Pantheon of the ten

Setting: World: Heldomr
Nation: Celistmore Type: Empire 10 islands and a sky fortress

Land size: Main island size of the US. The 9 islands range from Hawaii, japan to cuba while the 10 is the size of Haiti and is 409th squad HQ island. The fortress is in the sky close to the capital city and works as the military HQ. Two largest islands are major cities dedicated to the Sun God and his sister Night Goddess.

Night: Nótt

Sun: Betelgeuse

Love: Ai

Vanity: Narcissus

Honor: Honos

Charity: Altui

Knowledge: Lumos
Creation: Tér

Family: Storge

Nature: Phyra

Time: 2894

History: The Gods created the world in their image to understand the ideas even they could not understand. The lands the god made were meant to be similar to their own realm but have its own uniqueness and the people were made to resemble the gods and worship them. As a reward the humans born would have a sign of one of the 10 gods to the most devoted and their offspring and were called the holders while those who never were blessed were simple the lowest and smallest class of life called the forgiven. The thing is only women can be able to have the Night Goddess symbol and Males can have the Sun God's symbol...but there are cases where that has not always been the case.  Each one blessed with the first symbol formed their own nation each dedicated to one of the ten. These nations varied in size and power with the ones of the sun and night being the largest and strongest.  However the rulers decide to not allow holders to marry those with no symbols or those of other symbols. While this interested the gods it made them wonder why the humans did that.

These nations lived in rough peace till the ruler of the sun and night who were once lifelong friends became foes and engulf the lands into a almost eternal war. This war split the smaller nations to ally with either night or sun to overtake the others and remove their gods from the world. How this happened was lost in time but the gods were interested in the human need for war and let them rage and kill for the gods sake of knowledge though they were not happy at the loss of life. After years something happened that changed the world. As it happened one warrior of the Sun betrayed his nation and went rogue to amass an army of his own with people from all the nations while under the gods watch. This is what the gods had wanted and blessed this man with the means to end the war and unite the lands. This man did such that and all the nations bowed to him and he was declared The Uniter of the Symbols.

In this new society created by the first emperor, children at the age of 10 must be sent to the Military academy and be tested to find what god they fall under. This was done so that the citizens can work to be honest and respect their god and find who they are under that god. Marriage with others is encourage from when the first emperor saw that it helps unite the symbols and remove the old rules forbidding inter-symbol marriage. While anyone can join the Military those of the Sun or Night are drafted into the military to master combat and magic to defend the nation under the empire. The empire spent its life working to fix the issues the war created and unite the people as the gods wanted.  The greatest achievement of the first emperor and the imperial family is the grand Cathedral of the Ten Gods.  The Cathedral is dedicated to all the gods and what the people believe they look like which the gods made sure that the statues did resemble them.

Today the modern empire lives  in times of peace now and the military while still strong acts as police and take out terrorist cells. While no major threats or actions have occurred since the Nofute event in 2699 the empire however is always ready for anything that can harm the peace even under the young new emperor of the nation. This is what leads the military to thrive to its goal of world peace and the safety of the young ruler, for the gods the empire and each other.