religion

For your enjoyment and potentially the wrenching of your hearts, here follows the story of the last days of Sister Frenzara, Sister of Battle, Order of the Bloody Rose, Adepta Sororitas, Red Fury. The story will be told in 7 parts, with ODD numbered parts being STORY and EVEN numbered parts...

Prologue: From Darkness to Light "It's a simple question, even a child can answer!" The loud man's voice makes me want to cover my ears. He's big, with clothes that look like stiff boards with shiny pieces of metal on them and lots of words, nothing like Mama wears. His face is hard, like the...

Your Name is [] you are [] years old and you live in a [ 1: old farm in the countryside 2: sleepy town in the middle of nowhere 3: bustling city] named [] located in []. You dream of someday making some sort of impact in this world. Unfortunately, you have just lost your job and are having...

Part 1 From the black journal of saint Syran whose factual accuracy is verified by pacts of death and truthfulness.Contents declassified and unsealed 755 A.E 500 A.E In the name of our almighty master and father,Wyrm the grand savant-king of mankind and 1 of the three.I Syran...

"We know them, for they are always. We hate them, for they are always. We love them, for they are always. We fear them, for they are always. They are always, but it is said that they were not always so. Heaven is usurped." THE EMPTY THRONE A Telamon Quest You are. You have always been. You...

I've noticed that movements such as futurism and transhumanism are often viewed by outsiders as a kind of anti-religion, derived from the same impetus towards existential meaning and salvation as traditional religion, but delivering them in a materialist and ego-driven fashion. What I find...

Chapter 1: The Precipice In a perfect world, you would be three hundred miles across the country, back with your family, helping the clergy of your Church to become more accustomed to the demons and ex-demon in your home. But this is far from a perfect world. This is a world where the Gods...

Covenant: an Abrahamic Fantasy Preface The stars wheel across the crystal dome of the Heavens, shining down on the flat disk of Earth. The sun and moon race through the aether overhead. This is the world of Covenant, the world created by the Almighty God out of the primordial waters, the world...

Dr. Barber: [Shows ████████ a photo of the anomaly] Do you know what this is? ████████: Y-yes. Dr. Barber: Is it “He-Who-Made-Dark”? ████████: No. [pauses] It is his shadow. ----- He didn’t fall, or fly, or take-off. There wasn’t anything in the sky that took him. It wasn’t a hand that...

Hello! In fiction, there are things that are not talked about but that I find fascinating. One of these is lots of fictional religions that we get glimpses of in fiction but do go into much detail. The purpose of this thread is to throw out ideas and the world build upon those glimpses. The...

I have an idea for a timeline where a new Abrahamic religion emerges in Al-Andalus out of the diverse religious milieu there. They also acknowledge Muhammad as a prophet sent to purify the faith but view the Caliphate as having become corrupted and heretical, taking many Kharijite influences...

This is the revised archive of Catalyst Quest, a dark fantasy epic following the adventures of a compassionate, self-sacrificing priest warped by divine power: Father Richard Anscham, leader of the Church of Mercy. In this original, apocalyptic setting, the Gods are real, and within every man...

The Song of The Seven Fires (A Game of Thrones Rebellion/Heresy Quest) Praise the Father for His judgment, for his rule is fair and just for all Faithful. Praise the Mother for her protection, for in her gaze mercy is plentiful for all who ask for it. Praise the Warrior for his strength, for...

To give some breakground info on The CotBG The Church of the Broken God (commonly abbreviated CotBG) is an anomalous religion worshipping mechanization and viewing flesh as "broken". The religion is ancient, existing since the Classical Eras as the Mekhanites. The central idea in their religion...

The people have sinned, and the Almighty has sent forth His Herald of Disease to scourge the world, to bring the proud low and topple the thrones of unworthy kings. While the righteous have been scythed down alongside the wicked, the Almighty was not so thorough in His harvest that he failed to...

Information You have four resources: Material, Faithful, Goodwill, and Piety. -Material is your wealth in a tangible sense. It is things like steel, wood, food, and other things. Anything that can be traded and is wanted. Your people will generate 0.02 material per turn per person. 50 people =...

Science indicates that the Earth has been chugging along for 4.5 billion years with life slowly evolving until human being are one of the current organisms on the planet. Evidence also is that the world will continue to support complex life for around another two billion years. It is in the...

Continuing on from my previous thread, exploring an ATL in which the Sikh Empire survives and thrives- on account of getting their business in Afghanistan over and done with ASAP rather than getting bogged down there as they did IOTL, and Maharajah Ranjit Singh subsequently continuing his...

Strange Dharma Or; a Brief History of Kamar-Taj By Dr. Christine Palmer Amazon Book Description: This timely book written by New York's premier surgeon and part-time Nun, Dr. Christine Palmer, examines what little is known of the newly revealed "secret school" of Tantric Buddhism, Kamar-Taj...

"In a word, the old gods are growing old or already dead. [...] But this state of incertitude and confused agitation cannon last forever. A day will come when our societies will know again those hours of creative effervescence, in the course of which new ideas arise and new formulae are found...

Suppose that instead of Christianity, Judaism is adopted as the official religion of the Roman Empire? What would be the effects of this?

Does anyone know of a good book which is like a survey course of religions I've probably never heard of before? Or have an alternate suggestion for how to research this? This is for a cultivation-style story where the different styles of cultivation are _really_ different because they come...

BEHOLD, I, the Great Numen, Presents ASOIAF Fanfic Orphanage What is this thread? This thread is an anthology of A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE (by G.R.R. Martin) or GAME OF THRONES fanfics written by me, nominally as one-shots (alot of which first appeared in my fic anthology thread). Everything...

Defeat The Apocalypse The End Of Days are here. High in the skies, a great army of Angels fly and sing the praises of the Lord. They let the people of the world know that the time has come, and that paradise is at hand. Many unbelievers will die and the faithful will be tested. Very soon the...

"Twas the Valendian Year 704 that the dormant Empire of Rozarria, military-ruled, ever-devout Rozarria, flared up and launched against their rival, the 'Godless' Archadian Empire, to use their expression. Expansionist Archadia had been long advancing, but it was their attack on the Nabradian...