Vereva/Majicium

General
Majicium is the primary religion of Vereva. Most other religions of the planet are different sects of Majicium that differentiate themselves based upon which of the Majicium gods are worshipped the highest. Majicium has at some point in time received official status or recognition in all countries and autonomous regions save Lorelei, whose existence is due to a large scale movement away from the religion. Followers of the religion, called Majicians, were once widespread across the globe as the dominant culture but are now and oppressed in some regions.

Belief
The Majicium faith is not one of creation, but one that tells of the origin of each race's sorcery via a Goddess who fell to [[Vereva during a 2 million year old war between the gods called the Cataclysm. The story is recounted in the holy scriptures of Majicium called the Thaumopaedia.


 * To read the story of the faith, see Thaumopaedia

Thaumopaedia
The Thaumopaedia is the holy scriptures of the Majicium faith. It was written originally in Almsaundean runes in the year 0 (Year of Bevesta) as a compilation by the seven sentient races. It is composed of 144 chapters, the first 12 of which tell the story of Bevesta, collectively referred to as the Anthology. The chapters of the Anthology are named for the gods they deal with. However, each chapter also has a traditional long name that summarizes the chapter.


 * Chapter 1 - Bevesta (Coming of Bevesta)
 * Chapter 2 - Kalle (Loss of Sentience)
 * Chapter 3 - Khebryel (Birth of Xahl)
 * Chapter 4 - Eivissa (Fall of the Treants)
 * Chapter 5 - Rigori (Fall of the Centaurs)
 * Chapter 6 - Xahl (Coming of Age)
 * Chapter 7 - Cle and Palmirra
 * Chapter 8 - Na (Cry for Help)
 * Chapter 9 - Mjrn (The World Aligned)
 * Chapter 10 - Gertrud (Reascension)
 * Chapter 11 - Asrim (Dogmas of the Goddess)
 * Chapter 12 - Mattias (Gifts of Bevesta)

The Anthology followed by  24 chapters of hymns and 108 chapters of Majick prayers.

Chapter 1, Coming of Bevesta

 * 1 In the time before time, twelve races inhabited Vereva:
 * 2 There existed the Aelves hidden in the Forest and the Trolls safely in the Mountains,
 * 3 The Dwarves of the Tundra and  the Treants drinking from the Fountains,
 * 4 The Minotaurs grazing the open Plains and the Centaurs watching the Celestial Skies,
 * 5 The Giants within the Walking Forests and the Gnomes deep within the Caverns,
 * 6 ''The Manticore under the Eternal Sun, the Ogres
 * 7 The -, and the Thaumaturges waltzing the Endless Sand. 
 * 8 And the world was both great and grand and the lands rich and fruitful.
 * 9 And the races were diverse and prosperous and too, denizens of peace.
 * 10 But the skies were always painted of fire, of crimson and honey and gold,
 * 11 But on that day the skies were striped with bronze and chartreuse
 * 12 And roar thund'rous echoed greatly and deeply
 * 13 Until all eyes, sightful and blind, all ear, aural and dead turned upward to take witness.
 * 14 Behold, two beings plummeted as stone-killed birds from beyond the fires of eternity.
 * 15 One of visage and body of Troll; This One fell atop the peak of a great community of mountains,
 * 16 And His great body with great speed crushed the ground and split apart the great land of the west until it was two.
 * 17 There He spake his last word which were apologetic to those like Him and His kind followed lead of His silence
 * 18 And it was so.
 * 19 And the other, yeah, a woman, and Her visage and Her body were like a Thaumaturge;
 * 20 And Her fall was of greater fortune.
 * 21 So She fell, Her loins in the verbal bloom of fertility as She streamed chartreuse into the air, onto a great lands of many trees.
 * 22 And the lands shook and quaked and its thunder was audible in ever corner of the seas and the lands beyond them.
 * 23 And the great lands of many trees split apart tenfold by tenfold and became like a scar.
 * 24 And there She lay in slumber for four and four and four sleeping cycles and Her kind followed lead of Her slumber
 * 25 And it was so.
 * 26 And as She awoke, and as Her kind awoke,
 * 27 They and She saw four and four and two of the other races as mirrors staring back at them and Her.
 * 28 And She spoke:
 * 29 "Where is the four and four and fourth of you? Where are the Trolls.
 * 30 But their hearts held too much fear to respond. And they were silent.
 * 31 And some time passed and the bravest of them, a Minotaur, answered to Her:
 * 32 "The Trolls became dull and listless as fauna as That One of you crashed into the mountain."
 * 33 Then, She rose to fall again on broken limb and mangled body and those like Her cried our for Her pain and She said:
 * 34 I demand you take me to His mountain on whence He has fallen.
 * 35 And the ten remaining races, and the race alike Her obliged;
 * 36 Each lifted highly Her a part of her mangled body and commenced a pilgrimage
 * 36 To the beaches and the shores and a great ship on which they placed her, and themselves, and baskets of food, and jugs of fresh water.
 * 37 For four and four and four sleeping cycles, four and four and four waking cycles, they voyaged the salt oceans calm,
 * 38 Never to look back, only to guide Her
 * 39 Until then they reach the mountains.
 * 40 And they carried her up the mountain and its steepness,
 * 41 Four and four races lifting either arm, four and three races lifting either leg,
 * 42 Until they reached That One at the mountain's wint'ry peaks.
 * 43 And the mangled woman saw with Her own eyes His heart pierced by mortal wound
 * 44 Where he laid unflinching.
 * 45 And she spake unto the people a sequel:
 * 46 "That One was the god of the Trolls four and four and four days past. But fear not, for I am still; I am Bevesta and I yet live."
 * 47 In a feat of strength, She, Bevesta, rose to her mangled feet, still within the throws of fertility, and took That One on her shoulders
 * 48 And Bevesta buried the Troll god deep in the lost caves of the mountains and said unto the denizens of Vereva:
 * 49 "Hark, for this day is melancholy. For He were my kin, born of same parent. I called Him Kalle."
 * 50 And thus the peoples called the mountains with His likeness, yeah, and the mountains were known as Kalle.

Chapter 3, Birth of Xahl
=== Chapter 4, Eivissa of the Treants

Sorcery

 * See also: Majick
 * See also: Sorcery

History

 * See also: History of Vereva