The Church of Tarn

The Chruch of Tarn is the most prominent Religous organisation in the country of Gand. It was established in the Early Era of 350 EE during the migration of Kitham from the Nothmost land mass, which due to geological conditions was quickly becoming uninhabitable leading to the mass exodus. Humans began to move south by crossing the seas to begin anew, an endeavour which was as important to the survival of humans as it was harrowing.   During the great migration humans sought solace in the stories they told each other and during the lonely transit they conceived of a god watching them from a throne of the night sky. This god, they believed was not only watching over them but guiding them to their destination along an invisible thread, that each person was represented by a star in the night sky hung up again the fabric of the ever-changing light. And thus, Tarn, the Cosmic Weaver was born.   From there the myths of Tarn would only grow and so too would the Kitham affinity of astrology and the movement of heavenly bodies. Many believed that Tarn was trying to communicate with them through the movement of earth, sending gifts from meteors that crashed to the ground winking stars out of existence when someone important dies on earth. Rudimentary depictions of Tarn began to spring up depicting them as multiple-armed, the better to weave, and with a blank face and horned head. Tarn would be garbed in the night sky itself wearing it as lavish robes and signifying that Tarn was not only a part of the cosmos but the cosmos itself.   Some early texts reference a significant cosmic event in which the stars crashed to the earth and the Kitham soul was unsealed allowing Humans to access mana and with it magic. What the cosmic event actually was is vague at best and this text does not account for even earlier depictions of humans wielding magic.   The written record of the worship of Tarn begins in early 350 EE and follows Man as they settle into Gand. They begin to build shrines and Tabernacles to worship at and progress to more elaborate structures. They created songs and hymns and stories and created a reverent set of Human Burial Rites consistent with their desire for their souls to join the cosmos with Tarn.
In 483 EoE a conflict over territory broke out between elves and a section of Kitham, both races were trying to settle the southern mountainous regions rich in metal deposits. The church became instrumental in compiling gold and reources and funnelling it into equipment to settle the area and arm citizens to fight if nessecary. Amongst the conflict came a folk hero Marcestra De Deir , a self appointed champion of Tarn who taught common people how to fight and formed a small army. Following the 13 year conflict when the treaty between Kitham and elves were settled it was a cleric from the church of Tarn who stood alongside the current king to witness the signing, along with Du Meir.   In 702 EoE A plague emerged amongst the elves at this stage they had formed the Elven Undercity and ushered in an age of sorcery, the plague ravaged the elven populations killing swaths of people in the span of days. The elven plague was thought to be magic in nature a natural cause to the mindlessness of which they used their magic, popular theories stemmed from the cause as being sorcerers playing with obscene dark arts which ran against the natural order of Tarn. Ultimately the elves went exctinct but this even planted a deep mistrust of magic within the humans who remained. This led the some in the Church of Tarn to reinterpret the core Tenet of sanctity and purity through toil seeing magic as a shorcut and the plague as a natural consequence for the evlves hubris. In 770 A man named Nersi would emerge calling himself the Godkin, that who is closest to Tarn and he would speak of fantastical conversations and visions which he shared with Tarn. He would claim to be the instrument of Tarn's will and form a new sect- Brotherhood of Tarn.   In 800 the Brotherhood became an instrumental religious force- what the lacked in the numbers of the Chruch of Tarn they had in willingness to use force and devotion. The brotherhood campaigned on the dangers of anti-magic and took a more rigid interpretation of the scripture concerning the Tenets of Tarn. The Brotherhood and the chrurch had differering views but stood an uneasy truce. The anti-magic sentiment was much more commonplace and consistent fear-mongering had crept into the views of the everyday person, in 880 the Church of Tarn formally condemned the use of magic calling for sorcerers to denounce their ways. When the Brotherhood called for the detainment rehabilitation of socerors the church while not permitting the action also did not condemn it. They did however set into place the role of an aquittor as one of many Titles within the Worship of Tarn.  

Present Day

  In the preesent day the Church of Tarn although influential does not have nearly the political sway and power as it once did, it is not dying out by any means as almost all kitham outside of the Brotherhood worship at the church of Tarn. It is a staple to the way people live their lives and are pillars of communities. The church has been the topic of excited discussion as of recent as one of the six high acolytes made an address condemning the persecution of other faiths by the brotherhood, explicitly citing the treatment of Xegruni.}        

Tenets of Tarn

    1.Your fate is in the stars it is believed that Tarn holds a million million threads each representing a human life that was or will come to be, the threads are all interwoven and are representative of the twists and turns that persons life will experience. Tarn has a plan for every person but their fates are not immalable. The importance of choice and of choosing to be the best servant of Tarn cannot be understated. Although Tarn rarely meddle in the affairs of or talks many believe that by worshiping devoutly Tarn will either safeguard your current destiny for disruption or but you onto a better path.   II. Justice- the great equaliser Tarn advocates for fairness and justice believing that every person must choose to live free from unjustly harming others. One must only take what they need and be held accountable for their misgivings if and when they occur. Justice must be pursued in a logical and ordered manner, and should be served swiftly in proportion to misdeeds.   III. Balance- the sanciticy of reflection Tarn invited all to reflect on their present their past and their future. All things must be cultivated with care of they will wither and die. In the faith of Tarn to sacrifice the needs of one for the need of many is a divine act, which can only be obtained by looking towards the future.   IV. Toil- purity through work Just like the act of weaving Tarn's tenet state that anything worth making is worth time and energy, something make quickly is of little value but something made in a meditative process is considered pure. The humans also bring this upon their own approach to morality believing that their souls are cultivated through through hardship. Or the brotherhood of Tarn this is the most contentious tenet as they view the use of magic to be a shortcut that abominates the natural order.   V. Souls bound together Every souls exists represented by the threads of the cosmic night sky, and woven together. This explains how in the mortal. World people can drift in and out of the lives of each other, some souls run parallel in design and are connected but distant others are woven together at set points in time and some are woven so closely that they never seperate.