Religion The religion is very Zoroastrian. There is a struggle between Life and Death, Good and Evil, and it is the duty of every man, woman, and child to fight for the Light. They subscribe to the idea that Good must be stronger than Evil because even though Evil is clearly ubiquitous and powerful it can not overcome and smother Good.

Reverence of the four Aspects is combined with an Animism based on the Sundering of Life. All living things are holy since they are all shards of the Duality of God.

The Aspects The four faces of Death. Their portfolios overlap a bit, and their cults and ecclesiarchies compete for peasants’ offerings and payment for religious services.

• Rovag - Aspect of War. Venerated as a patron of strength and conquest, reviled as a source of invasions and the patron of the Goblin races

• Teura - Aspect of Plague. Venerated as a patron of renewal and fertility, reviled as the source of disease and plague.

• Azare - Aspect of Entropy. Venerated as the keeper of time and liver of life, reviled as the source of aging, decay, and rot.

• Ulori - Aspect of Famine. Venerated as patron of the harvest, reviled as a source of paucity.

The Netherworld Also referred to as Outside, the Dark Realm, the Shadow. The Netherworld is a reflection of the physical world, superimposed over it. It is home to ghosts and demons, and is shaped by violence, sin, and hatred. Modern alienists agree that a person goes mad when their depravity reaches levels such that their rational mind becomes trapped in the Netherworld, giving birth to a demon and leaving their physical body a gibbering mess on the physical plane.

Contact with beings from the Netherworld is known, and procedures for contacting these entities are not difficult to come by. Such contact is considered a sin by the ecclesiarchy and the peasants believe that they risk their souls, but that doesn’t stop some people from trying.

The Ecclesiarchy