Adventism

Road to Paradise
Though Adventism is arguably a recently developed religion, the roots of it's philosophy reach as far back as the ancient Vessonian Republic and the medical-industrial complex simply known as the "Nan-tech Corporation". What little we know about Nan-tech has been retrieved from old, tattered records and half-burnt military reports - we know that Nan-tech experimented heavily in genetic modification, mapping the Human Genome (the Meridian Strand) and the Titan Genome (the Oblivion Strand).

Few records survive of the initial experiments, but the genetic augmentations produced from the pairing are generally considered to have been total failures, resulting in creatures that often lacked self-preservation and basic motor skills. The creatures rarely lived longer than seventy-two hours.

The Messiah
According to legend, however, the Nan-tech experiments did eventually result in a successful pairing - when the Meridian Strand and the Oblivion Strand were mixed with an infected human Sanguine Strand (named according to the infection name, the "Sanguine" or "Vampire" virus), the Rhot were born.

Though little evidence exists to support this claim, it is known that initial records of the first Rhot attacks coincide loosely with the suicide of Gábriel Éliás, the supposed inventor. Adventists hold true to this legend, considering the Rhot to be the next stage in evolution (as they are joined from the god-like Titan, the short-lived Man, and the eternal Vampire) and Gábriel Éliás to be the Messiah.

Belief System
The Adventists have a code of tenants that they refer to as "The First", following their mythical ancestry as the first words spoken to the Rhot by Éliás.

- The age of man is over; and man must make way for his evolutionary betters

- To consume is to live, to weaken is to die; strength is the only thing that is important

- There is only The Family - that being, those who spawned the Rhot, the Rhot, and those the Rhot allow to live. All other governments and people are illegitimate.