====== The Origin of Nonagentivism ======

According to both the Agentivist Neos and Wayfarers, Nonagentivists are a compromise between the Bright Way and shamanism. It's the Nonagentivists who claim there were pre-Theophany religious reforms that were hijacked by the Beholders, and Nonagentivism represents a reconstruction of those supposed reforms. These claims originate from a single disgruntled research monk upset that his interest in historical cynoidology was not being given due attention (He wasn't wrong there to be fair). He visited Newman's Dale and emerged with texts that supposedly proved the reform was well underway before the Theophany. To date no copies of his texts that can be dated to the period they claim to be from have been found. The earliest manuscripts date from the time of the Shakeoff. From a Claravian view, they appear to be snippets of the Book of Earth padded with then-fashionable heterodox panpsychist ideas.

As stated above, there is a kernel of truth to the idea, as there are texts to the effect of "My shire parties with our ancestors every solstice while those weirdos up the river are scared their ancestors will wither their steadtrees if they aren't appeased. What's up with that?" But it's impossible to disentangle these reforms from the Theophany and the Beholders' rejection of nature worship.

The Agentivists, meanwhile, reject these alleged reforms and seek to recreate animism and nature worship wholesale as it existed prior to the Theophany.

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