Vareism

Vareism is the primary state-mandated philosophy of the Regnum Drakaes. Unlike many of Eldham's and Rathnir's religions such as the Soleannean Faith and the Twin Dragon religion, Vareism is a ideological philosophy that fully rejects the concept of traditional deities and instead devotes it's belief towards the goal of a Final Society, built upon reason and logic and the ideals of Anthropocentrism. While the most widespread version of Vareism is the Drakaen-mandated Vareist Thought, there are several other variations located in Drakaes, some more radical than others.

History
The Vareist philosophy was created two centuries ago by the early Drakaen philosopher Dhanir fi Varas, a member of the first generation of Drakaens born in the first two decades of the Drakesland Autarchy. During this period, anticlerical and anti-religious sentiment was high, as many of the Drakaen population that had come to the world of Drysjian (called Eldham by it's native inhabitants) had fled as refugees escaping from religious persecution, war, and genocide. The three-month long journey to Drysjian (prolonged due to harassment by pirates, various sea monsters, hurricanes, and a lack of direction) had resulted in nearly a sixth of the exiles perishing during the journey. The trauma gained by the Exile made nearly all of the settlers lose their faith and religious beliefs, leaving only the most faithful to futilely preach their message.

Dhanir was a product of this generational trauma, being raised in a makeshift orphanage in the early settlement of Aurica. He was told the stories of the great Exile of what would become the Drakean people to Drysjian, and how the exiles had to endure great suffering from both Rathnirians and Drysjians, for even after their arrival the Drakesland Autarchy was a fragile city-state beset by native tribes and barbarians. As such, Dhanir came to believe that the old religions of Rathnir had failed them, for what god would let his people suffer so? Instead of turning his effort to becoming a priest like the orphanage teachers wanted him to do, Dhanir would instead turn his attention to the philosophical pursuits.

It was at this point that Dhanir would lay out the main beliefs of what would become Vareism; that humanity had squandered it's potential on religious wars and conflicts, that in order for humanity to achieve a period of eternal peace it had to cast off these beliefs and impose it's own ideals on nature, and that the goal of peace should be achieved with the ultimate creation of a utopian "Final Society", where the efforts of humanity would be dedicated not to the worship of religous figures and idols, but rather to the pursuit of knowledge, logic, art, and reason. His life's work would be complete when he published a trilogy of philosophical books, collectively known as The Final Society.

The first book, I Grant You Dominion Over Them mused on the human condition, and speculated on why humans were drawn to worship idols and gods. Dhanir states that this worship of idols chains the potential of humanity to the ground, as worship detracts from the pursuit of knowledge and reason. Dhanir also compares the worship of idols to the Rathnirian Divine Right to Rule, where kings and queens justified their rule by invoking the words of their gods; thus reasoning that the Heavens themselves had granted them dominion over their subjects.

The second book,

Unfortunatly, Dhanir