Sublimism

 

Sublimism is a religion that began in the middle of the Fourth Epoch when sects within the Vehirist religions who were questioning the role of Azane merged with sects from the Azanist religions who were questioning the role of Vehira. These groups formed their own cults, who skirted the edges of heresy for decades, drawing in religious and secular scholars to study the most ancient sources they could uncover. Their aim was to understand the roots of different interpretations of the two gods in an attempt to discover the underlying, ultimate truth.

After a century of work, a new religious doctrine began to emerge that held Ax'm Zilotl (the likely ancient gnomic name of Azimzilit) to be a singular, omnipotent, omniscient creator. Sublimists believe that Ax'm Zilotl created the universe from the nothingness that was left after defeating the primordial chaos of Kharag-Gar in a battle that lasted for a prior eternity.

Sublimists hold both Vehira and Azane to be false gods, and believe that the Versai, the Siblings and the Infernals are not pantheons of good and evil, but are rather five lesser deities known as the Five Sublimes.

In the sublimist view, Ax'm Zilotl is an abstract entity who is worshipped indirectly through prayer and appeals to the Five Sublimes. The role of the Five Sublimes is to enact the will of Ax'm Zilotl, and to provide moral tutelage to mortals to prepare them for the return of Kharag-Gar.

The coming return of Kharag-Gar will be a time of apocalyptic chaos when all the rigtheous will fuse into one being along the with Sublimes and Ax'm Zilotl themself in order to permanently destroy Kharag-Gar and set the universe into a state of perpetual order and harmony.