#Dougie tries worldbuilding

[dougielombax]

Regarding my Star Wars OC Leon Vartanian.

I created him due to a lack of explicit queer rep in Star Wars.

That stuff is largely kept to the side in novels and comics.

Which bugs me.

Same for neurodivergent rep. Hence why he’s autistic like me.

He’s not exactly a self-insert though. Only partially.

As for his religion, I don’t have a name for it.

But it’s commonly referred to as the Cathar Order of the Great Light.

It’s an ancient Force religion which predates the Jedi by hundreds of thousands of years.

It was already ancient history before the first Jedi temples were built and before the earliest proto-Jedi sects such as the Je’Daii had formed.

Only Cathar can adhere to it and you can’t convert. One must be born into it (some real religions are like this such as the Druze or the Mandaeans). Hence why all it’s adherents are only Cathar or humans adopted by Cathar.

This stems from a long history of persecution from outside enemies such as the Rakatans (who the Cathar believe to be monstrous savages), the Sith, Zygerrians, the Mandalorians, and many others.

Their religion in question has a great deal of emphasis on knowledge, education, self improvement, environmentalism, selflessness, bravery, justice, collectivism, and altruism.

It also places a great deal of emphasis on ritual baptisms, prayer, and scrutiny and analysis of its own holy texts.

Their religion regards the Jedi as being well meaning, but also single-minded and dogmatically possessed, while it views the Sith as an abomination.

Many key figures in the Cathar religion also show up in some Jedi texts.

The Jedi name is even derived from the Old Cathar (Kedhari) term “Zhi-deikh”.

It had a HUGE influence on the Jedi religion but many Jedi are completely oblivious to this fact. The Jedi emphasis on justice is noticeably similar to that of the Cathar Order.

And many passages from the Jedi texts are said to have been taken directly from Cathar holy books and apocryphal texts.

Unlike the Jedi, adherents of the Cathar religion are allowed to marry and start families.

Cathar religious doctrine encourages adoption and rescue of orphans, particularly in turbulent times in turn with this allowance for starting families.

Hence why Cathar people believe in having two families. Your birth family and your found family.

I’ll add more to this where I can