religion-ish, not (very) serious
i've been swearing by the sanctioned nine so much lately if i'm not careful i might qualify as a follower of them. which is awkward for a number of reasons, most pertinently the fact that they're From a Video Game. and not only that, they're from an obscure enough game most people will probably think i'm referring to an Entirely Different Video Game Pantheon when i mention them
religion-ish, clarifying
the sanctioned nine (abjah, anglecrab, cobblestone, graveddon, morbazar, nahash, scorthidion, wyl o' pan, and one we don't name so casually) are a pantheon in the game a house of many doors. since the short way of referring to them is just "the nine", they're easily confused with literally any other grouping of nine important figures
overall i'd say i'm rather fond of this pantheon. the whole "none of these are remotely human" thing is pretty endearing imo