Randenism

The dominant faith of the Maan People Maan The most numerous people of Elshore and the baseline cultural reference of the age. empire and much of Elshore, Randenism Faith Randenism The Flame Doctrine, dominant faith of the Maan and state religion of the Maan Empire. grew from the living ministry of Saint Randen Character Saint Randen Saint Randen is the revered and feared figure at the root of the Order of Randen and the Randenist faith, known through folktale, scripture, and institutional power in roughly e..., an Erg from Rafadin who preached during the Chaos Event The Chaos The Chaos was a continent-wide civilisation-collapse spanning approximately ninety-eight years, beginning around year 1700 of the Inarin Calendar when the Iru Parliament of the... years that all life is a sacred debt repaid through labour, memory, and vigilance. Its cosmology holds that the world was shaped from the grief of the goddess Namii Cosmology The Binary Suns Two stars share the sky of Elshore: Uhiel, the warmer and steadier light, and Namii, the smaller and more ominous companion. and the sacrifice of her son Ooliel, whose body became the mountains, rivers, and peoples of Elshore. The faith is distinct from the Order of Randen Faction Order of Randen The fastest-growing power in the Maan empire at AC 50, the Order of Randen is a religious-political apparatus that co-opts the theology of Randenism and transforms it into a deb..., a political-enforcement apparatus that co-opts its language; the genuine ethical core of the faith, service without praise and duty as remembrance, predates and outlives that co-optation.