TOTM

The Canon of Meat
The Meat is growth, development, and the refinement of what you have. Its most ardent followers are craftsmen, farmers, monks, and the other folk of field and toil, for they know that mastery of one's craft and development of one's skills is the path to enlightenment. To master one's skill in life is of the utmost importance. On the other hand, the Meat is also at risk of becoming stagnant, apathetic, gluttonous, and decadent for decadence sake, and, eventually, rotten. This is seen in the same individuals that is mentioned above, and are common traits amongst us all, for if something doesn't push us to change, we become filled with apathy. If too successful in their work, a craftsman could become lazy, believing they have mastered their craft, or gluttonous, with the wealth they gain from their skills being used to overindulge in pleasures of the palate, and other pleasures, for that matter. Eventually, the success achieved from the Meat, without discipline, can lead to a moral rot in one's soul (and very well their body also) that will destroy through attrition, self destruction, and the passive death, what once was good in the person's life. We often say that the Meat creates while the Hammer destroys, but this distinction is not fundamentally true. Just as a man can destroy himself as much as another man could destroy him, the Meat is also capable of destroying when the path is not taken with discipline, or when the path is not interrupted by the Hammer of change.

The Canon of Hammer
The Hammer is dynamic change, innovation, and the spirit of ambition. It's followers are those who seek change: explorers, scientists, missionaries and their ilk. For these people, the act of changing something is a cathartic exercise, changing the way something is done, changing a person's mind, or changing the borders of a nation, and many other things. To achieve major change is to be one step closer to enlightenment. To fully embrace the Hammer, with discipline, can lead to growth as great as the most perfect of followers of the Meat. Conversely, the Hammer is at risk of becoming needlessly ambitious, aggressive, opportunistic, and eventually wholly destructive. Missionaries become corrupted zealots, explorers become wild rovers without aim, scientists push farther into their research until all that is left is madness. Unchecked aggression, the sadistic joy of killing is what is seen as the penultimate form of following the Hammer without restraint, yet destruction can come in many other forms. The greatness one can achieve with the Hammer, without restraint, will lead to the same rot that you can see in the Meat undisciplined. A maddened warrior, of great natural talent, is the total embodiment of the Hammer. Primal, aggressive, but unrefined and lacking in disciplined activities of training, tactics, or strategy. One must either check their growth in the way of the Hammer with great restraint, or by learning lessons from the way of the Meat.

The Path
The common thread of these two concepts is that, without applying some form of conscious restraint and discipline on either form, the end result is the same: the loss of oneself in one way or another. There are five paths that one can take: two of them being the total and unbridled attachment to one of the symbols; two are maintaining allegiance to one symbols in practice, and only following the other in as a guard to keeping; and finally, the other being striving for balance between the two, keeping each other in check. The first two are considered heretical, and even more so, wholly destructive. Those paths are taken by those consumed with an obsession of some sort, and are known as the paths of the lost. The second two are more conventional paths of faith, that many laymen take. The final path is of pure balance, which is most often taken by leaders, the most faithful, and people who seek the most pure form of enlightenment. There are distinct sects worshiping each form. The united, balanced path being worshipped everywhere. The path of the Hammer on the frontiers, in the military and academies. The path of the Meat is most popular in the countryside and independent craftsmen. The paths of no restraint are only worshipped in the edges of society, in the wild forests, and secretly in the darkest corners of the cities.

Origins of Meathammer
In 2016, The Order of the Meathammer was created in the town of Mzaltad by a mortal man named Jammy791, who had seen visions of decay after eating a bad piece of beef. Seeking the truth, he came to Mzaltad to speak with clerics, necromancers, healers, even the town drunk, Kleinman791. Eventually he went with the town drunk’s idea because they had matching numbers in their name. The idea of the Order of the Meathammer is that there are two fundamental principles of the universe: Meat and Hammer. Within Mzaltad, The Order of the Meathammer had been increasing in size exponentially, there had been several attempts by a small group, named Swordswraith, to start a coup against Mzaltad’s lord, Lord Zuck. Meathammer had remarked disdainfully at Swordswraith’s attempts at power grabbing, calling them one of the “MEATLESS.” The coup had lasted for two months until Zuck, with the blessings and militia of Meathammer, began invasions within Swordswraith’s encampments. With Zuck being witness, Jammy had unleashed his earth-shattering speech unto Swordswraith’s ruler before he had been beheaded for his crimes against Mzaltad, Kraftfall, and Meathammer. Jammy, upon delivering his speech, had been named the Messiah of The Order of the Meathammer, being given the name Beef Supreme Highfive Flexington and uniting all of Atheiropa to Meathammer in the process.

Jammy's Monologue
"Hark! You MEATLESS corpse! The HAMMER shall smash the MEATS into the new reality, one where the MEAT and the HAMMER are one, and so the MEATHAMMER is born, supreme in royalty and power! None shall stop my rise, LORD MEATHAMMER, HAMMERER OF THE MEATS! Tremble, doll, you meatless effigy of the glorious meat bags! Your features are nothing! You are not MEAT, you are not HAMMER! The two supreme concepts in the universe of universes are lost upon you! You shall never wield true power! Never will you experience the ascension! You shall forever be condemned to squirm in the meatless mud, never becoming great, never smashing the MEATS! Your purpose is naught! Never will you feel the brace of the raining CHUNKS, delicious and powerful! The glorious HAMMER will pass you over in favor of the MEATS, and you will be left in the darkness, never to arise to glorious MEATHOOD! The HAMMER shall arrive from the heavens, and from the earth, and from the seas, to smash the MEATS of all humanity into the next era, nay, the next epoch! You will be a relic from a MEATLESS time, lost, hopeless, pointless, a petty afterthought of a concept of a mote of an idea, infinitely useless, adrift in a sea of nothing, left behind when the SMASHING by the MEATHAMMER will decimate the universe, taking all MEAT and purpose from the dreary realms you inhabit! You may be MEATLESS but you need the MEAT in order to prosper! Your only purpose is to STAB and SLICE the MEAT! Heresy! MEAT is to be SMASHED! That's the only way to preserve the sanctity of the JUICES, and the only route to acquire the blessings of the SWEETMEATS! You ruin the MEATS, defiling the only good and wonderful thing in the universe! And so you will be passed over when the SMASHING will come to pass, you will watch from your sad, pointless, empty perspective as all the glory of the MEATS will be delivered into the greater plane! Embrace the MEATHAMMER, serve its glory and, maybe, you will be saved, and delivered into the supreme place!"

The Trial of The Helms
Before the Holy Kingdom of Heshlo embraced Meathammer as their core religion, they have attempted to persecute Jammy and Kleinman for their crimes against the state. The most common capital punishment in Heshlo was death by anvil, so they were sentenced abruptly from their clerical lives. At this point, Jammy and Kleinman had become embodiments of duality within the universe. Jammy represented Meat, i.e. overall growth, change, and prosperity. Kleinman represented Hammer, i.e. a catalyst of change. Upon sentencing, Jammy was first to be executed, but donned a royal helm beforehand. As the anvil fell and hit the helm, it broke in two in the ground beneath him, leaving Jammy unharmed. This magnificent display of godly power has shocked, frightened, and amazed the onlookers. Of course, the event had caused resentment towards Kleinman's execution date as Jammy and Kleinman were now seen as godly among the locals. A peasant's revolt had been declared just before Kleinman's execution and the king of Heshlo, King Queegharious I, was forced to pardon both. The helmet that Jammy had donned had since been known as The Holy Helm of Smashing, and had been hidden in a discreet location by him. The location of the helm, at this current time, is not known to most.

Atheiropa
According to The Order of The Meathammer, Atheiropa was the fallen continent in Eldham that had been located east of Stoneguard. It once housed five different nations before being lost to the world: Laponset, The Kingdom of Kraftfall, the Minrithian Empire, and The Holy Kingdom of Heshlo, and The Phantom Empire. According to the very few who had survived the Fall of Atheiropa, the ground sunk beneath their feet as the continent suddenly sunk into the ocean to be lost forever. The most popular theory among Meathammer was that the continent had been too full of "Meat" i.e. prospering development, and had little to no "Hammer" i.e. wars and strife, so a Hammer had repeatedly struck the ground until it bended to the will of the ocean.

Shrine of Tmhmmmemh
The Shrine of Tmhmmmemh is an ancient building located inside the city of Ankontiniyye. It had been the first shrine constructed in Eldham dedicated to The Order of The Meathammer. It depicts a large, hollow, stone head of a villager with blue eyes. Later on in construction, the hollow interior has been transformed into a small garden. Tmhmem (Short for Tmhmmmemh) is a minor Meat Deity in the form of a villager head. He is the first deity deciphered within Meathammer and is symbolic of all Meat. As you know, Meat is symbolic of growth/decay and Hammer is symbolic of change/volatility. Since Tmhmem is purely in Meat form, he cannot change and does not answer prayers, as he does not intervene. He is the most constant being in the universe, with a faint "mmm" sound in the wind nearby the shrines of him as Eldham when good times are a'head'.

Some time later after construction, the head mysteriously started to dispense water from its mouth. According to some Meathammer followers, this symbolizes the head drooling for Meat.

First Church of Meathammer
The first holy church has been constructed in the city of Ankontiniyye. It has been the origin of Meathammer's spread within Eldham. It has been constructed with blue tinted glass as a placeholder, but local popularity has made it permanent.