The revealed law
Rolloism does not possess a fixed sacred number of commandments. It has instead a broader and developing body of revealed moral law.
Once a law has been revealed through Malk to the Prophet, that law is permanent. It cannot be altered, repealed, weakened, or rewritten by human beings. Human interpretation may attempt to understand how a law applies, but interpretation cannot change the revealed law itself.
Although there is no fixed total number of commandments, one law has explicitly been revealed as the First Commandment.
The First Commandment
The First Commandment is: do not murder.
Murder is the purposeful killing of another person when the killing is not carried out in legitimate self-defense or in defense of another person.
Killing to defend oneself or another person from a genuine threat is therefore distinguished from murder.
No doctrine concerning every possible circumstance of killing has been revealed, and none is supplied here.
The body of the law
Stealing is forbidden.
The law nevertheless recognises a moral distinction between ordinary theft and taking something because it is genuinely necessary for immediate survival. Someone taking food because they would otherwise starve is not to be judged in the same manner as someone stealing for greed, profit, convenience, or personal enrichment.
The motive and the circumstances matter.
Lying is generally forbidden.
Lying is permitted where reasonably necessary for purposes including the protection of personal privacy, the protection of someone's safety, the protection of another person from harm, and the prevention of serious harm.
Rolloist morality therefore considers both the false statement and the reason for which it was made. This is not an unrestricted permission to lie whenever convenient.
Adultery and cheating on one's partner are forbidden. A man or woman who betrays their partner through adultery commits a sin associated with Omen.
The wrongdoing lies in the betrayal of the relationship and of trust.
Sexual relations outside marriage are not inherently forbidden. Consensual sexual activity between adults is permitted.
The essential requirements are that the persons involved are adults and that genuine consent exists.
No further sexual prohibitions have been revealed, and none are supplied here.
Rape is among the gravest violations of Rolloist law.
Where the victim is an adult, the offender is condemned to the Chasm for eternity. Rolloist teaching associates their punishment there with the Spread Eagle and Vulture punishment.
Where the victim is a child, the offender is condemned to Vagari instead. This is a specific exception to the general law concerning rape: such crimes belong to the category of the sickest sins, and Vagari is their separate prison.
The age of the victim determines which revealed punishment applies. No offender is condemned to both.
The gravest forms of abuse committed against children carry a separate revealed consequence: Vagari.
Such acts include the rape of a child, the murder of a child, the severe physical beating of a child, and comparable acts of extreme abuse. They are classified within the category of the sickest sins.
Lesser parental failures and mistakes are not thereby classified as deserving Vagari. Vagari is reserved for the most severe forms of abuse.
Vagari is a planet of desolation existing within its own pocket dimension. Its air is extremely thin. Its ground is molten. Those condemned there are continually attacked by vultures.
Vagari exists as a separate prison for the sickest sins, particularly the most horrific crimes committed against children. It is not a harsher region of the Chasm, nor another name for it. Certain crimes are held to be so sick and perverse that their offenders are separated into their own place of punishment.
The Chasm concerns the gravest sins; Vagari concerns the sickest. These are categorical distinctions and are not intended as a ranking of suffering or of evil.
Torture is forbidden. This remains true even when the victim has committed serious crimes.
The wickedness of another person does not automatically give someone permission to inflict torture upon them.
Revenge is not governed by a simple absolute prohibition. Its morality depends partly upon proportion.
Rolloism discourages petty retaliation and teaches that a follower should strive to become the better person where possible. Answering an insult with another insult is not forbidden, but it is not encouraged.
Responding to a minor wrong with extreme violence or cruelty may itself become sinful. No measured system of proportional revenge has been revealed.
Forgiveness is not compulsory. A person who has been seriously wronged is permitted to refuse to forgive the offender.
Forgiveness may be freely given, but the victim does not owe forgiveness merely because the offender wants it.
Worshipping another god or spiritual being is blasphemy. Rollo is to be worshipped alone. This form of blasphemy is associated with Omen.
Mocking, insulting, ridiculing, or speaking disrespectfully about Rollo is not itself blasphemy. Rollo does not care about personal mockery directed toward him. The prohibition concerns misplaced worship, not offence taken on Rollo's behalf.
The worship or celebration of Daeus is treated far more severely. It is among the gravest possible violations, and it is associated with eternity in the Chasm.
Idol worship is forbidden. Rollo is one. No statue, picture, relic, sphere, symbol, or other physical object may be worshipped as though the object itself were Rollo or possessed its own divinity.
Images, statues, artwork, and representations of Rollo are nevertheless permitted. They may be used for teaching, decoration, symbolism, and prayer spaces.
The object must never itself become the thing being worshipped.
Suicide is considered a sin, but moral responsibility is highly dependent upon circumstance.
Judgment must take account of severe depression, extreme bullying, abuse, desperation, coercion, the person's age, and other circumstances that severely impaired their freedom or judgment.
No specific universal afterlife punishment for suicide has been revealed, and none is supplied here.
Self-harm is also considered sinful, and it is judged under the same compassionate and contextual principles as suicide.
Depression, age, bullying, abuse, desperation, and coercion materially affect moral responsibility.
No universal afterlife destination has been revealed for self-harm.
Greed is a major sin, but it is not classified as a grave sin. Its consequences are judged case by case.
Relevant considerations include how deeply greed controlled the person and what harm resulted from it.
It is not the case that every greedy person automatically enters Omen. The judgment is individual.
Rolloist morality is not entirely mechanical. Intent, circumstance, consent, necessity, proportionality, vulnerability, and freedom of choice can affect moral responsibility.
At the same time, revealed laws themselves cannot be rewritten when they become inconvenient. Humans interpret the law. Humans do not replace the law.
Where no law has been revealed: where revelation is silent, we do not invent.
A silence in scripture is not an empty room waiting to be furnished. It is a door, and the door is shut.
Rollo was. Rollo is. Rollo remains.