Excerpt from the first chapter of The Faiths of Midangele, "The Faiths", by Ognel Nicholas. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

As we outlined earlier, the Mitangail ethnicity and even different regions had different beliefs.

Even the Elves, the founders of the Etalons, had other beliefs, and there are still other beliefs, which I call ancestor worship.

Before the founding of the Attalonians, elves worshipped their dead ancestors. And not just to remember their loved ones, but to enshrine them in the temple. Many large ancient tombs were once places of worship. To put it bluntly, the elves believe that the dead will transform into a higher, closer to the Origin, and that they will merge into the Aether. In an extremely subtle way, to protect the living. It usually manifests itself as a lucky coincidence, or a good thing that comes and goes.

But I have to suspect that this is just a series of coincidences that occur with the increase in the number of samples in the huge randomness. Attributing them to the blessings of ghosts and gods is as unverifiable as any other belief. All we know is that if the deceased is not in ghost or ghost form, its fate is completely unobservable. There is no indirect or direct evidence that the deceased can interfere with the things of the present world through metaphysical means. This makes this belief system, which is close to magic, into an ambiguous pseudo-science.

At a time when there was great expectation for the dead, the first summoning techniques also appeared at that time. They used the oath to bind the souls of some elves to a specific plane, allowing them to be summoned to battle in an incredible way, a history that advanced the origin of oath magic by at least 10,000 years. For a time, many elves followed this practice, and they summoned their ancestors to really help their juniors who were in trouble. This kind of magic, which is now rarely known, is known as Heroic Summoning.

Heroes with great abilities blessed the living elves in this way, and it was not until the beginning of the Middle Ages that it was considered cruel to keep the dead from resting. At that time, the elves lifted almost all of the heroic spirit summons, but in order to ensure the elves' combat effectiveness. Some of the Heroic Spirits were secretly preserved to protect their people in times of distress. As for how much has been preserved, no one knows, some say seven, some say 12, and some even say 72.

After the spread of the Eltalon religion to the elves, the intricate rituals of the ancestors remained.

The well-known Oath Breaking Incident of the Empire in 297 was caused by the large-scale ancestor worship and sacrifice of the elves. At that time, Emperor Yurif Periyar mistook the sacrificial men and horses for invaders and launched an attack, which is a bit of a stretch.

Similar to ancestor worship belief systems, I call them polytheistic beliefs.

The dwarves are polytheistic, and many of their stories have been at odds with their gods in ancient times, and these legends have been passed down in their dungeons for at least 4,000 years. There are at least 62 references to gods in written and oral legends in dwarven mythology, some of which are rare. Most of the recorded stories are those that took place between the gods and the dwarves after the creation of the world. I would venture to guess that polytheism is a derivative of ancestor worship. Over time, history has turned into mythology.

Dwarven mythology says that the dwarves were secretly created by a god called Arop. He cherished his creations so much that fearing that the wars of the gods outside would threaten his children, he sought out seven of the deepest mountains and hid them among the rocks. Alop told them that when the world faced its final destruction, the dwarves would leave their caves and face the enemy who had come from the darkness.

There is evidence that humans were originally also devout believers in polytheistic beliefs. This is a few words I discovered from my research on the "Great Flood" of the ancient continent, and some of the words in the ancient books are very different from the current way of writing, and through long-term efforts, I finally found the passage that supports this conjecture:

The water in the sky is like a waterfall that does not stop for weeks. The clouds did not thin at all, as if the rain was just falling from the sky. But I have no fear, the great Arnos and Declus are with us, and what can come is not the end but the new life.

This seems to be someone's diary before the catastrophe, and if he was praying to God, we can plan the original beliefs of mankind into polytheistic beliefs. We can also find more information from this, as if someone had already told them that the "Great Flood" was the end of the world. Maybe a bachelor, or a prophet. But instead of fearing the end times, he had faith in his God. Or it is precisely because of this inexplicable self-confidence that the vast majority of human beings have not left the original continent.

Then there is the monotheistic faith, in addition to the well-known Etaronism, the orcs are also monotheistic beliefs. Neither god has a name, and there is no conflict in the canonical records, which leads the elves to confuse the orc gods with their own.

Unlike the Code of Etalon, the main characters of orc legends are always the orcs. They have no knowledge of prehistoric events, and seem to have lived in seclusion in the jungle of Tours for a long time, following the will of their gods, as their faith has always warned them to avoid contact with outsiders (or that the orc gods should consider hiding them in stone).

Unlike polytheism, monotheism is more of a philosophical idea. There is a perfect being above all else, creating an imperfect world with reason. This philosophy-like guiding ideology gave birth to the Tongmasons as an organization that transcended religion and reached heights beyond the reach of religion. Whatever they are now, they were once an academic organization founded by some of the brightest minds in the entire Empire. When the Freemasons were recognized as hereticals, they went underground.

To sum up, this is all the religious belief systems that Midangel can find. For theists, this book can help you get a glimpse of God's garment, or help you eradicate heresy.

For the bachelor of reason, I hope that the content of this book can summarize more about the humanities, history, and social characteristics of various races. For example, polytheistic beliefs are a good demonstration of the political system of the ancient dwarves, and those trivial stories can be observed whether these things are deliberately selected by human hands to influence the overall social thought, and whether the philosophical discussion of monotheistic beliefs is the key to the truth of the world.

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