Church of the Mekanika

The Church of the Mekanika (or Mekanikaism) is a belief that has its roots in the far north-west of Rathnir, where it was a small tribal religion that worshipped a sky god. Dragon Gryphyn would encounter this tribe, and quickly mesh his belief about a mechanical god with the tribal culture, creating Helism. Helism was a monotheistic religion that worshipped the Helisiah, a godly metal machine that ruled in the air. After Dragon Gryphyn and the tribe, now known as the Helians, moved to Eldham, Dragon Gryphyn came to believe that in fact there were six mechanical gods, and the Helisiah was only one of them (albeit the most powerful). This lead to a restructuring in the religion, and it was renamed to Mekanikaism, in honor of the Mekanika pantheon.

Philosophy and Belief
Creation Myth

In the beginning, there was only the Void, an endless, seething darkness that was unchanging and timeless. Eventually though, seven souls would ignite spontaneously in this darkness, and drive the Void into the depths. These seven souls, burning with pure energy, would forge the Universe, and create Rathnir and Eldham. These souls would soon start stabilising, and changing into the Mekanika.

However, the Void would not be content with all of these changes in the once stable and entropic Universe. Thus, it began plotting to destroy the Mekanika. After untold time, it managed to corrupt one of the seven Mekanikan, the Dragon of Power. This corruption came in the form of a deal, with the Dragon of Power gaining strength from the Void, while cutting out the good in its soul. For unknown reasons, the Dragon of Power agreed, and the hole in its soul where its good used to be was filled by the Void. Thus, the Dragon of Power became the Dragon of the Void, and started tearing at the fabric of reality. The other six Mekanika barely managed to fight off the Void and its new puppet, and sealed both the Dragon of the Void and the Void itself into a sublayer of the world under bedrock, though not before reality itself was in tatters. After such a pyrrhic victory, the Mekanika decided to focus their efforts onto a single world, which is now known to Mekanikan followers as the Great Machine. Each of the Mekanika played a part in building up this world, however there was still one problem: the good part of the Dragon of the Void. It was now its own entity, not quite a Mekanika, but neither mortal either. So, the Mekanika came up with a solution: use this soul as their avatar, and will on the Great Machine.