Gésh is a major religion of Etera. It originated 1540 years ago in Northern Wejít, and is currently most widespread among several states of Northern Wejít and along much of the coast of Eastern Nariyása.
Origin
Within a timeframe roughly between 1550 and 1570 years ago (Gésh Reckoning -10 to -25) - 9 people around the world experienced extended visions depicting the creation of the world and the forces responsible, and their expectations regarding their creation. Each attempted to spread the revelation, travelling around the world. It took a many years for the news to spread enough for them to find out each other. 1540 years from now (Gésh 0), the 9 prophets gather in a single city on the eastern coast of Northern Wejít.
They pieced together the puzzle of their visions, finding that the visions were linked to the locations, and that it was possible to grant others a glimpse of the visions. At this point they started taking not only followers, but also apprentices that were to become their replacements as the leaders of the rising religious movement.
Both the leaders and their apprentices went on regular pilgrimages among the 9 places where visions were first experienced. With new revelations, the religion was becoming more formal and structured. Even so, it took almost 200 more years until it became the accepted norm to write down the revelations and the retellings of revelations from the previous generations. This, combined with the fact that as time went by, visions were becoming shorter, and people capable of experiencing them fewer, meant that within another 100 years the revelations firmly stepped into the the territory of mythology. At this point, and until now, very few people experience glimpses of revelations, and those glimpses mostly repeat the old revelations in different words. As of now (Gésh Reckoning 1540), there is perhaps a thousand living Gésh who claim to have had visions during the pilgrimages.