THE CONCORD OF ST. TYLOS

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Agreed on this year of 1974 by the Academy of Hohkmat, and the Church of the Canon.

 

HIS HOLINESS CAIUS I, High Pontiff of the Church of the Canon, Archbishop of Visigia, Successor of the High Priesthood of the Church, Supreme Pontiff of the Church of True Faith, Keeper of the Canon, Missionary to Aeldin, High Servant to the Exalted's Testaments, Sovereign of the Apostolic City, Humble Servant of the Faithful and Vicar of GOD does decree the following…

BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF THE TRUE FAITH, blessings to you who the Lord has put to pasture, blessings to you who dwell in the sheepfold of the Lord of Hosts, the God of Horen, Owyn and Godfrey. 'LO! And see that we march still upon the enemies of our Lord. 'LO! And see: do we do battle with the servants of Iblees, the slaves of sin and vice, with diabolists and idolaters in all places, with this service offer an atonement for children of Horen, for all the Church, that we might be pleasing in the eyes of GOD, our Lord the Most Merciful. Verily, the Lord is merciful indeed, and all the seed of Man and Women has he called to Him, to the shelter of His sheepfold, to the embrace of His grace. Amen, it is the Lord who is chief among all shepherds. It is in this spirit, in the pursuit of this atonement, and in the love of God who has called us to be shepherds of men, that we go forth into this concord, that we go forth upon the Magi for the keeping of them. them. As the Scroll of Spirit says; 

 

"So I find that you seekest impossible knowledge not for the good of all men, not for mere wisdom, but in desire for power, and indeed, an insatiable desire, for none can overcome the Lord. For this is the great sin of envy, the sin of desire that cannot be attained, and the deepest blasphemy."

 

As the wisdom of the Prophets dictates to us, and as modern proofs abound, the Magi indeed are a people greatly tempted; by greed, by ego, by vanity upon vanity, and for this weakness does the Enemy prey upon them, and does Saul find way readily into their camp, to lay claim to the souls of men. Verily in these places where the Magi dwell, the servants of the Evil One dwell also with them, ever diligent in the conquest of the dignity of the soul. Defilers! As such, as it is for all peoples, the Magi is called also into the sheepfold of the Lord, away from all folly. As the Scroll of Spirit says; 

 

"Verily, brother, the Lord GOD is the Most Incomparable, and none can surpass Him, for He has no equal. And verily thou must find satisfaction in the service of thine own realm, the realm of all men. So to ye magicians I admonish: GOD is unknowable. He cannot be divded nor made again, and His mysteries are the holy mysteries, and no art is alike to His boundless ability."

 

By these words do we govern ourselves by restraint, that this people may heed the words of the wisdom of God, as spoken unto us by the Prophet Owyn. It is in the spirit of Owyn's mission that we take up the crook over the Magi, to set them apart from the predators of Iblis as the Lord our God rightly set us out to do. Let us pray that the crook shall suffice in the guidance of the Magi, that they need not know the justice of the blade, but go willingly themselves into the sheepfold undefiant, serving the realm of men; the Kingdom of God as has been commanded of them.

Thus, in the interest of purging the vile darkspawn menace which has infested all of our lands, the Academy of Hohkmat has agreed to the following requests of the Holy Mother Church:

 

I.) All clergy, holy ordermen, monastics, and other servants of the Holy Mother Church shall be permitted to conduct patrols throughout the lands of the Academy of Hohkmat.

• These shall include those men of the holy orders of the Church of the Canon, including but not limited to those of the Order of Saint Jude, the White Comet of Jorenus, The Order of the Midland Crusade and the inquisition of Reinmar as well as any and all authorized agents of the Holy See.

 

II.) Furthermore, the Academy of Hohkmat shall allow those agents appointed by the Holy Mother Church to conduct darkspawn testing within their lands.

• Agents of the Church shall be permitted by the Academy of Hohkmat to capture any individual suspected of being a darkspawn for trial or questioning.

• These agents shall be explicitly distinguished by their holding a warrant signed by His Holiness, a member of his Curia, or a Bishop of the Church of the Canon. This must be presented at the time of operations.

• The agents who bear such warrants and valid authorisation shall be rendered immune to the lesser diktat of Razad, which prohibits the bearing of Thanhic and Null-Arcana coated weaponry within the borders of the Academy.

• These agents will be mandated to procure a report of testing to any individual within the Academy, who has passed the vampiric blood test, once the report being procured, rendering the individual exempt from further testing for vampirism, though the right of the Church for testing for other ailments shall still be enshrined despite the letter.

 

III.) Holy Knights who are doing testing within the lands of Hohkmat shall abide by the Law, and thus must use sterilised, or disposable Aurum weaponry to complete their testing, the blades of which must be sterilised after each and every test with alcohol, frost vine or aqua vitae, and they are instructed to put the salt upon not the wound, but the blood which flows that the process may be completed humanely.

 

IV.) For so long as the Academy of Hohkmat adheres to this concord, the Holy Mother Church shall recognize this polity as being a self-governing autonomous zone with its own laws and freedoms.

• They shall be further guaranteed from the provocation of any conflict on our part, including from all forms of crusade and holy war and shall be offered respite from coercive and draconian proselytization. 

 

V.) This concord shall be reviewed and its renewal discussed upon the election of a new High Pontiff or a change in the highest echelon of leadership within the Academy of Hohkmat.

 

SO BOUND,

GRAND-MAGISTER, Sorcerer-King, Hierophant of the Mysteries, Master of the Ziggurat of Hohkmat

 

 

[Dj_McMuffin 113]

Isabella Fa'alua Fahrazad held the proclamation to her chest. It's pages were kissed by the ruby pendant of the Wolf hung about the haggard farfolk's neck . Five Decades; I suppose that will have to do, hm? The Sorceress turned the Crimson jewelry about to inspect its face. It felt like nothing at all, but when we were younger I was aching for the day... a weak, wrinkled smile graced Isabella's face, if even briefly, before dropping the pendant back to rest We'll have to celebrate another time, the clock is still ticking.