Naturalism

Origin
Naturalism was first discovered by the Othin’s, a group of nomads travelling around the unclaimed lands to the north of the Great Border. They tasked themselves with crossing through the perilous barren desert land on which Othinia now stands. The conditions they experienced were horrible. Plague, thirst, and Hunger killed off half of them and others died of depression and fatigue. As starting of as a large colony of 100’s of people they were reduced to only 50 remaining survivors. One night a man by the name of Coffee Othin, the predecessor of Tea Othin (Who is the author of this), had a vision from a celestial being known as Sylvaneth. No one knows what Sylvaneth told Coffee Othin (apart from me and I am not willing to share it) but all that they knew was that he was blessed. When they went looking for water, he found an underground spring that he named The Sacred Spring of Sylvan, this made the Othin’s decide to stay and later Othinia was built upon it. When they were growing crops his always produced the best harvest. Eventually the Othin’s Chose to properly settle there and built a city and worship their new god Sylvaneth in their new religion of Naturalism.

Rules
There were few rules in naturalism and people were mainly allowed to do what they want but there were few that must be obeyed because if broken a curse would fall upon the one who broke the rules a curse that withered everything they touched, a curse that caused them to not be able to eat or drink until they Withered away and died and even then their soul was condemned to eternal punishment in the far-fetched, synthetic and inhumane realm of the Withered. To avoid this punishment, you must follow the following rules.


 * Killing animals is a sin. Sylvaneth will make sure nature will provide without blood and death of innocent animals.
 * Killing is a sin. All people deserve the right to live no matter how much you think they do not. Blood on your hands is a direct insult to Sylvaneth whether it is animal or human.
 * Stealing is a sin. Sylvaneth will make sure you have all you need.
 * Anyone making others feel unimportant or bad because they are different is a sin. We are all equal in Sylvaneth’s eyes.
 * To judge some one because of their actions or their looks or even their behavior is a sin. Sylvaneth never judges.
 * Any food or drink that has been processed at all is sinful. It brings it further away from nature which is where naturalists should strive to be. As close to nature as possible. The only exception to this is tea and coffee as they are in-edible otherwise but there is another exception and that is Hot chocolate. To find out more check the Three Holy Drinks section.
 * Alcohol is an even bigger sin as it is seen as a corruption of nature and free will any naturalist who consumes this corrupted drink from the depths of the void is seen as the highest of all criminals and is shunned from society.

Atonement
There is only one known way to escape the wrath of the withering. It is to bathe yourself in the sacred spring of Sylvan and drown within it. You will be re-born but will not remember who you are only that you devote yourself to naturalism. This can only happen once so if you break the rules after re-birth there is no coming back.

Gods
Naturalists only worship one god Sylvaneth, but we also worship nature. Sylvaneth is a woman but her appearance is impossible to describe, she is only known to look celestial.

The Story Of Sylvaneth
Sylvaneth was born in the celestial city of Sylvan from an ancient civilization around before Rathnir itself. The City of Sylvan Floated between the three dimensions but never entered one. But one day the corruption of the end and the hate from the nether caused the city to collapse and most people died. Those who survived were dragged off to hell or to the void. One person was left in the Overworld; Sylvaneth. She awoke to find herself in a barren desert land, fatigued, hungry and most of all thirsty. She trudged through the sand for three long days until coming across an underground spring, but it was too late and with one last breath she fell into the spring and died. While Sylvaneth’s mortal body died, her soul so strong, did not let go and she found herself back in ruins of Sylvan. She rebuilt the city and restored it to its former glory, but she was alone with all before her either dead or corrupted beyond coming back. So, she decided to watch the world of Rathnir as it had now been named and waited tens of thousands of years until she found the Othin’s.

The Three Holy Drinks
Even though most drinks were considered unholy there were three that were not Coffee and Tea as they were the names of the line of blessed and Hot Chocolate because who doesn't like Hot Chocolate.

Ethics
All Naturalists Strive for three things to please Sylvaneth, to be close to nature and to complete the pilgrimage before death. To please Sylvaneth you do not have to do anything special as she does not judge. You simply have to follow the rules of Naturalism and you are fine. To be close to nature you just must keep the things you use in their most natural form possible and you should spend your time with nature. To complete the pilgrimage before death is to on your last days, if you have completed the other two ethics, you must take a 3 day pilgrimage through the desert and back to The Sacred Spring Of Sylvan and make sure that is where you fall when you die.