Church of the Mekanika

The Church of the Mekanika (or Mekanikaism) is a belief that has its roots in the far north-west of Rathnir, where it was a small tribal religion that worshipped a sky god. Dragon Gryphyn would encounter this tribe, and quickly mesh his belief about a mechanical god with the tribal culture, creating Helism. Helism was a monotheistic religion that worshipped the Helisiah, a godly metal machine that ruled in the air. After Dragon Gryphyn and the tribe, now known as the Helians, moved to Eldham, Dragon Gryphyn came to believe that in fact there were six mechanical gods, and the Helisiah was only one of them (albeit the most powerful). This lead to a restructuring in the religion, and it was renamed to Mekanikaism, in honor of the Mekanika pantheon.

Philosophy and Belief
Creation Myth

In the beginning, there was only the Void, an endless, seething darkness that was unchanging and timeless. Eventually though, seven souls would ignite spontaneously in this darkness, and drive the Void into the depths. These seven souls, burning with pure energy, would forge the Universe, and create Rathnir and Eldham. These souls would soon start stabilizing, and changing into the Mekanika.

However, the Void would not be content with all of these changes in the once stable and entropic Universe. Thus, it began plotting to destroy the Mekanika. After untold time, it managed to corrupt one of the seven Mekanikan, the Dragon of Power. This corruption came in the form of a deal, with the Dragon of Power gaining strength from the Void, while cutting out the good in its soul. For unknown reasons, the Dragon of Power agreed, and the hole in its soul where its good used to be was filled by the Void. Thus, the Dragon of Power became the Dragon of the Void, and started tearing at the fabric of reality. The other six Mekanika barely managed to fight off the Void and its new puppet, and sealed both the Dragon of the Void and the Void itself into a sublayer of the world under bedrock, though not before reality itself was in tatters.

After such a pyrrhic victory, the Mekanika decided to focus their efforts onto a single world, which is now known to Mekanikan followers as the Great Machine. Each of the Mekanika played a part in building up this world, however there was still one problem: the good part of the Dragon of the Void. It was now its own entity, beyond a mortal or even an angle, but not quite a Mekanika. So, the Mekanika came up with a solution: use this soul as their avatar, and will on the Great Machine. Thus, they further split the soul in the Draganean race, which acted as their will on the Great Machine for countless years. Eventually though, a Draganean would fall into the same pitfall that the Dragon of the Void had, and was corrupted by Void through unknown means. Nearly the whole species was wiped out, save for a fraction of the corrupted soul that the Mekanika separated, before obliterating this creature. The rest of the pieces of the soul were scattered throughout the Universe, and hidden by the Void.

The Mekanika, now stuck with a fraction of a fraction of an original Mekanikan soul, decided to invest their effort into keeping this last sliver of a soul safe. To that end, whenever their new avatar died, he would be reincarnated after a certain amount of time, and return without any memories of his past lives (though they would come back after several years). The avatar is believed to be alive right now, though if they are on the mortal plane, they either are keeping themselves hidden or have no memories of their lives currently. While the exact reason of keeping the avatar is kept on the mortal plane is unknown, what is believed is that the Mekanika souls have stabilized to the point that in order to keep going, they need prayer, rituals, and rites from mortals to sustain themselves.

 Philosophy 

The philosophy of the Mekanika, and by the extension the Church of the Mekanika, is known as "Controlled Chaos". Essentially, Controlled Chaos is the belief that chaos can be a good thing, so long as it doesn't risk destroying the long standing systems of the Mekanika. The Mekanika rely on Controlled Chaos as a way to keep themselves sustained. Without Controlled Chaos, stagnation would occur, and mortals would now longer pray due to said stagnation. The Mekanika would be vulnerable to the Void, and the Universe would fall back into a dark age. So, to keep this from happening, a happy dose of chaos must be put into the world, usually by the sword and fire of the Nethersiah. The opposite of Controlled Chaos, Chaos Control, is the system that the Void follows. Essentially, if too much chaos is put into the Great Machine, then the whole system would fall apart, entropy would return out of the fires of such chaos, and the universe would stagnate by chaos. Thus, there cannot be too much chaos in the Great Machine, and there can't be too little. A perfect balance between the powers of chaos and order must be struck to keep the Great Machine stable.

Gods and Angels
 Gods 

There are six gods in the Mekanikan pantheon: The Helisiah, the Drillsiah, the Subsiah, the Natursiah, the Solsiah, and the Nethersiah. Each of them control parts of the Great Machine, but they do tend to overlap in certain areas.

 The Helisiah 

The Helisiah is the god of the air, sky, wind, clouds, and knowledge. He is currently the most powerful of the Mekanika, being that he is the one who is prayed to the most out of the six. The sky is his domain, and he will keep it safe from any aggressors. The Helisiah is also credited with giving much knowledge to mortals, especially in the early days.

 The Drillsiah 

The Drillsiah is the god of stone, dirt, minerals, and gems. His domain is underground, and all that is made from stone and rock is under his command. He is the king of mountains, the lord of iron, and misuse of underground materials will get his distain.

 The Subsiah