Religion in Procellia
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From its founding Procellia has been an officially religious state, first for the now long forgotten God's of Procellia, and then Demonism.
Demonism is a very loosely managed religion, with different people worshipping various demons. Many towns even have shrines dedicated to one or two demons they believe protect their town.
However religion plays a vital part in the royal family. Albinism, in Procellia, is called the mark of the demon. It is believes that those who have the condition have been chosen by a demon to serve as the leaders of Procellia.
The state church, when a child with the mark of the demon is born, takes the child from the parents and prays. They then announce what demon the baby has been bound with, and what their destiny shall be. This often means that members of the same royal household are not indeed related, with the church being in charge of assigning who will govern at every level.
The royal family, by the religious, are seen as holy and worshipped as proof of the oath with the demons made almost 9,000 years ago.
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However the country, after multiple wars over the matter, also has a huge atheist population. With most of the south being atheist majority.
Procellia has played host to a large atheist population for as long as records go back. This has led to multiple cases of civil war within the country, and the creation of an elected government to appease the atheists.
The third religion in Procellia is isolated to a single province in the far south of the Kingdom. The religion, Urrubianism, is a relic of Procellia's era of trade. Originally a pagan religion that survived the rise of Demonism, it was very heavily influenced by a monotheistic religion from Selene and has now become the only monotheistic religion in the continent.
The survival of the religion was decided during the fourth theocratic war, when the Pope (the leader if their faith), declared for eternity that God blesses the royal family and chooses them to govern their earthly lives. In exchange the government made the religion legal.
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