Religions of Cassel

The vast majority of Cassel is dominated by Silism, the religion that still follows the teachings of the Gods, and by a very large majority, followers of Silism are part of the The Church of Saint Nora. There are also those that follow the Church of Yanneth, the Church of Alom, and the Church of Eralli.

The second largest religion in Cassel would be Silnic Universalism, the religion that rejects the teachings of the Elder Gods, and follows the teachings of the Creator of the universe alone. One minor sect related to Silnic Universalism is the Church of Midnight is practiced by elves in the North.

Then there are the Draconic Religions, practiced mainly by the Lamia. These religions can vary wildly by geogrpahic location and which Dragon Lord's corruption is affecting the lands.

With twenty million followers, Nora's teachings dominate the region. Large cathedrals are built dedicated to the Supreme Judge who sees all. The other sects of Silism are usually just variations of the Church of Saint Nora, but with the teachings of others adapted to the dogma.

While many followers refer to the Elder Gods as that term, the Church itself teaches that there is only one all-powerful being in the universe, which is Silnos himself, sometimes just referred to as God. This causes no end of confusion and frustration to followers of other sects religions who refer to the Elder Gods by their actual names, the Rena or Shepherds of Creation.

This religion is practiced by the majority of the Elves, with around three million followers across the two Elf-kingdoms. In this religion, the Elves fully reject the teachings of the Elder Gods. Following the Shepherds of Creation nearly led to the end of everything, so their teachings are useless. The Elves instead send someone's soul to speak directly with Silnos every few hundres years through a ritual unknown to humans. The vast majority of Elves perish in the process of sending their soul outside all of time and infinity. The ones that return spread the knowledge that Silnos gave them, and their words are added to the Silnic Scriptures.

Primarily practiced by the Lamia, the Draconic religions worship the ancient Dragon Lords and their remains spread across Vreathe. Each corpse of a Dragon Lord crashed into a specific area of Vreathe and on their death their bodies turned to crystal. Their bodies may not be divine by the definition of other religions, but unlike the gods and shepherds, the corpses of the Dragon Lords affect the land around them, corrupting life into different forms. The Lamia worship what they believe are the still living spirits of these long deceased beings, and tend to live in areas corrupted by their bodies as a result. Humans have also worshipped dragons at various points in history, though in current times there are few that still do it.

A few hundred miles southeast of Cassel is Nivema's Sorrow a Colossal Glacier in the middle of the ocean that makes everything around it cold. The climate in the region is more similar to the far north than it to the tropical south. Inside this glacier is said to be the Goddess Nivema, who froze herself during the Silver Age many thousands of years ago. The people of the Aelurus Islands seem to not care if there is a frozen goddess inside the ice or not, but instead worship the glacier, the icy heart of their culture and land. They claim the ice itself is a god and that they must worship it and make sacrifices to it or the ice will melt and their way of life will vanish. There are only a few thousand followers of this religion.