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===The Twins (Morrow and Thamar)===

Morrow and Thamar, unlike their fellow gods, were once mortal humans.  Morrow is like Jesus, teaching you to work to improve yourself into the best person you can be while helping others to improve themselves too.  Meanwhile, his bitch sister Thamar is like Ayn Rand, she is very much evil; teaching you to work to improve yourself into the best person you can be while ''tearing other people down'' so that you shine that much brighter.  

In life, the two agreed that a person should be able to rise above their current station in life, even to a point where they can rival the Wurm and Menoth.  In death they went and did just that, though there were a lot of tears, heartbreak, and family drama in-between.  While Menite priests like to say that only Menoth can fight the Wurm and save his faithful, the Twins also have their own cities for their followers and help out too.  Their followers claim Menoth basically showed up to talk with them and, after some bluster, basically told them that so long as they kept acknowledging him as Creator and helping him hunt and fight the Wurm, he'd be cool with them running Caen for him.  He didn't care much about that place anyway.

Since then, various extraordinary individuals have managed to raise themselves up to something like sainthood, becoming mini-gods under one of the two twins.  Morrow's saints are called Ascended, and like Christian saints they were each [[noblebright|righteous badasses and paragons of virtue]].  Thamar's saints are called Scions, and they got where ''they'' are by being [[grimdark|unscrupulous badasses willing to do absolutely anything to get ahead]].  Morrow gave men hope in the dark ages of oppression on the part of the Orgoth, but Thamar gave humankind the Gift of Magic to put that hope on a firm foundation, bargaining elf gods and two thirds of human souls to Infernals for that.

Morrow's church is the dominant one in the Iron Kingdoms, and it fills the role of a Protestant church for the setting.  All of the human Iron Kingdoms except for the Protectorate of Menoth are majority-Morrowans.  Theologically, most "moderate" Menites (a.k.a., those outside the Protectorate) are somewhat cool with the Morrowan church, which does acknowledge Menoth as the creator of man and sings his praises in their hymns alongside Morrow.

Thamar's worship, meanwhile, is highly decentralized.  Most followers treat her religion as a very secret and personal thing, since, though not technically illegal in and of itself, most people don't want it widely known that they're worshipping the god of ruthless do-anything-to-get-ahead.  Her followers are also notorious for getting up to things that ''are'' illegal in her worship, like necromancy and crime.

Basically Paragon and Renegade from [[Bioware|Mass Effect.]]