On the Mourning Lords

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[!]This is a book in roleplay, and can be found somewhere in the game world. Those in the Black Sepulcher have access to it.

The Order of the Black Scribes

The Mourning Lords

A Commentary on the Purpose of the Transcended Mortal by Felix Wick as detailed within the Black Doctrines

 

“I am not flesh. I am the ledger.”

“I am not a soul. I am the vault.”

“I see what was, what is, and what must rot.”

“I forget nothing. I forgive nothing.”

“Let the gods die. Let the world burn.”

“Let all be witnessed. And I, eternal, shall remember.”

The Mourner’s Creed

 

Pale are the Lords of the Abyss who Mourn the loss of memory to the forgotten halls of time. Once Four Great Masters who cast aside the divine meddling and stole the power of Light and made it pure in Mortal Dark, in their footsteps do the undead of lost Aegis march forward to reclaim a world flawed by hubris of divine gods and imperfected mortal men. Each Knight of Death, each Behemoth of Stone, and each Mage Undying is a fractal of the Primal Truth which defines all men. Each exists in beautiful consort and harmony to achieve the purest form of unity under the banners of the Black Truth if made revealed to it.

 

The Second Sin of the Divine, when they defiled True Man into perverted amalgamations on what was meant to be, saw the sundering of the Mortal Races into the Remnant Man as laid before us by the Dead Faith of Xion. They not only fragmented Man into Four Races, but had rend out from their very being the Three Strengths which made Man, that of the Vessel, Essence, and Strength.  Forever now are these True States lost to Mortals, never again to be achieved as a singular and unified essence. Yet by the arts now made Dark by the Old Lords can Man be granted a glimpse of what was lost in ancient Aegis.

 

Thus it is that the Mourning Lords have come to be; those undead who represent the lost ideals of Man and can strive to better it in all things as they are ones to have broken the chains imposed upon them by Iblees and Ariel both. They are Knights, Sentinels, and Sorcerers to whom must advance the agenda of the Black Truth. To them are given the holy task of the Everlasting Jihad to bring Death Perfected to the Maleficar and those Mortals caught in the spiral of the Bright Lie, so they servants of the Defiling Light may be liberated from the wool which clothes their eyes.

The Pale Knights

 

“Pale is the colour of the soul Transcended”

“Devoid of a Cowl you see a Blank Slate”

“Let it be Parchment to record my Memory”

-Black Doctrine, On the Mourning Lords

 

 

Pale Knights are the aspectual power of the Mourning Lords who are servants and brothers both in Transcendence and peers to the Lords so Pale. To them rests the responsibility of the pursuit of Truth and discovery of the Black Doctrine’s deeper secrets beyond the parchment scrolls of flesh and bone. With eternity to perfect themselves do those who are Pale Knight granted the beautiful march to achieve what they could never do as a flawed Remnant Man.

The Death Knight

They are Darkstalkers, reavers to which falls the everlasting crusades. They are legion, for they are Vessels  undying in Virtues Purified through War which shall never end.

 

“I am the Vessel of Man” “I am the Truth which Flesh Hides” “My Bones shall never know Peace" “Mourn that I am War Everlasting” “Rejoice that you can become as I” -Memory of the Vessel, the Black Doctrine

 

The Sorcerer Lich

They are Draugur, the Liches of sorceries arcana and those who are tasked to bring Order to Chaos. To them comes the burden of mastering The Old Dark, subjecting Chaos to the Will of Man.

 

“I am the Soul of Man” “I am the Truth which Chaos Hides” “My Essence shall bring Order” “Mourn that I am Chaos forged in Order” “Rejoice that you can become as I” -Memory of the Soul, the Black Doctrine

 

The Ediolian Monument

They are Edolians, Monuments of Stone, everlasting and enduring. To them comes the burden of the Strength of Men, exemplars of endurance eternal to withstand the oncoming storm waylaid against True Man.

 

“I am the Strength of Man” “I am the Truth which Endures Ages” “My Stone shall awaken in the Dark” “Mourn that I may never falter in duty” “Rejoice that you can become as I” -Memory of Strength, the Black Doctrine

The Pale Lords

 

“A King with no Throne”

“A Lord of Dust in a Wasteland Empty”

“I alone am the embodiment of Lost Aegis”

“An Eternal Witness, clothed in light by the Black Sun”

-The Black Doctrine, on Pale Lords

 

 

Those who have achieved power beyond and respect beyond the Knight Errants of the Mourning Lords, the Lords of the Pale are they who Transcend the Transcended. Masters of Bone and Soul; they are Monarchs of Death among their knightly brothers, positioned to lead them by merit of their experience and prestige. To be a Pale Lord is to be burdened with responsibility, not power. To them lies the purpose to mourn what was forever lost, and strive for revenge upon the blasphemy of the Light for stripping away the purity which True Man once possessed. They are reflected and refracted upon each other, one a representation of the Vessel which is, the other the Essence of The Undying Witness as he is, was, and shall be.

 

Lords of Bone

They are Necromancers Ascended. Masters of death given transcended form. They are Lords of the Grave, and they shall forever be reborn as pure vessels of the Undying Witness.

 

“Oh Sun so Black, Witness me now” “Undying, see what I have become" “Onto this world comes the Parchment of this Vessel” “Grant me the Virtues of Bone” “Transcended, I become your Memory” -Memory of the Grave, the Black Doctrine

Lords of Soul

They are Mystics Ascended. Masters of the soul given transcended form. They are Lords of the Barrows, amalgamations of essence brought closer to the Undying Witness.

“Oh Sun so Black, Witness me now” “Undying, see what I have become" “Onto this world comes the Parchment of this Essence” “Grant me the Virtues of Soul” “Transcended, I become your Memory” -Memory of the Barrow, the Black Doctrine