The Evangelium despite its name is not a true religious text. It's more like a chronicle of legends and ancient history that's been composed over the centuries.
The world of P17; Eden is composed of species from mythology and pre history. What we know as Dinosaurs and other extinct species do exist in the P17 world in small amounts. There's T-rex though few in number as well as Spinosaurus, Mosasaurs, Giant ground sloths and more. I don't plan on them playing too much of a role in the story but they will pop up every now and then.
The era of P17 Sen No Fukai is the real world equivalent of around 1997 - 2007
The Pillar Gods are recorded and ranked by the Venator Society. They use a number of unbiased magical technology to do so.
Here's who you've met or heard of so far.
1. Pillar God Of Magic: Jinen Lutece
2. Pillar God Of Death: Randolph Sisyphus Freyr
3. ?
4. Pillar God Of Serpents: Orochi
5. ?
6. Pillar God Of Wisdom: Francisco Gutiérrez Ignis
7. ?
8. ?
Stolen novel; please report.
9. ?
10. Pillar God Of Dominance: Rika Hanajo
The Pillar Gods are not ranked by strength alone. Say for example that there's a real good architect who can build the greatest castles and fortresses which withstand weather and war while still remaining beautiful. He could be given the rank of Pillar God depending on the population at the time. It just happens that it's based on strength more often then not.
Here are the Real Word equivalent Nationality / Ethnicity of some characters.
Kanashi Sarumalder = A mutt of European, Arabic and Hispanic. I imagine him to be something like 60% Iberian, 15% Middle Eastern and 25% Central American Native
Jinen Lutece = Mostly French, he has some Japanese and others squeezed into him as well.
Hayai Ignis = 100% Japanese, he was adopted by El-Saber as a baby and took his last name
El-Saber (Francisco Gutiérrez Ignis) = Portuguese, I know his name is more Spaniard but... I just liked it okay.
Cao-Li = Han Chinese, BTW his name would be 曹俐 in Mandarin
Julius Phoenicia = Germanic (Mainly German but also some Norse)
Pompeii Sarnus = Greece
Tyran Eugier = Congolese
Randolph Sisyphus Freyr = Middle Germany
You might have noticed that in Chapter 15 I called [Deus Ex Machina] a multiplier of 20 while in chapter 23 I said it was 50... I went back and changed both to a medium of 25. I think that's a good number huh?
You might notice that I try to refer to P17 as Sen No Fukai when referring to the story. That's because I have 5 parts planned out, each one taking place in different time periods. I don't want to say something about P17 and then it not be true in another part. Though we wont be entering part two any time soon as were barley starting Kanashis story as of now.
Speaking of which I've split this part which I'll now refer to as part one from here on out into a sagas.
The Tragic Child Saga is the first 25 chapters of part one and the arcs are as follows.
>Sword and Sorcery
>Witch Hunt
>Julius Phoenicia
>Bloody Voyage
From chapter 26 onwards we're in the Edoland Liberation Saga. So far were in the first arc the Izumika incident. There's going to be five arcs in this saga and I imagine it to be twice as long as the first saga! The Izumika Incident is already almost as long as the Bloody Voyage arc so far and It's only 2/3 of the way done!