Church of the One God

The Church of the One God also known as the Seinacian or the Eliashian religion, is the official religion of Darincedonia. Its members worship Seinac and his incarnate form Eliash.

History
The Church of the One God begins as every other religion does, at the genesis of the universe at the hands of the Creator. As the story goes, the Creator created the universe and in that moment of creation, Hell also spun into being, as an equal and opposite reaction, and with it, Azal, the King of Hell. The Creator chained Azal to hell and then created the Titans to rule the universe and guard against the denizens of Hell and its corruption. Then he departed and, according to Seinacians, is gone, while other religions believe he is here in spirit. The Titans created the Gods and worked with them to create the mortal races. Each god was assigned to rule one race and for a time, there was paradise. But the evil of Hell seeped into the universe and began to corrupt the mortal races. The Titans, aside from Ayana (the Titan of Life), believed that the universe had to be purged of life, whereas the Gods, with Ayana's aid, wanted to preserve life and try to steer them away from evil. War erupted and the Gods ultimately won, imprisoning the Titans, but at a great cost, the destruction of almost all life forms, the loss of wisdom and vitality of all surviving races, and the death of all except for a scant hundred, gods.

On Astarnia there lived a race called the Ankaru before the War of the Titans. They were a perfection of the Elves who would come later. A good people, a righteous people and Seinac wished to make his people like them, though the Ankaru belonged originally to Alandros who tried to recreate them when bringing the elves into being. Seinac created a similar race, the humans, though they weren't as in tune with the natural elements or with magic as the elves, nor as long living because they did not have Ayana's blessing. Because the Gods and Titans often used Astarnia as a meeting place, Seinac chose Astarnia for his people and picked a land on Kal Tarnia he called Numma.

For several thousand years, while humanity evolved as hunter/gatherers and began to build their civilization, Seinac was their god until he grew tired of constantly pushing them back to the path of righteousness. They kept turning away from him to commit evils for their own selfishness. And so Seinac abandoned them, taking no other race for worship.

The Nummath disintegrated into multiple tribes and the majority of them spread across Kal Tarnia and found other gods or entities to worship. But a remnant of the Nummath remained in Numma and continued to worship Seinac regardless. But Seinac refused to relent until the High Priest Korgin climbed the highest mountain in the Gray Mountains and prayed for ten years straight, eating and drinking only enough to stave off death, begging Seinac to return. Seinac finally did on the last day of the ten years, on the condition that the Nummath remain a good and righteous people.

When the Resarian Imperium came to Numma, Emperor Milosen Rantiva banned the worship of Seinac, something Seinac could not do anything about out of fear that he would be forced to do battle with a Titan a battle he could not win and could potentially destroy Astarnia in the process. Seinac encouraged secret worship and the Nummath clung to their religion. Jordan of Croswell lead a series of campaigns in the marshes south of Rummenstrung against the Resarians in the name of Seinac, and though he was ultimately defeated, his efforts helped keep the Seinacian religion alive. For that, he was sainted. The religion was restored when the Imperium fell, and Numma became known as Darincedonia, Rummenstrung became Darincedon.

Sienac remained with his people until the War of the Necromancer. He was called to aid Alandros in the banishment of Naggarlothep and Lupos with all the other gods, but it was a trap and Naggarlothep banished the gods through Lupos, including Lupos. This banishment is believed to be permenant, as no god has been seen since that moment.

But this was not the end of the Seinacian religion. Like the other religions, it adapted and endured after a period of despair and darkness. A man named Eliash began preaching about thirty years after the banishment of the gods, claiming that Seinac still existed in the heart of mankind and that mankind would still achieve eternity in the Hearafter with Seinac so long as they remain true and righteous. Eliash took control of the kingdom of Darincedonia, and the belief that Eliash was Seinac Incarnate became official church doctrine.

Organization
The Church is run in a command heirarchy system. At the top, the Archbishop leads the entire church. Below him is the Conclave, a senatorial group of bishops who decide law, and below the Conclave are the parochial bishops who run a specific district. Then you have the priests who run one church within a parish. Finally, there are the laymen who do church work, support the priesthood but are not ordained into the ministry itself. As an aside there are the monks and the nuns who live in convents. They are subject to the rulings of the church but have no authority themselves.

The leader of a convent is an Abbot, if a monk and an Abess, if a nun. Convents typically work as seminaries, or places for charity work, or meditation.

Pillars of Righteousness
The Seinacians believe that living a righteous life is the key to earning eternity with Seinac in the Hereafter. Righteousness is a big word for Seinacians as it has a lot of meaning. Seinacians break it down into the Four Pillars of Righteousness. The first pillar is the one that causes the most conflict between Seinacians and other human religions. It asserts that Seinac is the one and only god for humanity and that mankind should worship no other god. This does not extend to the other races (such as the elves, the orcs, the kalgroth, etc) because they were made by other gods, but only humanity because they were all made by Seinac. Seinacians believe it is their sacred duty to evangelize to other humans, and bring the other human nations back into the flock.
 * The Holiness of Seinac
 * Compassion
 * Piety
 * Obedience

Because of the first pillar, Seinacians tend to be arrogant and self righteous. They believe themselves to be above the other nationalities of mankind.

The second pillar is compassion. This pillar is pretty self explanatory. A good Seinacian always has his home open to those who need shelter. He always gives food to those who are hungry, clothes to those who are naked and care to those who are sick. Seinacians are suppose to extend compassion to the best of their abilities to those in need, even if they are enemies.

Compassion also includes love. This point gets sticky, especially when it mixes with the first pillar. Seinacians are not suppose to hate, not even apostates or non-Seinacian humans, a thing that is often forgotten.