The Halionic Faith is a contemplative and aesthetic religious tradition that emerged from Alendrian myth but has since evolved into a distinct spiritual path in Skybride. Rooted in the poetic legacy of Halion the Bound, this faith reveres him not as a god that demands appeasement, but as a divine flame—an embodiment of quiet resilience, compassion, and mystery.
Halion is often described as the "Unknown Star," echoing the early Alendrian philosophers who spoke of unified divinity. His teachings are preserved in fragments of verse, oral tradition, and the symbolic rituals of his followers. He is not worshipped through conquest or law, but through acts of illumination: lighting candles in forgotten places, singing to the lost, and bearing burdens in silence.
The Halionic Faith is most prominent is the northern city state of Drachenburg, whose famed neutrality has allowed its religious communities to flourish undisturbed. Skybride holds scattered enclaves of Halionic adherents, often artists, mystics, and exiles drawn to the faith’s quiet beauty. Temples are rare, but shrines abound—marked by chains of beads, serving bowls, and verses etched into stone.
Though it shares roots with Alendrian cosmology, the Halionic Faith does not claim divine lineage or prophetic authority. Instead, it offers a path of inward and upward fire—a way of being that honors the bound, the forgotten, and the quietly brave.