How a GM interprets religion and divine aspects is completely up to them. Dardunah is a very religious place and many of the customs of the janah revolve around religion. Whether the Devah truly exist or not and whether they influence or directly interfere in the events of a GM's campaign is a matter of personal preference.

So when it comes to "truth" and religion, there is a lot of gray area.

The Daru Faith was started by a former Mahist monk who went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Mountains of Kthah to seek "enlightenment." Unhappy with the teachings of the various Mahist orders and with the spiritual guidance that they were providing the people, the monk sought a more direct connection with the Great Father and Mother. He was, in that respect, much like Dardunah's Martin Luther.

After spending a year in the mountains (many thought he had perished) he descended again with the Daru Scrolls in hand. He was a changed janah as well - some say he had seen the face of "God" (others said he had been driven mad by the Singing Winds of Kthah). He claimed that the "true" deity of Dardunah had revealed the secrets of Dardunah to him and the monk had written down the divine words of Dar, the creator god of Dardunah.

The Daru religion has no journey myth. It claims that Dardunah was created by Dar after defeating his terrible and demonic sister Hazarvahn. After slaying her, he created Dardunah partially out of her body. The other Devah are not gods but spirits and demons from the Outer Void who have insinuated themselves into Darduni culture in an effort to influence the janah.

The Mahist consider the Daru Faith to be heresy and blasphemy of the highest order and will not tolerate it within any realm they hold sway. The Daru Faith would have been stamped out, in fact, had not the mighty khan of the Hardazi embraced its teachings and made it the official religion of the fierce Hardazi people. It is very much a warrior's religion, full of personal tests of strength and endurance and militaristic observations. Dar, in his own way, is as cruel and demanding a god as Assur was in ancient Assyria. He demands blood sacrifices and demands his worshipers be the strongest, most cunning, most aggressive janah on Dardunah.

But is Dar real? Does he really exist? Did he really create the world out of his sister's corpse? Or are the Mahists right? Did the Great Father and Mother come to Dardunah with Their Children the Devah? Was Dardunah already there, its creator unknown?

All that is up to you.

-Aaron