Dallanaism

People who have eye diseases within the kingdoms of Dallanaism, although there are regional variations, tend to be treated venerably, similarly to how lepers were venerated after Jesus decided he liked them. The stigmata equivalent for Dallanaism is a mysteriously gouged eye or a vertical eye scar (as opposed to wounds on the limbs and hips).

Some people don't think Dallanor was the son of God, mainly Mours, believers in the old religion. Some even begin to hazard that even Eisel was more worthy of being messiah than Dallana, but this is high heresy. Anyway, there aren't many Mours left these days because of a wide-scale genocide of non-believers soon after the inception of Dallanaism.

Dallanaism has forefingers crossed over opposite eye as a basic position for prayer instead of palms together.

Continuously uses the phenomenon of collective effervescence as a form of propaganda and to instill loyalty within its followers.

The Dallanaist Church has a strange penchant for caves, probably because the Messiah (or equivalent) was born in a cave. Therefore, the vast majority of the churches are architecturally designed to look like caves on the interior. Exteriors vary according to culture/budget/whatever. If they are available, some churches are set up in caves. Otherwise, they are dankly lit with a bit of plant life?

Dallanaism sticks by its rock focus. As well as having subterranean churches (decorating them like caves may be slightly retarded by they should still have a muted coloured, natural and almost pagan interior in sweet combination to authoritarian complexity), they have holy rocks and holy dust. Dust of ground up blessed rocks are sprinkled over participants during sacraments/rituals. Rocks with holy symbols encarved often decorative. Anyone can draw the runes, not just priests. Symbols are Gravenian script for disciples/holy words/whatever. Priest/priestess garb is compared of long robes of checkered sage and pear with scarves covered in runes hung draping heavily around the neck. Lots of rocky jewellery embellished with gold. Brotherhood of Numbed have white cloaks.

Since Dallanaism is monotheistic, it's natural that sin will have a corporeal form. Maybe. Sin theoretically is natural and a component of being human, technically originating from God himself and the aether of the universe, but over the years, it has grown to be associated with the equivalent of Satan, Geoth. I guess Geoth is some sort of alter ego of God, who may have forced the spilled ink. I will have to work out all the theological debate shit in the future. But anyway, Geoth is a deformed toad-looking dude but red/pale with skin deformities and such. Leprosy is associated with him, not good. Associated with fire, death and sin. Signature associations are frogs/toads, axes, skin diseases and making deals with people.

Attan - current is Attana Vittora Melito

Actually surprisingly compatible with the theories of the Cult since Dallana was obviously significant in some way.

Righteous Inquisition of the Vigilant Eyes are the judicial authority of the Church and help prevent the spread of heresy. Righteous Inquisitor.

Crowns of Dallana. Fractures

Phohebia's branch of Dallanaism has a lot of fire - the pure, cleansing kind. Their history is pretty messed up in terms of the inquisition. One of their main ceremonies is something akin to Holy Fire, where a column of fire is created to simulate the glory of God. Singing and candles ensue. Pilgrimage to a pear tree?

Monastic orders are quite prestigious in the very pious countries, like Gravenia and Phohebia. Elsewhere, they are seen as quite old-fashioned and quite redundant. Back in the old days, they were pretty common. Bolscemenans have their monks arguing about the canonity and meaning of sagas. Larareyan religions don't really bother with monks and nuns, and the South go solo, as hermits rather than monks/nuns.

Dallana was so special that he has two eyeglass pieces. One of them, as we know, is occultly charged and locked away safely in the Oxyx Vault. However, the other one was kept at a pilgrimage site further up the coast but the site was completely obliterated when a tsunami hit it. It had a lot of the effects of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, such as challenging the notion of an omnibenevolent or intervening God. It is a sign of God that we are not worthy? Subsequent increase of religious morals and authoritarian rule.

Like the Catholic Church repeatedly violated Jesus' teachings of love and forgiveness, I suppose the Dallanaists constantly ignore the fact that the world and its inhabitants are, by definition, flawed. If you are too heretical, the Inquisition (orange/golden vibe) will get you.

One theosophical debate escalated, concerning whether God really did make a mistake with the ink or deliberately made it 'perfectly imperfect', and this debate escalated into a great schism and reformation of the church. Gravenia, for example, belong to the Deliberatist school of thought. The Tervan Isles is part of the Bradleyan faction, named after that first debater, George Harry Bradley.

Another faction are the Arstigeddards, which draw from the humanist beliefs and policies from Clare and Neo-Reddeganism. Basically, it's what modern Christianity is, but with tolerance, philosophical integration and helping others and all that. The humanist movement originated in Clare.

Pannans used to decry traitors and detractors

I talk somewhat of Mours being an equivalent of Jews but I've decided the religion of Moury and the Mour ethnicity became extinct. After an undetermined international crisis, everyone got together and decided that all their problems could be solved if all the Mours went away. And so they were rounded up and dealt with, like a terrible worse version of the Holocaust. I suppose the nature was more localised than systematic. It was called the Holy City Genocide (1172-76) since a large proportion of Mours were sent there. Therefore, most people are unaware of their existence.
 * Will there be a revenge?
 * Who did everyone persecute instead?
 * What was the crisis, and its causes and effects?
 * How did it even work, considering the technology and politics of the time?

Dallana
Whilst, for Jesus, nobody knows what he looks like, Maso Dallana's face is fully definitively known thanks to the superb painting skills of Aruma Fontara, whose work formed the basis of modern painting (impact upon later styles??, medieval cubism). Although he made several portraits of Dallana as one of his followers, 'God-Emperor' is the most famous and was copied multiple times over the centuries, whereas the original is held in the Oxyx Vault though pretty much in tatters at this point. Anyway, I suppose Gravenia is the world capital of painting and art, so long as it is religiously respectful.

Had children. Genealogy carefully monitored. Still exist to this day

Dallana's title was God-emperor as he formed the first Gravenian Empire and performed all the miracles and all. His eye was stolen and processed into funeral glass

The Maisini is the descendent of Dallana at the current time. It's their title since Dallana did indeed have children. It is passed on from parent to eldest child and I assume there is always complexity to marriage and bloodline purity and all that. At some point, the Maisini separated from the seat of the emperor and the attan but they still remain a powerful moral figure and rallying point. They have an opulent palace in the Oxyx.

Eisel Boays
Eisel Boays was the mortal archenemy of Dallana. Where Dallana promoted the solemnity and stoicism of God almighty, Eisel was viewed as some monstrous heathen from the north, imbued with geothic powers. Specifically, Eisel seemed to be able to summon giant bears, though most theologians agree Eisel just brought down trained greatbears to fight for him. In actuality, Eisel was a generation of Hylla and literally had the ability to summon giant bears. And he was pushing southwards. Remember, Dallana wasn't a loving wise and kind rebel - the religious leaders at the time hailed him as the righteous and first true son of God because he just so happened to fit in with his views. So the armies of the south set out to fight the armies of the north. After a battle to beat all battles, Eisel was killed by a stray arrow, but came back in the god-ghost form to stab and kill Hylla in the eye before the responsibility hardened within him.

Creation
According to Dallanaist belief, the world has created from a stray drop of ink when God was creating the infinite masterpiece of the night sky. He looked upon the stain and saw beauty and potential in its imperfections as opposed to the careful design of the rest of the universe. He cultivated it and grew all its inhabitants as beautiful unique flaws in His designs. In fact, the name of the world, ___________, is derived from an ancient word for ink.

The creation story was originally for the Mours before Moury developed into Dallanaism. When God made that mistake and saw beauty in it, He then proceeded to fill the earth with mistakes and flaws. Since the world is the only imperfect thing in the universe, the traditional Gravenian worldview is antigeocentric, though it has reluctantly moved onto heliocentrism these days. Still, the Mours did successfully manage to predict space and planets and stars and all that.

The Oxyx
Sagrada Familia is a huge cathedral currently under construction in Barcelona since the 1880s and has a design which is quite gothic and spiky. Since the Oxyx is a collection of various important cathedrals, pilgrimage sites and headquarters of religious institutions and monasteries, one of the large buildings will be based off the Sagrada Familia.

The Oxycal Vault is the Dallanaist Church's vault of religious artefacts. It is kept safe behind 10m high concrete and steel doors, protected by fully trained guards. The Eye of Dallana is kept within a further sealed display case to prevent anything bad happening.

At one point, the Cult of Hylla launched an aggressive attack upon the vault in order to retrieve what was rightfully theirs and almost succeeded too. The door was opened, the guards incapacitated and the code cracked but right at the last minute, Hylla prevented the Cult from taking the Eye because it was just too dangerous. After the Cult were dissuaded and made off with a couple of other artefacts as bartering material, Hylla reset the code to something only she knew.