Dog Days: Religion of the Realms

• The Holy Dogma is one of two primary religions of the Canis (dog people). The deities of the Holy Dogma each represent one of the ideals of Humanity as perceived by the Canis. Each of the gods are called by different names depending on the region of the world/cult you are talking to, but their titles are universal and as follows. The Hunter; The Care Taker; The Breeder; The Enforcer; The Warrior; The Herder; The Companion; The Alpha; and the Healer. The Holy Dogma also teaches that the downfall of man was caused by the Old Cat Felius a being of corruption and evil whom the old humans trusted, and that eventually betrayed them. While they do believe it is possible for cats to be brought into the fold, and are willing to convert them to the ways of dogs best friend they are generally not very trusting of the cat peoples.

• The second major religion of the dogs is more focused on nature worship. This religion is not organized and goes by an array of regional names. This religion worships no specific deities, though in some regions deities are given names, typically it is simply the worship of that which is natural. This religion is focused on going back to ones roots, and idolizes dire wolves (who are non sentient still). This religion is also common among wolf tribes.

• The Holy Catma worships the Divine Sphinx and his wife Bastet. It is believed that once cats and men were a single race, the men with the bodies of a cat and the face of a human, the women with the bodies of humans and the faces of cats. They believe that the Divine Sphinx found them to be unworthy of such perfect forms and divided them into two separate species of equals, however humans eventually elevated themselves and were brought to the divine plane by the Sphinx, while cats were left behind for the sin of hubris. Now cats must strive to be re unified in the afterlife with their human half.

• The Rat/Ferret religion is known as Roui, the gods are Makowska, a goddess of protection; Lathrop, a goddess of fertility; Vacanti, the two headed god of change and healing; Wistar the god of creation; Hoyer, the god of war; and Algernon, the giver of sentience. It is believed by the rat people that humanity gave them sentience, and that those humans who had created life were then elevated to godhood by divine beings, while the others, awash with their sins, were wiped clean from the earth in the horrors of war, plague, famine, and death. 

• There are also various cults worshiping gods known as the "Primal Gods" massively powerful beings that are said to walk the earth itself. The worshipers of these beings do so in a wide array of ways.