Editing Kislev (section)

==Religion in Kislev==
{{topquote|[[HERESY|They'd call me a heretic for saying it, but the Great Orthodoxy isn't about gods any longer! Yes, they perform the rituals and lead the services to Ursun, Dazh and Tor... but why do you think Father Bear has gone silent? They only care about power, and cloak that ambition in faith.]]|Unknown heretic, not long before being blammed by the Kislevite secret police}}
Like the [[Empire]] to the south the people of Kislev have multiple deities with the main one being the Cult of Ursun the Father of Bears. There's also the [[Ancient Widow]] an ancient spirit imprisoned by [[Chaos]] (which some speculate is the same as the law goddess [[Arianka]]). It was she who first drew the Gospodars to Kislev and helps the Ice Witches with their ice magic. Other common gods in Kislev are [[Dazh]] the god of fire and the sun, Dazh's underling [[Kalita]] the god of merchants, [[Tor]] the axe-wielding god of warriors and lightning (and '''ALMOST''' blatant Thor ripoff), Salyak the goddess of healing (basically a more stern motherly version of [[Shallya]]), and the more well-known gods [[Taal]] and [[Ulric]].

Remote settlements in the extreme north like Tungask worship the Kislevite pantheon plus some gods who may or may not be facsimiles of the Chaos Gods, as a result of Norse and Kurgan influence that far north.

According to the new [[Total War: WARHAMMER]] lore, now the worship in Kislev is regulated by the institute known as '''The Great Orthodoxy''', which was founded by Tzar Boris himself. His motivation to create it was to help in the reunification of the country after the [[Great War Against Chaos]] and to prevent some tribes and/or more civilised villages from worshipping [[Chaos]]. The Orthodoxy, as the Kislev mechanics post shows, recognises Ursun, Dazh, Tor and Salyak, with Ursun priests being quite obviously at the top of their hierarchy. In theory, the Orthodoxy was created to help consolidate and centralize the influence and authority of Kislev's various religious sects, thus theoretically being even more unified than the [[Morr|Empire's]] [[Sigmar|competing]] [[Ulric|cults]]. The game shows that Kislev also worships the motherland itself, not as a being but as a force that comes to their aid. Which it does, if the elemental bears are any indication.