Berkke Kingdom

Losh religion

Main points about.

Founded in ~720AGS with Ergoy's vision about Lōš the sky God of old Berkke traditional faith.

Ergoy's vision made him realize how great and majestic Losh was/is.

In 722AGS Ergoy found a village, and lightened by Losh the Great he preached and teached the words Losh had said to him in his visions.

More visions happen, the last one Losh talked about the end of the world, that if men don’t follow his words of peace and wisdom we’ll all crumble in doom, the Era of the Men is close to its end.

Five years after that he occupied a small abandoned building in the capital of Berkke district, from there Ergoy started preaching the words, but he didn’t exactly know where to go without the visions who had end long time ago, after a long walk in the woods in the top of a hill he saw a rock burning, from the rock a heavy voice emanate, the voice said “Ergoy my son, my other spirits represent me in a way humans can’t comprehend, follow them until find me, when you do you will know what to do, use everything but write down my words of compassion and love, I go for now, blessed be you” From there Ergoy dedicated to write down all Words from Losh, the Lōš činlan “Losh words” was the first book to talk about Losh religion.

In 778AGS Ergoy would become a rather famous person in Berkke capital, a good orator and panelist, many people would gather around him to hear his analogies of philosophy about man mind and spirit, many didn’t liked him saying he was corrupting the young with his silly and controversial ideas.

At the end of the year of 770AGS he had a crowd of 30 followers which he believed he fully converted, after that the numbers of believers would grow and become popular among the military.

From 780~782AGS Loshianism had become a widespread religion, Ergoy had enough money to buy a great place, more than one hundred people gathered together every end of the day to hear Ergoy and his ideas, most of these were new to the faith and were interested.

The influence of Loshianism in Telehe regions wasn’t welcoming, many loshian groups fought the telehe to not be assimilated into their polytheistic faith. (edited)

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Traditional authorities and the priests of Traditional Berkke religion thought about their religion coming to an end due to potential growth of  Loshianism, they conducted heavy changes to their religion including equal rights to women and other drastic changes, after that many people returned but the temples once got empty, they knew the enemy was clever, the king rapidly became aware of this and conducted incursions againsts those who believed in any form of Loshianism, after 2 years of fight Loshianists won the battle, after that they decided to lead a revolution against the king, many attempts were made, the king needed to do something, he openly gave 30% of all traditional temples to the new Loshianists, but they’d need to pay higher taxes directly to traditional priests and temples.

In 850 with the fall of Telehe empire the district of Berkke once free of Telehe commands, they now would rule like kings again, the Hautkar incursion that destroyed Berzun.

After that Berkke people gained more authority, at the same time a shift of religions happened, while countryside maintained the polytheistic tradition, even the king would be converted, from there one could affirm Berkke kingdom were at most 70% Loshianists.

The first big temple dedicated to the Losh religion would be built in 923AGS, finally Loshianists had a place where they could feel safe.

The temple was a mix of Traditional Temples and new architecture methods, the temple was built under the first place Ergoy used to live and established the religion, Ergoy died many years ago, his body was buried under the temple.

In 1000AGS Berkke kingdom was mainly Loshianist, majority of Traditional people migrated outside the kingdom to build their own nation, a group of five hundred people including several priests and people who felt disgusted by Loshianism, they migrated into Qachkav land and even north into Krobu lands, from there many small states devoted to the old Berkke Gods established themselves.

At this point the priests have gathered together and decided to reform their religion so they could integrate more and more people, for this the cult of feminine deities was adopted before that feminine deities weren’t worshiped by everyone, a system of casts were created and a canonical text called Hōčīė Lāurin [ɦ~xo̞ːˈc͡çɪːɤ ɫɐːɯ̯ɾin] “The path of the Gods” it was used by all Traditional people, they coined the name Kėri Gaū Lāurin “The people of one hundred Gods”.

Berkke kingdom (c. 1000AGS-1150AGS)

Around the year 1000AGS, Berkke kingdom became heavily monotheist, many Loshianist scholars were satisfied with the officialisation of the Loshian religion. But also the schoolars were confused, many interpretations could be drawn from the weird commandments, this resulted in many schoolars disagreeing with eachother making many little sects of the religion that was supposed to be single.

In 1009AGS there was an attempt to return to the old gods and promove traditions, Erojo the king at the time was very nationalism, being raised in a conservative, nationalist and polytheist envinronment, he developed a wrath of Loshianism, his reign was remembered with the destruction and violent appropriation of many Loshian temples, then he lead people to believe that Loshianism was some kind of brainwash and troublesome by introducing another authority, this slowly would destroy the sense of unity, many peasants didnt believe in Erojo and started their own rebelion in the name of Loshianism, two major factions directed what would be known by many as The religious war Epereyo truço.

As the overwhelming force of Erojo army, he would win the war, being supported with money and soldiers from the neighboring kingdoms to fight back the troublesome Loshianists, Erojo in a meeting with many kings, on how he should handle religion in Berkke, to which he would always deny the rights to anyone to have their own religion. But Oiaš one of the kings stand and silently went over Erojo seat and stabbed him one time, he would have died but he quickly stand up and pushed many sitting next to him, causing three members to fall, Erojo would try to run away saying how his people he trusted betrayed him, and cursing each of them "Shall you die in a pit, dirtiests humans are you! Friends never!" after that, Oiaš came with soldeirs, who continually stabbed Erojo to death. (edited)

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The decline of Berkke kingdom

Around 1011AGS Berkke kingdom would crumble without a proper king, many small kings decided it was time to take care of their country without much worrying about some major entity, so did they, Three kingdoms would come to form, Kingdom of Gannya, Kingdom of Eleria and the Kindgom of Ogwal.

Kingdom of Gannya: most mountainous kingdom of all three, it is a diverse kigndom with the most distinct dialect of Berkke, called Verkke-Geryo. Most of its people believe in Losh, but now they are a minority, most of Loshians fleed away to the wilderness, many abandoned Loshian temples were destroyed or repurposed by followers of the tradional faith of berkke.

Kingdom of Eleria: the most populous kingdom of the three, it was formally loshianist, now tradionals Eleria stablished religious freedom but the state would still be nationalist. Eleria named after the king, was the most nationalist of the three, but still allowed religious freedom.

Kingdom of Ogwal: Ogwal wasnt convinced, and never joined Erojo in his fight, Ogwal was almost unchanged, Loshians would live alongside Polytheists and never complain, the impacts of Erojo couldnt be seen, but the fear of being dismantled made many Loshians flee away searching for a better place in the shores of koty, only to suffer from the harsh weather and unproductive soil.

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Around 1111AGS, one hundred years after the formation of the three kingdoms, Loshianists became rare, after the religious war, you wouldn't see Loshianists anymore, some speculate they have traveled far away to never be seen again, but coming back to three kingdoms, those would face an unexpected series of conflicts,  Qachkav small tribes rapidly became a threat to the kingdoms, they migrated quickly, seeking reaching the heartland of Koty. The three kingdoms reacted pushing them back their land. A sequence of small battles would take place between the three kingdoms and Qachkav tribes.

In 1123AGS trops of the kingdom of Ogwal and Gannya accidentally fought, this event came to be known by both kingdoms, both kingdoms send letters, for days this was considered an accident, until a false letter arriving the kingdom of Ogwal, making them believe it was meant to happen. The next years were unhappy as several conflicts inbetween the kingdom of Ogwal and Gannya took place, allowing the Qachkav kingdoms to strength themselves and beat these two kingdoms.

Around 1150AGS many conflicts sparkled here and there in between the three kingdoms and Qachkav tribes, finally the tribes could tear appart the kingdoms.