A nation within the Closed Land.
Emerged shortly after the Great Cataclysm, a surge of magical energy across Astrodia that corrupted and nearly destroyed everything in its path, about 150 years ago. (A Pentamarone priest guessed in Session 12 that the church was founded “about a century or a bit more ago.”) The Nation is a theocracy, headed by the leader Maximus who calls the denizens to worship a new God (God of Dogmatika), not found in the Solemn Pantheon. While they do not force conversions or proselytize, they parade their Saints, adorned with the holy marking, Stigmatas, that allow them to perform miracles, convincing much of the central Closed Land to join willingly. The church has recently anointed its newest Saint, said to be the most perfect one yet.
Session 12 — The Priest of Venus’s Account (September 23, 2026)
Red asked the priest at the Temple of Venus in Pentamarone about people he saw back home carrying banners showing no Agent he recognized. The priest identified them as the Church of Dogmatika in the Closed Land:
- They claim a new pantheon and deity separate from the Solemn, reject the Solemn Pantheon, and say they have saints who perform miracles.
- They have grown exponentially over the last couple of decades.
- His guess is that they were founded about a century or a bit more ago — which “might coincide” with the Great Cataclysm. “In times of great peril, people are always looking for hope.”
Party theory (speculation, not established): having just learned that the Great Cataclysm was caused by a portal to another world through which otherworldly magic and beings came, someone whispered to the party afterward — what if Dogmatika’s new god and saints came through the rift too?
See also God of Dogmatika.