Editing Spolitism for Bogmoth (section)

==Spolitism Through History==
===Dawn===
At the Dawn, Spolitism did not fully exist, as Lendarsh had achieved hegemony throughout Pelanda during the Gray Age, partly by reestablising the Jernotian High Gods.

Contrary to popular belief, Spolitism did not develop in response to Nysalor.  Rather, Spolitism's practices of propitiation and human sacrifice were rediscovered when the Aldryami reforested Pelanda.  By propitiating resurgent nature, Northern communities were able to survive while surrounded by Elven forests.

Spolitism became useful against Nysalor, as its darkness magic was both powerful and not easily assimilated by Nysalor's Bright Empire.  Spol and its Elven allies resisted both Dara Happa and Nysalor for generations.  In part, this was due to powerful magics that enshrouded Pelanda is Shadow, weakening the magics of Light and Sky and Fire.  The Aldryami continued an alliance of sorts with the Empire of Gloom, and they were reveared, especially in the Gardens of Karresh.

===Spolite Empire Era===
When the Bright Empire collapsed, Spolitism grew in both power and sophistication as it developed contact with the new Uz kingdom of the Yolp Mountains created by Arkat.  Spolitism before this was a religion focused on Darkness and the Underworld without a strong connection to the Uz.

The new version of Spolitism sought to quicken cosmic reunion, DerMaElsor, which it understood as the Underworld absorbing the material world.  Gradually, a religion based on negotiating with the Dark became ruled by agents seeking to promote Darkness.  The Uz never truly united with the Spolites, but encouraged Spol's war against the Sun in the name of the Underworld.

===Carmanian Empire Era===
The second half of the Imperial Age is marked by the fall of the Spolite Empire at the hands of the Carmanians.  This was a more dramatic political upheaval than a social upheaval, since Carmanianism accepted that in the end Ganesaturus was redeemed by Idovanus.  "Old Spolites" survives in the mountains and near the bogs, however, where they told very different myths about Idovanus and GanEstoro, and where they still practices human sacrifice to appease many things that did not wish humanity well.  At the same time, the Carmanians feared a resurgence of the Spolites, and depleted Spol of any resources that could be used against the Shahs.

===The Third Age===
In the Third Age, Spolitism has experienced complex transformations.  The Lunar religion has borrowed heavily from Spolitism, claiming Gerra and Natha as their own.  There is therefore a spectrum of Spolitism.  On the one end, there is a sophisticated, urban, and fully Lunarized version.  This is the version that rebuilt Dezarpovo.  On the other end, there is a rural, illiterate, traditionalist form that relies on oral tradition, In its extreme forms, this version of Spolitism rejects that Gerra and Natha are manifestations of Sedenya, deny Gerra is a moon at all, and see the Lunars as just another group of people who worship something in the sky in pursuit of the delusion to create a world without suffering.