Tohovokiism

Tohovokiism is one of the major religions in the world of Val, controlled by the Voice of Tohovok and offically spread through The Vallum Empire and their allies.

Beliefs
Tohovokiism's main beliefs that there is a single God who did not create the world; but rather came to Val to save it from it's sins, and sent the first emperor of the Vallum Empire; known as Tohovok. Tohovok's apparent rise to godhood only came after his death.

Since Tohovok followed Catholicism; his beliefs shaped the empire's policies of spreading it across the world; as such the Tohovok world has become homophobic and transphobic over the years, due to what the Voice has spoken. However; this doesn't mean it is all bad; as it is free from state control and is trying to help the poorer folks of the world; giving them a place to rest; free food and others.

History
The religion of Tohovok was roughly founded in 2 IC; fourty eight years before the reunification of the empire; it was however orginally known as Catholicism due to Tohovok wishing to bring his teachings to the world. His original version was not as extreme as it would eventually become as Tohovok wished for all men to be equal under his banner. When he died; his four sons split the empire into different regions which they would rule together. This experiment was ruined when the eldest son had the others killed; as he wrote the book and appointed his general as the first speaker of his father's word, spreading his twisted words.

The Tohovok religion was soon spread through the conquests of the empire, reaching the east by the first century TIC; and as more and more speakers were born and left, the words of Tohovok became more and more twisted; effectively making the caste system legal across several empire aligned countries.

A more converstional action was the removal of the pre-Tohovok temples from the capital of the empire and across all the major cities, citing that this is what Tohovok would have done if he hadn't died so early on. This began to happen around the 9th century TIC, this prompted a group who remained peaceful to leave the continent, eventually making their way to Yonne.