The pantheon is said to have emerged when the first war in the world cast seven shadows at once across the same battlefield, and each shadow learned to speak. In the oldest myths, the gods never ascended from mortal heroes; they arrived from the far side of the horizon, already armed and already arguing.

The cosmos is imagined as a ring of seven far-flung battlefields circling a cold, unreachable throne of silence. Each god rules a remote dominion above a different kind of war: defense, conquest, mercy, attrition, endurance, aftermath, and ruin. Mortals can pray upward, but the gods seldom descend; they send omens like falling spears, ash, and muted trumpets across vast distances.

The religion is organized as a loose martial synod rather than a single church. Each deity has its own cult, war-rites, and sworn specialists, but all recognize the Hollow Bannermoot as neutral sacred ground. Priests often serve as officers, scribes, healers, or heralds, and temples double as armories, tombs, muster halls, or truce houses. Theology is practical and distant: the gods are not intimate parents but far commanders whose signs arrive through weather, smoke, bells, footprints, and the accounting of the dead.

Mortals approach the pantheon as patrons of distinct and often incompatible forms of warfare. Soldiers appeal to Aural Venn or Orrun Bell for survival and discipline, conquerors and raiders invoke Sereth of Ash or Veyl of the Red Step, healers and diplomats pray to Miraya Thorne, memorial cults honor Nym of the Hollow Helm, and irregular fighters call on Irix the Ash-Swift. Worship is common among armies, but no single church has ever unified the seven cults for long.

The faithful believe the fallen march into the Hollow Bannermoot, a distant gray plain beyond the stars where each soul is sorted by the oaths it kept in war. The brave are stationed as pale sentinels along endless horizons; the oathbreakers are driven into the smoke-wastes to labor beneath the gaze of the war gods until their names are worn thin and forgotten.