Patronism

Patronism is a monotheistic religion based on the worship of Baylen from the Taigan people of Rathnir. An ancient religion the rose before the times Sun and Moon gods came into play. The Taigan people once followed the religion before migrating to new lands either after the Ascending or for new opportunities to hold as the rise of power and empires birth a new age of exploration. Now, only one still follows the religion until today and has not heard of any of it's brothers in faith ever since.

History
When the world of Rathnir was still young, a group of people named The Taigan travelled together moving into lands where they can find a place to live and grow as a community. In the first few days, it was difficult to find a land to settle in due to the fear of bandits and the hardship of joining a nation for they were not welcoming at the time. It was an every group's journey to survive the harsh world. As travelling through mountainous areas of winter and sea they discovered a sight to behold. A peculiar sign that they have not expect to see.

A crater filled with lush greens and waters was on their sight in front of them. Neither the land was too cold or too warm, it was the perfect condition to build a community. While exploring their new founded home, they discovered a mountain where it had a hollow carving so huge that is even bigger than the buildings they have seen while travelling. A strange light blossom through the holes and danced with joy, it seems to welcome the group. One of the members suddenly heard a voice, a calm yet powerful voice that can inspire a man to listen carefully.

None of the members can hear the voice other than the one member among them. He then returned to the group and said.

"We have been given a sign from a being filled with light and gentleness. His light is full of power. And has introduced me to Himself as the supreme creator. We must thank him for this gift, that He has saved us from the factions above the crater and filled it with greens and waters by settling in this land and build for him a temple for His name alone."

The group then submitted themselves to this deity and their new found prophet. They built a small thriving community where they can worship the creator in peace without the harm of other nations and live in goodness. Yet as time becomes years, the community started to become fed up of the safety they were in. They started to complain saying they wanted to fight like how the armies above use to do or rule lands and expand further. They got tired of the goodness that the creator has gifted them. Their prophet tried their best to guide them back and reminding them of the blessings of the creator upon them, but their minds were filled with ingratitude and one by one they left. Among them saying this towards their prophet and creator.

"What the heck? We just wanted some action and to rule just like the ones above, why do you have to be so strict? It is not fair! They got to conquer and enjoy the battles, the built castles and gotten rich? And yet where are we? In a crummy old crater that nobody knows we exist! So stay in what you believe and let us go and do our own thing! For now on, we will forget you and your stingy god!"

The community moved to lands where they then forgot the teaching of the creator and his prophet. Only one follower is left remaining, still showing gratitude towards the creator and following the prophet. The land become very quiet. And soon started to cry as the prophet was about to pass his last breath in the world of Rathnir. He reminded the follower and gave him instructions from the creator:

"Do not be sad from the absence of your brethren who left the faith. Know that Baylen is with you. Keep the teachings and stay firm. Do not let the dark entity take over you or lead your away from the religion. Know that Baylen keeps sending prophets to many people to guide them and you are not the only believer. They will call Him by many names yet they all worship the same god. Move away from the land and start a new, for this place is not a place where His name can be remembered."

Deity
Baylen is the only being that this religion worships. He is the creator of all things and decides everything in the universe per his wisdom and will. A creator being worshipped by many while calling Him in many names and titles. Baylen is known for his attributes and for who he is and for what he has done for the people of the world. He is very patient when in comes to the evils of man, always inviting them to repent while keeping his generosity open in many ways that man can never see.

He has two main attributes that governs the way he wishes.

Mastery is His powerful and dominating attribute. He shows his power and dominance and his strength to protect his creation. He is the deciding factor to many events and has control over all things.

Generosity is His gentle attributes. He shows his kindness, mercy, and his good will to all of creation yet man can never pay back to kindness He gave to them. He continuous to give and to be very kind despite everything man has done in terms of wrong.

Ascendings
These are events where Baylen sees fit to destroy the world in order to bring balance and purity once more. It is said that there have been multiple ascendings because of evil and corruption being practiced in the land. One way to prevent this is to follow the teachings of Baylen and to worship Him, to be good and show goodness in the land, and to not practice any forms of evil or corruption.

Worship
The followers of Patronism worship Baylen in a number of ways. One is by being grateful and to show gratitude for the blessings He has gifted. If anyone worshipper dislikes those gifts and seeing them as a form of bad towards them they shall be punished by Baylen with a heavy punishment. Building small shrines in places that can be converted to places of worship. And prayers done in silences and never with loud voices. A worshipper can make any prayer as they wish so long as gratitude is incorporated in the prayer. Having good values and practicing them is a form of worship and being grateful to Baylen.

There are no official ceremonies or rituals that is universal to be practiced in the religion. Nor having priests or monks in the religion for they are a sign of stinginess, arrogance, and ingratitude towards Baylen due to the fact that they have more access to Baylen than the common folk. Worshipping Baylen is for every everyone to reach and never reserved for those in power or status.

The Entity
The Entity is a being of darkness that loves to deceive people away from the love of Baylen towards His anger. He tricks, lies, and makes people ungrateful to what baylen has given them. The people of Rathnir says that this entity is locked up and only those who sees the entity as a god can reopen the chamber he is in to once again misguide the people of Rathnir away from Baylen.

View on other Religions
Patronist believe that if any religion has the same concept as theirs is but the same religion they follow and the same god the worship. The main criteria amongst many is that if it is monotheistic, the deity is worshipped alone, their morals and values are good, and if gratitude in apart of their lives. Any belief that is close to the religion is considered the same religion. Among the teachings of Patronism is to accept a religion that is similar to their's by either converting to the faith or just by acknowledging it's status as snother religion sent by Baylen Himself to guide the people.

View on Life
Patronist believe that life is but a test of faith. Baylen wishes to see whether one of His worshippers are either doing good or bad, being grateful or ungrateful, and to see who is a true believer or not. When a worshipper passes the test they will be rewarded in the hereafter, if cannot passes it the another gift and reward is gifted to them and that is repentance, they will get even more rewards just by trying and doing their best. But if they do not care about Baylen whether or not He will test them, then He will punish them for badly in the hereafter.