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The God Churches
Umbrella · 13 Bound Gods + Other Believers
One church per bound god · and an open category for everyone else's gods.

At a Glance

Bound God Churches
Thirteen. One per bound god. Each operates within whatever kingdom it sits in, subject to local law, but answers ultimately to its god's theology.
Other God Believers
Cults, churches, and traditions of non-bound gods, elven ancestral pantheons, demon lord cults, deep god worship, and others. Real divine power, active presence on Talan.
Authority
Local law first, theology second, but the theology is real, and so are the powers.
Reference
Each bound god's clergy structure lives on The Thirteen Bound Gods; the non-bound granters (Vice Demons, Virtue Devils, Layer-1 primordials, Layer-3 residents) live on Non-Bound Gods & Beings.

The Thirteen Bound Churches

Each of the thirteen bound gods has a church. Each church operates within whatever kingdom it sits in, subject to local law, but ultimately answers to their god's theology. See The Thirteen Bound Gods for each god's clergy structure, to be expanded into individual pages here as content warrants.

Other God Believers

An umbrella category for cults, churches, and traditions of non-bound gods. Elven ancestral pantheons, demon lord cults, deep god worship, and other pantheons all have real divine power and active churches on Talan. The thirteen are distinctive because they are present on the Material Plane and bound by the Gods' Law, not because they are the only gods. See Non-Bound Gods & Beings for the named figures (Vice Demons, Virtue Devils, Layer-1 primordials, Layer-3 residents).

The most politically significant instance currently active is the Divine Faith of the Legea Empire: the state religion of a theocracy ruled by a demigod whose allegiance runs to a third-layer (Postlife) god, named openly as Legaun, rather than to Forseti or any of the bound thirteen. That the Faith holds an entire sub-region of Forseti's own law-domain, fields a demigod ruler, and is actively expanding (most consequentially by mission into Fenurra) makes it the sharpest standing question among the non-bound faiths. To be developed.

This page is a stub. Content is drawn from lore/factions.md and lore/gods.md. Promote sections to dedicated pages as the world grows.

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