Religion, Alignments, and Miracles
Religion
The Imperial Cult
The only faith sanctioned by the Obelisk is the worship of the Nameless Emperor as a living god of order and justice. The Imperial Cult is generally paid only lip-service in hinterlands like Istagat and Padash, but thrives in more central regions, where key figures in the nobility are involved.
Pre-Imperial Faiths
Records from before the Founding indicate a variety of pantheons were worshiped in various regions; the Imperial Cult has been very effective in stamping out most records and memories of these gods.
Ogre Paganism
The nomadic ogre tribes make nods to the Imperial Cult but in truth enact rituals of their own based not around gods, but around archetypes, what they call the Eight Perfect Lives. Cultural exchange as the ogres move has leaked these ideas into many rural regions, though often in a misunderstood or corrupted form.
Alignment
The available alignments are based on the ogran rituals of the Eight Perfect Lives.
- Student: "humble seeker"
- Teacher: "bearer of truths"
- Warrior: "lives by the blade"
- Saint: "who perseveres"
- Master: "perfection of art"
- Scholar: "delver of mysteries"
- Victor: "in service to a cause"
- Glory: "a name remembered"
