Universal Cultism is the main religion, with separate cults for the worship of Fate, Chance, Luck, Time, Death, Nature, and Chaos. Of these, Fate and Time are the most popular (and some might say, 'middle-class') cults due to their more formal and structured ways of worshipping, as well as their more family-friendly services. It was the wilder and more scandalous Nature and Luck Temples that contributed to a popular shift to Zacharism, originally another cult around a semi-mythical figure called Zacharias Faustine, which encouraged more temperate behaviour - dovetailing with popular, secular calls for clamp downs on 'red light' districts, (so called because brothels would signal to clientele by putting red stained-glass lanterns in the windows), and other largely secular moralistic crusades that called for better working conditions, temperance (to improve the lot of working people and prevent public houses swallowing up wages, which could otherwise be put back into local economies on a wider scale), and education. Zacharism encouraged thinking in allegorical terms, moral purity and ostracism - then full persecution - of those with Cultist leanings, especially those with magick, power, or glamour.

Central to Zacharist teaching was that Donwights - fallen angels - were first of all dangerous and needed to be destroyed in order to release their souls back to the fabric of the universe, a kind action of release and freedom, and second (after the Donwight Hunts, which had resulted in many non-Donwights being murdered and hunted in a wave of mass hysteria) that they were in fact just stories, metaphors for releasing the pure soul of a cleansed believer into the fabric of reality, and should no longer be taken literally in their enlightened age.

By the tail-end of the Industrial Revolution, Zacharism had totally replaced Universal Cultism in most places except for rural communities who clung to their old ways, and some minority communites in urban areas.