The Vine Rots

[Burnsider 4543]

[!]Nailed to the doors of basilicas in Providence and Karosgrad, a letter, worn and dirty, written in a tired hand, can be found.

 

Hail now, Tylos I @rep2k , Vicar of the Almighty GOD! Lo, now comes Joaquin of Osanora, The Voice in the Wilderness, to counsel you once again as you bade me within your family's chapel. For a deep rot infests the Holy Mother Church, the vine from which GOD delivers his message of forgiveness and ablution. If that vine rots, if righteousness has fled the church, then who remains to share His word?

 

Lo, the Voice in the Wilderness doth send you warning of the Archbishop of Henrikev, Ivarus Archbishop Henrikev @sashimichopped , who did give blessing upon and call righteous the murder of a untried woman by the King of Haense by burning. Woe, the man is possessed by some daemonic creature, seeing witchcraft wherever he goes, seeking to snuff out the innocent and the penitent in false righteousness.

 

Lo, the Voice in the Wilderness doth send you warning of the Ecclesiastical Auditor of the Church of the Canon, Monsignor Johan Vuiller @Harald , who did cheer and praise the killing of a man in Providence who was denied his final ablution. He did come upon this servant of GOD in the Basilica of the Ascent and threatened violence upon this servant with his deadly trident, then threatened to ban this servant from the church. Woe, the man is a servant of Iblees, who does betray the soul of his father at every turn, wielding wrath in his hand. This servant will venture soon, into the lion's den, with the witnesses of the massacre of Elysium to meet this man. May GOD protect his servant from this wrath.

 

Lo, the Voice in the Wilderness doth send you warning of the Metropolitan of Providentia, Gawain Cardinal Providentia @JoanOfArc, who did usurp the powers of the High Pontiff and proclaim the Will of GOD through the declaration of the Venerated. For being Venerated is not a simple matter of the devotion of the pious, but a declaration of certainty that these men reside within the Seven Skies. The knowledge of those who have entered the Skies is given only to the Vicar of the Almighty GOD, and no other. Woe, the man seeks the position denied him, believing that the College of Cardinals does not interpret the Will of GOD in the election of the Pontiff, but he will take the position for himself. Pride is his name, and it goeth before a fall.

[JoanOfArc 4586]

Cardinal Gawain admired the bravely of a layman condemning a member of the clergy as a rotten vine. Though, in truth, he considered himself more of a burning bush. Even so, he only read the part pertaining to him and did not even take the time to read the other passages. He was self-absorbed and all.

[Harald 2536]

would shake his head as he read over the missive “This Joaquin.. he seems to never see that there are always two sides to every story, a man coming into the cathedral shouting the name of Iblees and all his demons.. and now he still keeps on saying I made threats to him for already holding my trident to aid my leg when he entered the cathedral...” he’d simply state to his brothers in clergy, the man seeming tired as he shook his head once more before entering the cathedral to bow in prayer.

[Valannor 6349]

Forsooth, then, did some loathsome hund come to regard these divine tidings, delivered unto GOD's chosen by a man of virtue most true. With terrible grin stretched across a wolven maw did that garish beast thus resound, its voice trembling with delight in its terrible rancor 'twixt the din and ken of mortal men. 

 

"And verily you are commended for your virtue in defense of man, for indeed your own king kept me from death. But while you preserve the kingdom of man, the kingdom of GOD languishes. The Lord is the Lord GOD without peer, but you have failed in your defense of his word..." It proselytized thusly, its voice emergent from every darkened confine within that crypt of the bedamned in truest fashion - a recitation of a particular epistle...

 

"Let us see if the Voice may become more than but merest whisper, upon this endless night's plutonian shore..." 

[Franczhiz 4084]

Sighs as he reads the missive as he stated to his Brothers of thw Church in the Archdiocese of Henrikev "Is it not logical if something is being asked by the King that one obeys his orders? And besides; the lady was in a trial before being sentenced to death and she was declared guilty, but somehow the Daemonic creature got into His Majesty which may have caused him to sentence her to death. Yet the spreading of rumors of loyal clergymen, my beloved Brothers of the Church, who are doing everything in their power to protect the believers of Canon, is a very sad thing to do. May God help you for you are a very confused man. Heathens can be spared, on condition that they will believe in the one true God. But if there is danger being caused against our faith, action must be taken. And besides, for this man who calls himself "Voice In The Wilderness".. It almost sounds like he thinks that he is "sent by God" and that he is speaking the voice of the Almighty God. The hypocrisy very much present."

 

He would sign the Lorraine upon himself, concluding his statement with a prayer for the one writing this. "Deus misereatur super vos, pro vobis confunduntur ac propagationem summa vi rumoresque in clericis, qui sunt habere bonum ab his credentibus Canonist, Amen."

Edited May 20, 2021 by sashimichopped