Nubble Orthodoxy

Nubble Orthodoxy is a vraniristic sect which asserts a cosmogony oriented around the concept of "Coalescence from Chaos" and seeks to explain natural phenomena such as rain and fishing enchanting books as the precipitation of order from primordial chaos and the preservation of order against entropy. Vranirism as a faith reveres the goddess Vranir who is in Nubble Orthodoxy honored as the first consciousness, the second deity born of chaos, the artisan of living things, and the custodian of the Procession of Order. In the Whiterose Church of Vranirism, Vranir is revered as a goddess of the hunt and of war. Nubble philosophy honors the sea, which is considered a deity itself, and embraces a tradition of fishing; The nubble fishermonks espouse the mantra "the sea provides".

In the nubble cosmogony, it is thought that the heavens exist of a nebulous primordial chaos and has existed for an unknowable span of time. Through eons of random entropy, eventuality causes parts of chaos to precipitate into water, a form of primary order, and as it rained the ocean gradually filled. In this way the ocean was born, a gestalt god although not fully conscious. The guiding entity and first cognitive deity recognized is Vranir who fortuitously formed from a silver droplet fallen into the sea. Subconsciously, the ocean molded the droplet into a being capable of rationality through the whims of its subconscious, and once Vranir was born she undertook the labor of perpetuating the Procession of Order causing all following spirits, beings, living plants and creatures, and deities to come forth.

The nubble faith is gnostic, in that all living beings are cultivated of the same primordial chaos that precipitated Vranir and are of similar divinity to godhood. Whereas, the sea is the artisan of Vranir and possibly other deities and is in a sense  ultimately the demiurge of the known world, Vranir is the artisan of all living races. The races descended of Vranir however are of less permanence than the creations of the sea, and require consumption of primordial order (water) to stave off eventual dissipation back into entropy. After death, the order of the logical mind and the catalogue of defining memories can be preserved by the sea and is translated to written mediums, maintaining and adding to the sum of order in the world and ensuring its continued existance. The experienced pathos of the soul is translated into logos and manifests itself in varying theophanies, dreams, and enchanted scripture. As example, the memory of someone who has undergone great physical or emotion trauma can be translated to an enchanted book of mending.

There is not a complete canon of thought in Nubble Orthodoxy, and it is even considered impossible to fully understand the universe in totality due to its preceding existance before an intelligence existed to observe it, and the difficulty in measuring the pure chaos that preceded it. Instead, the nubble monks seek truth in the scattered primary teachings of Vranir given to the first intelligent beings which over millennia have been fractured and altered in ancient religions throughout the histories of races, incorporating new gospels revealing secrets of cosmogony, logic, and mystic magic, into the orthodoxy. In this way, the fishermonks of Nubble Orthodoxy grow a philosophical school of thought seeking to explain nature as the Procession of Order through natural philosophy and theological study.