Ooliran Faith
The oldest canonised religion on Elshore, the Ooliran Faith is the state religion of the Grand Kingdom of Iruel and predates Randenism Faith Randenism The Flame Doctrine, dominant faith of the Maan and state religion of the Maan Empire. by thousands of years. Also known as the Sovereign Breath or the Sovereign Path, it holds that all existence flows from Ooli, a breath-principle beneath matter and within time, and that the celestial bodies are sacred echoes rather than divine parents. Its scripture, the Ooliran Varaan, was compiled at the Council of the Windspires in the 52nd Century After the Silence. The faith teaches reverent plurality: no breath is wrong, only misaligned.
Key traits
- Canonised roughly 5,230 years before AC 50 under King Elaru Irueloo; its oral roots extend much further into pre-literate Iru People Iru The progenitors, and the only naturally evolved people of Elshore. tradition.
- The Five Harmonies: all things move by Ooli; the celestial bodies are sacred echoes, not gods; creation was unfolded, not imposed; every soul bears a rhythm; governance is a song, not a shout.
- No image of Ooli is permitted; the breath is unformed; only verse, gesture, and name may approach the sacred.
- The High Attuner leads a hierarchy of Voicers, Steadwalkers, and Recorders of the Pulse; clerics wear breath-reactive robes that still in colour when the wearer is inwardly discordant.
- Breath-temples are circular, open to the sky, and contain only five things: a wind-harp, a naming pool, a pulse-stone, a seat of silence, and a scroll of breath-law.
- Despite the faith's antiquity, nearly two-thirds of the Iru have absorbed a private form of Randenism alongside it; those who remain in the Sovereign Breath regard this with quiet pity.