All-Family

All-Family
Emblem of the All-Family
Classification	Nativist
High Priestess
Founder	Unknown (Perpetrated to be the Holy Mother)
Founded	Unknown (estimated a thousand years ago)
Headquarters	none officially (Mother Mountain unofficially)
Members	14 million
Armed wing	Guardian-Children of the Holy Mother
Aid organization	Seven Helping Hands
Other names	The Family, Kusharism

The All-Family, commonly referred to as Kusharism to those outside of the faith, is the native religion of the Kushari people. Once a major religion in Seres, the All-Family was the official religion of the Kushari Empire. Infamous for it's bloody human sacrifice rituals that were supposed to feed the eternally pregnant and hungry Mother. These sacrifices, commonly performed on those captured in slave raids or prisoners of war, led to widespread resentment to the Kushari people. This resentment eventually culminated in the Wolven Rising and the subsequent fall and destruction of the Kushari Empire and the beginning of hundreds of years of enslavement of the Kushari people.

Today, the mainstream religion rejects its bloody past and has since been reformed into a religion that preaches of good-will and peace amongst all people. The religion venerates the Kushari Mountains as the birthplace of mankind and sees the mountains as the pregnant belly of the All-Mother. While human sacrifice is no longer practiced, blood sacrifices are still widely used and people will often sacrifice animals as payment for good luck and protection. People also travel to these mountains to ask for fertility and health.

While the All-Mother is the goddess of life and birth, the Sky-Father is the God of the afterlife and death. It is said that when one passes away, their soul enters into the sky and becomes apart of the Sky-Father. From there, the soul becomes the Sky-Father's semen in the form of rain that impregnates the All-Mother, starting the cycle again.

Guardian-Children of the Holy Mother: Assassin sect. Most of their mountain fortresses were destroyed a few hundred years ago although the group is said to have moved to the shadows of Kushari society.

History

Ritualistic sacrifices were seen as a great honor to the Kushari and occasionally people would go willingly to the sacrificial altars, often as a form of atonement and regaining one's lost honor.