The Enlightening

The Enlightening has slowly been gathering interest and attention since the return of magic to the world. Fundamentally, it is built on the question of power granted by deities and how it truly works. Many who follow the path of the cleric can do magic gifted by their gods, but those gods are not always the same, and during the dark times, there was no power for them. Why did all their gods abandon them? A group of scholars began researching this and came to the conclusion that the power that those of the faithful wield was not from the gods themselves but accessed through them. Indeed they started to see a larger picture of magic connected to planes beyond and openly denounced the other religions. Soon members of the Enlightening emerged who claimed they could access the same divine powers the gods conferred without ever worshipping anything, simply by truly understanding the underpinnings of reality. They were labelled as heretics and the Scarlet Guard have called a crusade against them.

Many saw the members of the Enlightening as charlatans, using other forms of magic to pretend to have proof that denied the divine attributes conferred by the gods. But the Enlightening maintain that they have accessed the powers conferred by the gods without a deity, and that anyone that devotes themselves to the understanding of these secrets could do the same. Over time numbers have grown as more and more have come around to the thinking of the group. Still the smallest religion across the regions, The Enlightening is always seeking to better understand the magic of the divine and its true source. The Seekers of Discovery are those members who have dedicated their lives to the organization and fight to free the minds of others who do not see past the lies of the churches.

Domains

• Knowledge
• Light
• Order