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 The Li Halan hold Icon sacred, for it is where they announced
their conversion to Orthodoxy. The planet was originally valued for its Ur ruins, but
those ruins have been scoured inch by inch since, and there are few mysteries left.The Li Halan consider Icon to be a bulwark against the dangerous ideas coming out of Manitou, and they often pester the Inquisitorial Synod with requests for cleansings (with the result that the synod rarely bothers with Icon, a fact which the residents are glad of). |
| Icon was founded by a splinter sect of Urth Orthodox, who settled in the northern part of Ithica. Other religious groups soon followed, including New Style Muslims and the Brethren of the Stars (Xianists), who settled in the region of Famater (originally Fatima). Although the people of these sects converted to the Prophet's message, vestiges of the earlier religions remain and have inter mixed with the rites of the Universal Church.The southern region of Urtata holds a large popula tion of later arrivals. Small farms and huge Li Halan es'= tates dot Urtata. Many Or ruins were found here. Thepopulation of the southern continent is conservatively Orthodox and looks askance at the strange ways of them cousins in the northern hemisphere. Surprisingly, many of the best artisans of the Li Halan worlds are found on the planet, and Urtata dancing and poetry have been mimicked on many worlds. The conversion of the Li Halan took place in the Twerrid Mountains on Famater, a place feared by the local inhabitants. | |