The Sun God's Church in Mordavia

The Mordavian Church (full name: Church of Our Most Beloved Sun God of the Princedom of Mordavia) is the dominant religious sect of the Mordavia princedom. Though a deeply conservative-to-the-point-of-atavism branch of the Sun religion, a protracted (and shockingly bloody) 50 odd years long campaign within the church’s clerical structure has caused some major shake ups within it.

A much more egalitarian branch (The Sun-Encompassing Humano-totalists) has emerged through public debates, agitation among the Peasantry and Nobility (the Bourgeoisie being considered a lost cause) and multiple semi-spontaneous short and brutal wars. They now nominally hold control of the church hierarchy, with most the higher level positions filled by once disregarded priestesses of the Sun God, and with female clergy becoming much more prominent in various parts of the princedom.

Their only problem, however, is Supreme Patriarch Slunceslav the XVth, current head of the Mordavian Church and a veritable ancient at the, frankly absurd, age of 133. While the internal laws of the church have been amended to put in an alternating genders clause for the top seat, Slunceslav continues to squat on the hopefully soon-to-be-Matriarchal Throne like a bearded cross between a vulture and a sloth. 

Over just the past year there have been over a dozen attempts to assassinate him or in some way remove him from his position, but he continues to hold onto it with the sort of dogged stubbornness that can only come with being that old.

As such, most of the lower ranks of the church appear simply happy to sit and wait, while muttering potentially heretical prayers to the Sun God to please, for fuck’s sake, take his most blessed servant into his embrace already, thank you good day.





Their prayers yet stay unheard.