Namerism

Namerism, or Etemuabal, was the state religion of the Grand Palatinate of Saloya, and of many Eloyounplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigEloyoun People

The Eloyoun people are an ethnic group found throughout eastern and northeastern Anásthias. They are the majority ethnicity in Kahtoyn and most of southern Harthera. Modern Hartheran language and culture is a blend of Eloyoun and Iskean.

The Eloyoun people claim descent from the ancient realm of Harthera peoples. The faith stemmed from ancient Miyarrain philosophy: that a single entity was the instigator of all life and the entire fabric of the universe. This instigator was Etemua, The Namer.

The proto-universe was the shadow-world of ideas and dreams, the world our mind drifts to at night. At the beginning of time, Etemua first spoke his own true name, and brought himself from dream into existence. He then spoke the names for Time, Light, Solid Matter, and thereafter the names of which brought ideas in the shadow world into solid existence. In essence, the Namer gave names to all things and all people.

Upon death, our spirit returns to the shadow world, which is why we see our loved ones in dreams.

The ideas of Namerism had a fundamental influence on the Church of Hartrah, the dominant religion of modern Hartheraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigHarthera

The Hartheran Union, commonly named Harthera, is an imperialist maritime nation state dominating the northeast of Anásthias. It is one of the two great powers of the modern epoch, arguably the most technologically and militarily powerful nation in the world, only matched by the vast size and wealth of its neighbour, viridOrorrMEOrorrOrorrOrorrOrorr. It also influenced the Grammarian school of thought, a philosophy of the Rasian Academy.