User blog:Telamore/History of the Order: arrival at Zipangu

a long time ago before the current demon lord,the world wasn't completly know but one place in particularly had caught the attention of the western world:the east.

The east for a long time was a misterious land for the people of the west, all that was know was that the east wast a land of weird monsters and extremely rich, and as to be expected many attempted to explore these lands but those who tried have perished attempting to find these lands by land because of the numerous dangers(if you go by the desert of Zaphali you will have to deal with the sandworms and the sandstorms,go by the mountains and you have to deal with the yetis,griffons and avalanches).

It seem impossible to find the misterious east until the pirate twins Ozmar and sigmar of Qualimar managed to achieve the lands of the mist continent and Zipangu and return with riches,spices,weapons and other exotic objects which lead to a resurgence to attemp to find these lands,and one man by the name of Solomon to create the Chief god cross carrier's,an organization with the objective of transmiting the word of the Chief god to all places of the world and they would arrive at these foreign lands by the sea.

Eventually  Solomon would succed in his objective albeit with a lot difficulties and obstacles and after estabilishing themselves at the mist continent they would go to Zipangu.Has you can expect this was a huge suprise for the zipanguese while they had meeting foreigners wasn't a new thing(mist continent),the order had a culture completly different from there neighbours and themselves and the Order wast just nas equally schocked.

For example: when it comes to religion, the Order acknowledges other gods besides  the chief god but it's proihibited to worship any mamono,and while the Zipangu religion says that the divine exists in everthing the Order dogma says that the divine is separated from our world.

But probably the biggest one being that mamono or yokai as there are called in Zipangu lived in harmony with humanity,which was something completely mind blowing for the rest of the world(allthough not as much to the habitants of the mist continent),to the entire world,Zipangu's mamono-human relation was like a paradox or giant anomaly in a world where humans and mamono are at each other's throats.

Solomon eventually would learn the Zipangu language and start spreading the faith in the Chief god and to motivate the zipanguese to join the faith he continualsy did numerous charitable actions building numerous hospitals introducing the zipanguese to western medicine,helping the poor,building orphanages,saving and helping the inhabatants,however Solomon would have to deal with a problem of faith in this case the newly converted zipanguese workshipped mamono while also workshipping the chief god,he couldn't say for them to stop workshipping mamono has many of them are considered to be representive of deities(for example:inaris and Inari-Ōkami) so he couldn't deny there divinity without breaking of the commandments of the Order faith("if there's another deities only the workship of those with good intentions for mankind") but he couldn't allow them to be workshippped since it violates one of the commandments("No monster is allowed to be workshipped"),so he decided to do a compremise and say that divine mamono are to be revered as beings akin to angels,some took it seriously others did not.

After doing his mission, Solomon with his tripulation returned home and welcomed with huge celebretion after telling the pope and everyone the news,from that day and onwards the path used by Solomon to achieve both the mist continent and Zipangu would be used by numerous merchants,missionaries and other's seeking these lands and Solomon would be turned into a saint of travelers,missionaries and pilgrims for his actions(and in Zipangu a shrine dedicated to him would be created with pilgrims,travelers and adventurers go praying there so there travells don't end in misfortune).

Now a days,both Zipangu and The Order are in good terms,especially thanks to the actions done by the Chief god cross carrier's,and the Order faith while still seen as exotic by the zipanguese still has it's followers.

written by scholar of the Order-Alexander Delley.