Order of Sol

The Order of Sol is a religion in the World of Eldham, the Order is based around the worship of the single deity, Sol.

History
The religion was founded by the general of an army known as who, as told by the Book of the Forge, was said to have seen the great lord Sol appear to him atop a mountain above the burning city of Sodalis. The great Sol told General Litrus about the creation of the world and presented him with a book written by the ancient people of Eldham. He also told the General of an ancient city that was holy to Sol, where the old people had lived. He told the general that the city had crumbled away over the centuries and the the land would have to be rebuilt. Sol had the perfect vision of this land and he named it The Promised Land, promising that it would rise again and his people would live on through a new generation. After Sol disappeared, Litrus came down from the mountain and told his army of Sol and what he had told him, forming the beginnings of The Order of Sol.

The Confederate States under Sol
The Confederate States under Sol is a confederacy consisting of nations that all follow The Order of Sol.

Member states of the confederacy include:


 * Alzaria
 * Heliosos
 * Wildonia
 * Golden Sun City
 * Yeoleum
 * Townscape

Religious Subdivisions
There are some nations and cities which follow religions that are considered subdivisions of The Order of Sol. These subdivisions are groups of people that respect the overarching ideas of the order but prefer to focus on particular aspects, concepts and/or traditions from the main religion. These include:


 * Elebiomism - a religion focusing on the elemental and biome gods. These gods are children of the Elder Dragons and are sometimes known as the second generation of elementals, due to being formed from the four primal aspects of the universe that resided within their elemental predecessors. Elebiomism was first discovered when 2chainz, the founder of Elebiomism, met with the great Sol in Alzaria. They found out that the people of Elebiomism had been worshiping close relatives of Sol and 2chainz came to realize how much more there was to the world. From that day on, Elebiomism was considered a religious subdivision of The Order of Sol.

Lore
In the beginning, the universe was but a point of space in the middle of a vast void, comprised only of the four primal aspects: Earth, Water, Fire and Air. Together these aspects collected into a single entity at the centre of the universe. This caused the world to expand as the entity stretched all across reality. It's physical form can be described as the familiar appearance of a mighty dragon: tremendous wings that spanned across the cosmos, claws that turned the forces of the world to his command, and great jaws that shook the universe with his bellowing roar. The ancient people named this being, the Ur-Dragon.

The Ur-Dragon called upon his kin, summoning the race of dragons that would be the first mortal creatures to populate the world. To his surprise, a war breaks out between The Ur-Dragon's children, as they fight a most horrendous battle to prove their strength to their creator. All across space, anger, malice, pain and suffering began to spread amongst the void. The universe hadn't planned for such horrors as these emotions to exist, and eventually they began to actualize into a new aspect named Darkness.

(WIP...)