Religion of the Tanzi

The Religion of the Tanzi Tribe is broken up into two main sects, the Faith and the Chosen.

History
 The Tanzi, prior to the split some 7,600 years before the Dark Portal opened worshipped one central religion, known to them simply as The Faith. The Faith focused itself around three gods, and each of these gods in turn helped guide the warrior-like culture of the Tanzi. Following the Split that caused the Tanzi to break apart into two sub-groups, known as the Dewmar and Trulash the Dewmar, considerably more warrior-like and holding themselves as the successors to the Tanzi continued to follow the Faith, while the Dewmar divulged from the Faith, with a new religion rising up amongst them and it was known as the Chosen.

The Faith
The Faith is very warrior centric religion, it has origins in the original six hundred Tanzi whose culture was nomadic and war focused. The Faith had three main dieties associated with it, Dedros the God of Growth and Change, Hilmar, known as the trickster, who is the god of the ficklenes of fortune and Laton the God of Slothfulness and Stagnation. Dedros and Laton, as per Tanzi tradition, have been in an eternal war, starting when the universe first was created.

Dedros
Dedros was known as the Destroyer God to the Tanzi and was viewed as being the bringer of change and growth upon the world, nay the entire universe. He stood opposite to Laton and many myths viewed the two gods as being in an eternal war. In artwork, Dedros was projected as being tall, always upright and in armor made of bone with spikes across the shoulders. Though he was seen as human, as the Tanzi, he was portrayed as being larger than life.

Hilmar
Hilmar is an oddity amongst the three gods, while he stays out of the eternal war between growth and stagnation he is seen by the Tanzi as being an agent of the ficklness of fortune. He is portrayed in artwork as holding a large battle axe that reaches from his head to the ground, in statues showing him at human standards this would be nearly seven feet.

Laton
Laton stood opposite to Dedros, and sought to tempt the Tribe and its people into idle consuption and stagnation. The myths of the Faith say that Laton and Dedros waged an eternal war against one another. In artwork he too was portrayed as being larger than a normal Tanzi, yet in a way different. While Dedros stood tall and proud, the sloth-god was seen as being fat, and hunched over, yet in the fat of Laton the hidden strength of him was always shown. The myths of the Tanzi say that while he was fat and sloth, he still had the strength to tempt those Tanzi who were not vigilant to fall into slothfulness and consumption. In artwork, he was shown as being dressed in elegant robes and metal armor, showing off how he represented desire and consumption compared to his counter-part.

The Chosen
The mythos of the Chosen focus on how the Trulash, the real successors to the Tanzi Six Hundred, are the Chosen people of the Gods and that is represented in their pantheon of Gods and Goddess. To the Trulash, it was Hawlena, Goddess of Growth, who created the world and the sun and assigned her younger brother Sinus to become the keeper of the Great Light. It was his job to light the Sun every morning and it was he who gave the Tanzi fire in the aftermath of the Sundering.

Hawlena
As the Trulash broke away from the traditions of the Faith and formed their own pantheon the biggest change was the addition of two female goddesses, one of which was Hawlena. She is like Dedros in that she represents change and growth, yet is also associated with the creation of the world and the Great Light, that is the sun. It is said by the Trulash that while the world was dark she created a lamp to hang over the world that would dim and go out at night, before being relit at first dawn by Sinus, God of the Flame.

Sinus
Sinus is known as the God of the Flame, and by the legend of the Chosen he is associated with giving the Tanzi the gift of flame during their first weeks on the Isonian Islands.