bear a closer resemblence to them than to the Overgods. Their motives reach us more clearly and understandably, as the scope of their power and influence compare smallly to their Overgods. As such, we mortals find it easier to understand and interpret their desires and rules. The Overgods have a balanced number of undergods, and this helps our world remain in balance.
On the Fallen Gods:
The pantheon has changed before, in the deep past, and this stands as the cause of the first cataclysm, when Veritas, god of truth and undergod of Light, Ardenta, goddess of passions and Grey's undergod, Fathom, god of hidden knowledge and Grey's undergod, and the Ravager, god of pain and Dark's undergod all suffered stripping of their divinity by the Overgods. These Fallen Gods accepted their fate, save the Ravager, who struggled against his bonds and rose against we mortals in an effort to steal that divinity back. We, the Heroes of Baronia, stopped his attempts at achieving godhood once more, at terrible cost. All the gods refuse to permit the Fallen Gods to regain their divinity. Such efforts stand as blasphemy against the whole of our pantheon, and those who make such attempts shall suffer death at the hands of the faithful.
On Worship:
We owe our gods much. They give us this world to live at. They guide our choices with morality and ethics. We carry this will to choose for ourselves because of them. We owe them so much, it pains my mind to see any who deny their power and divinity and presence. I call this madness blasphemy, and call upon all our faithful to shun those who deny reality and threaten us with the wrath of the gods. However, beyond this madness, I offer you this. We worship the gods every moment of our lives, through every thought we have, through every decision we make, and through every action we take.
Take a life? Praise Kull! Defeat an enemy? Praise Bellicose! Make a deal? Follow a law? Take a chance? Praise Aureus, Nexus, and Karma! Our grand acts of devotion stand not as our most meaningful contribution to our gods' worship. Instead, every little act in accordance with their portfolio raises them up. In aggregate, these acts mean so much more to them than constructing a temple, leading a public prayer, or proselytizing to the faithless. We who devote our lives in service guide our sisters and brothers to these acts, but the vast majority of the worship we all offer our gods comes from ordinary people. Understand that not worshiping the gods stands as impossibility. If we shall offer them our worship regardless of our choice, then should we not receive something in exchange? They seem to think so.
This work shall be split into multiple parts. I ask that I receive enough time to post all my words before people start sharing their own thoughts. This work is meant to suffer consideration as a whole.
On Overgods:
Light, Dark, and Grey stand as the most powerful beings we know. Each rules part of the upper planes, has its own motives, and works toward its own desires. These overgods possess not personalities like we mortals know them. These beings represent and embody moral forces in tangible ways. Think not of them as people, however. Their minds reach beyond our ability to comprehend. This, I believe, explains our mortal desire to worship their undergods.
On Undergods:
These beings stand far beyond mortal power, yet we bear a closer resemblence to them than to the Overgods. Their motives reach us more clearly and understandably, as the scope of their power and influence compare smallly to their Overgods. As such, we mortals find it easier to understand and interpret their desires and rules. The Overgods have a balanced number of undergods, and this helps our world remain in balance.
On the Fallen Gods:
The pantheon has changed before, in the deep past, and this stands as the cause of the first cataclysm, when Veritas, god of truth and undergod of Light, Ardenta, goddess of passions and Grey's undergod, Fathom, god of hidden knowledge and Grey's undergod, and the Ravager, god of pain and Dark's undergod all suffered stripping of their divinity by the Overgods. These Fallen Gods accepted their fate, save the Ravager, who struggled against his bonds and rose against we mortals in an effort to steal that divinity back. We, the Heroes of Baronia, stopped his attempts at achieving godhood once more, at terrible cost. All the gods refuse to permit the Fallen Gods to regain their divinity. Such efforts stand as blasphemy against the whole of our pantheon, and those who make such attempts shall suffer death at the hands of the faithful.
On Worship:
We owe our gods much. They give us this world to live at. They guide our choices with morality and ethics. We carry this will to choose for ourselves because of them. We owe them so much, it pains my mind to see any who deny their power and divinity and presence. I call this madness blasphemy, and call upon all our faithful to shun those who deny reality and threaten us with the wrath of the gods. However, beyond this madness, I offer you this. We worship the gods every moment of our lives, through every thought we have, through every decision we make, and through every action we take.
Take a life? Praise Kull! Defeat an enemy? Praise Bellicose! Make a deal? Follow a law? Take a chance? Praise Aureus, Nexus, and Karma! Our grand acts of devotion stand not as our most meaningful contribution to our gods' worship. Instead, every little act in accordance with their portfolio raises them up. In aggregate, these acts mean so much more to them than constructing a temple, leading a public prayer, or proselytizing to the faithless. We who devote our lives in service guide our sisters and brothers to these acts, but the vast majority of the worship we all offer our gods comes from ordinary people. Understand that not worshiping the gods stands as impossibility. If we shall offer them our worship regardless of our choice, then should we not receive something in exchange? They seem to think so.
