Singular God of his faith, intolerant of others
A relatively recent faith, currently restricted to the central regions of the Erlyid Empire. In the year 420, a mysterious prophet appeared in Lanirkos and began preaching the faith of a god he would call only The One. His own name he never revealed, saying only that he was the voice. The cult was a simple and undemanding one, involving a basic respect for all forms of life, and an energy created by harmony between all living things. The only drawback was that the faith of The One precluded tolerance of the existence of any other gods. This was not popular with the Imperial authorities. Over the next few years, The Voice of The One was persecuted and hounded, though his followers some of them in high places managed to preserve him from major harm. Claims of miracles were alternately voiced and denied. Finally, in 453 Imperial, The Voice of The One died in Karsten and was immediately and publicly assumed into Heaven. The cult of The One has been growing ever since, although it has become more militant in the years since its first and only prophet lived and died.
The Church of the One has worshipers of all kinds and races, and the domains of Good, Healing, and Animal.
Since siezing control of the central province of the Empire, the heirachy of the One have waxed massively in power, exerting a strong but generally benevolent dictatorship over the population, and achieving some measure of control of very nearly every facet of life in their land. Generally, their rule is no better or worse than that of most secular governments, but in one aspect they are absolutely adamant; there is no true faith other than that in The One, and all other faiths are false idolatary and not to be tolerated. All citizens of Nhased must be members of the church in good standing; anyone holding any form of power or publicoffice above a certain level must be a member of the priesthood; the penalty for preaching a foreign faith anywhere in the land is branding and banishment for the first offence and death for the second. Visitors of different faiths are tolerated, though overt displays of their creed - public worship, open wearing of holy symbols, public use of clerical magic - will be punished severely.
The great mother-temple, the Cathedral of The One, is the largest religious structure ever created in Alair, and also the de facto capital of the Theocracy. There are several knightly orders which serve the Church, of which the most notable are Vokrid, Rogryn and Fimgalet. Knights of Rogryn are particularly noted for their unceasing vigilance along the fringes of the Desolation.