Orgilism

Orgilism is the religion of the Altin Qoyunlu tribe, who live in the town of Omnod Ger in the eastern Drak Yamar region of Uraka. An ancient religion, Orgilism has been practiced for thousands of years before the tribe arrived in Eldham, as refugees fleeing from their destroyed homeland in the far north. The religion is strictly monotheistic, worshipping the omnipotent creator Kalday, but the beliefs of the religion include other divine figures such as Akna, Batken, and the Golden Sheep. Their primary holy text is The Great Gift. Orgilists believe in the pursuit of Orgil, an all encompassing term for divine knowledge and the escape from the mortal world. They believe earthly existence to be flawed, as the physical world was formed by the malevolent Batken, who in turn was birthed by the source of knowledge Akna. Orgilism reveres the Golden Sheep, a creation of Kalday given to the mortal world as a guide to Orgil. The Golden Sheep is treated as a divine figure, although all sheep are venerated to some extent.

To Orgilists, physical existence is seen as a whole as being trapped in a spiritual prison. To escape, one must follow in the path of the Golden Sheep to find Orgil, and through Orgil the perfect aphysical realm of Kalday. Batken is the creator of the physical world, and therefore the physical bodies in which spirits of people are trapped. Batken is despised by Orgilists as an envious and hedonistic force of evil, who loves to make others suffer.

Orgilism proffesses that Akna, an emenation of Kalday, is the source of knowledge and conscious thought. Akna as an emanation of Kalday was perfect, but her knowledge allowed her to stray from Kalday's perfection enough to birth the evil Batken, a realization of the full abandonment of Kalday's perfection.

The Golden Sheep is the namesake of Altin Qoyunlu and primary mode of worship for Orgilists to Kalday. Orgilists believe that the Golden Sheep is perfect, immortal, and everlasting. According to Orgilism, the Golden Sheep has led his followers for thousands of years.