Talk:Aurelianity

After a brief question from Cheese, I've decided to write my ponders on the topic of Saints (in the Christian sense) in Solar religions here, hoping for the opinions of others. (TL:DR at the bottom)

My main view of all this comes from the teachings of Sotiras - he claimed it is wrong to assume that there are two aspects of Sol Invictus, because Sol Invictus is everything. That itself is an extrapolation of the basic claim of prophet Aurelios that all gods are but separately worshipped aspects of Sol Invictus, so Sol Invictus is all gods and the god, therefore everything. If Sol Invictus truly is everything, it is also simple to reverse it and say that everything is Sol Invictus, thus the idea that there are separate Saints who are capable of swaying the mind of Sol Invictus must be entirely rejected by the Sotirans.

However, if Sotiras claimed that, it had to be because he was criticising the Omnican Church. As such, it is a short leap of logic to say that maybe the Omnican Church in his times did proclaim and recognize saints. There are even two saints already existing in RP lore (or more I'm not aware of) - there's St. Castor of Karden from Faendal and San Markos from Leopoli. Leopoli however is Sotiran nowadays, so either my theory is wrong or San Markos is more of a nationalist icon rather than religious (or he's merely called saint without actually having any attributes of sainthood?).

Also, since Sotiras created his movement in Archadia, it is probable that Archadians did not agree with the policies of the Church, quite possibly the stance of Saints as well. As such I'd argue that if Sainthood does (or at least did) exist in the Omnican Church, it is a thing of the other nations, but not inherent to Archadians. So when the Omnican Church was disbanded in Archadia, Archadian saints may have been quickly forgotten.

TL:DR - Omnicans have (or at least had) Saints, Sotirans do not have them, Archadians don't have them either.

-Makesin