Talk:Sateriasis Venomania/@comment-5383053-20121221004253/@comment-350940-20121222055259

It's a religion in the story that's been explained a bit, but one critical explanation hasn't been translated yet; Clarith talks about the different religions of Evillious when she joins the monastery during Wiegenlied of Green. I think it's also discussed in Praeludium of Red. For what it's worth, the profiles in Fanbook of Evil suggest that Levin branches off into different sects that focus on different deities: Levia, Eldoh, and Behemo.

Based on machine translations of Clarith's explanation (meaning not reliable until actual people translate it), it appears that Levin originally solely worshipped the twin dragons referred to as Leviabehemo, which are the twin gods that were supposed to be reborn as humans during the Original Sin arc. At some point, people split off into the Eldoh sect, and their numbers fluctuated between Eldoh and Levia in response to various events over the course of the series. During Story of Evil, Levia outnumbers Eldoh four to one, something further backed up with the Fanbook profiles and how most of the characters with listed religions are in the Levia sect while a few are believers of Eldoh. (And then there's Ney, the only one that's in the Behemo sect. I have no idea what this means for her or for Behemo.)

When characters talk about the Levin church, I'm not sure if it refers solely to the Levia sect or if it applies to all sects. It might depend on context. Again, I don't want to put a lot of trust in automatical translations.

At any rate, Gast blames the Levin church for his miserable life growing up since it was them who branded Venomania's descendants "Demons of Asmodean", which may be a major factor in why he doesn't have any religion listed in his Fanbook profile. I want to say Levin is also behind the discrimination of the Netsuma lineage, but I can't remember where it was said, so I'm not sure if it actually was said.

As for if any of the women were blamed for what happened, so far Gumina is confirmed to have faced this, as she was accused of being Venomania's accomplice (or something along those lines, I can't look at the original text right now) and then exiled from the country. It's not know if it was only her or if something similar happened to other women; I interpreted how she became an advocate for women's rights to be a sign that it wasn't just her, but that's only a guess.