Quortuu Naas

Quortuu Naas
Quortuu Naas (KU-WAHR-TOO NAHS), also known as The All-Consuming Sands in the Traveler's Tongue, was the folk religion of the bai population of Baikulo in Rathnir. The religion first developed due to the geographic restraints of Baikulo and the costs to expand. With no easy and appealing way to reclaim land from the sea, the citizens of Baikulo began to sail to the surrounding shores and harvest vast quantities of sand from the beaches. As sandstone became the primary infrastructure material of Baikulo, the need for sand grew exponentially. This lead to new citizens of Baikulo being required to immediately begin stripping areas of sand as part of an initiation into the town. The desperate need for more sand even caused some of the wealthier members to sink their fortunes into shops across Rathnir, repeatedly buying out the stocks of many sand shops.

This economic practice of earning money only to immediately buy more sand caused near bankruptcy of some of the towns members and began the worship of sand as loving yet wrathful god. The name "The All-Consuming Sands" came around due to many of the recently destitute members declaring that the sands were all consuming as they would "eat their bank accounts", and " eat them out of house and home". During the Battle of Baikulo, the vast stores of sand and sandstone would be stored within the towns vault, alongside the town's most valuable treasures, relics, and tools.

After the conclusion of the Battle of Baikulo, most of the Bai population perished, with a handful escaping to the newly discovered world of Eldham, where the Bai Federation would be established by the refugees. With their connection to the Sands of Baikulo severed and their very survival at stake, the faith was slowly forgotten as the bai population recovered without many of the younger generation following or evening knowing of the faith. With the conclusion of the Bai Exodus, the faith is considered to be extinct.