Viktorism

Viktorism, occasionally Vistari Vanarism or Noorvistan Asatru is a branch of Asatru and one of the major branches of Gothiric Asatru. Despite Gothiric Asatru's traditional prominence of Novaris, Viktorism is most prominent amongst the Vistari-speaking world, being the primary religion of Maanbriak and Vorpest with considerable minorities in Noorvista and Wessæria. The branch also has a considerable number of smaller footholds around the world, both from Vistari Colonialism and cultural exchange with Noorvistan merchants. It follows the theological work of Viktor van Staathorpe, who was elected High Gothir of the Noorvic people and Vorpest in 1776 by a group of dissenting Gothir who had rejected the notion of a faith led by Tretrid, during a time in which the Asatruer Wars of Religion were being waged between the Gustafistic and Gothiric Churches. Viktorism, while not exceptionally divergent from mainline Asatru doctrine, embraced and emphasized a number of local and fringe supernatural beliefs and canonized them, opposing the more absolute prescriptivist doctrine often associated with organized religion. From this, they developed a link with the Vanarists, a group of Asatruers which tend towards a preference to the Vanir than the Æsir gods and godesses in prayer, with some calling into question Odin's role as head god above the Vanir, synchronous with the tendency of historically Viktorist regions heavily worshipping the Vanir god Njörðr.

While these divergences and more open theology are the most divergent areas of the branch, it is still most often recognized for its leadership structure, which centres around a small council of Gothir referred to as the Conclave, who are accepted as the authority for settling religious disputes within the Church. Made up of representatives of eight Churches (Six in mainland Vistaraland, as well as the Vorpestian Church of Asatru and the Vanarial Church of Maankijkeland and Briaklandr.