Gods And Religion

 

Throughout the course of prehistory and history on Tear there have been dozens of different and many hundreds of branches, sects and cults. Across this enormous span of time and cultures there nevertheless remain a few constants.

First, religions on Tear are almost universally polytheistic, typically featuring a pantheon of benevolent gods, who stand as bulwarks against a parallel pantheon of evil gods. Over the span of most of recorded history, these two opposed groups in their many various forms have been generally referred to as the Celestials and the Infernals.

Secondly, almost every religion on Tear has a deity that corresponds to Vehira, the planet around which Tear orbits. On the side of Tear where Vehira is always visible, this make sense, but the presence of Vehira, or of an 'all-seeing mother' figure even in societies where no one has ever seen Vehira in the sky suggests that even those religions that seem to have arisen on the opposite side of the world maintain attchment to some form of prescursor mythology, likely derived from ancient gnomic or ancient giant religions and societies.