Makerism Heresies

Aetherian Heresies are beliefs and doctrines that deviate from the official teachings of the Aetherian Church practices by someone who has undergone baptism within the faith and who proclaims to still be an Aetherian.

An Inquisition may be called by a council meeting of the faith’s leaders, bishops and other clergymen, in order to combat the spread of heresy and apostacy as well as maintain religious orthodoxy within the faith. The Inquisition is charged with eliminating threats to the faith which threatens the unity of the faith. In the case of Inquisition, ecclesiastical courts are set up to identify and punish heretics by means of investigations, trials, and various punishments no matter the person's social or political rank.

The majority of sentences involve some form of penitence being required though for unrepentant heretics and apostates the punishment may result in being burned at the stake.

Emenism
Emenism is the worship of Mr. Emen, more commonly known simply as Emen. The Aetherian Church consideres Emen to be "the most evil of beings to have lived" and attributes the collapse of the village system and the near total destruction of the Testificate people to him. This heresy is seen as particularly dangerous by the Aetherian Church and is heavily persecuted.

Village Witness (By StoneyStoner)
Witness of a Villager War.

StoneyStoner

Before the players entered this realm, I scouted out its lands to ensure it was suitable for habitation. What I did not know was that villagers engaged in some of the most brutal activity against each other that I have ever seen. It seems that iron golems are not made to protect from mobs, but from other bignoses. I was witness on one field, it was an ordinary bright day for the villagers, when out of the nearby woods came a group of some 20 others. I could not distinguish between the groups of bignoses, but it seems that they could easily. The 20 which poured in were followed by 5-6 iron golems, which destroyed the 2 guard golems with ease. After this, it was a free for all. The villagers ran in circles, what motive that had for this I’m unsure.

The iron golems stomped and threw the men. The women and children were abused and tied together with leads. The villagers looted and set fire to this village, then returned with their bound slaves down the grass path, presumably back to their nearby village. This was traumatic enough to witness, but I did not anticipate what came next. At some point, I returned back to this grassland, and I saw a very large village partaking in some ceremony. There was a lot of rhythmic villager noises, and one villager was attached by lead humorous to such an outsider as myself. After the zombie gourged on the villager and it had turned, the fencepost was destroyed, and the ground gave way underneath to lava, where they burned and died. Such gruesome acts as I have seen done by bignoses almost makes one think they should have been under the heel of players even more than when Rathnir was first populated. Perhaps upon the apocalypse here, I shall first personally deal with the villagers.

-StoneyStoner