Makerism Heresies

Heresy is defined by the Aetherian Church as any belief or doctrine that deviates from the official teachings of the Church by someone who has undergone baptism within the faith and who proclaims to still be an Aetherian. This differs from apostacy as apostacy is the total repudiation or abandonment of the faith such as switching to a new faith.

These are texts or beliefs which have been rejected by the clergy and the faith and which belief in them is against the orthodoxy of the faith and is prosecuted by the Church.

Emenism
This is considered the practice or worship of Mr. Emen, also known as StoneyStoner. Emen is considered as the most evil of beings to have lived - responsible for the collapse of the village system and the near total destruction of the Testificate people. Those sent to the lower 3 realms are tortured and punished by Emen.

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