Euros

To be ugly is a sin. Ugliness must be hidden and beauty must be shown and preserved. The most beautiful of the gods is the one who watches over those who wish to create. Life is finite and empty, but art gives purpose, makes it a breath of inspiration from a soul eternal, echoing through ages in form of paintings, music, poems, tales and sculptures. Euros takes pity in struggling artists, admiring the quest for perfection. For the followers of Euros, the deeds of small men like kings are nothing but pebbles in history, bound to be forgotten, while art paves the road to divinity and ascendance.

A devotee of Euros who is ugly will hide their hideous form, and live their life in a desperate attempt to create beauty, as to compensate for the ugliness they brought into the world with their ugliness. Upon paying their deeds, Euros’ beautiful children will descend from the sky, granting a chance to be reborn, freed from their hideous shell.

This powerful faith not rarely induces men to challenge even the laws of mortality, in an attempt to preserve their own beauty, challenging death itself. In stark contrast, others embrace the beauty of life and its finity, rejecting the concept of immortality, seeing it as cheapening the idea of what is beautiful. This different, contradicting, sides of this adoration make the core of this faith.

Museums, art exhibitions, theaters, studios. Those are only a few of the places which can be inherently considered temples of Euros. Dedicated churches are not needed, as the god’s beauty already lives through every single piece of art produced, as long as it is filled with beauty, grace and dignity. Crude, purpose-oriented and ugly craftsman ship and art is not only shunned by the god, but also rejected.