After walking down a corridor lined on both sides with enormous stained-glass windows, Christina and Dorothy arrived at the Prayer Hall of St. Sherman Church.
She noticed that the interior of the End Church's cathedral differed little from that of the Fool's Church. Or rather, every mainstream church followed the same basic layout of bell towers, buttresses, vaulted ceilings, and a vast, open prayer hall, as though they shared a common origin.
Of course, many details differed. Like the exterior of the bell tower, the walls and stone pillars inside St. Sherman Church's Prayer Hall were covered in obsidian patterns resembling dripping lava, though their surfaces were smooth and cold. The stained glass admitting sunlight formed almost circular celestial bodies with radiating lines, while the dome, illuminated by candle stands, was painted with meteors, lightning, tsunamis, and other symbols of calamity. Only the floor was warm in color, surrounding the rows of benches, the central aisle, and the altar at the very front, symbolizing the Goddess of Calamity's protection of her faithful.
On the wall behind the altar, an enormous sacred emblem of calamity was embedded in the black surface. A substantial circular border enclosed three symbols of catastrophe sketched with just a few strokes: a blade for man-made disaster, flames for natural calamity, and a vortex-like depiction of chaos.
Having met classmates of various faiths at school, Christina knew something of the End Church's teachings. She knew that the goddess named Calamity could actually protect believers from calamity, just as the Fool's Church did not turn people into fools.
Apart from those two, the mainstream faiths on the North Continent included the Church of the Eternal Darkness, which had developed from the Church of the Evernight Goddess's merger with the God of War Church and the faith of Death;