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The God-War Era is notable for many reasons, among which was the inception of religious beliefs like the afterlife and deities. The God-War would not just see their inception, but their evolution and rise to popularity, forming many of the religious institutions still seen today. The foundations of religion would be created by the Gods long before the existence of organisms, though it would be shared with life at its earlies inceptions. One of the major factors which contributed to the spread and development of religion during the War was territories.
Like most events and concepts from the God-War the history of religions is primarily extrapolated by astronomers from the stars. Though, some information is also gotten from ancient religious texts and artifacts.
Early-War Creation
Following the First Convening the God of Chromodynamic Energy would publish the Afterlife Star. This is believed to be the first mention of the afterlife amongst the Gods and is simultaneously also what popularized the concept. The current understanding of Chromodynamics argument in the star is that Gods are not tethered by reality or unreality but instead by only nature, and as such a Gods corporeal form is only a portion of their existence. Many Lesser-Gods would quickly take to the preaching’s of the Afterlife Star, and at the same time it would also begin to garner negative reputation amongst primarily Higher-Gods. Ideological divisions would form between the Gods based on personal beliefs. Through these divisions a few primary schools of thought would arise documented in the stars:
- Anti-Afterlife Gods would fight to delegitimize the Afterlife Star, though these efforts would fall flat. The Afterlife Star was simply opinion based on fact, and proof of its falsity is impossible. Some Gods would approach the situation from different angles too, arguing that the nature of the claims is inherently harmful to the war. Some would go as far as to claim an afterlife makes life itself inherently meaningless.
- Neutral Gods would take no side on the subject. Most commonly they adopted the beliefs that the existence of an afterlife makes no difference in life, and especially no difference in ending the war. Indifferent Gods would normally remain silent, their opinions not oft recorded in stars. Those which did speak out are recorded often becoming the punching bags for Anti-Afterlife and Negative-Afterlife Gods who saw their neutral standings as harmful.
- Positive-Afterlife Gods would champion the belief that the afterlife is a net positive for war and Gods. At its tamest these Gods believed the afterlife was an extension of existence, a second eternally peaceful life after the short and chaotic one. At its most extreme it was a quick and easy escape from the chaotic reality which tainted the war, which led some to take their own lives either purposefully or recklessly.
- Negative-Afterlife Gods existed on the opposite side of the spectrum. They would vehemently battle against all sides of the argument, agreeing with the sentiment of Anti-Afterlife Gods in that the afterlife is an inherently harmful concept, but simultaneously agreeing with the points originally brought up in the Afterlife Star.
All of this bickering amongst the Gods would occur in stars around the Afterlife Star, forming the Afterlife System. Each side of the argument was nuanced and only fragments of more complex arguments can be recovered from stars, the rest lost to the war.
Into the 170s the first proto-institutions would begin to form. Many of them would be smothered before they could develop, the rapidly declining population of Gods made finding a stable population of followers incredibly difficult. As the number of dying Gods began to stabilize into the 160s these institutions would finally be let to settle and develop. These institutions were primarily focused around the development of ideals, looking to create spaces for philosophical and scientific debate and research.