Faiths

A world that has buried its gods does not stop praying. These are the religions the charted cities keep — and the count beside each is how much of the Atlas holds to it.

The Religion of the Ruby

29 charted cities

The Ruby is the most beloved and most feared of the gods of the human south — and of all the divine powers of Kworgale, she alone is worshipped not as a distant maker but as a living, burnin…

The Infernal Creed

15 charted cities

The Infernal Creed is a faith, and it should not be confused with the state that grew out of it. The Creed is the veneration of the imprisoned Ancient Devil. The Infernate of the Creed is th…

Phosaria, the Radiant Light

12 charted cities

Phosaria is the faith of the dead goddess who saved the world, and it is the second-largest religion the Atlas records — twelve charted cities keep it, most of them across the contested cent…

The Verdancy

1 charted city

The Verdancy is the rarest faith in the Atlas. One charted settlement keeps it — Hylessa, in the eastern rainforest — and there is exactly one other place in the world where it is practised …

The Greatfather

The dwarves are usually counted among the peoples with no religion. They keep one. It is not built the way the southern faiths are built: nobody in a hold is invited to believe in a maker he…

The Frozen Vigil

The Glacial Dominion is entered on most surveys as a realm without a faith. It is one of the most devout countries in the world. Its devotion arrives as law, as office, as duty and as mainte…

Sixty of the hundred and seventeen charted settlements have no faith recorded against them. That is a gap in the ledgers, not a claim that nobody there believes anything — the traditions carrying no count above are kept across exactly that ground.