The Great Spirit

The Great Spirit is the accepted religion amongst Aborians, Beastfolk, and Orks. Although, many of these races have stopped practicing the religion, with Orks being the only race of the three to still predominantly worship The Great Spirit.

Supposed Origin of The Great Spirit
Casus, once a mere seed, was nurtured and cared for by The Great Spirit when this entity was young. As The Great Spirit grew it added more to the world: light, life, death; and eventually, the Aborians, it’s first attempt at creating a sentient creature that emulated the seed that was once the world. It made them at a young age, and played frequently in the vast plains and forests of Casus with the Aborians. The Aborians grew lonely, and The Great Spirit made the Beastfolk in the image of the various animals it had already added to the lands. The Aborians and Beastfolk spent hundreds of years playing with the young Great Spirit, never aging or yearning for anything. As the Aborians and Beastfolk grew slowly closer with each other, and the aging Great Spirit came to play less, the races asked to age as the Great Spirit could, wanting to experience life as The Great Spirit has. Insulted that the races it had made, eternally young and immortal, wanted to cease playing and enjoying the paradise that was it’s gift to them. Instead of granting their wish, it added monsters to the realm. Time passed before the Great Spirit felt bad for the races and allowed them to age. As they aged, they reproduced and continued their lines. The Great Spirit realized it would still have playmates and forgave the races. Attempting to remove the monsters it had created, The Great Spirit realized it’s curse was too strong to remove from this land, only create. It begged for the races forgiveness and they forgave it. Relations repaired, the races asked for one more gift, more races to join them in the place they called home. The Great Spirit first made the Orks, who fought the monsters that now riddled the World, and then the other races followed. The races that followed the Orks did not trust the Great Spirit, only seeing the monsters it created, and refused to meet with it. As the Great Spirit aged over thousands of years, it appeared less and less. Soon, the races did not even know what it looked like, only speaking of it as The Great Spirit. Now, it is but a memory, not having been seen in thousands of years, but the Aborians, Beastfolk, and Orks still worship the Great Spirit and the ideals it had put onto the first of their kind.

Cultural Practices of The Great Spirit Followers
The Great Spirit is told to have taught the first Aborians and Beastfolk to respect the world it had created. It kept the world as idyllic as possible, and taught the races how to continue this dream. Even after it created the demons and monsters that tormented the world. It pleaded with the races to continue their practice. These practices have been handed down through generations, but become harder and harder to practice as the Aborians and Beastfolk blend and interact with more cultures. Many Beastfolk and Aborians leaving their practice behind for the more relatable gods and deities. Those who still practice believe that all life is equal, and when they use the nature around them for their own purpose, they pray to The Great Spirit in thanks for allowing them to manipulate the World. They were shown by The Great Spirit what they were allowed to eat, as it had punished them with hunger when they wished to age. Any sentient creatures were forbidden, The Great Spirit having defined this as any large game or creatures with language. Those who follow The Great Spirit believe they have protection in nature, and when they are injured in the wild or killed, it is assumed they must have disrespected The Great Spirit. Those who live from their injuries will often be seen begging for forgiveness, as they know The Great Spirit can be a cruel god.

Orks and The Great Spirit
The Orks follow the Great Spirit, but they view it differently than those Aborians and Beastfolk who knew the deity since its childhood. They learned how to honor it when he was grown, and did not view the world as an idyllic paradise. The Great Spirit had told the first Orks that it made them to protect the lands, and fight evil. It told them of their strength and power, and when it instructed the Orks to honor the land like he taught the Aborians and Beastfolk, they took that literally. The Orks honor themselves, as they were created by The Great Spirit to be the strongest. They worship The Great Spirit by fighting the demons and monsters that The Great Spirit regretted creating, and by bringing honor to their race.

Challenges the Followers Face
The Aborians, Beastfolk, and Orks are known to argue about their true purpose in the lands, and what The Great Spirits teachings really asked of them. The Aborians and Beastfolks culture is hard to follow once they leave the Beastian Plains, and many are known to leave the religion as they travel. The Orks see great shame in this, and are more likely to continue their practice even as they travel into other cultures, as their practices are less idyllic. The Orks practices benefit them, unlike the practices the Aborians and Beastfolk follow, the Orks often thinking they are better because they keep to their religion. Fights have broken out, with the races deciding over years that they follow different gods, both sides refusing to change the name of their God. Outsiders find this confusing, with many races judging the Aborians, Beastfolk and Orks for having a confusing and supposedly inconsistent God.