Sunfloria

Sunfloria
The Sunflower religion of the Solnostani people in the North. Their beliefs are connected to their way of life, rather viewing this religion as a lifestyle but also having a philosophical inpact on the leaders of the nation.

Founding
The religion was founded, during the Solnostani migration, when the Solnostani found an abandoned hut, pillaged by war and agony, corpses laying in the street connecting it to other villages. The Solnostani Leader Mark Valiant II walked into the the hut and found a writing on the wall that said "Solnario, Càpelá Centruvem", in a dead language which many historians apart of the migrating kingdom couldnt understand more than half of it.

The Solnostani found a diary called Dicentiso, which would be roughly translated to "The Speaker", describing a civilisation mostly composed of hut-like buildings. The one they found being the only one that actually remains.

Years before the expeditioners found the hut, the civilisation followed a god called "Solaris" the god of the Sun, and a goddess called "Naturia" the goddess of Nature.

Inside the diary the men examining it could determine what this religion relied on and belived in. It was a religion whom belived that sunflowers were sacred and always following the course of the sun. The sunflower being deemed as the messenger of Solaris himself, being used as communication to his citizens.

Dismissal and Death
This seemingly worthless religion was dismissed untill two more diaries were found of the leader whom lead the nation they were found in, explicitly going against the will of the sunflowers whom have seen mass extinction after the people starting to futher themselves from their real gods, starting to worship golden statues, money and most of all the leader leading a cult of personality.

This all lead to something historians called the "Grand Preservation" where the solar rays went out of their course making a giant gap over their huts, letting them affect the citizens skin and giving most of the citizens skin cancer but when the day of the "Preservation" came that isnt what killed them. What is belived to kill them is a rupture of solar rays who affected them so harshly their skin instantly decomposed and led their imune system eat itself inside out due to its confusement, this all leading to most of the population dying or migrating.

Wierdly enough after the death of this nation the sunflowers regrew stronger than ever, some through skulls of people but inside the town hall a sunflower patch was found inside the ribcage, pelvis, and multiple other bones of the emperor, devouering on it through its slightly, now decomposing state.

Adopting the Religion
What made the migrating Solnostanis sit on this holy sight was out of fear, with them once ariving the sunflowers all pointing their flowers at them and eyeing their citizens, so they decided to build a settlement in this religious location and reform the religion into what it is today, seeing the sunflower as an ultimate being and not even regarding it as a flower anymore rather a sentient being.

Mark Valiant II being one of the first to accept it, went to settle in the hut. That night he dreamnt of all the souls, damned, burning eternally, with their eyes being replaced with ever-growing sunflowers and their internal organs looking like theyve been put inside a blender, with their face looking like mush. When he woke up the hut dissapeeared and he was sleeping on a bed of sunflowers with everyone knowing the hut dissapeared but dismissing the event, but the king ordered a yurt in its spot as a temple to honor it, and the yurt is now considered the home for all Monarchs.

Acceptance by the Gods
Now, under the kingdom of Solnostan, sunflowers have once again flourished inside the village, this being a sign of acceptance from both Naturia and Solaris.

Dedication by Solnostanis
Sunflower oil is no longer acceptable to use so they mostly use animal fat to cook, this being another sign of their dedication to this religion.