Naevan

Naeven is a polytheistic religion which believes in the existence of the Naeven pantheon. There are many gods in the pantheon, The most important ones referred to as the Aldamir. There are many more minor gods, called The Yun.

This religion is worshiped in the Duchy of Nova Tola in the Simulami Empire by the Tolen people, who brought it with them from distant lands.

The Holy Ternion
The holy Ternion represents a set of balance in the world, necessary for the sake of harmony. It consists of three parts - The Goddes Sorra, who relates to creation, love and harmony. The God Vyrax, who relates to war, destruction and defense, and Gant, who relates to salvation and serves as a link between the three parts and the mortal kind. This ternion is represented by the Naeven Trident, due to the fact the trident has three spikes, and that Gant's main tool is a trident.

The Aldamir
The Aldamir are the strongest gods in the pantheon. They consist of nine gods and led by Syrac, the All-God and Helivr, the All-Goddess. They use their prestigious position at the top of the hierarchy to influence events in their world, but also on the Earth. They enviously protect their position and do not allow any lower gods to ascend to it.

Syrac, The All-God
One of the leaders of the pantheon. He is the god of leadership and charisma, but also possesses great fighting skills.

Helivr, The All-Goddess
The other leader of the pantheon. She is the goddess of organization, gold, jewels and money.

Sorra, The Creator
The goddess of Earth and Water, and member of the Aldamir. The Naeven mostly worship her, rather then (most) of the other gods, even though she is not the most powerful among the Pantheon, or at the top of its hierarchy. She is the creator of the Earth and all life upon it. She is its guardian, making sure to protect it from other envious gods. She controls the forces of nature on it, and watches it for her own satisfaction.

Vyrax, the furious
The god of war and anger, and the husband of Sorra. He practices his combat skills in his great arena every day. He is highly appreciated by the Naeven and is worshipped by them, especially by warriors.

Tanmir, The Weighed
The god of Justice. Tanmir judges the acts of mortals and divines. He gives the all gods advice as to what is just for the divine realm, and to Sorra as to what is just on the mortal world. He is strictly neutral and emotionless in all affairs.

Luma, The Cordial
The goddess of Music. She is the only goddess to have ever risen from the Yun to the Aldamir.

Zafyr, The Jolly
The god of food and drink. He organizes the most lavish feasts in the Higher Realm.

Luxi, The Time Keeper
The goddess of time. She is in charge of making time move forward.

Finac, The Envious
The goddess of envy, and one of the most hated gods among the Naeven.

The Yun
These are some of the many minor gods in the pantheon, many of them children and descendants of the Aldamir. Many of them also serve gods in the Aldamir, often against other gods.

Ei
Servant of Sorra - The god of servants and servitude.

Suyth
Healer of the gods and god of medicine.

Corax
The god of fear, paranoia and intrigue.

The Lewings
Divines of the earth, created by the gods.

Syn
Giver of warmth. He runs around the world, when he is closer it is summer, when he is far, it is winter.

Gant
The messenger of Man and the messiah.

Xenerox
The golden skeleton horse of Vyrax.

Athea
The Bull (Dead).

The Story of creation
In her garden, Sorra was enjoying the sigh of her beautiful plants as she does every day. Little did she know, Ei, her servant, could not resist and had eaten from one of the berry bushes. He has eaten from the Banir bush, whose berries cause forgetfulness. This caused him to forget to lock the gate to the garden. While strolling through her garden, Sorra turned a corner expecting to find a marvelous marble statue, but instead she found it in pieces under Athea, the Celestial Bull. Upon seeing her, it diverted its rage to her, charging at her. Sorra flinged earth and water at him, and a great battle ensued, destroying the garden. However, Athea managed to gain the upper hand and pinned her to the ground, about to maul her with its horns.

The battle was loud enough that Vyrax, God of War, could hear it from his training ground. He came charging on his golden skeleton horse and impaled Athea through his back with his lance.

Sorra was so thankful for his heroism, and Vyrax captivated by her beauty, that the two fell in love, spending almost all their time side by side.

However, there was one goddess which did not approve of this. Finac could not bare to see the attention Sorra was getting from her beloved. Day and night it haunted her, corrupting her mind, until one day she could take it no longer. Seeing an opportunity to take advantage of the situation, Corax, a minor god who has always wanted to be recognized as a major god, approached Finac. Just when she was at her breaking point, he offered her a deal - in return for a favor, he will bring disaster over the couple. In her tearful distress she agreed, not waiting to hear what the favor was going to be.

Corax then waited in the shadows of Vyrax’s training arena. Day and night he would watch the god practice, waiting for an opportunity. Soon it had arrived when Vyrax sustained a cut to his forearm. Shapeshifting to the form of Suyth, the healer of the gods, he pretended to treat the wound, applying herbs to it. However, these were not healing herbs, but poisonous ones of the most vicious kind. They gradually corrupted his soul, and within days he was in a constant rage which no one could end. He assaulted anyone in sight, including Sorra who tried to calm him, until Syrac and Helivr restrained him themselves.

Not knowing he attacked her because he was poisoned, Sorra was heartbroken. For a whole week she stayed in her garden, crying mud from her eyes, not moving at all from where she sat.

Her crying was so persistent and intense that where her tears fell, a new flower began growing. It had a ball in its center which detached itself and rolled on the ground to her. Lifting it, she gazed upon it in shock. Its beauty transcended all other flowers in her garden, with tiny forests, fields, rivers and mountains on it. But there was more. Creatures in the shape of the gods roamed upon it. She felt a sense of comfort, seeing what she created. She became obsessed with watching whatever happened on it and with guarding it.

During all this time, Suyth was observing Vyrax. He suspected it had something to do with the cut he had sustained, but was perplexed about how it could’ve caused such an illness. Interviewing those who were with Vyrax when he was hurt, they told Suyth they saw him treat him. It was at that point he suspected Corax’s involvement. To find out what Corax did, Syrac had to torture him for a whole day before he confessed. Suyth was able to mostly treat against the poison, but some of the poison remained within his body, throwing him into random fits of rage.

As revenge for his torture, Corax managed to one day sneak into Sorra’s garden and release some poison onto her most treasured plant - our earth. In the poison was part of him, which made all have his sense of intrigue and betrayal.

Since then Sorra keeps the earth with her at all times to protect it. She resists Corax’s daily snake-like attempts to obtain it from her, and hides it from Vyrax every time he becomes enraged.

The Great Drowning
During one of Vyrax’s fits of rage, Sorra hid the Earth in her pond as she often does. However, this fit was longer than the others. Not looking, she did not see how the rain was drowning the earth. As millions flocked to higher and higher ground, attempting to flee their lands as others drowned, one man decided he must do something. Gant smithed a special trident, he used it to jump so high he left the earth, and landed in her eye to warn her of what was happening below. She took the Earth out of the pond - stopping the rain. To avoid a catastrophe happening once again, she made Gant the messenger of man.

Day and Night
Sorra gazes with her eyes upon the Earth for much of her time. She shines a lantern upon it (Solis) to see it clearly - then it is day. When shedoes not - it is night. Often when Vyrax enters into rage, Sorra hides the Earth in her pond. The water of the pond penetrate the earth as rain.

The Seasons
Sorra enjoys developing her unique creation, the source of envy to all the other gods. She created a creature upon it, in the shape of a man called Syn, to bring warmth to it and the people upon it. Finac, who could not bare the fact Sorra possesses such a wonderful object, and that she could not separate her and Vyrax, wanted revenge. To sabotage the Earth, she deceived Syn. Noticing he goes for a run every morning, she grew a bright red juicy fruit hanging from a tree above the path. Syn, being thirsty on his run, took it and ate it. When he wanted to stop running, he noticed his legs were not obeying him. Since then he is unable to stop running, therefore he has to circle around, and is only able to return to the earth once a year for a few months.