Geroni religious tradition

The Geroni religious tradition is the faith of the Geroni city-states as it is told in the campaign Yeni Dünya ("New World"). The natives of Canarque have pantheons of their own, and the Old Gods of Geron are among them.^{1 2}

The turn to reason

What Fauna had learned from her family and from an old Inran tells that the Geroni live apart in their city-states, keep little contact with the Inran or the Empire, and have their own pantheon, called the Traveler, the Father and the Mother rather than by name. Once the city-states were bound together like a theocracy under one faith; about a thousand years ago a revolution of enlightenment pushed religion aside for a radical rationalism, and some mages tried to ascend in the gods' place, with what success no one knows. Today the gods are acknowledged as powers in the world more than worshipped.^{1 3}

The last note in the ledger of the Ruined Geroni temple was written by someone who pitied those who cast the gods aside for the sake of progress.^{4 5}

The erased names

In the temple's library, the names on the spines of the religious books, and the places in their texts where the names of the Mother, the Father and the Child should stand, had been erased. The Book of Names, laid on the statue of the Wise Child, yielded no name.^{6 7}

The head consul of Avlor Aten, Orpi, who said he was no expert, told the band what old texts and legends hold. The Geroni do not deny that the gods exist; their arcanists developed the theory that the gods draw power from their followers and that names carry power. In the past a priest sat on the ruling council, honoured differently from city to city. A great ritual was made to wipe the gods' names from history and from memory; it could not erase them from the minds of priests who bore miracles, and a purge followed. Old texts blame a great catastrophe in the east on a struggle among gods; it never reached the Geroni, though he could not say whether the erasure was the reason.^{8 9 10 11 12 13}

The three

The Mighty Father, the Merciful Mother and the Wise Child are believed still to receive the souls of the Geroni, and they are worshipped without their names, mostly as a matter of culture and spirit that brings no power of miracles to society. Asked whether the council of three answered to the three gods, the head consul denied it outright: there were more than three gods.^{14 15 16}

In the temple the band took the horned girl seated cross-legged at the entrance for the Wise Child, and the man with a sword and the woman with a basket of fruit in the chapel for the Father and the Mother.^{17 18}

There are six Old Gods of Geron: The Father, god of cities and protection, whose symbol is a bearded man; The Mother, goddess of the wilds and nature; The Daughter, goddess of knowledge and the arcane, whose symbol is a sitting child; and the Traveler, the Tailor and the Seer.¹⁹