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After entering the temple of the gods, Leo was like an ordinary foreign tourist. In the temple of each god lineage, he walked in front of each shrine, looked at the statues in his eyes, and compared them. The relative information in the heart.

The first time Leo heard about the temples was in the study of the old man Rembrandt in Miria City. When the old man explained the history of Velen religion, he specifically mentioned the temples of the Kingdom of England.

In Rembrandt's view, the temples of the Kingdom of England are actually similar to the Holy Mountain of the Orthodox Church, but they are displayed in different ways.

The Orthodox Church has an extremely strong sense of awe for the gods, so they will not directly carve the statues of the gods, but use the seat of the god instead of the god and place it on the mountain of the seat of the god.

Influenced by the belief in the Sea God, the Kingdom of England is much less awed by other gods. In particular, the royal family of England regards themselves as descendants of the Sea God. They only respect other gods without fear, so they directly use statues to build them. pantheon.

Although the construction methods of the two are different, the old man Rembrandt believes that there is not much difference between the two in essence, both are to show the majesty of the gods in this era when the gods disappear.

However, compared to the Orthodox Church's Mount of God, Old Man Rembrandt admired the pantheon of the Kingdom of England more, because the Temple of the Pantheon of the Kingdom of England was the first time for mortals to organize the genealogy of the gods.

In the past, gods were only divided into true gods and evil gods. Those recognized by the Orthodox Church were true gods, and those not recognized were evil gods.

When Leo first came into contact with the gods in the world of Velen, like almost all the people in the world of Velen, he subconsciously believed that the true gods of the Orthodox Church were all good, and the evil gods were all bad.

But after such a long time of understanding the gods in the world of Velen, Leo discovered that things are not as simple as he thought at first. The true god is just a recognized identity certificate, which has nothing to do with good or bad. There are also evil ones among the true gods, such as The god of vengeance, such as the original desire, etc., and there are good ones among the evil gods, such as the true spirituality that most scholars will secretly believe in, etc.

Although there are a large number of true gods and evil gods recorded by the Orthodox Church, no matter whether they are true gods or evil gods, the Orthodox Church has never thought of arranging them according to information such as divine power, priesthood, or god name. In the future, even the evil gods are existences that mortals cannot directly look at, and mortals only need to maintain awe of them, and should not be arrogant and arrange them.

However, the Kingdom of England obviously didn't think so when they built the temple of the gods. They divided the gods into fifteen theogony systems according to the priesthood of the true gods, and then combined all the true gods recognized by the Orthodox Church according to the strength of the gods. It was stuffed into these fifteen genealogy of gods, and finally completed the pantheon of the gods that the world sees now.

In the eyes of scholars like Rembrandt, the theogonies of the temples compiled by the Kingdom of England are a bit too rough, with many mistakes and omissions, and there are too many 15 theogony systems. The priesthood system is enough, as for those remote priesthoods, the branch system can be used to solve them.

In addition, the British royal family’s subjective consciousness is too strong. In order to reflect the respect of Poseidon, they arranged Poseidon separately into a god system, and all the gods related to the sea, whether they are legendary gods or not recognized by the Orthodox Church The evil gods were all incorporated into this system, and they were called the incarnations of the sea gods.

The implication is that there is only one sea god in the ocean, and the other sea gods are different forms of the same god, deliberately elevating the sea god to the height of Velen's old gods like Lord of the Sky.

For this almost blasphemous act of the Kingdom of England, the reactions of various countries are different, some are angry, some protest, some approve, etc., but no matter what the reaction is, they cannot stop the construction of the temple of the gods.

After so many years, it doesn't matter how the countries felt about the temples. Even the countries that originally resisted the temples secretly began to write their own gods according to their mainstream beliefs. For ordinary people, the temples It's just a sight worth visiting. As for the believers, it's even weirder. On the contrary, they will be proud that the gods they believe in can enter the temples.

For Leo, the Temple of the Gods is a database that can help him further improve the information of the gods in the Velen world.

At that time, the royal family of England spared no effort to collect a large amount of information about the gods in order to build a perfect temple of gods. Although there is no clear statistics, the religious research community believes that the temple of the gods is the place with the most complete information about gods outside the Orthodox Church.

And because of some conceptual and legal reasons, the Orthodox Church will destroy some ancient gods that have disappeared, and only keep the existing true God information, and those folklore gods that have doubts are not even eligible to be recorded by the Orthodox Church. Therefore, the information of the Orthodox Church in this area is not as detailed as that of the Temple of the Gods.

Just like the unclean person that Leo sees now, this god is an ancient god, who was first considered to be the source of the plague epidemic after the war. He is a true god recorded by the Orthodox Church. The Orthodox Church destroyed all records.

However, the belief of the unclean did not disappear. Instead, it changed its direction and became a belief in folklore. The symbol of the plague on the battlefield has now become the guardian of toilets and toilets. This belief has not been accepted by the Orthodox Church. Admit it, so that the unclean person who was originally the true god has now become the evil god of the underground church.

Now all the information about this unclean person is engraved on the wall at the door of his shrine, but it is clear that the royal family of England does not care much about this toilet patron saint, and the information compiled has not been carefully reviewed. It is a mixture of formal and legendary materials, all of which are engraved on the wall.

Because it has not been carefully sorted out, there are many contradictions in the content, which will cause a lot of trouble to those readers, but for Leo, this kind of original data that has not been subjectively modified is more suitable for supplementing his database.

However, these written information are not the most useful to Leo. What are really useful to Leo's database are the reliefs and statues sculpted by the sculptors invited by the British royal family based on the written records.

Compared with the negligence of written materials, the English royal family attaches great importance to the statues. According to statistics, the British royal family used more than 700 sculptors during the period of building the temple, and 4,000 Many masons destroyed tens of thousands of statues just because they were dissatisfied, twice the total number of abandoned statues in other parts of the seminary, and these destroyed statues were used to fill the sea to form the largest statue in Velen. Man-made bays Twin Moon Bay and Twin Moon City.

The extravagant construction of the Durin Theological Seminary or the Temple of the Gods by the British royal family has made many people wonder where the almost astronomical construction funds come from. After all, the British royal family did not build the Durin Theological Seminary. In the heyday, it is reasonable to say that there should not be such a huge amount of funds.

And more people are wondering why the British royal family did this?

Because it is not difficult for anyone with a little bit of wisdom to think that if the royal family used the huge funds to build Durin Theological Seminary and the Temple of God to do other things, such as domestic political activities, recruiting more royal guards, etc., maybe the royal family would have already The rights have been regained, but the royal family did not do that. On the contrary, the builders looked extremely luxurious, but in fact, the seminary and the temples did not have much effect on the promotion of the royal family's status and rights. It really makes people wonder what the Inge royal family is. considerate.

However, no matter how many people think that the royal family's approach is stupid, but for ordinary people, the royal family's approach is very popular, because everyone knows that the royal family really used the funds for the construction of the seminary to regain power, so the conflict with Congress It will inevitably become increasingly fierce, and even lead to civil war. In that case, the power of the Kingdom of England in the sea will not be able to advance, and the status of the sea hegemony will not be maintained.

As for architects, sculptors and other artists, without the unlimited and huge investment of the British royal family, they would not be able to leave such perfect and so many fine arts, and the statues in the pantheon are definitely among the best. Boutique.

Whether it is the true god recognized by the Orthodox Church or the popular legendary gods, they all have a common feature, that is, they have more than one image, some of these images are normal, or human, or animal, or some anthropomorphic climate, such as Lady Ice.

Under normal circumstances, most churches will adopt an image that is most in line with the beliefs of believers. For example, the statue of the Lord of the Sky is a huge eagle, but this is not the case in the temples. There are not only the most well-known gods and gods here. , and there are also those words of the Avatar that appear only in church stories.

In addition to the statue of the main god in the shrine, there are also many legendary incarnation statues of this god on the walls around the shrine, which are no less exquisite than the statue of the main god, and some are even more exquisite and artistic.

After all, the main statues of other gods almost all have prototypes, and even if they are modified, they will not be changed much. On the contrary, other incarnation statues need to be imagined by the sculptor himself, so the carving effect will be better.

However, what Leo is interested in is these incarnation statues, because in these incarnation statues, Leo found many very familiar forms.

"Moyaka people, Digaga people..." After visiting a temple, Leo began to recall the familiar forms he saw before. Without exception, these familiar forms are all famous aliens in the universe Race.

Although some features of some gods are a little different from these alien races, it is only a little difference in characteristics, and most of the other features are exactly the same as these alien races. If only one is like this, it can be said to be Coincidentally, more than a dozen incarnations of gods are like this, which makes Leo have to have some associations.

It's just that Leo didn't immediately come to a conclusion, but set off for the second temple to continue his trip to the temples.

Although the fifteen temples are all the same size, the number of gods placed here is different. Some temples have a large number of gods. Like the first temple that Leo entered, there are more than 80 statues of gods. Others are very small in number, with only five or six statues of gods, such as the Black Forest gods.

The Black Forest pantheon is the only pantheon in the entire pantheon that divides the pantheon of gods not by priesthood but by region, except for the Poseidon lineage fabricated subjectively by the royal family.

In the temple belonging to the Black Forest, Leo did not see the statue of the golden giant deer. If he came to the world of Velen, he probably did not know that there was a golden giant deer. Otherwise, following the practice of the British royal family, he would definitely carve a statue of the golden giant deer. .

In addition, in this temple, Leo naturally also saw the statue of his old friend, the White Deer of the Black Forest. Interestingly, judging from the location, the White Deer of the Black Forest has become the main god of the Black Forest lineage. The forest gods are much larger, and even the statues are more exquisite. The priests are not made of stones from the original mountain, but stones transported from other places, and specially carved.

For the special treatment of the statue of the White Deer, Leo has only seen it on the statues of a few gods who are still active in the previous temples, such as the Lord of the Sky. Obviously, when the British royal family built this shrine, they had The extremely special emotion also made Leo think of the Valley of Flowers and the Blue Palace in Kaiwen Town.

Afterwards, after Leo saw the text on the White Deer Shrine, he discovered that the relationship between the White Deer and the royal family of England was extraordinary.

Back then, when the British royal family led their subjects to escape from the Faran Empire, they were intercepted by the Knights of the Faran Empire and forced to flee into the Black Forest. Attacked by some unknown creatures inside.

When they were about to encounter a catastrophe, they met the White Deer. The White Deer not only brought them to a safe shelter so that they could be fully refreshed, but also led them out of the Black Forest. Helping them avoid the pursuit of the French Empire, it can be said that if there is no White Hart, there will be no Kingdom of England.

Therefore, even though the current state religion of the Kingdom of England is the Church of Sea God, the belief in the White Deer in the Black Forest has not been cut off. There is always a garden temple belonging to the White Deer in the royal palace. The purest girl is selected as the priest of the temple, and the royal wedding will also be held in the White Deer Temple. In terms of intimacy, the White Deer is even higher than the Sea God.

However, the relationship between the royal family and the White Deer in the Black Forest was not intentionally publicized. Even if someone knew about it from the temples, they would just regard it as the royal family to brag about themselves, just like the royal family has always regarded itself as the descendant of the sea god and the patron. As for why the gods of the Black Forest are involved, in some people's opinion, it may have something to do with the kingdom's future counterattack on the Velen Continent. First, it has something to do with the Black Forest, which occupies most of the territory of the Velen Continent. title.