Paxism

Paxism is a religion based solely on meditation. Summarized it is the belief of a god named Statera, who holds all knowledge and shares it through the world we live in. Different knowledge of topics require to be closer to different colors and shades.

Statera, God of Wisdom
Statera is the God in Paxism. It is believed that Statera created the world because he wanted to be happy and to make things happy. Statera believed he could do this by giving the creatures and plants in the world knowledge. He would share his knowledge with them through the different colors. It would require immense concentration to decipher the teachings, but it was possible through meditation.

The First Deciphering
The first deciphering is written in the Possint and is it's first passage. It tells how Fulkien, an elf was the first one to decipher any teaching of Statera by simply concentrating on the moon for several minutes. Doing this taught him how to use the colors to his advantage and leearn from them, and also revealed little parts of how Paxists should live.

Paxist Way of Life
The Paxist lifestyle is a very normal lifestyle, although is include many quirks and features.


 * Simple lifestyle: Paxists are supposed to have a simple lifestyle, without many possessions or distractions that would cause them to be distracted form their studies. This is also why they wear robes that are plain white and grey with no special patterns on them. Even the Drydalis wears simple robes, with only one difference; his shoulders have pads with corners of gold to signify his long service to the temple and the religion.
 * Painting: painting is how Paxists express themselves and leave a legacy so that other pupils may learn from people who came before them.
 * Worship: worshiping Statera works a little differently than other religions. Paxists do not truly "Worship" their God; it is more like figuring out what their god wants them to do and how they should come about life.
 * Music: music is one of the ways that you can easily meditate in Paxism and is a good way to go about Paxist life.
 * Wars/fighting: while peace is an important part of a goo Paxist lifestyle, and usually Paxists will not fight and wish to settle things diplomatically, if while meditating they learn some knowledge that tells them that fighting in a conflict would be good for the world and it's people, they will willingly fight relentlessly and strategically.
 * Books: books also play a role in the way of Paxist lifestyle. Books are how most people record their findings and how paxists can record their findings. Books are thought to be knowledge gained from Statera through other ways than Color knowledge by un-paxist people. They can also be vice versa.

Color Knowledge
Color knowledge is the belief that the colors hold secret meanings and depending on their shade share different things. To decipher the meanings of the colors, one would have to meditate for hours or days.

Different types of color knowledge

 * White: white is the universal color and gives general knowledge of anything in particular. It does not give strong knowledge on any particular subjectt but still gives basic knowledge that anyone can use.
 * Grey: grey gives knowledge on how Statera created the world and who Statera is.
 * Black: black gives knowledge of evil, whether how to avoid it or how to draw power from it. Black also works with the color red to show how and why the Nether was created and how to get there.
 * Red: red gives knowledge of life and how violence affects it. It also gives knowledge on the Nether and how and why it is created.
 * Orange:
 * Yellow
 * Green
 * Blue
 * Indigo
 * Purple