The Serpent's Poison | Subversion in the Church

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"Elves maintain their heathen faiths or choose to remain atheistic; they also desecrate GOD’s Virtue through their tendency to act in incomprehensibly lustful ways.

This decay in morality cannot be tolerated"

 

- The Owynist Rite, Section VI: Core Owynist Beliefs

 

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"And Vargentgotz calls forth three deceivers in the guise of messengers, with wings of cold fire."

 

- Scroll of Auspise, Line 9

 

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By now word of the Hohkmat's immolation has spread far and wide. A tragedy purported by the Justiciar of Justice so we are told. Once more, the powers that control the realm tell us what we should believe after they have destroyed laid waste to their enemies. 

 

Raguel condemns a City to a most gruesome death. Men, women, and children alike were all set ablaze indiscriminately. Never once did the Aengul care to spare the lives of the devout and innocents who looked to the Heavens for hope. First this so called "Aengul of Justice" inspires the ambitious Pontiff to declare Crusade against his fellow Canonist. Now he has ended generations of Canonists with the snap of his fingers. At what point do the good people begin to question these heinous acts.

 

The Scroll of Auspice has warned us of the coming of the Great Deceivers. "10. They are called Justice, Glory, and Reward.". What coincidence that the Aengul who ascended through acts of violence claims a title foretold to be that of a Great Deceiver. "37. Last, Justice treads the world upon a steed of soot, and he is uncovered, and goes forth to spill blood. 38. And the citadel gives way to the battlefield, and there is left no refuge, and men are slain. 39. So finally Iblees’ guise is uncovered..". Yet another curious line from the Scrolls which warn us that Justice the Deciever shall ride upon a steed of soot. Witnesses to the Hohkmat razing state that has the City bellowed with smoke, those who looked to the skies saw images of Raguel riding through atop the soot and smoke.

 

I can go on for days, citing the Scroll of Auspise, however I know in my heart that all good Canonists of the Realm know that I speak the truth. The time for words has passed. I can no longer stand idle as my beloved Church has been bastardized by an Adunian Pontiff, inspired by a Great Deceivers,  subverts our beautiful faith. Thus, I declare a separation! With this missive I prose the "The Three Thesis of the Ramielian Reformation".

 

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1. The Half-Elf Pontiff gripped with the Sin of Greed and Ambition must vacate his post at once. Faith should be open to all, yet the Pontiff has chosen to hide himself behind tall walls and opulent Keeps which prevent the Common folk from giving worship to God Almighty. His mind and been warped by the influence of the Great Deceiver, causing him to fraternize with apostate Elves and heathen Orcs. It is a most heinous sin that the Pontiff of all people commands legions of Elves and Orcs to slay his fellow Canonists in a wanton Crusade.

 

2. The Church must relinquish all worldly possessions and return to its humble origins. Access to areas of worship must be given to ALL humans of the realm. No longer must one kneel before a King and pledge their lives to a Noble to gain entry to a Church. Tithe shall no longer be forced upon the Commoners! Nae should one be guilted into giving their earnings, whether it be Mina or food, to the Church out of fear.

 

3. The Alliance with the Orcs and Elves between the Church must be recanted at once. The Owynist Rite has told us that these sub-human creatures can not be trusted! It is a mortal sin to allow their kind to lay siege upon Canonist cities. 

 

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ARCHBISHOP OF THE EASTCOAST DIOCESE,
Ramiel the Righteous, Speaker of the Faith

Edited September 21, 2024 by nevy40

[i.uomini 2552]

Chilevy of House Spearmanian approves this message!
A round of applause rings out from a tavern in the northeast.

"The followers of GOD, collected into this - the body of the Church... stand against the trickery of secret whispers; be it from flesh, or evil spirit."


"GOOD LORD ABOVE, SPARE THE SOULS OF YOUR CREATION FROM DISMAY AT THE COMING OF HEATHEN DIETIES! LET US RETURN TO THE SINGLE RIGHT AUTHORITY - GOD ALONE!"

[Nimbus_Strike 271]

 

A certain bronze-armored mercenary continued to sharpen their weapons in the Lotusgrad barracks...

[Boknice275 1588]

"The light of GOD is being shone upon this great deceit. Before I am called to the Seven Skies, I will oversee the downfall of this "Raguel" and the purification of the church from his influence. Praise GOD - deliverance is coming!" Philip yelled from the abandoned island he now lives in during his exile.

[i.uomini 2552]

3 minutes ago, Boknice275 said:

"The light of GOD is being shone upon this great deceit. Before I am called to the Seven Skies, I will oversee the downfall of this "Raguel" and the purification of the church from his influence. Praise GOD - deliverance is coming!" Philip yelled from the abandoned island he now lives in during his exile.

Chilevy of House Spearmanian Praises GOD through song and dance. for the deliverance is coming! - "BLESSED BE THE RIGHTLY GUIDED! Forgiveness to the 'clergy' who speak of faith but forward politics at every chance. SALVATION to those born under the oppression of empire, for they know no better, having never tasted native freedom."

[Enlightenment 2295]

Emilio heard the word of the great and holy Ramiel, and with that he went forth. He now saw a path towards absolution under the Creator’s divine gaze.

[BlauRps 545]

A man clad in armor black would receive the missive and read it aloud before looking to his mentor, The Enlightened Mind (@Digit_005), his blue eyes looking towards the wiseman "Shall we sally forth and make ourselves known to the Archbishop Ramiel, Teacher?" He asked in a curious but excited tone "I believe that GOD has heard our prayers to grant us allies in the Eastern Diocese."

[Zqppy 918]

Earoslav peers over the missive arching his brow at the words "Do they truly wish to attempt to subvert the will of the Holy Church? They protect pagans harboring darkspawn and now they cite Heresy!! Schismatics to the sword and then to the Void" The Prince grumbles counting his coins knowing these lot are not much to worry his mind

[Digit___ 1224]

36 minutes ago, BlauRps said:

A man clad in armor black would receive the missive and read it aloud before looking to his mentor, The Enlightened Mind (@Digit_005), his blue eyes looking towards the wiseman "Shall we sally forth and make ourselves known to the Archbishop Ramiel, Teacher?" He asked in a curious but excited tone "I believe that GOD has heard our prayers to grant us allies in the Eastern Diocese."

The Enlightened Mind nodded to his student. “Aye, we must make haste to meet with this new Archbishop. This Eastern Diocese has rid themselves of the scales that laid upon their eyes.” - “The GOD-EMPEROR blesses us with allies! The GOD-EMPEROR protects his children!” The wiseman said as he began to ride eastward.

[i.uomini 2552]

30 minutes ago, Zqppy said:

Earoslav peers over the missive arching his brow at the words "Do they truly wish to attempt to subvert the will of the Holy Church? They protect pagans harboring darkspawn and now they cite Heresy!! Schismatics to the sword and then to the Void" The Prince grumbles counting his coins knowing these lot are not much to worry his mind

 

Before Chilevy I could begin the composition of Canonist Doctrine alongside the Eastcoast Archbishop, he needed first to consider what divergences from truth were shown in the present policy of those aggressive schemers which many mistakenly refer to as 'the church'. After drawing together facts from both recent and distant history, he sent his work in the form of scroll to all the fellow lovers of GOD!

  

Spoiler

The HOLY WILL OF THE CHURCH be like...

 

 

[Werew0lf 24179]

St. Raguel, the Aengul of Justice, stares at the missive silently. 
 

He smiles.

 

He just remembered burning Hohkmat.

[framalam 837]

Forgive my penmanship as I rot in my cell.

 

To begin: You are schismatics. The Church is an establishment that values and seeks to challenge all opinions that came before it. After all, it is not the Church that imprisoned me for the crime of heresy, but the same kings you speak of. To this degree - liberation of the pilgrim - we agree. I have made two knights, Sers Aslan and Belisar, swear to the succor of the pilgrim in line with mine own tenets. This cause is true, and righteous, as all should have access to places of worship to the Lord.

 

However, the fashion in which you bring up these topics is inherently schismatic and Unholy. Refer to my own theses. I did not make, and proclaim that the kobold king (incorrectly) was redeemed. I said, and appealed to the Curia so they may judge if he was redeemed. Similar actions must be taken here. Speak to your local Cardinal - your real one; the loud voice of one makes more difference than you think. If you truly cared about the Mother Church and the worship that she stands for, you would not be splitting its faithful (though I would be surprised if any outside of a Flay few did heed your calls). You are the very Deceiver you claim our, yours and mine, St. Raguel to be.

 

Though, this is another matter I would like to speak on, as you provide a sort of false dichotomy in which whatever route taken, you are right. You are somehow simultaneously both devout Owynists, and I commend you for the quoting of Father Paco, hallowed be his rest, but also, believers in the Scroll of Auspice? When I was more flepirous than I am now, and when I instruct others in the faith, I unfortuately have to read the Scroll of Auspice provided to us by Siegmund. But, I am the outlier. Most Owynists, and this no doubt should include the High Priest, Lectors, Numenedain, and the like, do not even read the Scroll of Auspice. As a matter of fact, the Scroll of Auspice is not even PRESENT in the Cathedral of St-King Caius.

Yet, paradoxically, you quote it. Why, may I ask? For, if you quote the Scroll of Auspice, I would assume you have read it. And if you have read it, I would assume you know the end of times, and thus all the Deceivership you speak of, will only come after the deliverance and realisation of the Fourth Exalted. Yet you continue as if you have not read it - worrying.

 

My vocation is one of redemption. To redeem myself, and to redeem others. You perpetually refer to my macecatcher ilk in derogotary fashion, and to this I would ask of you, as I took time to read yours, to take the time to read my own thesis on my own race and where it should stand. For, yes, we are sinful, but not in our blood. That Sin was made once, by Harren, and forgiven. Harren’s unforgiven sin, the one the Adunian people must make penance for, was the rejection of his vocation. We are not half-Elves, we are Adunians. So too are the thousands of the Tribe of Harren that did not take Elven brides not half-Elves, but Adunians. You cannot conflate the common, but not guaranteed faults of the Malinite, with the faults of the Harrenite. They are wholly different.

 

To continue, the ‘apostate’ Elves that you claim his Holiness fraternises with are either heathens, or virtuous. There is no middle ground. The Nullivari have long been a Canonist family, and Prince Galahad is a Canonist prince, even if he is no prince of Canondom. Know this, that when the faith called the conflict in Vikela unrelated to the Church, that, without request or call for aide, did I sally south with nothing but my armor and fight so one more Canonist prince could hold land over a heretic. Why would I do this if he was an apostate? I have talked to the man at length on several occasions. Why would a Holy Knight of Canondom ever put his life on the line for an apostate? I have slain one of the most renowned apostates, Stone the Valeman, after tracking him over years, and you call Galahad and his Malinite tribe apostates with no basis for your claim? Not only is this in bad faith, but it is baseless - there is no theological backing to your claim of apostasy. To this degree, I believe you are merely misdirected in your definition of what apostasy is; an apostate is someone who has accepted, and then later rebuked his G-Dly faith. No Elf in Caurost has done this, hence my confusion. There are, though, many heathens among them. I raise Avagis af Ingeson, for one, for I know he holds some level of authority, and is a heathen. This I concede to you: heathens, not apostates.

 

You go on to call the Pontiff leading legions of Uruks and Malinites a ‘heinous Sin’. Tell me this, if he directed the legion of Uruks ONTO the legion of Malinites, would you call it a heinous Sin? You only cry sin for it is the weefolk ally of Silasia, which no doubt if not from any other Sutican-shill state this missive comes from, that is being attacked by the legions directed by his Holiness. Furthermore, why would THOUSANDS of Canonist men leave their homes, sell their belongings, and flock to join the host fighting alongside these legions if there was not proof of their capacity for Virtue? You allude to the collective ignorance and Sin of thousands, with no substantial reason why. Why are the Elves sinful, and flock to atheism? Why is the Uruk sinful, and heathenous? If you were theologically ordained and educated these are no doubt questions you could quickly answer. And yet you cannot. This, to me, is irrefutable proof of not only the misguided origin of this missive and schismatic organisation, but proof that you take so little effort in your perversion of the one true faith, that you do not even study it. Woe to the man who guzzles the Wine of Sacrament in greed.

 

Then, the issue of Raguel. This was the case in Whitespire, as it is the case in what is left of Hohkmat. Raguel’s flame is the same mercyflame that consumed Harren’s heart. It does not harm the Virtuous, and only condemns, lovingly, the sinner. This is why so few died in Whitespire, for it was the error of a noble few, rather than our common brethren many, that led Aaun astray. Hohkmat, furthermore, never held children within, to the best of my knowledge. They do not teach children, and Hohkmat was first and foremost an academy. If a child lived there, then they were surely simply misguided, and thus spared. On the other hand, there were very few, if any, pure of Virtue in the magocracy. I can name those potentially spared from the mercyflame in one hand. Women loving women, embracing of the Void, the sexualisation of kitchenware, and the dissection and desecration of corpses were all commonplace in this academy. So, while it is virtuous to condemn the fire that kills the Pure, for which I commend you, it is equally virtuous to cry in joy at the fire that kills the Impure; Raguel killed no pure at heart.

 

To your second demand of a return to humility, I would agree, to an extent. See, the opulence of cathedrals is not a testament to the effort and wealth of man, but instead yearns to appreciate the infinite splendor of the Lord. But, to those members of the Curia that live comfortably, I invite you to hermitage. I invite you to modesty. I can attest to the High Priest living modestly, as he has abandonned the villa that so many Pontiffs relaxed within, instead favoring humble quarters. Similarly, he eats modestly, in emulation of the diet of the Exalted. He eats cabbage, kosher bread, and mutton. Nothing more. Finally, he dresses modestly. Unlike his predecessors, the High Priest does not don the mitre, and I have yet to see him wear the laurel of Horen for anything but formal occasions. But he is the exception, and so to all high ranking clergymen, I implore you to live the same as he - modestly. Refuse the gifts of wealth to live as the men of your diocese do.

 

No tithes are ever demanded. This is all.

 

Finally, the Krugger and Man are closer than they have been since martyrs roamed the deserts preaching to them. There are Uruks who are holy knights of Canondom. There are Ologs, even, who have walked the Path of Owyn. And, finally, for I feel I must point this out, but the Oni of the very Lectorate that warned against trusting uruks and elves, were, themselves uruks and elves. This is not to say the Lectorate is hypocritical, but rather that they warn against trusting the heathen Uruk, and the sinner Malinite. Raug Ruthron, and Ser Madoc, are/were two virtuous sons of Krug, just as the Father Nerium, and the Prince Galahad are two virtuous sons of Malin. Through faith, we trust these tribes.

 

Lastly, of course, we do not lay siege to the keeps of good Canonists. The Army of the Exalted only lays siege to the keeps of Canonists who would raise their sword on an army of G-D to defend a G-Dless, oathbreaking, filthy, lust-ridden shireman.

 

In conclusion, the plural of thesis is THESES, and not THESIS, and I, as all good Canonists should, rebuke your first and third theses. Well written, albeit riddled with hypocrisy, andsofar your impostor organsation is unconvincingly unschismatic.

The second thesis is commendable.

 

LUCIEN

PS: PICK A STRUGGLE. YOU CANNOT BE BOTH A SELF DOUBTING SIGISMUNDITE AND A FLAY. GOD IS TOO MERCIFUL TO MAKE SUCH A MAN.

 

Edited September 22, 2024 by framalam

[Hydration 26]

"The OWYNSSIAH spared but only the barbarians of mixed blood who splayed themselves at his feet in the time of the first crusade. The OWYNSSIAH to come will only be so merciful. The auspice does not guide, for the Black Prince has yet to arrive, and flood the world with the pure waters. 

 

There are serpents in the church, and we are coming for you lizardmen next"

 

Mechpriestess Gamma works to rewrite the scripts on the dragon obliterating cold steel doombot