Editing The Sovereign Host (section)

==Sects and [[Heresy|heresies]]==
Like all religions in Eberron, there are several different sects and heresies, though in the case of the Host, these are born mainly due to cultural differences, and due the preference for integrating the faiths and customs of other cultures and races to their own religion. It can be said that the entire faith is nothing but a collection of variant sects.

===Church of the Wyrm Ascendant===
The main sect of Stormreach, the Wyrm Ascendant doctrine claims after the dragons defeated the children of Khyber, Eberron and Siberys blessed the mightiest among them, who became the Sovereigns, and they watch over all mortal creatures. The members are greedy and obsessed with dragons, seeking anything related to them, and imitating them by building themselves a hoard. This also is a part of their teachings, in that if you get a big enough hoard you can buy your way to the realm of the Sovereigns and become a celestial dragon yourself.

===Disciples===
The disciples are those who devote themselves fully to one of the Sovereigns and largely ignore the others. They don't disdain the other deities for no reason, most simply feel that their lives fall largely under the purview of only one deity, like a career soldier worshipping only Dol Dorn, as life is nothing but fighting to survive for him, or a farmer who only worships Arawai, having never left his stead and knowing any other way to live.

===Faiths of Rushemé===
The [[giant]]s of Xen'drik worship a wide pantheon of spirits and gods, with the spirit of the land, Rushemé, as the main focus but others worship also other spirits and gods, like [[Vulkoor]], and among them are: [[Aureon|Ouralon the Lawbringer]], a god of law and magic who was devoured by his [[The Shadow|own shadow]], [[Arawai|Rowa of the Jungle Leaves]], a goddess of life and nature, prone to passions that drive her to a [[The Devourer|destructive rage manifesting as natural disasters]], [[Balinor|Banor the Bloody Spear]], a god of hunting and giants role in the natural world, who also becomes [[Dol Dorn|a war god]] when needed, and [[The Keeper|Karrak the Final Guardian]], a keeper of the dead who saves the worthy ones from disappearing into the whole of Rushemé, preserving them until needed again in Eberron. Followers of The Host quickly point out the similarities with their gods and the giant ones, and the giants point out that their traditions are at least several thousand years older than the human ones.

===Hierocrats===
The hierocrats differs from the above disciples in that where they consider belonging to one gods purview, the hierocrats  believe that one of them is simply superior to other deities. The Blades of Dol Dorn believe that civilization only grows by conquest and battle and preach the superiority of their patron, while Scions of the Forge are warforged who believe that Onatar was the creator god and the other gods his servants, who created the mortal races and, through his inspiration, they created the warforged.

===Lesser pantheons===
Worshippers of the lesser pantheons usually give praise to few sovereigns over others, like in Mror Holds where they worship mainly Dol Dorn, Kol Korran, and Onatar, but the most heretical ones combine the Sovereign Hosts deities with those of the Dark Six, as they claim the division between them was merely a mortal creation, contradicting the mainline teachings. The Three Faces of War, a secret society in Rekkenmark Academy, worships Dol Arrah, Dol Dorn, and The Mockery, recognizing them all as aspects of war. The Restful Watch ties their worship of Aureon to The Keeper, claiming that he seeks to preserve great souls for the future. Goblinoids in Rhukaan Draal worship Balinor, Dol Arrah, Dol Dorn, The Mockery, and The Shadow in equal measure. The Nine and Six and One embrace all of them, a concept that is generally associated with those on the far edges of the civilized world, though not-necessarily evil.

Some scholars claim ancients worshiped not strictly divided Host and Dark Six, but instead worshiped The Mockery, The Fury, Aureon, Boldrei, Dol Arrah, Dol Dorn, Kol Korran, Olladra and Onatar as deities of civilization, while also worshiping Arawai, Balinor, The Devourer, The Keeper, The Shadow, and The Traveler as primal deities of the wild.

===Proxy cults===
Some people believe that the deities are beyond mortal comprehension, or that they cannot properly honor them, so they form cults around Radiant Idols and dragons, worshipping them as mouthpieces of the gods.

===Sela's Path===
The sect of the [[Half-Elf|half-elven]] House Lyrandar. They tell that their founders, Lyran the Firstborn and Selavash, were chosen by the sovereigns Arawai and Kol Korran, having recieved a vision of them upon gaining their Marks of Storm, and they were the true children of Khorvaire, ruling over nature and commerce. They then travelled to the various half-elf settlements, preaching of their own visions and performing miracles. The cult worships Arawai and Kol Korran almost exclusively and claims that Lyran and Selavash act as their intermediaries to the half-elves.

===Talenta faith===
In Talenta Plains the [[halfling]]s worship various animal and ancestral spirits, with Balinor as their head.

===Voice of Aureon===
A sect within the half-elven House Medani. The priesthood consists of dragonmarked Medani, who are taught how to use their mark to peer into the past and the future. Mainly spend their time in contemplation and studying, when not working for their house.

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