religion notes | Foriscian rites
A rite (𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌰𐍃𐍄, tälast) is a broad term within the Foriscian faith, the dominant religion in western Antrecia. It comprises of traditions, creeds and rituals that make up a unified interpretation of Foriscian thought. The lack of real consensus between the Presbyters and the Kings after the fall of the Othaic Empire (~830 v. — 340 n.) ensured the current diversity of such rites in the West, making it a common point of contrast to the secular politics of the region by Conditary sociologists, defining the Antrecian subcontinent wedged between the firm unity of the Amatorian churches and the semi-coherent manifoldness defined by the loose Covenants of their Foriscian counterparts. Despite their division, the Foriscians united do not take deviation from the faith lightly, and has been known to have suppressed and (quite brutally) eradicated "Apostates" (what Foriscians call their heretics) in order to herald the return/coming of Tevas' holy authority. This fury of faith has not changed even today, as the Presbyters of the Belgrish and (corrected) Värmärker covenants calling (even at the exasperation of the monarchs they crowned) for the utter destruction of the Amatorian-flavored Kaivic rite of the Elves, which they call "the most pungently noxious insult to the Hosts of heaven".
<small>some notes that didn’t make it in the final cut: the Värmärker rite, while not necessarily directly descended from the apostate Chlotildan rite, their practices derive from them on the basis that the Chlotildans were actually practicing the ancient rituals of the Apostolic era. They managed to survive the Imperial pogroms with their renouncement of the Chlotildan clergy.</small>