Religion

Religion in Oolite is found in the Lore and the OXPs.

High Temple (Church of the Holy Witchspace Guard)

Monastery (Black Monks of St Herod)

Lore from the Canon

• The Dark Wheel has references to Randomius Factoria (chapter 3).

Lore from outside the Canon

• The Rough Guide to the Ooniverse mentions the following:

Aesbion (Rough Guide) was home to the God-Emperor who ruled during the Imperial Era from the Exalted City, close to the Cathedral of Winds

Aronar (Rough Guide) is home to fervent Giles worshippers, who are yet fervid gamblers!

Reorte (Rough Guide) is an ever-changing theocracy with new gods being invented daily

Tianve (Rough Guide) has devotees to the Pulsar God Tiaxus, who can be propositioned to delay his Sunrage.

• Schism by Drew Wagar describes religion on a Generation Ship.
• Ascension by Drew Wagar describes religion on a low technology world
• Church of Giles the Creator

OXPs

• Tionisla Orbital Graveyard features a variety of religious symbols depicted on their monuments: crucifixes, stars of David, menhirs etc.
• Missionaries OXP (Dr Nil 2006) gives us four varieties:

Happy Eye preachers

CGC (Church of Giles the Creator) missionaries

Witchspace Lobster worshippers

Zenarchy monks.

Comments in the BB threads by Dr Nil et al:

The Church of Giles the Creator are orthodox creationists. Monotheistic and dogmatic. CGC is quite old and very influential.

Witchspace Lobster Worship is Oolite animism. Classified as primitive superstition by CGC and the rest of the establishment. They seem to worship totems in the form of crudely fashioned elongated asteroids.

What's The Happy Eye? Don't know. Brainwashed smiling faces offering their pamphlets at spaceports and on stations? They look happy. A new age sect? They claim to be the fastest growing spiritual franchise in the Ooniverse.

• Hognose - includes obnoxious lobster missionaries
• Interstellar Tweaks - includes crusading lobster missionaries
• Bank of the Black Monks of Saint Herod the bankers: only the righteous walk the Path of Debt!
• Whilst the original Dictators OXP only features agricultural junta and technological imperial versions, there is also the theocratic Church of the Holy Witchspace Guard which Montana05 is developing as a third version of Dictatorship.

Links

• A moment of existential angst (2010)
• Lore for the importance of canon and its definition
• Captain Hesperus and the war-god Ooyookallinphat (2008)