The Beliefs

Rollo was not created and did not create the universe. He simply is. He existed before the present universe, remains while it endures, and remains after it is erased.

His sacred form is a perfect sphere of the deepest possible black, darker than the space between stars. He has two perfectly spherical eyes and a human-shaped mouth containing human-shaped teeth. He has no arms, no legs, and no other limbs.

He does not possess ordinary human passions such as anger, fear, lust, pleasure, or sorrow. What he does proceeds from his perfect nature rather than from feeling stirred within him.

He is normally the Watcher: he observes existence rather than controlling every event within it, and he remembers every universe that has existed.

Human beings possess genuine moral choice. Rollo may know what a person will choose, but his knowledge does not make the choice for them.

Foreknowledge is not compulsion. To know the road a traveller will take is not to place their feet upon it. The heart decides. Rollo knows.

For this reason no one may claim that corruption was inevitable for them, nor that goodness was impossible.

Hardship exists. Ordinary evil exists. These can stand within the balance of existence, as loss, pain, and failure stand within a life without unmaking it.

Daeus is not ordinary evil. His corruption is so extreme that it threatens the balance itself, because it does not merely harm what is good but turns it into its opposite.

The distinction matters in practice: suffering is to be endured and answered with goodness, while corruption is to be recognised and refused.

Witchcraft, within Rolloist theology, is sacred. Rollo gave the Gift of Witchcraft to Namaya, the First Witch and a member of the Host of Rollo, as a weapon against the corruption of Daeus.

It was never intended for greed, spectacle, domination, or the killing of human beings.

Namaya was herself corrupted by Daeus. She betrayed Rollo, freed Daeus from the Chasm, and was then killed by Daeus. Her story stands as a warning: no one should believe themselves wholly immune to corruption, least of all those entrusted with a gift.