I didn't really get into the different religion of the lands of the west too much, because frankly it confuses the crap out of me. They have a similar god for every emotion/state in this world (plus several others) which makes how they overlap with my gods kind of funny (Oshujon informed me their god of war is very much the same one as the fire god over here, she's just part of a bigger pantheon with them, which seems odd believeable but odd, I wonder if it ever lead to one god getting fed up of being ignored in the pantheon and just leaving... wait maybe that explains the Fire God's influence in my lands, wow I never thought of it like that, damn it I'm stupid). Where it really goes off the rails is in their religions.
They have at least 5 that Oshujon knew of, and at least three major ones, including one that believes in one singular god (which is odd again considering they actually have a pantheon that has directly interefered in their own lives! HOW CAN YOU BELIEVE IN JUST ONE?) The most respected of these religions was Church of the Five Elements (Earth, Water, Wind, Fire, Bullshit err Magic) how they were the most respected is beyond me? Their name was ridiculous, but I guess when you've got longevity you can just fill in the blanks (which is what prompted me to create my own Religion I've included the name in the title, did you know I titled these entries? Because I totally do, no I have no idea why). As is most often the case the Church of The Five Elements had the nicest buildings in some of the nicest parts of town (because they have money by bilking poor people, what you don't think that a nice neighborhood just finds itself around religious buildings? No they buy their way in). Oshujon sought the Church of the Five Elements because he'd heard they had a way of cleansing bad objects (it usually involved them taking possession of them and you never seeing them again, boom cleansed into the hands of the church to sell to someone else!) Oshujon at least rated speaking to the head of the branch he had approached, it was in a city he doesn't remember (see this is why I write this shit down, the longer you live the more chance you can to forget!), but he did remember the guy had a long nose, so that was something.
"You did the right thing Marked One." Long nose was practically salivating looking at the sword, which made Oshujon feel he was doing the exact opposite of the right thing.
"So you'll destroy the sword?" It was at this question Oshujon realized not only was he in the middle of a large building there were several armed men in there with him.
"Oh no this blade is far too holy to destroy Marked One, no we'll offer this to our gods and they will tell us the proper thing to do." I know it seems obvious to me, but Oshujon was the instrument of the gods, why they didn't understand he was basically their gods in human form saying "Do this now"
"I made a mistake." Oshujon went to grab the sword and the guards unsheathed their own weapons.
"Yes, yes you did Marked One, you are trying to take a donation to the church of the five elements, and I can not allow that, be gone from this place before I turn you out as the false prophet you clearly are." I have mentioned the issue with Zealots right? Oshujon was remarkably restrained, I had personally seen him kill several people without issue, but here he merely left the sword and walked away. I guess it comes down to you can't kill people for having the wrong belief structure (well he couldn't, I sure as all gods in this earth do, its my creed and the creed of my new church).
So he left the evil sword in the hands of zealots. This of course had results you can expect, well results I would expect, and I hope you would expect from having read all the horrible things that have happened to my life! DONATE TO MY CHURCH!
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