On The Holy Diarchy & The Sin of Pride | An Acolyte Thesis

[Norgeth 1894]

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ON THE HOLY DIARCHY

A THESIS BY ACOLYTE MIRION ZIMRABÂR

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“Those virtuous freedmen that remained were anointed as priests of GOD, and they bore the Virtue and the Spirit.” - The Scroll of Gospel, Book of Owyn.

 

PREFACE |

During and before my time as an Acolyte, I have seen a great and unfortunate resurgence of unwarranted pride and self-absorption in the people of Idunia, a sin mirroring that of Harren, our forefather as Adunians. In this thesis, I intend to explain some of the history and life of the Twin Saints, Evaristus and Clement, alongside other early High Priests, all while comparing their struggles to those of our own times, and how their perseverance can inspire us, supposedly redeemed Harrenites, to further our virtue and respect for the faith and word of GOD-AERADAR. 

 

THE THESIS |

Saints Evaristus and Clement lived in a time of great uncertainty. They were born into a time when pride ruled from Old Alduun and the world, still young, was ripe for the capture by evil. After Exalted Owyn slew his uncle in wroth and expelled the half-blooded lords to the north, it was not Owyn’s fellow Godwinite, nor a warrior, who received the Priesthood, but instead these humble men, bakers and butchers of the common Harrenite, folk of the earth who would usher in a priesthood for the Skies. It was because of their humble nature and willingness to allow GOD’s will to supplant their own mortal desires that allowed them to become the holy diarchy, saints for the common man, saints of supplication and reverence, not pride, arrogance, or demand. During the lives of them and the following High Priests, these holy men would have dealt and struggled with the pride of mankind, be it ambitious nobility, bickering clergy, or arrogant lords and commoners thinking they knew best, yet they never succumbed to the quarrels of their times, nor their own demons, carrying the faith though the long age of silence, allowing us the chance to carry it ourselves.

 

It can be presumed that many of the early High Priests following the diarchy would also be Harrenite in origin, continuing this tradition of humble willingness to let GOD’s will overtake their own. We should take inspiration from the Butcher and Baker of Old Alduun alongside those other early High Priests, Sixtus, Alexander, and Pontian, to name a few; let us not repeat ancient history, let us abandon pride and arrogance to the winds and allow GOD to work through us, enacting HIS will as spoken through the Vicar, successor of the holy diarchy. Let us assume that we are wrong, and that GOD-AERADAR is right, all while striving to learn of HIS ways, emulating the ways of Horen and the ways of the saints.

 

If I were to have a direct message to the people of Idunia today, the people of New Alduun, I would say to look to the ancients of Old Alduun, compare their failings and triumphs to our own, and always strive not to repeat the sins of the past, of our ancestors, that of pride, arrogance, and refutation of holy authority. 

 

Remember the past, and learn from it.

 

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[Malins Welcome 1519]

Acolyte,

 

I accept your thesis and endorse your ordination to the preisthood.

 

Magister James Vursur

[Calise11 841]

The High Keeper of the Red Faith had somehow stumbled upon this thesis. Something about the acolyte piqued her interest. A stark black falcon was sent by one of the scribes from the Rookery of Verðengradr, bidding him, the Acolyte, an invatation him to Norland, "If he is to accept. Send him my way." She bade the clergy