Dominion Era/Tolvaar (Culture)/Secular Tolvaar

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There is very little, in terms of religious belief, to talk about with regard to the secular Tolvaar, for they do not believe themselves subject to neither gods nor spirits. Morality, for the secular Tolvaar, is not defined by gods nor by nature, but instead, by the accountability of one sapient creature to another. Furthermore, the secular Tolvaar believe in the value of evidence and are quick to demand it when confronted with extraordinary claims, which they summarily reject if evidence is not provided.

The story of the Lady Veýs is perhaps the one exception to secular Tolvaari scrutiny. Most secular Tolvaar accept the existence of the Lady Veýs as truth due to the preponderance of documented conversations between the Lady and other respected figures of Tolvaari history. However, during the Dominion Era, there was a small but slowly growing section of the secular Tolvaari population that approach the literature with a new hermeneutics, choosing instead to believe that the Lady Veýs was not a single person, but rather the conglomeration of a number of prominent women throughout Tolvaari history whose work eventually led to where the Tolvaar are now.