Church of Kadamitas

The Church of Kadamitas is a quasi-dead monotheistic religion that worships the Goddess The Divine Mother, also known as Mother Anarchy. Its adherents, known as Kadamiti, are located primarily in the northern nation of Daelryia. The Church strives for balance between Order and Calamity, which has been thrown out of balance after the disappearance of Mother Anarchy. This restoration of balance is the main charge of the prominent sect of the Church, known as the Fellowship of Kadamitas.

Beliefs
Kadamiti worship the equal balance of Order and Calamity. They believe that one without the other would lead to the collapse of the world. They view Order as a tool to destroy individualism and Calamity as a way to create chaos. Kadamiti worship the Goddess Mother Anarchy, Bringer of the Storm. Through her, Calamity flows naturally, keeping Order in check. However, a thousand years ago, a great battle led to the disappearance and maybe even the death of the Divine Mother. Kadamiti work to find their Goddess through prayer, ritual, and sacrifice.

Religious Text

 * Blood Scripture of the Divine Mother - Oldest known book of the Church containing the Pillars of Kadamitas
 * Chronicles of the Survivor - Remains of a journal kept by an Neophyte who survived through the separation of Restorers of Calamity and their subsequent purge of the Fellowship
 * Prophecy of the Final Dawn - Prophecy stating the return of Mother Anarchy
 * Commentaries by Valenthyne - Commentaries on the philosophies of the Church by Paragon Valenthyne The Sage

Line of the Paragons
The Paragons are believed by the Church to be pure-blooded children of Mother Anarchy, produced from her relationship with the mortal only known as The Father right before her disappearance. After her vanishing, the Paragons wandered the world, begging great Kings and Queens for their assistance. However, no Empire helped them in their search, as they believed the Paragons were chaos-worshippers who wished to destroy their powerbase.

The Wandering Years
For several decades after their mother’s death, the Paragons wandered the lands, looking for assistance in finding their mother. They traveled to many Great Kingdoms and Empires, looking for help, but to no avail. During the decades of wandering, the Paragon Haazen gathered a small following of nine disciples and formed the Fellowship of Kadamitas. After five years, the Fellowship grew to around a hundred followers, and Haazan had a son named Sion. After being raised in the Fellowship, Sion became the Fellowship’s first High Prophet.

The Restorers’ Purge
The Golden Age of the Fellowship ended when a group of radical Kadamiti was found plotting to loot the Fellowship and found their own sect, known as the Restorers of Calamity. They believed the Fellowship was wrong in accepting a balance between Order and Calamity, and the Restorers sought to bring about The Final Dawn and Endless Calamity.

The Restorers were excommunicated by the Fellowship. For a dozen years, the Fellowship continued to grow under the guiding hand of High Prophet Asgar until he began having visions. He told Paragon Solis of the visions but was ignored. That night, a dozen members of the Restorers infiltrated the Fellowship’s headquarters and began a purge of the Fellowship.

Due to most of the Fellowship being murdered, including the High Prophet, the Paragon, and Solis’s first son, the modern Fellowship only knows about the horrors of the night due to the journal kept by a Neophyte taken prisoner by the Restorers.

The Age of the Dyad
After the Purge, Paragon Sion’s second son, Paragon Invidious the Survivor, was the only link to the Divine Mother. Invidious was the only member of the Fellowship with the remnants of the Fellowship abandoning their beliefs. As the Restorers stole the remaining riches of the Fellowship, Invidious went into hiding with a woman he married later. Together, they had a daughter named Keria, who was raised as a Sister of the Fellowship.

When Keria came of age, she and her father underwent a ritual, creating an unbreakable link between Parent and Child known as a Dyad. Over time, the Fellowship became the Dyad, as the only members were the Paragon and their children. For decades, the number of Fellowship was at most five. The few people who knew of the Fellowship’s survival after the purge believed this was the end days of the Church.

Revival of the Fellowship
About a decade ago, Paragon Carnifex heard about a Daerylian man named Marchion who had visions of an event that would spell the return of a “Holy Woman and a cleansing Tempest.” When he went out to seek Marchion, he discovered that the Holy Woman was actually the Divine Mother. As they continued to talk, Carnifex realized that Marchion had a holy relic of the Fellowship, the Blade of Sion, which he found hidden in a basement of a home Frostarch.

Carnifex, having no children of his own, and discovering Marchion had no known family, adopted him. Carnifex appointed Marchion as the High Prophet of the newly revived Fellowship of Kadamitas. Carnifex took up the mantle of the Fellowship’s figurehead, while Marchion took the mantle of leader.