The Anthro Religion - (WIP)
#1 of Tails of the Crimson Claw
Upon the ancient stone tablets believed to be carved by the Goddess's own claws almost 7 million years ago, can be found what awaits each Anthro when there time on the mortal realm comes to it's end. The Goddess, after using parts of her own soul to create life upon the world, then selected a male from each race to seed life within her blessed womb. From these matings, her four children where born.
For each of her three daughters a realm was created, each charged with the sacred duty of shepherding the fragments of there Mothers soul along the never ending cycle of death and rebirth.
For her first child, The Daughter of Judgment, a grand temple was carved deep within the world. Upon death, a soul would awaken in darkness and travel the path of light to seek out the temple of fait and face judgment for there deeds. The Daughter of judgment, beyond all mortal influences, would wait a souls deeds and decide to which of her sisters the soul would be given.
For her second child, The Daughter of Light, a perfect paradise was created where a pure soul could rest and commune with there guardian spirits, sharing all they had learned in life. After a generation had past or when the Goddess felt they where ready, the soul would then be seeded back into a mortal body, reborn to gain new life experiences.
For her Third child, The Daughter of Darkness, The Goddess crafted a realm devoid of shape or substance. For evil souls who had squandered there time in the mortal world by causing pain and suffering, staining the divine spark of life gifted to them by there creator, the dark pit awaited for there punishment and purification. Here a soul would float, disembodied and helpless, to reflect on there deeds and wait for the Daughter of Darkness or her servants to find them. Once set upon by these demons, the soul would be forced to re-live all there misdeeds through the eyes of there victims. The demon, having taken the souls mortal form, would inflict upon them what they had done to others in life. As this happened, the demon would feast on the soul's sins, purging it all until the soul was pure once again. Then, and only then, the soul would be returned to the mortal realm as a feral beast in penance for the gift they had squandered.
With such pain and punishment awaiting an evil soul, sometimes they would choose to leave the path of light and wonder off into the darkness surrounding the temple of judgment, there fear causing them to break the cycle of rebirth and become lost in purgatory. Here there soul would wonder, there ethereal body slowly decaying as all they had been in each incarnation of there mortal lives evaporated into oblivion.
Still with much love for her mortal children, The Goddess tasked her fourth child, The Child of Innocents, with seeking out these lost souls and offering them a final chance to return before they became forever lost. An eternal child, he would seek out these souls, offering love and comfort, as he led them back to The Daughter of Judgment. He would accompany them beyond the determination of there deeds and journey with them to find his other sister, be she Light or Dark, his boundless love giving them the strength to except there fait so that once again they could be redeemed and return to life.