Religion

Excerpts from, “On Understanding the Religions of the Uncivilized Races”

Highfather Tlax Eben

 The Elves hold to the belief that all creatures, and even the rivers and mountains, are infused with spirits. So each local tribes venerates their local rock and local river as if they were portions of a great diety that encompasses all living things. The Elves mistake the part for the whole. The spirits they sense are but parts of the the Godhead that is . Though it would be better if they directed their worship directly to the Great Dragon, or one or more of his children deities, worship of nature spirits as tolerable.

 The Dwarves of the mountain tribes have taken to worshiping a group of original-ancestors, the heroes of the Dwarven beginnings, who stole fire from the Gods, unearthed metals from the Keeper of Secrets and achieved various other feats resulting in Dwarven discovery and culture.

 In religion as elsewhere, we find humans to be a varied lot. Some worship one supreme diety, clearly a version of the Great Dragon, and some worship a pantheon of deities. In the larger villages, a  hierarchal priest class is evident. If one can generalize, those who give fealty to a deitiy and are pure of heart and consistent in deed, join that deity in the afterlife, just as we Dragonborn sit at the table of Jorul the Feastmaster and fight the forever-fight with J'thor the Lord of War.

Excerpts from, “A report on religion in the provinces”

author unknown

 The Church of the Great Dragon flourishes wherever the local bishop is a pious and loyal servant of the Protectorate. The wise bishop allows the lesser races to worship as they will, allow those who understand that the Great Dragon and his wife and children -and- the deities they worship are the same gods, and allow those who cannot see the similarity to continue to worship their local deities as distinct. Where the wise bishop allows freedom of worship, the converts are many.

In Portsmouth

Shrines and small houses of worship of human, dwarf, elf and halfling deities are poorly attended. Most citizens, especially those of the merchant class, frequent the churches of the Great Dragon. Members of the lesser races are only excluded from the highest ranks of the Church: bishop and highfather.