Anaxorgoric

Anaxorgorism is a polytheistic religion worshipped in Seres and areas where the Seresian diaspora is located. The religion developed from the sycreticism of traditional Seresian folklore and mythology with Ashkali religion. There is no central authority in control of the movement and much diversity exists among practitioners, who are known as Anaxorgics or Anaxorgists.

Anaxorgic beliefs are based on the belief that before we are born we stand before the Gods and choose our own destiny. We decide before we ever arrive on earth who our patron deity is, what we will contribute to the world, where we will live, who we will love, and even the day we will die. However when we are born into the world all of our plans and promises are forgotten and so our destiny in effect becomes to remember and claim the destiny we mapped out for ourselves before our arrival in this life.

While there is a creator deity known as Demiurge, they were evil and tyrannical, encourging evil and oppression to enter the world when they had the power to stop it. When Gaius Lysander, the Seresian revolutionary leader and first and only Imperator of the Seresian Imperium, died and entered the afterlife, he overthrew Demiurge and enthroned, reaching apotheosis as Anax and assuming control of the Pantheon.

Anaxorgism is Serocentric and focuses attention on the Seresian people, which it believes is oppressed by the "Two Evils" of the Western and Eastern worlds. Many Anaxorgics call for the expulsion of all non-native Seresians from the region, with the belief that once foreigners have disappeared, the Seresian people will reclaim their place as rulers of the world.

Gaius Lysander is a man who overthrows the Viceroyalty. After his death, he overthrows and imprisons his father and the evil creator of the world, the Demiurge, and becomes Anax, the ruler of Gods. Despite being defeated, Demiurge is still able to influence the minds of men and is the source of all evil and corruption in the world. The civilizations of the East (Ashkal) and the West (Hegemony) are two that are under the influence and control of the Demiurge and must be destroyed.

Beliefs

Anaxorgists worship a wide variety of gods and spirits, however, Anaxorgoros, the God of Humanity, War, and Governance, is the primary deity of worship and focus in the religion; seeing him as the supreme god while the others are merely his servants. Anaxorgoros was once a human man named Gaius Lysander who, during his life, Gaius led a fourteen-year long war to liberate colonized Seresian lands from the Ashkali Empire. After he drove the Ashkali from most Seresian lands, Gaius was crowned as the Imperator of the Seresian Imperium and went about creating a centralized state but was killed four years into his reign. After death, Gaius reaches the afterlife to find it and all of humanity is being controlled by a tyrannical supreme being known as the Demiurge.

The Demiurge is the Supreme Being and the creator of the universe who kept humanity ignorant and allowed humans to inflict suffering upon one another due to his inherent fear of humanity. After being defeated by Anaxorogos, the Demiurge was imprisoned however his corrupting influence continues to affect humanity and occasionally, even the Gods.