Traveler's Creed

The Traveler's Creed is a religious tradition founded in Eldham. Concerned with nomads and the stateless, it is a liberatory theology with esoteric elements.The Creed seeks to find and re-establish the legendary floating city of Taalkesh after its destruction by the almighty entity known only as IT. The Creed's seminal text, The Traveler's Creed, was written by NSMOfficialMOD in January 2022

Origin
The Traveler's Creed originates in an area then claimed by Oceanum which would later become the town of Haywood. The previous name and nature of this settlement was unknown, though it was strangely attractive with mysterious features like a now removed tower of oak and a pillar of obsidian at least one hundred blocks tall. While squatting in the then-abandoned town, nomad NSMOfficialMOD claimed to have received strange visions of a floating city in dreams and sometimes entered trance-like states. It was in this state of mind that the Creed was, though NSM insists that he was not the author of the text, but the medium through which it was received. The Creed does contain some passages of commentary in a different authorial voice.

When a giant skull of bone blocks appeared in the area to the north of Haywood, it was taken as an omen of death by NSMOfficialMOD. Though when this skull disappeared suddenly, its significance seemed unclear to the nascent Traveler's Creed. An abandoned temple devoted to the Jygggagieln Building Code was revealed upon inspecting the area underneath it. This discovery was troubling to NSM who the defunct temple as a sign that gods themselves could die, while the disappearance of the skull meant death could die as well. From this, the religion took on ideals relating to an eternal being that was neither alive nor dead.

Thirteen Blocks
The Temple of Jyaggallagg proved to be influential in devising the Creed. The religion from then on placed a great significance on maintaining abandoned places. The temple also provided inspiration for the symbol of the religion. The "thirteen blocks" was adopted after seeing a naturally-occuring formation on the sides of the Jyaggallagg complex. Having seen shapes like this before as naturally-generated, random occurrences, they gained a special significance as a sign from a higher power of the nature of the universe.

The Traveler's Creed
The book is split into a section devoted to the Six Rules, a section devoted to the lore of Taalkesh and an esoteric section devoted to IT. The original copy was stolen off of NSMOfficialMOD while in the Nether Spawn by a group of two bandits, one of which was ur_baked.

A Treatise on Good Governance
While the Traveler's Creed, the First Book of Taalkesh, was received as prophecy, the Second Book of Taalkesh details the personal opinion of NSMOfficialMOD as to what a just society looks like under the tenets of the Creed.