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There is only one major religion in Deshret - the Church of the Nine, governed by [Sepulchre](https://agora.underspire.net/t/sepulchre/37).[Sepulchre](sepulchre).
The main doctrine of the Church of the Nine is that technology must be kept under strict control. Rampant misuse of technology (such as…the boundaries of the soul) led to the Burning that destroyed the prior world, after all.
Faithful individuals might adopt one of the nine [Saints](https://agora.underspire.net/t/saints/32)[Saints](saints) as examples, wear their relevant sigils or [Seals](https://agora.underspire.net/t/seals/39),[Seals](seals), confess sins regularly to their priests, avoid cyberware, and be sure to prepare for splintering.
If you want more detail, read on!
# SIN…example.
# AFTERLIFE
The afterlife isn't eternal bliss versus eternal torture. It's more you're either saved, or erased from existence.
Since Sepulchre explain [the Hum](https://agora.underspire.net/t/the-hum/30)Hum](the-hum) as part of Saint Marrow, if you're one of the faithful, your 'soul' exists as part of that mass along with him. Your presence…a cautionary example of how terrible life and death look for the unfaithful.
# SAINTS
The church venerates the nine Founders of Deshret as [Saints](https://agora.underspire.net/t/saints/32).[Saints](saints). Each of the Saints has their own sect within the church, which determines how the clergy following that saint practice. Aesthetics-wise, these might bear…
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- There is only one major religion in Deshret - the Church of the Nine, governed by [Sepulchre](https://agora.underspire.net/t/sepulchre/37).
+ There is only one major religion in Deshret - the Church of the Nine, governed by [Sepulchre](sepulchre).
The main doctrine of the Church of the Nine is that technology must be kept under strict control. Rampant misuse of technology (such as free-thinking machines, towers of light reaching the clouds, and attempts at reaching beyond the boundaries of the soul) led to the Burning that destroyed the prior world, after all.
- Faithful individuals might adopt one of the nine [Saints](https://agora.underspire.net/t/saints/32) as examples, wear their relevant sigils or [Seals](https://agora.underspire.net/t/seals/39), confess sins regularly to their priests, avoid cyberware, and be sure to prepare for splintering.
+ Faithful individuals might adopt one of the nine [Saints](saints) as examples, wear their relevant sigils or [Seals](seals), confess sins regularly to their priests, avoid cyberware, and be sure to prepare for splintering.
If you want more detail, read on!
…
The afterlife isn't eternal bliss versus eternal torture. It's more you're either saved, or erased from existence.
- Since Sepulchre explain [the Hum](https://agora.underspire.net/t/the-hum/30) as part of Saint Marrow, if you're one of the faithful, your 'soul' exists as part of that mass along with him. Your presence in the Hum and is what allows you to be cloned back into a body and come back from death.
+ Since Sepulchre explain [the Hum](the-hum) as part of Saint Marrow, if you're one of the faithful, your 'soul' exists as part of that mass along with him. Your presence in the Hum and is what allows you to be cloned back into a body and come back from death.
Continued existence is salvation, and that IS 'heaven' - while the oblivion of dying without splintering/awakening is 'hell'. The surface and its damned, doomed inhabitants are often pointed at as a cautionary example of how terrible life and death look for the unfaithful.
# SAINTS
- The church venerates the nine Founders of Deshret as [Saints](https://agora.underspire.net/t/saints/32). Each of the Saints has their own sect within the church, which determines how the clergy following that saint practice. Aesthetics-wise, these might bear some comparisons to real-world monasticism: so for example Marrow's order is very Orthodox, Vael's order is a hospitaller order, Ferro's is working monasticism, Cinder's are scholars, Vesper is eremitic, Severin martial, Wren would be mendicant, etc.
+ The church venerates the nine Founders of Deshret as [Saints](saints). Each of the Saints has their own sect within the church, which determines how the clergy following that saint practice. Aesthetics-wise, these might bear some comparisons to real-world monasticism: so for example Marrow's order is very Orthodox, Vael's order is a hospitaller order, Ferro's is working monasticism, Cinder's are scholars, Vesper is eremitic, Severin martial, Wren would be mendicant, etc.
Laypeople also tend to adopt their own Saints to guide their behavior, and both clergy and laypeople alike might wear the Seal associated with their Saint in clothing or as a tattoo. The finest of these tattoos are administered by Sepulchre directly, though other artists are also permitted to depict them. Only the classic eight seals exist in official canon and their basic form is sacrosanct, though it is not uncommon to perhaps contextualize them with differences in location, decorative borders, etc.
This is the current version.