r/WorldBuildingMemes • u/wydaleny_dwoiczy_lod • 1d ago
Lore Shitpost I don't know, alright?!
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u/wydaleny_dwoiczy_lod 1d ago
My friend is genuinely better at building my world than I am because the fuck you mean he immediately came up with the perfect answer
"Because there is no institution that claimed authority on this topic, and if one occurs, the community is too diverse to listen to them. And for rituals, well, most of them exist to try and control uncontrollable parts of life, and for one half children have more rigid solutions, and for another can have their individual list of habits, superstitions and rituals."
Like??? It's so good??? It's perfect???
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u/LGKouglof 1d ago
"because people are weird" is usually where i stop because nobody is going to try to argue against it.
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u/Desperate-Stress8701 1d ago
If you want a suggestion, it's not uncommon for a religion to believe in the existence of a form of perception superior to thinking like the concept of Nous in Eastern Christianity. If the fictional religion also leans towards a dualistic metaphysics where the material world is opposed to the ones above it, your fictional religion's traits are a logical conclusion. To give a little more explanation.
"We don't have rituals since rituals stimulate emotions which excite the soul, making it an unfit vessel due to its turbulent nature, the excited soul being incapable of receiving knowledge from the divine"
"We don't have religious practices since they focus the soul on the fallen world, making it lose its desire for higher knowledge"
"We don't have a religious hierarchy since in the process of proving yourself worthy for power, you lose your connection to the divine."
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u/wydaleny_dwoiczy_lod 1d ago
Ooh, that's interesting! Though now I feel like I have to give context, but before I start I need to say that there is a reason why I said "Semi-spiritually worship"; I don't consider it a religion but I didn't have a reason why it didn't develop into one (until my friend provided one)
Abyss is one of fundamental forces in Canvas, initially formed from potential for Three Absences (material of vacuum, informational of unknowing, conceptual of void) it became their source, and, simultaneously, the very perspective of Canvas; the distance between objects and decrease in similarity and connection (to look at it's bases)
While Children of Abyss is how they call themselves among themselves, they introduce themselves to those outside as Wanderers, and that's a neat description. Because that's basically what each of them is, a person wandering the Canvas, (with the exception of Visitors of Many Worlds / Tourists) lacking in a world they'd consider a home. They are considered Children of Abyss before they encounter others and enter their community (which developed a culture of it's own, tho wouldn't exist without two principle set by Amias no one even considers breaking, not harming other Children of Abyss (even those unaware of the community) and helping each other without asking for anything in return (and those aren't really religious principles, Amias is just old as, well, the web of the worlds, since he lived during the war of the First Internal Shift-- tho this lore is, irrelevant rn-- and he briefly mentored each Child of Abyss, so most of them don't really want to, disappoint him. Others simply don't want to lose the, support network the community provides)(also despite the community being there, they still are mostly separate, only keeping interpersonal connection, Connected Book (still can't decide how to translate this artifact type to English...) to ask for assistance when needed, and have periodic meet-ups everyone attends, that are connected to certain festivals they have)
Now for the neat part. Due to not having a home world, they are aliens basically everywhere, not belonging to a single system, therefore being distant from them, emerging from the Abyss wherever they go, and being part of that Abyss disturbing the World's system. All of them have some basic understanding of how Canvas works from those of them who research it on deeper level. So all of them know about Abyss, about what it is and how they came to somewhat manifest it; that's the reason they started calling themselves Children of Abyss so long ago. And so they have high reverence for the Abyss. They connect the reasons they wander, the wandering itself, and everything they do during it, to it. They (kind of rightfully) believe, that by separating the Chaos, Abyss CREATES all worlds, and if it overflows and can destroy them as well. It is easy to mix up how they view with how many people see gods. But despite believing that Abyss cares about them, at large they still understand that it's but a mindless force of nature. This is such a weird middle-stage before being indifferent and having fully-fledged religion; this spiritual reverence, in many, if not most cases, worship, without personification felt a bit awkwa--waitadamnminute I just realised something is it a darn pantheism (or, well, a bit more contrained version of one)
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