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Writings - The Mythology of the Zealan Deities

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animalistic features, such as Doloras and his torax head. Through time, however, the Zealans found it difficult and inconvenient to pay homage to so many gods and godesses,so they elected to combine the aspects into three.
        A confusing aspect of the Zealan gods serves to display the fickle nature of our ancestors' beliefs.

The Zealans believed that, while the deities ruled the emotions,they were also subject to them. The more Zealans who experience a particular feeling, the stronger that deity's power grew. Conversely, discarded emotions, however temporary, meant a weakened deity, forcing some to enter near-catatonic states