Ebonyr Campaign Setting

Church of Kruis

The Church of Kruis (Kruisianism) is arguably the smallest religion in the Five Kingdoms. It originated in the Kingdom of Altalissia and has its roots within the Ibriy Faith.



Overview 

There is one God who predates creation, and though words that God created everything. He is supreme. Having watched humanity's latterly-inherent evil destroy that creation, the creator has warned of creation's forthcoming destruction and replacement with one untainted by evil.


Deity 

Without name, though his human incarnation is known as Kruis

 

Holy Books 

The Good Book, comprised of the life and teachings of Kruis, and the old books inherited from the Ibriy.


Salvation 

Recompence of each man's evil has been paid by the self-sacrifice of Kruis, but all are required to call on His Name to be saved. Thereafter, the presence of the Spirit of Cruis inhabits the redeemed, freeing them from evil's grasp.


Worshipers

Kruisians or Salvationists


Sect: Purititions (Coming soon)


Core Teachings

Self-sacrificing love


The Afterlife

Heaven or Paradise, a place of complete peace and tranquility, awaits those who have call on Kruis for salvation. Conversely, Hell, reserved for those who have rejected Kruis, is ambiguous and variaous traditions have their own interpretation ranging from liberal thoughts of its non-existence, to an ultimate obliteration of the soul, to an eternal torment of the damned, sometimes including lurid descriptions of eternal flames and various tortures by malevolent demons. 


Many such descriptions are rejected by more traditional Kruisian groups.


 Current symbol used by Kruisians
First symbol of Kruis, still in use by some groups