Spirits of The Violet Sun (Religion)

Overview
The Spirits of The Violet Sun is a sect of The Faith of The Many, based primarily out of Rathnir, which originated in the continent of Sparwood. It values personal freedom, community, altruism, and

While some organization in the religion is present it is mainly treated as a folk religion with an infinite number of deities (hereafter referred to as Mui, as that is their name within the context of the conlang Fjell, spoken in the nation in which the religion started) all of which correspond to a different aspect of life.

Though the religion was practiced before by it's founder, gilderoytherat, the rought time period typically viewed as the "founding" by most is shortly before The Shattering of The East as that was the day in which the first two prophets had a divine experience, and managed to get most of the town to join them in The House of The First Prophet, which was later remade into The First Church, in order to experience the events first hand. At the end of the day the prophets and town were left with a piece of bedrock, a new religion, and a story for the ages.

Scripture
There is currently only 2 widely accepted doctrines of belief within the church. While this may seem like a little, due to the nature of the church most of the followers have varying beliefs and interpretations, though most agree on the big ideas.

Moltdgok: The Book of The First Prophet
There are many books and tales recounting the events surrounding the founding of the church, but the most widely accepted telling of this is the Book of The First Prophet (written and transcribed by its namesake). The book itself is written in Proto-Fjell and is currently being translated into the common tongue, but so far only the first chapter has had a successfully agreed upon translation.

Due to the nature of the book, it is kept close by the high priests of the church and only stored in Proto-Fjell, which the priests are trained to interpret, though, there are rumoured to be a couple translated copies floating around in Hel'et.

The Book of Virtues
During the founding of the church many religious ideas arose in Hel'et, one of which being The Church of Decay. While The Church of Decay has many different books (The Book of Creations, one of the religious texts of the church, being an unofficial doctrine within the Spirits of The Violet Sun), The Book of Virtues is the only one the high priests have ordained as accepted.

The Book of Virtues outlines key tenets of The Church of Decay (hereafter referred to as Witherism), all of which have varying levels of importance to those who practice in the ways of The Spirits of The Violet Sun, but all of which are generally accepted ideas.

Though the original texts within the Witherism Scripture were written in an unknown language (presumably one originating from the nether), the texts have been translated into the common tongue and are open for all to read.

The First Prophet: Hel'Seri
The First Prophet, otherwise known as Hel'Seri, is a player by the name of gilderoytherat. Largely credited with founding the religion, they worked hard to spread the religion anywhere they could after experiencing a divine event which would later come to be known as "Eljavitshata".

A key character in the building of The First Church as well as keeping track of and writing some of the Holy Texts, Hel'Seri would grow to be loved in the local community of Fjellheim as the faith grew around the nation.

The Second Prophet
The Second Prophet,

The Eljavitshata
The Eljavitshata (translated: The Seeing) is the name for the time typically associated with the founding of the faith. In Hel'et at the time, there were a couple of religions popping up, one of which was the precursor to The Spirits of The Violet Sun (The other being The Faith of The Golden Times Gate). The proto-religion consisted of a small altar in the home of gilderoytherat (who will hereafter be referred to as Hel'Seri), which was a granite bench-like structure, which sat in front of a small decline in the ground in which Hel'Seri would sit and worship spirit-like deities called "Mui", giving sacrifices to a campfire in the middle of the bench and reading prayers aloud in the presence of the fire.

While accounts vary on what happened next, the most commonly told tale is contained within the english version of Moltdgok. " Then for the briefest moment, the entire city was set on fire. "" The First Prophet started praying to the False Gods of the Old World, but to no avail as the city was set ablaze once again, this time with the screams of souls echoing all around Rathnir. "" Within the hour, a third time was the world set aflame, the screams coming back once again, louder than before. This time The First Prophet was set on fire too, feeling the heat of The Mui’s rath and rage. ""It was at this time The Second Prophet, Croncubot, saw the First, running over to see his fellow town member on fire. Before questions could be asked the flames descended for the fourth time."" Both rushed into the house with the altar that the First Prophet had constructed on the first day. They prayed to anyone who would listen, and found that something answered their prayers. "" The world was set aflame for the fifth time, lightning striking the heart of the altar and causing it to turn to bedrock. A nameless, faceless voice called out from the void, telling them he represented the power in the universe. "" Then the second prophet made a sacrifice of 1 chicken, 2 cooked potatoes, a tulip, and a bone. "" The voice then turned the bedrock into fire, killing six chickens before their eyes. "" The Second Prophet asked aloud, “Are you our god?”, to which the voice responded with “I would not call me that.” ""Both Prophets, scared and in awe of the power called the voice “Demon”, though after the world was lit aflame for the sixth time, they worshipped it, asking for forgiveness and salvation.""Within time, The First Prophet noticed a chicken had been spared. The chicken then spoke to both prophets, naming itself “Deodio”.""Deodio told the prophets a grave message, saying “Fear he who latches on bedrock. He who has come here.” He brought the prophets much knowledge, telling them of the forces of good and evil: The Mui."" The Second Prophet spoke up again, asking aloud: “Who is the demon?” ""Deodio told them to be wary of its name, but before he could tell them the information he was struck down in the house. Henceforth the demon was known as “The Unnamed One.”"" After this the two prophets scrambled to write down what they had just seen. "" They discussed the idea of Mui, and decided to call both The Unnamed One and Deodio Mui, but ones that were higher than the rest. "" They spoke that if The Unnamed One represented Evil across the world, then Deodio did not represent anything. He was but a messenger, a thing of nature. “Deodio must be neutral in the universal forces.”, it was said a while after. "" They called people from the town, gathering a group of nine in the house, the first of whom was a worshipper of a heretic god, yet worked in peace with the prophets, and thus they showed them the bedrock. "" Two of the nine were still hesitant and walked outside the house. "" The Moltdgok had cleared momentarily. But then the world was set aflame for the seventh time, burning those who were outside alive. The rain then started again, putting out the fires and soaking into the crisp corpses of those who stepped outside the church. "" The remaining seven went outside to notice the violet sun had stopped setting. Soon it began to turn backwards, 3 of the seven shouting, “For where is our Time Lord now?” "" They returned inside the house to pray at the bedrock altar, only to find an item frame with a mysterious object in it. From this the voice of The Unnamed One spoke, saying “I am here.” Then both the item and the frame disappeared before all of their eyes. "" From there it was justly decided that The House of The First Prophet shall be remade into The First Church of The Spirits of the Violet Sun. "While this story is known to be based on truth, we must also account for the inaccuracies made with religious texts and accounts such as these. So take what the second chapter says as a generalization instead of a play by play.