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no afterlife change and i'm a lizard shiller

you should play a canonist knight (i hear it's really fun from someone)

HEARTSFLAME THE SKIES’ BENEDICTIONS ORIGIN The souls of the Seven Skies, the human millions, have long sought, and delivered their blessings unto those that continued the virtues of any given soul in life. Those zealous, those furious, those passionate - this mortal essence of emotion carried through, into the greater souls. The blessing of Aeriel allowed a pitifully small push, and prod for Man. She granted them, if nothing else, boundless imagination, and with it, action. The pure energy, a sheening, radiant, almost blinding number of souls, the sheer quantity of once-life stored in the Skies use their innate energy of simply being; they push forth, they shoulder off death, and they continue. They lend themselves - their being - to the mortals they came from. Manifesting first as small miracles, blessings granted - a babe to an elderly couple, water to the wayward vagabond, rain to the woeful farmer - the Souls have been nothing but passive. The heartsflame, as it once was mistakenly attributed to gods, is merely one aspect of the infinite Skies. And so now, with the passing of zealots, with the passing of the furious, with the passing of the passionate, it is this emotion that spurs them onto strike into the hearts of Descendants below - human or otherwise - and continue that which they cannot any longer. The Souls ebb into the souls of the living, continuing their lively pursuits through avatars. In this way, the Souls defy the eternal, even if blissful, quiet of death. They rise with the dawn, burn with the midday sun, and fade only when the stars themselves retreat. They are the echoes of every love, every loss, every triumph, and every failure that humanity has ever known. And through the hearts of the living, they continue, everlasting, everburning, ever living through the fire in the hearts of those below. COMPATIBILITIES + MAGIC EXPLANATION A Hearthsoul is a Descendant touched by the Greater Souls, or a Greater Soul of the Seven Skies. They are empowered by this collective patron - the Skies. The Souls of the Seven Skies choose to lend themselves to Descendants who take to vigour; it is through vigour that these souls grow and ebb, and it is through vigour that they select their chosen. A merchant, who sold all his possessions on a gamble; a troubadour who refuses any work but song; a scholar wholly devoted to his work, to the point of hermitage. To them, be they of Gravitas, Humilitas, or Sibylline - the Three mistaken as deities in their own right by the Hearthsouls of old - so long as the endeavours they pursue are pursued with vigour, they are pleased. But, as the Souls are pleased, so too are they angered. By acting themselves as conduits to the Skies, the Hearth Souls become similarly vulnerable to their wrath. Sloth, failure, defeat, ineptitude - all unacceptable to their patrons above. The involvement of these second souls twist and pull at the Hearthsoul, their disappointment painfully tangible, inflicting mental and physical distress. So long as the souls of their chosen are unimpeded in accepting their invitation to the Skies, any can be chosen so long as they serve the Souls’ will. Heartsflame is a [3] slot deific magic. Heartsflame is compatible with Heralds, both at feat and 1-slot level. Heartsflame is compatible with Seers, both at feat and slotted levels. Heartsflame is incompatible with any Dark magic. Heartsflame is incompatible with any Voidal magic. Heartsflame requires a Greater Soul for connection. It is not restricted to only humans. Heartsflame cannot be learned by any CAs. PARAGONS The Greater Souls, whether knowingly or not, separate themselves into categorizable groups. These collections of Souls merge, meld, and change together, though it is still the will of the individual that would ever branch out onto the mortal plane. All Souls in the Skies are melded together, albeit to differing extents. These closer knit amalgamations are most commonly seen in the form of the Paragons, like minded souls whose goals in blessing, and in life, may have aligned. GRAVITAS THE GREAT HUMILITAS THE GRACEFUL SIBYLLINE THE WISE Gravitas consists of the great Men who passed to the Skies. The valorous, the brave, the honourable - the great. They tend to empower those who took after them in life: warriors, conquerors, kings, statesmen, smiths; Gravitas’ favour is given unto those diligent. Humilitas is all what the name alludes to: humility. Humility in spirit, in character, and in action. It is here the most saintly reside, martyrs, poets, artists, and preachers. Humilitas lends themselves to all those with grace, and compassion in their heart. Sibylline in death is ever as curious as they were in life, often the most active of any paragon as they seek out scholars, clergymen, philosophers - Men who seek to uncover the questions their Souls never could. It is to them who they gift the drive to keep searching. PROGRESSION TIER 1 A novice Hearthsoul that may not even be aware of their empowerment, seeing it as good karma, or sheer luck. A Hearthsoul remains at this stage indefinitely without one more experienced in their connection to the Skies aiding them. TIER 2 After [4] OOC weeks, and learning all Tier 1 spells from a Hearthsoul with an approved TA, a Hearthsoul moves on to Tier 2, able to more aptly manipulate their newfound boons. TIER 3 [8] OOC weeks after connection, having learned all Tier 2 spells, and having been chosen by a paragon, a Tier 3 Hearthsoul serves as a more active vessel for the Skies. Choice of Paragon must be reflected on the player’s MA. TIER 4 After welcoming the Skies within for [10] OOC weeks, a Hearthsoul begins to fully devote themselves towards their paragon, their servitude being repaid in kind by more direct guidance. TIER 5 A true avatar of the Skies and their Paragon, an Elder Hearthsoul may begin to offer their paragon new devotees [12] OOC weeks after connection, to their chosen’s knowledge or not, and welcome souls into the Skies. ABILITIES The Seven Skies, as a collective patron, offer a distinctly separate form of empowerment against the selfish aenguldaemonica who act in interest of exclusively their cause, or themselves. The collective consciousness is just that, collective; empowering Souls may counsel and guide their Hearthsoul in a way that might conflict with their peers, even if under the same Paragon. Accountability is raised to an extreme, with failure being judged by several, if not dozens of Souls, in comparison to one entity. Yet, this multifacetedness allows for a broad application of the Souls’ will and testament through their empowerment. CERULEAN GUIDANCE [T1] | PASSIVE A Hearthsoul may usher in a trail of the Soul’s imbued essence behind them, leaving a faint path for other Hearthsouls to follow and learn from. This stream of ‘deific’ mana will naturally fade across [3] OOC days, becoming gradually less visible. REDLINES Cerulean Guidance is only visible to Hearthsouls with an approved MA. Cerulean Guidance should be marked out with signs, with the date they were placed within the text. Cerulean Guidance is no longer visible [3] OOC days following a sign’s placement. EMPYREAN WHISPERS [T1] | PASSIVE The fabric of a Hearthsoul is a Descendant marred by the lives and yearns of many, many others. This manifests itself as a near schizophrenic affinity to hear the souls above, with whispers coaxing them to seize their destiny. This effect only loudens the more a Hearthsoul allows the Skies to encroach onto them. REDLINES Hearthsouls should adequately roleplay the effects of these pushing Souls: Denying them would bring great shame to the Hearthsoul Their presence would seemingly deny the Hearthsoul any quiet or lonesomeness The manifestation of the presence of the Skies in a Hearthsoul is up to the discretion of the player. They may be literal whispers, or more so seemingly irrational and extrinsic urges. Empyrean Whispers will worsen the higher the tier of the Hearthsoul. Empyrean Whispers is not necessarily negative. To the diligent chosen, they are words and whispers of encouragement. HEARTFIRE [T1] | PASSIVE The sheer quantity of Souls in the Skies leave their holy mark wherever they go. The Hearthsouls are not exempt to this. An eternal fire burns in their chest, gleaming rays of light perforating through the chosen’s ribs as their flame flickers, unconcealable. Similarly to the whispers of the Souls, their flames grow brighter as more flow into the Hearthsoul. REDLINES Heartfire does not provide any illumination. Heartfire does not make the Hearthsoul more easily visible in dark environments. Heartfire is not concealable, though is not explicitly noticeable through clothing and armour. Heartfire becomes explicitly noticeable, no matter what covers it, from Tier 3 onward. Below Tier 3, clothes or other coverings over Heartfire may only show occasional glimmers or ripples of light. Some tell must be included, though. Heartfire becomes explicit, no matter the covering, when the Hearthsoul casts. HEARTH’S RESPITE [T1] | PASSIVE/ACTIVE The flame in a Hearthsoul burns bright, and burns warm. Through concentration, and sustained physical contact with as many as [2] others, a Hearthsoul may spread or take on an alleviating warmth to combat extreme cold, or, paradoxically, extreme heat. A blissful temperate, warmth flows from the Hearthsoul’s very heart aflame, and out to any targets. Similarly, the hearthsoul may bask an area in holy light, up to [2m] away. REDLINES Hearth’s Respite requires [1] emote of focus, and [1] emote to cast, requiring uninterrupted focus and contact with targets, should there be any. Hearth’s Respite may be cast for a maximum of [5] emotes in combat, and indefinitely out of combat. The illumination provided by Hearth’s Respite does not penetrate through any magical means of obscuring vision, and purely physical means, such as mists, fogs, or blizzards. Should a spell from a magic refer to a physical means of visual obscuration, Hearth’s Respite may illuminate an area through this obscurity, up to only [1m] away. The illumination from Hearth’s Respite causes the Hearthsoul to become illuminated. The aesthetics of this is freeform, it may be literal immolation, or a soft glow. Whatever effect chosen, this extends to any who are warmed by Hearth’s Respite. RESOLVE’S FLARE [T2] | PASSIVE Lent the incorporeal pure emotion of their patron, a Hearthsoul may similarly render their emotions, or another’s emotions (with consent) into a physical manifestation - a small fire. Resolve’s Flare takes the form of a small fire within the palm of the Hearthsoul that may be handed to and interacted with by others. It will shrink or soar depending on the emotions of the target, with this being freeform between the caster and the target. Resolve’s Flare is harmless, and provides only a mild warmth, similar, but not equal to Hearth’s Respite. REDLINES Resolve’s Flare requires [1] emote of focus, and [2] emotes of sustained contact (or casting if there is no target) at which point contact can be broken and Resolve’s Flare maintained for [30] narrative minutes. The flame from Resolve’s Flare provides no more mechanical illumination than a normal torch. The fire of Resolve’s Flare can take any colour, shape, or size, so long as it is containable in the palm of the caster’s hand. It may change colour, shape, or size. The flame from Resolve’s Flare does not spread, nor is it destructive. Resolve’s Flare requires IC consent to be cast on a target. ECHO OF EULOGIES [T2] | PASSIVE Omnipresent, all-seeing, the Souls of the Seven Skies are privy to everything below. To a limited capacity, they can share this to their chosen empowered. Channelling their patrons and expelling them outward into an area, to a maximum of [5]m in radius, a Hearthsoul can replay events and dialogues that they either were witness to, or much fainter replays of events that they did not witness. These replays take the form of vague, ethereal wisps flowing outward from the caster’s heartsflame. REDLINES Echo of Eulogies CANNOT be used to metagame information. It is meant to be a flavorful, in roleplay, replay feature. Sensitive content is not discernible from Echo of Eulogies, with a ‘timelapse’, mumbled, or rushed aspect to any dialogue. Similarly, any faces or recognisable features are too blurry to make out. Exclusively with OOC consent from every party involved, a Hearthsoul may replay dialogue they were or were not witness to. HEARTHSONG [T3] | PASSIVE/ACTIVE Channelling their heartsflame through themselves and out their throat, the divine harmony of the heavens can be sung out the mouth of any Hearthsoul - their Hearthsong. Non-distinct, Flexio-like chants, heavenly hymns, and vocal harmonies come out of the literal flames of the Hearthsoul’s voice, soothing the mentally afflicted, and urging others on in their own endeavours. REDLINES Hearthsong requires [2] emotes of connection, and [1] emote to cast. Targets must be within #rp range, or [20]m to take effect. Hearthsong can be continued indefinitely outside of combat, but has a maximum duration of [5] emotes during combat. Hearthsong can only combat psychological inflictions such as from hexes, or maledictions, through the duration of the spell. Whatever the negative effect, it may be reduced at most one stage, with reference to the pathway below: Paralysis -> flight-inducing fear/madness -> mania -> unease -> normalcy Effects undefined in the list above should be similarly affected, for instance, an Illusionist causing a target to imagine insects crawling through them might instead have their target think themselves to be surrounded by puppies. Outside of combat, the above table should not be referenced. Permanent mental afflictions may be temporarily alleviated to any degree agreed in roleplay, but not permanently - only so long as the Hearthsoul sings. Hearthsong cannot force any target to fight, or continue, only urge them. It does not prevent them from feeling fear, but merely coaxes them against it, similarly to a Tier 1 Templar’s Emboldened ability. If a Hearthsoul is interrupted during casting, all effects of Hearthsong instantly stop, and the Hearthsoul must reconnect, and recast. Hearthsong may be cast a maximum of [2] times per combat encounter. KINDLED EMBERS [T3] | PASSIVE Similarly to Hearth’s Respite, by holding or touching a place/item that holds sentimental or otherwise holds value to the Hearthsoul, their heartsflame may combust into faint, translucent images associated with the history, or past events associated with it. However, with the heartsflame released, the Hearthsoul holds no control over it. No information can be omitted, nor controlled, as soon as the spell is cast. REDLINES Kindled Embers CANNOT be used to metagame information. It is meant to be a flavorful, in roleplay, storytelling spell. Kindled Embers takes [1] emote to connect, and [3] emotes to cast, with an undefined limit for actions miming events. Events recreated by Kindled Embers may not be selectively changed to fit a narrative by the Hearthsoul. Actions played out by Kindled Embers may take any form, following a general guideline of faint, wispy figures. Limited auditory additions, such as the clash of blades, or jumbled speech, may be included. No defining characteristics of any individuals may be gleaned through Kindled Embers, though the Hearthsoul may choose to inform viewers of the events and people involved. SOULSHOUT [T4] | PASSIVE/ACTIVE As if speaking prophetically through their single mortal mouth, the Souls a Hearthsoul is sworn to may be mustered, and boomed outward, demanding the attention of all who would hear it. Rather than merely the voice of the Hearthsoul, their heartsflame spits licks out of them akin to a crowd all chanting in unison. REDLINES Soulshout requires [1] emote of connection, [4] emotes of focus, and [1] emote of casting. These should generally take the form of mustering more Souls within the Hearthsoul. Any person within #w( [2]m) range of Soulshout will be stunned for [1] emote. Prepared attacks, such as a raised sword in anticipation of a downward swing, will remain uninterrupted. Anybody within #w range may still take a partial movement turn, equivalent to what a movement turn with an action would equate to for them. Targets stunned by Soulshout may find themselves forced to turn, covering their ears, or literally blasted back by the shout. After [1] emote of connection + [4] emotes of focus, Soulshout may be held off before [1] emote of casting for a maximum of [3] emotes of delay. After these [3] emotes pass, the Souls will rapidly vacate their Hearthsoul as to not overload them. HALO [T4] | ACTIVE Pulling at their heartsflame, a Hearthsoul may billow out a ring from the Skies and bestow it upon themselves, or onto others. Taking the vague form of a heavenly halo, though this may differ depending on the preference of the caster, and hovering above or around face level, this crown will sing, cheer, and jeer in a language incomprehensible, yet familiar to its target. Whether merely to irritate, or to spur a comrade on, this halo is intangible until the Hearthsoul deems it time to solidify. Eeking out the rest of the heartsflame dedicated to the halo, the Hearthsoul may suddenly, and instantaneously, render it solid at the weight and durability of aurum - whether it be to shield an ally from a blow, or prepare to call upon another blessing. REDLINES Halo requires [1] emote of connection, and [3] emotes of casting. It can last up to [5] emotes circling a target, before it must be solidified on the fifth, or [1] emote be taken to render it solid. A solidified halo takes the physical, though not soul bearing, properties of aurum, being its durability and malleability. A halo will stay suspended for [1] emote after solidification, but will then immediately fall. Halo requires line of sight. If line of sight with a target is broken at any point during its casting, the halo will instantly solidify. If a solidified halo is struck, the halo will instantly crumble and demanifest, and will reduce, though not negate, any blow struck through it. No other spells may be cast, but actions and attacks may be taken by the Hearthsoul while Halo is cast - line of sight must, still, be maintained. While Halo is cast, a Hearthsoul’s movement speed is halved, rounded down. If a Hearthsoul is interrupted during the connection or casting emotes, the spell must be recast. Halo may be cast [1] time per combat encounter, on a maximum of [1] target. PARAGONS OF VIRTUE The fruit of their labour, the sum of their service, a master Hearthsoul may call upon the paragon they are so wholly devoted to for their utmost support. The lengthiest spells, taking the collective agreement and will of dozens, if not hundreds of Souls in the Skies, these paragonal virtues represent the epitome of heartsflame, and the Skies’, capabilities to the mortal planes. However, while they are the peak of all heartsflame, so too do they cruelly illustrate the double-edged collectivity of the Skies. Whether their blessings are even granted, is merely to the whim of the souls that make up their paragons, whose will, beyond whispers, and urges, remains largely vague: ambition, wisdom - but what defines it? A Hearthsoul may cast a maximum of [1] T5 spell, corresponding to their chosen paragon marked on their MA at T3. Spells outside their chosen paragon cannot be taught, if said paragon is not marked on their MA. PARAGON ROLL A Paragon Roll is a roll to determine whether or not a Hearthsoul’s devoted Paragon, and the Souls within, would favour the dedication and further empowerment necessary to conduct their spell. To simulate this mechanically, a d20 should be rolled, with any value below or equal to 5 considered a failure, and any value above or equal to 6 considered a successful roll and casting. These should only be rolled following full connection and casting emotes, and their consequences roleplayed adequately (i.e a Gravitas Hearthsoul being overloaded with mana, akin to thaumburn). Visual and in roleplay consequences should follow, but are generally to the discretion of the player. They may include: intense shame, burns inflicted by the rejection, depression, reinvigoration to act upon the will of Empyrean Whispers, etc. GRAVITAS THE GREAT HUMILITAS THE GRACEFUL SIBYLLINE THE WISE CONFLAGRATION [T5] The deliverance of Souls takes many forms. Even evil men, bandits, may find their rise to the Skies, no matter how surprising it may be. It is no shock, then, that the Skies may take their own avatars and make them weapons. Channelling the collective majority of their Paragon within a single avatar, the Hearthsoul may, as quickly as they are drawn in, expel the force of the Skies in an explosion unto any unfortunate enough to stand anywhere near them. REDLINES Conflagration requires [3] emotes of focus, and [6] emotes of casting. These are freeform, but should generally follow the aesthetic of the Hearthsoul being overtaken, almost invaded by the Skies. If the Hearthsoul is interrupted at any point during their casting, they may not attempt to cast Conflagration again for the next [24] OOC hours. Cinders Asunder renders the Hearthsoul instantly unconscious, regardless of whether their Paragon roll succeeds or not. Anyone standing within #w ([2]m) range of the Hearthsoul upon a successful Paragon roll would be blasted backwards to a maximum of [4]m away, and succumb to 2nd degree burns on any exposed flesh. Conflagration is not a physical explosion, and so may not be paired with, for instance, morion, to conduct a shrapnel attack. A blast from Conflagration would hold equivalent concussive force to a direct-hit blasting potion. It is an explosion. Conflagration inflicts 2nd degree burns all over the Hearthsoul, regardless of their protective wear. Projectiles launched toward a Hearthsoul on the same round as Conflagration’s final casting emote would be repulsed back by the blast, though to no combative advantage (i.e no return blows). Conflagration, if successful, may not be cast again for [5] OOC days. CINDERS ASUNDER [T5] The ultimate goal of the Souls is, beyond their own emotional urges, to ferry more souls unto them. Souls tainted by the Void, by demons of the High Hells, unholy blood, or Druidic curses may be ritually cleansed by heartsflame. Through the transference of heartsflame from a Hearthsoul to an afflicted victim, whatever curse is held within them may be forced into tangibility. Heartsflame will shoot out from the victim, who is rendered unconscious, and take the form of whichever curse they held. REDLINES Cinders Asunder requires [2] emote of focus, and [6] emotes of casting. These are freeform, and should try to involve the patient as much as possible. Cinders Asunder may not be performed during combat. Cinders Asunder is, in essence, an exorcism through combat. The Hearthsoul may confront the curse made tangible only with ST (ET) oversight. Cinders Asunder would summon, for instance, for a man cursed with lycanthropy, his lycan form, for a Cursed Child, the same tier of demon that cursed them. All combat associated with Cinders Asunder is a mandatory Hard PK. Should a victim attempt to undergo an exorcism via Cinders Asunder, and fail, they may never attempt it again - the Skies have turned their back on them, they are irredeemable. Cinders Asunder may include a maximum of [3] Hearthsouls, and in some cases the victim, who, granted ET permission, may roleplay their curse accordingly (i.e, again, a lycan player). Curses inherited genetically will always take the tangible form of the being that initially cursed the first progenitor. Should this be, as it is in some cases, an aenguldaemon, then the heartsflame will instantly combust in a concussive blast upon attempting to branch onto the patient, being regarded as a failed exorcism. Victory in combat over a tangible curse in exorcism must be followed by a Paragon roll. The roll cannot be done beforehand. Failure results in the demanifestation of the tangible curse, and is considered a failed exorcism. Cinders Asunder, regardless of result, has a cooldown of [5] OOC days. GIFTING [T5] Alas, as servants of the Souls of the Skies, it is the solemn duty of the Hearthsoul to extend the humble invitation to join the Paragons in the Skies. For Elves, for Uruks, for Dwarves, it is the offer of eternal exaltation, merely in return for service to a wholly righteous cause. And so, by wisping out their heartsflame from within them, and branching it onto the soul-bearing substance of one with a Greater Soul, so too may they avoid the grim fate of the Ebriataes, and join their empowerers in eternity. REDLINES Gifting requires a valid TA in Heartsflame, and is a Tier 5 spell. Gifting requires OOC, though does not require IC consent. Gifting requires a valid TA in Heartsflame, and is a Tier 5 spell. Gifting is irreversible without forceful disconnection by other Hearthsouls. Gifting cannot be cast during combat. Gifting takes [7] consecutive, uninterrupted emotes, during which tells must be present and explicit in roleplay. Gifting may only be used on beings with a Greater Soul, and that are not otherwise deifically bound to another afterlife. A Hearthsoul may perform Gifting three times every [1] OOC month. Gifting may not be cast on near-death individuals, as the additional presence of deific mana would overload them. Gifting may only be performed on [1] target at a time. You cannot perform Gifting on three people simultaneously. Gifting leaves the Hearthsoul with a TA drained of their spellcasting ability for [2] OOC days, their heartsflame literally lent to another. Gifting for OOC gain or nepotism is strictly forbidden (shocker). Gifting should only be performed under meaningful, genuine, in-roleplay intent as to why the target would serve the Skies well. Gifting does NOT require a Paragon Roll. RITE OF PURGING Should the very Hearthsouls capable of granting the gift of the Skies unto others find one no longer worthy of it, whether they exploit it for slothful and greedy gain, or merely act against the perceived will of the Skies, they may undergo the ritual of Purging, in which a Hearthsoul’s tether to the Skies is severed permanently. PURGING [T4] | ACTIVE To those sworn by Sibylline, who learned the passing of their gift to others, so too may they strip it from those they deem unworthy of their patron’s gift. Requiring a minimum of [2] Tier 4 Hearthsouls, the pair of Sibylline-sworn Hearthsouls may coalesce their heartsflame together to latch onto their targets. Requiring sustained contact, and thus usually necessitating either the restraint or unconsciousness of their victim, the heartsflame of the purgers will latch onto that of the purged, tearing it from their very soul and permanently banishing them from ever receiving the Skies blessings again, and thus the Skies, should the target not be human. REDLINES Purging requires [3] emotes of connection from both casters, and [2] emotes of casting. Both casters must be Tier 4 Hearthsouls or above, and have Sibylline marked as their chosen Paragon on their MA. Only egregious acts perceived to be against the collective will of the Paragons should be considered grounds for disconnection. There must be sufficient roleplay reasoning behind disconnecting a Hearthsoul. The target of Purging must be made aware of the casters’ intent while connecting and casting. Purging cannot be presented as another spell, nor can the target be coaxed OOCly into meeting, just to be disconnected. The intent must be clear. Purging requires [2] emotes of sustained contact during the casting. If these [2] emotes are interrupted, the first [3] emotes of connection (combining the heartsflames) must be re-roleplayed. Emotes of connection and casting must be unique between casters, and cannot be mirrored or repeated. Once purged, a character can never hold a Heartsflame MA again, they are permanently rejected by the Seven Skies as a vessel. There is a cooldown of [1] OOC month for any caster involved in a Purging before they can disconnect another Hearthsoul. GLOSSARY AND WEAKNESSES A glossary to help summarise any concepts I thought were underexplained, as well as a table of weaknesses for ease of viewing and access. GLOSSARY HEARTSFLAME A term for the deific mana endowed by the ‘collective patrons’ of the Seven Skies, kept literally within and around the heart of a Hearthsoul. HEARTHSOUL A heartsflame MA holder. Hearthsouls draw their power from the collective Souls (not all, but many Souls) of the Seven Skies, and the Skies are the realm to which they are ultimately devoted. By serving the Skies, Hearthsouls act as middlemen between the mortal world and the Skies, in an attempt of the Souls to circumvent their relative inability to act in the mortal realm in comparison to aenguldaemons. PARAGONS Paragons are larger groups of Greater and Lesser Souls whose motives and emotions generally align. For the purposes of both the Seven Skies lore piece, and this MA, they are separated into: Gravitas, the Great (statesmen, blacksmiths, knights, etc.); Humilitas, the Graceful (generally the creative, the emotional, the passionate, lovers, artists, poets, etc.); and Sibylline, the Wise (scholars, clergymen, alchemists, etc.) To further devote themselves to the Skies, Hearthsouls select one of these three categories to specialise as a conduit for a certain mesh of souls. The motives of Paragons are more clearly communicated, and pursuable, rather than the more vague goals of the Skies as a whole, making serving their will, by extension, also easier. WEAKNESSES THANHIUM Thanhium’s inherent coolness damages Hearthsouls normally, however the antimagic properties render them fully vulnerable to thanhic poisoning, and thus unable to cast spells for the duration of a combat encounter as the pools of deific mana combat thanhic anti-magic properties. NULL-ARCANA Similar to the above, null-arcana has the same effects on Hearthsouls as it does on other spellcasters, suspending any spellcasting for [2] emotes. MALFLAME Malflame, along with how it affects standard Descendants, prevents Hearthsouls from casting [3] emotes after any malflame on their soul bearing substance is extinguished. PURPOSE I think this serves the priest magic niche people might have wanted, along with tying in some older lore pieces at the same time. Shoutout conor and julius for the collective patron and priest magic idea. God willing I did not write pure slop for the 6th time in a row. Tried to make it a lot less human focused and give a route to a better afterlife than endless wandering in the Ebritaes 👍 CREDITS WRITING - FRAMALAM ☺️ INSPIRATION - CONOR AND JULIUS AND KIDKRINKLES REFERENCE - JACKO (seven skies lore piece)

AND NO MORE FROM THE HAND OF THE FLEPIRKNIGHT FROM THE HAND OF THE GAOLED FROM THE HAND OF THE HERMIT ILDRIUNN LUCIEN ALDRICSON OPENING PRAYER FROM THE VENERABLE FATHER PACO DO I RECITE THIS PRAYER TO SAINT-KING CAIUS OF THE WESTERLANDS. May the Creator protect us And in turn we protect others Let Him be our shield, So that we may be His hammer, ridding this world of darkness. He who stands with me shall be my brother, AMEN CONCLUDING REMARKS TO THE SCHISMATICS To the ‘Enlightened Mind’, I thank you dearly for your response. However, I must point out your copious flaws not only in thinking, but in logic. For it is both in thinking and in logic that the truth may be found of any source, the Scrolls included. I find it remarkable that you would deem me a man ‘blinded’ by Raguel’s arrival when I am a man conversely dismissed by the Mother Church. In many ways, we are quite similar, but merely on different steps of the same path. I too, was once a heretic, and appealed to the Curia, to its members, and to the Pontiff to the redemption of the kobolds. Know this, that every missive I must pen to you, is ten lashings from Adelmar von Kanunsburg that I endure further. Perhaps now it shall be twenty. I do this out of pure devotion to my faith, at my own peril. I have rebuked these claims, but I am punished for it all the same. I invite you to, if you fear for your life, still (which you should not, because if your cause is true, then you will find eternal salvation in the Skies), come to Lemonhill and rend yourself for penance when you see the error in your ways. Your main rebuttals to my points consist simply of discrediting me as an opponent in debate. And, in doing this, you abandon the debate altogether, and instead focus on your opponent as the target of your points. I invite you, instead, to challenge the logic in my arguments. A point that is unfalsifiable is a point that should not, and cannot be raised in argument. You can claim I am ‘blinded’, as you say, by the Saint Raguel, to the same extent I can claim you are being controlled by a cabal of Ibleesian mind magi. Alas, Raguel has not appeared to me in dreams since slaying Lanre Cerusil, and I have not laid eyes upon him since his appearance in Balian. On the other hand, you refuse to let an Army of GOD enter Silasia to check for said Ibleesian mind cabal! I hope then, you see my frustration. I have engaged in theological debate with the great minds of our Mother Church’s current generation, and I have thoroughly enjoyed them, both in outcome and in processu. I had hoped for the same with you. I never approach a debate with closed mindedness. After all, it is through challenging your faith that you strengthen it. In hopes that this can alleviate your struggles, I will be highlighting the good deeds done by St. Raguel, and from there substantiate the rest of my arguments so they are more easily understood, and much less aggressive than they were in the first missive I penned. Firstly, Saint Raguel descended to slay Lanre Cerusil after he himself murdered the late Pontiff Sixtus VI. He tracked him down as Lanre fled through the forest, and impaled the voidal lich through the chest. Then, he bestowed upon the then Cardinal Callahan, and Caius-Brandt, two holy relics, the second of which I was witness to its bequeathment: the holy grail, used to baptize Cardinal Clover (which is no doubt one reason she has become the pious cardinal she is today), and the two scepters of Clement and Evaristus. Beyond this, he has appeared numerous times to give counsel and aid the Canonist. For instance, in my pursuit of Stein, I raised my hand to navigate with the north star, and suddenly then a shooting star appeared to cut across my palm, flame bleeding in its wake. Admittedly, this is one unfalsifiable truth, the very same that I criticized you for referencing earlier on. I hope my honor as a knight, that I do swear to its truth here, is enough to convince you. Though I know not the full mechanisms behind them, I know he too appeared to Saint Gerard, former grandmaster of my own former ilk, the Judites. He was a man, I hear, of immense zeal, who died in combat against an Ibleesian hellknight that I have yet had the pleasure of casting down. Then, of course, the more recent, and much more infamous appearances - Aaun and Hohkmat. The benevolence of these actions is no doubt questionable. After all, the scrolls do teach mercy, acceptance, and redemption of the heathen, rather than the outright execution. But, as I have said before, and I will reiterate now, not only did the citizens of both know of their immolation baptism in advance, they too knew that if they were pure of spirit, that the mercyflame would not harm them. A dead Hohkmati is never a death I would mourn anyway. VERY few, if any, died. Alas, for the rest of your argument, you seem to partake in the very thing you criticize me for: attacks on character. Though, as the author, I will be the first to admit that my own letter was quite targeted and aggressive, I phrased it in such a way that my questions toward you would be most easy to answer and recognise. So, I will rephrase once more: What deception has Raguel brought? Do you rebuke St. Pius of Sutica? Do you rebuke the Blessed Radovid? Do you rebuke the First Sky? For, your dismissal of Lurak and Caurost would suggest such. Were you ever ordained as a priest, if so, by who? What rite do you claim? How, or why, have you swapped between a traditionalist and an Owynist view? How are you not schismatics? I must concede that there are several (around 3, at my latest count) sources pushing this agenda out from Silasia. I apologize, again, if I myself have conflated your voice with the louder voices of others. Alas, in the same way that you have questioned the intent of my writings, I question the intent of yours. Where do you write from? What is your name - why use a pseudonym? I do not use a pseudonym, for my words are mine, to be attributed to my hand. You lack excessively in textual evidence and rapport; your entire argument is constructed around one passage in a series of ramblings only half of Canondom even accepts as legitimate. The incumbent pontificate does not accept it as legitimate. Your interpretation seems to be largely driven by bias. You have gone into your readings wanting a certain outcome from your interpretation, and so your interpretation is thus inherently subjective. Again, I suggest you approach all arguments with open mindedness, rather than reducing my claims against you to libel. This will be my last missive on this matter, as the debate seems to have largely lost steam, and your ineffective responses do not warrant enough of a write for me to be lashed ten times by Adelmar. Wounds do not heal very quickly in damp, dark dungeons. HOLY SER ‘APSINTHION’ THE FLEPIRKNIGHT

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"Sigismundite." was all that needed to be said.

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The knight of perfect mental health responds to the voices. "STOOPPPP TAAAALLKKIIIIIING!!!! WHY CAN I HEAR YOU?!?!? HOW DID YOU GET YOUR RESPONSE INTO MY JAIL CELL!!!!"

FROM THE HAND OF THE FLEPIRKNIGHT FROM THE HAND OF THE GAOLED FROM THE HAND OF THE HERMIT ILDRIUNN LUCIEN ALDRICSON OPENING PRAYER FROM THE VENERABLE FATHER PACO DO I RECITE THIS PRAYER TO SAINT-KING CAIUS OF THE WESTERLANDS. 'May the Creator protect us And in turn we protect others Let Him be our shield, So that we may be His hammer, ridding this world of darkness. He who stands with me shall be my brother, AMEN' Answer now, or be muzzled forevermore: HEARKEN, SCHISMATIC, FOR I HAVE HEARD YOUR CRIES, AS HAVE THE FAITHFUL OF THE CLERGY. HEARKEN, SCHISMATIC, FOR YOUR APPEAL TO PRAGMATISM MAY BEGIN. HEARKEN, SCHISMATIC, FOR THIS IS YOUR EGO DEATH. YOUR MISSION FOR LITURGICAL LIBERTY IS NOTHING BUT VIRTUOUS. YOUR MISSION TO DEFAME A TRUEBORN SERVANT OF THE LORD IS NOTHING BUT SIN. YOU WEAR VESTMENTS YOU WERE NEVER ORDAINED FOR. YOU STYLE YOURSELF WITH TITLES THE HOLY SEE NEVER BILLOWED SMOKE FOR. YOU HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE SACROSANCT PEACE OF THE CHURCH, THE PEACE OF G-D. I HAVE GIVEN YOU AN ORISON, AND I HAVE PRAYED FOR YOUR SOULS, AND I GRANT YOU THIS BENEDICTION FROM THE MERCYFLAME RAGING IN MY HARRENITE HEART. NOW ANSWER: Are you not hypocrites… FOR YOU CONDEMN RAGUEL’S LURCH TO VIOLENCE, THOUGH HE WARNED CIVILIANS IN ADVANCE, THOUGH HIS MERCYFLAME ONLY HARMS THOSE SINFUL, AND YET YOU SUBSEQUENTLY CALL FOR A SEPARATION IN THE CHURCH? A VIOLATION OF THE PEACE OF THE LORD? A VIOLENCE AMONGST THE MOST PIOUS SERVANTS OF THE CREATOR? ONLY A DECEIVER CALLS FOR PEACE WHILE DRAWING HIS SWORD. Are you not selectivists… FOR YOU CLAIM TO BE DEVOUT OWYNISTS, YET QUOTE SIGISMUND’S PROPHECIES, FOR YOU REJECT SIEGMUND AS THE THIRD SON OF SPIRIT, YET TAKE HIS WORDS AS ECCLESIASTICAL FACT, FOR YOU CHOOSE THE QUOTES THAT PERTAIN TO YOUR NARRATIVE, YET NOT THE ONES THAT DISPROVE IT? HOW CAN YOU ACCEPT A HOLY SCROLL TAKEN BY THE CURIA AS TRUE, BUT NOT A BEATIFICATION? HOW CAN YOU CALL RAGUEL THE DECEIVER JUSTICE, WHO COMES WITH COLD WINGS AND YET FEEL WARMTH AT HIS WINGS TOUCH? WHAT DECEPTION HAS RAGUEL BROUGHT? Are you not misanthropes… FOR YOU REBUKE THE SONS OF MALIN AND KRUG, AND IN DOING SO, REBUKE THE VERY LECTOR FOUNDERS OF OUR RITE, FOR YOU REJECT THE BEATIFIED MANY SONS OF MALIN AND KRUG, FOR YOU ABANDON YOUR FAITH IN FAVOR OF MISANTHROPY? YOU JUDGE BASED ON A MAN’S BIRTH - SHOULD I BE DISCREDITED FOR I WAS NOT BORN NOBLE? DO YOU REBUKE ST. PIUS OF SUTICA? DO YOU REBUKE THE BLESSED RADOVID? DO YOU REBUKE THE FIRST SKY? THE TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS TEST GIVEN BY THE LORD IS VIRTUE. IT IS ONE'S ACTIONS AND ADHERENCE TO THE FAITH THAT ARE VALUED TO THE CREATOR. Are you not emotivists… FOR YOU CONFLATE YOUR EMOTIONS AS FACT, FOR YOU CONTINUE TO MAKE RASH CLAIMS, AGAIN AND AGAIN, WITHOUT ANY PROOF - BASELESS ACCUSATIONS? WHAT EMPIRE? ARE YOU SO TRAUMATIZED BY A LONG-DEAD IMPERIUM THAT YOU WOULD POINT TO THE HIGH PRIEST AS ITS SUCCESSOR? Are you not laymen… FOR YOU ASK OMNIPRESENCE OF THE VICAR OF G-D, AND NOT THE LORD HIMSELF? FOR YOU ASK THE HIGH PRIEST TO BE OMNIPRESENT, AVAILABLE TO GIVE PRAYERS TO EVERY LAYMAN WHO GOES TO A CHURCH? A PRIEST MERELY DIRECTS PRAYER. THE SCROLLS ARE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE. THE ONLY PEASANTS WITHOUT ACCESS TO A CHURCH ARE THOSE WHO DO NOT HAVE THE GUILE TO WALK TO ONE. DO YOU NOT KNOW THE ROLE OF VICAR? Are you not deceivers… FOR YOU HURL INSULT AFTER INSULT AT THE BEATIFIED MESSENGER OF GOD, SAINT RAGUEL, WITH NO PROOF TO BACK THEM? IF THE ‘INVESTIGATION’ BY ONE XAVIER WAS YOUR PROOF, THEN YOU FALL VICTIM TO THE VERY ERROR YOU ACCUSE CALLAHAN OF: YOU COLLUDE WITH AN ELF. AND KNOW THIS - NOT A VIRTUOUS ONE. YOU COLLUDE WITH HERETICS. WHAT IS YOUR PROOF? HOW IS ST RAGUEL A FALSE MESSENGER? HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? HAVE YOU FELT HIS WARMTH? HAVE YOU FELT HIS GAZE? HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? Are you not schismatics… FOR YOU ASK THE DIVISION OF THE CHURCH? DO NOT CROWN YOURSELF IN WORLDLY AMBITIONS AND FALL VICTIM TO THE SAME SINS YOU CLAIM OTHERS TO. YOU ARE NO BETTER THAN THE MICHAELITES THAT CAME BEFORE YOU, AND YOU WILL LAST JUST AS LONG. YOU ARE NO ARCHBISHOP. YOU ARE NO PONTIFF. YOU ARE MISGUIDED FLEPIR LAYMEN. HOLY SER ‘APSINTHION’ THE FLEPIRKNIGHT

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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.

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Forgive my formatting as I descend further into flepirhood in my isolation. Any suggestion that would overrule the decision of the Curia is inherently heretical. I made similar suggestions, once, and I do my penance for such now. So, Xavier Adiler, I respect you for not being a coward as I was. But, you are a coward all the same. If this Ser Philip tasked you with gathering this information, it should be he who pens and signs the missive - not you. You divert the blame unto your taskgiver because you know, positively, that your words are heretical, and your suggestions false. You feel shame already, it is evident. Second, your witnesses are all heathens. Heathens, who, irrefutably, would profit from the disregarding of Raguel as illegitimate as it would put the Church under the same scrutiny as Blackspire once was. It would make the most Holy Mother Church, unholy. Evaluate your sources, for your sources are not mere sources. They are not objective facts, transcribed in the moment. They are subjective, biased accounts of events that may have never happened. But this did happen. I saw the ANGEL RAGUEL, True Servant of the Lord, descend from the Skies into Balian. And when I saw him, I was overcome with joy, fervor, and zealotry. And when he bequeathed the twin scepters of Evaristus and Clement onto Brandt Barclay, blessed be his name, and the High Priest, did he allow me to watch. He allowed me to watch as he did the Saint Gerard, for my vocation was his: to spread the message the Most Holy Omnipotent sent him to tell. I, Holy Ser Lucien, who have made oaths to every holy thing imaginable, who have not told a lie in a decade, swear this by my honor, and by my head. I am no greedy dwed seeking to profit off of a collapsing Church. I am Man. I am fallible, but in this, I am true. To address your sources. Firstly, I challenge any and all of them to a duel of words when I am freed to walk. Second, know the holy man and woman of Aaun, the ones who left the fires unscathed. Look them in the eyes and tell them that, as their home, as their sinner friends, were immolated in the mercyflame, that the saintly being who did so was not divine. The individual angel, who has wings, who is canonised, who delivers the Lord’s word, is false. Tell them such, and see what they say. You clearly not only know greed, and naught else, but know too apathy. To the words of CERRICK: The lengths this knife ear has gone to to detail your account and not see how easily misproven it is shows how rudimentary this investigation is. Firstly, Janus is no ANGEL. He may he an AENGUL, but he is no ANGEL. He is no true servant of the Lord, and thus, Janus is a DEMON. It is only sensical that St. Raguel, an ANGEL OF THE LORD, a true servant, was not present. And so I ask, further: was St. Michael the Archangel present? For, his business is known - he is embroiled in hypercrusade against the Void. But, so too is RAGUEL’s business known. Even if he would attend such a session in the Gilded Court, he was indisposed delivering messages unto the living. He was indisposed in slaying L-nre. He delivered dreams unto the righteous, and was embroiled in serving the vocation given to him by the Lord G-D. He placed duty, over fraternity, for he is an angel. That, at its core, is what it means to be one - to prioritize GOD and your duty to him over all else. To the words of SIGRUN: Firstly, not all aenguls possess a realm. Secondly, Azdromoth the Unredeemed, king-kobold is not inherently malevolent. If a trueborn servant of the Lord that birthed his father came to him to warn him the Skies were closed to the Tribe of Horen, he would surely cherish the knowledge rather than strike down the angel who brought it to him. Lastly, and I cannot emphasise this enough, Raguel is an ANGEL. He has no selfish desire of survival. He has only the Holy vocation the Lord has given him: to spread a message. There is no risk too great for Raguel; Raguel is a wholly devoted messenger of the Lord. Only the Lord’s will guides him, and not his own. To the words of OBOK: None of these necessitate a refusal of his angelhood. An angel can be seen and worshipped in Kaethul, wrongly, as an idol, and worshipped instead of the Lord G-D. In fact, even I have constructed several statues of the Angel Raguel. Have I thus falsified him altogether? Is he no longer an angel because I made statues to him? I have spoken to Raguel myself, and I say he is true. Where is the evidence you spoke to him? Where is the evidence, if you did, that the contents of this talk thus render him false? Where is the evidence to outweigh the testimony of the dozens of faithful, of the thousands of Aaunites who met the angel and decreed him divine? Can you provide such, or do you prate? To address the last anecdote: someone touching Raguel’s wings and being incinerated would only be further proof of his divinity. As a final note overall, I say only this. A Xionist came to the Holy See with the intent to challenge the angel Raguel, and so he instantly perished upon touching him. A Xionist, of the True Word, who desires nothing but the total death of the divines, wanted to kill Raguel. Why would that be? As you seem largely unable to draw your own, empirical conclusions, I shall tell you: for he is divine. LUCIEN PS: CHECKS OUT THAT YOU WOULD QUOTE THE SCROLL OF AUSPICE. SIGISMUNDITE.

"G-D BE GOOD!!!!!!!" cried a rapidly thinning man in his cell.

yo i do this too on my own buidls just count the blocks and this wont happen. kinda hard to feign innocence when you make the jump, and then claim you were just seeing if you could, on another person’s build. if it was urs/a friend’s then i dont see the issue.

A leal White Rose restorationist stands upon his latrine-bucket, sticking his ear out as he so often did onto the Kretzen streets. "What's next, a Grey Rose? What a barbaric perversion of the Chivay legacy!"

ON HARRENITES, FLAME, AND FLESH: A PRISONER’S THESIS OPENING PRAYER FROM THE VENERABLE FATHER PACO DO I RECITE THIS PRAYER TO SAINT NAFISUS THEODERNESIS, LORD VANDALORE OF VANDORIA. ‘Creator of man, overseer of all things right, Whose powers none can resist, Save and deliver us, we beseech, From the hands of our enemies, By granting us dominion over them, Show us the path to victory, That we might produce it in Your undying name. AMEN’ PRAEFATIO I FEEL MY GRIP ON SANITY LOOSEN WITH EVERY ACHING YEAR I SPEND IN THIS BLASTED SQUARE OF CELLS. I KNOW NO TALK BUT THE TALK OF THE STREETS, INFINITE STRANGERS I WILL NEVER MEET. I KNOW NO HAND BUT THE HAND THAT SLIPS FOOD TO ME. I KNOW NO GUARD, BEYOND THE JINGLING OF MY DOOR. I KNOW NO SUN BEYOND THE LIGHT THAT TRICKLES IN FROM MY BARRED WINDOWS. AND YET, I HAVE NEVER FELT MORE ENLIGHTENED. WITHOUT ENLIGHTENMENT, WE ARE NOTHING. I LIVE AS A HERMIT. I TAKE THE DIET OF THE EXALTED, I REFUSE TO EAT ANYTHING BUT CABBAGE, PUSHING IT STEADFASTLY BACK ACROSS MY DOOR. AND SO, THROUGH THE ADVICE GIVEN TO ME BY HIS HOLINESS, I FIND RESUMPTION IN WISDOM THROUGH GOD AND HIS PROPHETS. I FIND RESUMPTION OF SANITY IN THEIR IMITATION. ALL THE SAME I KNOW I GROW DETACHED FROM THE LIFE I ONCE LIVED. HERMITAGE IS NOT A FEAT, NOTHING TO BOAST OF. IT IS UTTER AND COMPLETE DEVOTION TO THAT WHICH YOU SET YOUR MIND TO: GOD. I LIVED TWENTY FIVE YEARS AS A MONASTIC. I WILL LIVE TWELVE MORE AS A TRUE ONE. IRONICALLY, CRUELLY, IT IS MY YOUTH I DREAM OF NOW. OF ANTONIUS HARREN’S REJECTION OF ME AS A SQUIRE. MY BLIND DESIRE TO BE A KNIGHT WAS WORLDLY. IT WAS NOT, HOWEVER MUCH I MAY HAVE PRATED IT WAS, A GODLY ONE. I DID NOT YEARN TO SERVE GOD. I YEARNED TO BE A KNIGHT. IT WAS ONLY THROUGH HUMILITY, EXILE, PAIN, AND SECLUSION, THAT I DID FIND GOD - IN MY SLEEP. I SAW THE ACCURSED LANRE CERUSIL SLAIN BY RAGUEL, AND I KNEW MY REQUIRED VOCATION FROM THEN ON. IT WAS MY DUTY, WITHOUT PAY, WITHOUT FOOD, WITHOUT STEAD, TO SERVE THE LORD GOD AND DO AWAY THESE HERETICS THAT DARED EXIST ON HIS PLANE. I WAS THE SOLE MAN OF A DEAD ORDER, AND YET IT DID NOT MATTER. MY SERVICE WAS TO GOD, AND GOD CAN NEVER BE DEAD, FOR HE IS GREATER THAN DEATH. MY CHAPTER MASTER HAD LONG ABANDONED ME - THIS CHAPTER MASTER WHO EVEN NOW, DECADES LATER, INVOKES WAR. DEATH. HE SEEKS TO ROB THE VERY GIFT GOD GRANTED US FROM THOSE WHO WOULD OPPOSE HIM. BUT, THIS DESIRE WAS GODLY, EVEN IF IT WAS GROUNDED IN WORLDLY AMBITION. TEMPLAR TAUGHT BY OIJIN - YOU KNOW YOUR OWN NAME. I THINK, MORESO, OF MY COMPANY IN MY YOUTH. THE MALINITES I SURROUNDED MYSELF WITH. KNOW THIS, GLORIA THRICEBLOOD. KNOW THIS, ADUNIANS. KNOW THIS, ANTONIUS, WHO I AM ETERNALLY INDEBTED TO FOR HIS EFFORTS, EVEN IN VAIN, TO REDEEM MY NAME TO THE TAR. IT WAS NOT TO BE. I AM PAN SLAWOMIR LIS. I AM THE LEPER KNIGHT. AND SO, WHEN I CLEAVED STEIN’S HEAD - STONE, OR WHATEVER FALSE NAME HE TOOK - FROM HIS BODY IN THE WHITE CITY, I LET ILDRIUNN DIE. I TOOK UP MY VOCATION AS A SERVANT TO GOD, THAT I SERVE HUMBLY, THAT I SERVE WITHOUT PRAISE, THAT I SERVE TO MY OWN PERIL. KNOW THIS, ADALFRIEDE, THAT MY IMPRISONMENT IS ONLY JUST SO LONG AS MY THOUGHTS ARE MY OWN. KNOW THIS, THAT INJUSTICE IS THE REFUSAL OF JUSTICE. KNOW THIS, THAT YOU REFUSE ME JUSTICE. TAKE MY TONGUE. GOD’S WILL SHALL GRANT IT BACK, AS IT DID MY EYES, AS IT DID MY LEGS, AS IT DID MY ARM. BUT THIS IS THE PERIL I ACCEPTED, AND SO THIS PERIL I ACCEPT. DREAMS OF IDUNIA (turnermohan) IT WAS IN THIS SCRUTINY OF MY PAST THAT I DID GLEAM THE PAST BEYOND IT. THE PAST IS STATIC, UNCHANGING, AND YET INFINITELY EXPLORABLE. I RECALL THE TEXTS OF THE SCHOLARIUM. I RECALL THE TEXTS OF THE BOWIES. I RECALL THE HERETIC FAITH PREACHED TO ME BY AL-ILLDIC, MY HOMESTEAD WHOSE NAME’S SIGNIFICANCE I DID NOT KNOW UNTIL MY SCHOLARLY READINGS AND INVESTIGATIONS. IT WAS IN THIS THOUGHT I DREAMT AGAIN. I DREAMT OF KILTS, I DREAMT OF SHAMANS, I DREAMT OF DRUII, AND IN MY SLUMBER, I GREW ENRAGED. FOR THE SIN OF HARREN WAS NOT THE LAYING WITH SARAI, FOR THIS HE WAS NOT ACCOSTED; THE SIN OF HARREN WAS REFUSING HIS VOCATION FROM GOD. HARREN CHOSE PERSONAL WORLDLY AMBITION OVER HIS PROPHETIC STATION. THE SIN OF HARREN WAS WORSHIP OF HIMSELF, OF THE TALLEST OF HIS TRIBE. THIS SIN, IT SERVES ONLY TO ENRAGE THE RIGHTEOUS. BUT THE SIN OF THE HARRENITES ONLY GREW AND FESTERED THERE FORTH. IN THE BLIND IGNORANCE TOWARD GOD, THEY WERE WHISPERED TO BY SAULICANS AND IBLEESIANS ALIKE, SERVANTS OF THE FOREST, DEMONS OF THE TREES. AND SO, THE HARRENITES STRAYED FURTHER AND FURTHER FROM THE HORENITE, GODLY IMAGE ALL MAN ARE MADE OF, AND APPROACHED THE MALINITE. THEY SOOK TO ABANDON THE COVENANT OF PURITY, AND THOSE WEAK WILLED AMONG THEM ANSWERED. BUT THIS CHURCH WAS WEAK, FOR THIS CHURCH WAS FALSE. ONLY LOST ADUNIANS - EXILES - DARE PREACH IT STILL. AND WHEN THEY DO, HERETICS, KNOW THAT IT SHALL BE THE BLADE OF A NUMENEDAN THAT SEVERS YOUR HEAD FROM YOUR BODY, AS I DID STEIN. FOR IT IS FOOLISH TO WORSHIP THE CREATIONS OF GOD INSTEAD OF ITS ALMIGHTY, WHOLE GLORY. YOU CONSUME BREAD, BREAD FROM FLOUR, FLOUR FROM GRAIN, GRAIN FROM WHEAT, WHEAT FROM EARTH, AND EARTH FROM GOD. WHY WOULD YOU WORSHIP ANY STEP BETWEEN, AND NOT THE FIRST, NOT THE GREATEST PROGENITOR? THE NATURE OF THE BIRTH OF OUR PEOPLE AND OUR EXISTENCE IS ONE QUITE WELL KNOWN. COMBAT, BETWEEN SARAI AND HARREN, UNTIL THERE WAS COMBAT NO MORE, BUT LOVE BETWEEN PEOPLES. OUR VERY ORIGIN IS SIN, BUT SIN SEEMINGLY FORGIVEN. DESPITE HIS SIN, DESPITE HIS TRIBE’S SIN, GOD IN HIS MERCY DEMANDED ONLY PENANCE THROUGH SERVING HIM, IN THE VOCATION HARREN WAS PROMISED. OUR ORIGINS ARE INTERTWINED WITH THIS SIN, AND THIS REBELLION, AND THIS REFUSAL OF GOD’S GIFT. AND YET, THROUGH GOD’S WILL, AND GOD’S WILL ALONE, WE CONTINUE TO EXIST. FOR, WERE WE NOT THE PEOPLE OF THE HOLY CITY? DID WE NOT LIVE BETWIXT THE TOWERS? WE EXIST MIRACULOUSLY, THROUGH THE WILL OF THE LORD GOD. WE ARE THE CHOSEN PEOPLE FOR THE FOURTH EXALTED. THE TRUE HEIR OF HOREN TO REPLACE THE FALLEN ONE. WE EXIST MIRACULOUSLY THROUGH GOD, AND THUS WE ARE HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE. GOD DID NOT STRIKE OUR LINEAGE DOWN. THOUGH DEFILED IN OUR PAST SIN, OUR PEOPLE WERE GOOD ONCE. OUR PEOPLE WERE DIGNIFIED, ROYAL, PRIESTLY, KINGLY, AND EXIST SOLELY THROUGH THE LORD’S DESIRE. FOR AS THERE WERE THREE SONS OF FLESH, SO TOO ARE THERE THREE SONS OF SPIRIT: ONE OF GODWIN, ONE OF JOREN, AND ONE OF HARREN, YET TO ARRIVE. OWYN’S ROLE WAS NOT TO TAKE UP THE MANTLE HARREN REFUSED, BUT RATHER TO PURIFY THE SIN HE INVOKED UPON HIS TRIBE. OWYN WAS THE PURIFIER, NOT THE HEIR. AND SO CAME THE FIRST SON OF SPIRIT, SON OF JOREN. FOR THERE WERE THREE SONS OF FLESH, AND SO TOO ARE THERE THREE SONS OF SPIRIT: ONE OF GODWIN, ONE OF JOREN, AND ONE OF HARREN, YET TO ARRIVE. GODFREY’S ROLE WAS NOT TO TAKE UP THE MANTLE HARREN REFUSED, BUT RATHER TO RESTORE THE KINGDOM, TO REFORGE THE MANTLE FOR HIS BROTHER TO TAKE. FOR THERE WERE THREE SONS OF FLESH, AND SO TOO SHALL THE THIRD SON OF SPIRIT COME, ONE OF HARREN, YET TO ARRIVE. AND HIS ROLE WILL BE THE ROLE OF HEIR, AND HE WILL TAKE UP THE MANTLE THAT OWYN, SCION OF JOREN, PURIFIED, THE MANTLE THAT GODFREY, SCION OF GODWIN, REFORGED. FOR HARRENITE REDEMPTION HENRY A HARPER I ROT AND LANGUISH UNWILLINGLY IN THIS CELL FOR VARIOUS WORKS I MADE TALKING TO THE REDEMPTION OF THE AZDRAZI OF TOR’PRAETH. I SHUNNED, THEN, AND STILL, THOSE OF SHIROHEBI, AND OTHER CLIQUES, AND I SHUN NOW, THAT OF TOR’PRAETH. I SHUN THEM FOR THEIR HERESY, DESPITE THE FALSE VIRTUOUS MISLED AMONG THEM. FOR, THE SAVING OF MAN DOES NOT COME THROUGH OPENING ITS ARMS TO A KOBOLD, BUT TO HIMSELF. THE OWYNFLAME, FLAME, AND FIRE THAT THE AZDRAZI PERVERT AS HOLY SIGNS OF THEIR OWN MORTAL KING OFFERS INFINITELY MORE REDEMPTION TO THE ADUNIANS, AND THE LINE OF HARREN, THAN IT EVER COULD TO THE MOLOCHSPAWN. THE MERE FACT THAT THEIR DEVILISH NATURE CAN BE CONCEALED, AND OFTEN IS, IS IRREFUTABLE PROOF OF ITS EVIL. WHY HIDE SOMETHING, IF IT IS GOOD? THIS SAME POINT HIS HOLINESS BROUGHT UP WHEN I REFUSED TO SIGN THESE VERY WORKS. I USED A PSEUDONYM, FOR, DEEP DOWN, I KNEW THEY WERE FLAWED. REDEMPTION, AS MY NAMESAKES WOULD SAY, AND AS I WOULD SAY, MUST COME THROUGH ACTION. A HOLY ACTION TO REDEEM THE LINE OF HARREN FROM THEIR PROGENITOR’S INACTION. THE OWYNSFLAME MUST BE EMBRACED, AND USED FOR THIS HOLY ACTION, AND NOT PERVERTED AND TWISTED AS THE AZDRAZI DO. THEIR FIRE IS USED TO SELFISH ENDS, TO CREATE UNHOLY WEAPONS THAT ONLY TOOLS, AND THINGS OF WAR, AND ONLY WAR, WOULD EVER NEED. THAT IS NOT THE PURPOSE OF FIRE. IT IS TO CLEANSE, TO PURIFY, AND TO REDEEM. THIS REDEMPTION IS OURS. IT IS HARRENITE. THE MERCYFLAME BURNS IN OUR HEARTS, THIS FLAME OF GOD. IT IS OUR MANDATE, SONS OF HARREN, TO CORRECT THE ERRORS OF PREDECESSORS. GOD CHOSE US TO IMBUE THE OWYNSFLAME WITHIN: THIS IS THE HEARTFIRE THE PAGANS TWISTED AND BASTARDIZED INTO THEIR OWN HERETIC FAITHS. I RECALL TO YOU THE RED FAITH: A WORSHIP OF FIRE. IT IS NO COINCIDENCE THAT THE NORLANDERS, AND THE ADUNIC HIGHLANDERS OF OLD SHARE CULTURAL TRADITIONS. ROUGH, RUGGED MEN OF THE NORTH, WERE FIRST US. WE WERE THE FIRST NORLANDERS, OUR HERETIC ANCESTORS. AND SO IT WAS US, AND OUR FLAME, THE FLAME OF GOD, THE MERCYFLAME, THAT THE RED FAITH WORSHIPS. THEY SAY, ‘The Allfather has saved us with his flame!’, BUT IT IS NO ALLFATHER. IT IS GOD. GOD WHICH SAVED YOU IN EXILE. GOD WHICH GAVE YOU HIS MERCYFLAME. GOD WHICH YOU DENY, YOU REJECT, SO FERVENTLY AS OUR ANCESTORS DID. YOUR REDEMPTION IS NULL THROUGH YOUR BREAKING OF OUR LINEAGE, THROUGH YOUR ELECTION OF MALINITE LEADERS, THROUGH YOUR CONTINUED REJECTION OF THE LORD GOD. HERESIARCH, I NAME YOU, HIGH KEEPER. IT WAS THE OWYNFLAME, THE MERCYFLAME, THAT SAVED YOUR PEOPLES FROM EXTINCTION, AND YET YOU WORSHIP IT AS IF ANOTHER GRANTED THAT FIRE UNTO YOU. WHERE IS YOUR ALLFATHER? HOW HAS HE APPEARED? WHAT HAS HE MADE? NOTHING. ONE SAULICAN, AMONG AN ALREADY IBLEESIAN-TAINTED GROUP OF HARRENITES, WHISPERED HIS NAME INTO THEIR EARS, AND FROM THERE WAS YOUR FAITH BORN. IN MISINTERPRETING YOUR SALVATION AS LINKED TO FALSE GODS AND LESSER PATRONS, INFINITELY LESSER ASPECTS OF THE LORD GOD, EVEN WORSE, NONEXISTENT ONES, YOU HAVE REPEATED HARREN’S ORIGINAL SIN. YOU HAVE DENIED THE VOCATION GIVEN TO YOU. YOU HAVE PRIORITIZED CONQUEST, DEATH TO THE MAGE, ABOVE YOUR GOD-GIVEN SPIRITUAL DUTY. WOE TO YOU, REJECTORS YE. THE HEARTSFLAME THOUGH OWYN IS RENOWNED FOR THE OATHING OF THE COVENANT OF SPIRIT AND HIS CLEANSING OF EDEL, SO TOO DID OWYN AND HARREN SWEAR A COVENANT OF REDEMPTION. ONE COVENANT THAT, NO MATTER WHAT, NO MATTER HOW GRAVE THE SIN, THE TRIBE OF HARREN WOULD BE REDEEMED BEFORE THE END TIMES. THE FLAMES THAT CONSUMED HARREN’S BODY AND HEART WERE NOT AZDROMOTH, AS I MAY HAVE HERETICALLY PUT FORTH PRIOR, BUT LOVE. THEY WERE LOVE OF A FATHER, LOVE OF A NEPHEW, LOVE OF THE LORD CREATOR GOD. OWYN’S SIN OF KINSLAYING, WAS NOT ONLY THIS, BUT IT WAS WRATH. IN WRATH, OWYN STRUCK THIS THROUGH HARREN’S HEART, PRESERVING HIM FOR ALL ETERNITY. AND SO HARREN WAS SENT TO JUDGEMENT, AND SO HE TOOK HIS PLACE WITH HIS FATHER IN THE SEVEN SKIES. AND SO HE STAYS THERE ETERNALLY, SEPARATED FROM THE SIXTH SKY, FROM HIS FATHER, BUT ALLOWED ETERNAL VIRTUE AND LIFE IN SPIRIT THROUGH THE FLAMES OF LOVE THAT DID PIERCE HIS HEART SO. BUT, THIS VERY LOVE, IS THAT WHICH CONDEMNS HARREN’S TRIBE NOT TO SIN, FOR THE SIN OF THEIR PROGENITOR, BUT RATHER TO THEIR REDEMPTION. AS HARREN ERRED, SO TOO CAN HIS PEOPLE, BUT SO TOO CAN THEY CHOOSE NOT TO ERR. SO TOO ARE THE HARRENITES REDEEMABLE, VIRTUOUS, AND THE CHOSEN PEOPLE. SUCH IS THE COVENANT OF REDEMPTION: THE TRIBE OF HARREN WILL BE REDEEMED THROUGH THEIR VOCATION, AND BEFORE THE END OF TIMES. AND SO MANY TIMES DID THE LORD GOD AND HIS ANGELS, AND HIS EXALTED, AND HIS SERVANTS ATTEMPT TO CORRECT THE HARRENITES, BUT MANY TIMES DID THE HARRENITES FALL STILL TO THE SAULICAN WHISPERS OF THE GREAT DECEIVER. THE LORD GOD DID PLACE THE MERCYFLAME THAT TOOK OUR PROGENITOR INTO ALL OUR HEARTS, AS IT WAS PLUNGED INTO HIS. HE TRIED TO SAVE THE PEOPLE OF THE HOLY CITY, AND YET WE DID NOT LISTEN. WE COMMITTED THE SAME SIN AS OUR FATHER. WE ERRED. WE FELL FROM THE DIGNITY, FROM OUR PRIESTLY, REGAL, NOBLE NATURE INTO PAGANS. WE BECAME LOST, AND WORSHIPED THE TREES, THE SPIRITS, AND ALL THOSE LESSER BEINGS. SUCH IS HOW THE LOST ADUNIANS OF YORE, THOSE HERETIC BOWIES THAT WERE THRUST OUT FROM SOCIETY BY CHOICE AND LACK OF VIRTUE, RATHER THAN THROUGH A NOMADIC LIFESTYLE, DID SPEW FLAME FORTH FROM THEIR CHESTS. THIS, IRREFUTABLY, WAS THE VERY MERCYFLAME THAT TOOK OUR PROGENITOR. AND IT WAS THESE VERY ADUNIANS THAT SERVED AS THE PRECURSOR TO THE NORLANDICS, THAT SERVED AS THE FLAWED PRECURSOR TO THE BOWIES OF THE OLD FAITH STILL TODAY. THOSE THAT LIVE AS PROOF OF HARREN’S SIN, AND ITS LIVELIHOOD. THE PATH FORWARD IS PAVED THROUGH MERCYFLAME. THROUGH OWYNFLAME. THROUGH THE VERY HEARTSFLAME OUR KIN CORRUPTED INTO A VILE INSTRUMENT OF THE SPIRITS. THE ADUNIAN LINE MUST RECLAIM ITS DIVINE VOCATION. WE MUST REBUKE THE SINS OF OUR ANCESTORS, AND STEM THE SIN FROM ITS ROOT: INACTION. WE MUST CORRECT THE MISTAKES OF HARREN AND THE PAGAN DISTORTIONS OF OUR ONCE PRIESTLY CULTURE. THROUGH HOLY ACTION AND PURIFICATION WILL WE BE REDEEMED AND RESTORED TO OUR ORIGINAL PURPOSE. TO SERVE. TO ACT. LUCIEN ☺

“Any Canonist who dares serve an iconoclast order has clearly surrendered their faith.” a chained man laments, his powerful metamancy allowing him to read a missive that would never reach him.

i dream for vargpontiff

“AND SO AS SINNER TAKES LASHING FOR REPENTANCE, THE KRUG MUST OFFER AND TEJECT THAT DISREGARD OF LIFE AND BLOODTHIRST THAT HAS SO PLAGGUED HIS FATHERS! HONOR TO YOU, HONORABLE KRUG!” LUCIEN CRIES TO HIS FAVORITE COBBLESTONE WALL.

RASPINGS FROM A CELL IN TIMES OF STRIFE OF MY FAITH I PRAY TO THE VENERABLE, TO THE BEATIFIED - I PRAY TO THOSE THAT PRAYED AND SAW THEIR PRAYERS COME TO LIGHT. I PRAY FOR THOSE YET TO REPENT. AS WE ALL SHOULD. I AM REMINDED OF THE NAMESAKE OF AN OLD FRIEND OF MINE, ADRIANUS CERUSIL. I SAW HIM BATHED IN THE WATERS OF THE GROTTO OF GRAMESH IN KRETZEN, BAPTISED, AND REBORN ANEW. HE TOOK THE NAME ADRIANUS, TO REFLECT HIS PRAYER FOR SUCCESS IN HIS CAREER. AND SO I SHALL PRAY FOR PEACE. WARS OF AGGRESSION ARE SIN, AND YET THE WAR THAT THE GOOD CANONIST PRINCE OF CAUROST WAGES ON THE HERESIARCH-THAIN HALFLING DEVIL-PRINCES IS NOT ONE OF AGGRESSION. IT IS ONE OF JUSTICE - THEY PURGE DEMONS, DARKSPAWN, IBLEESIANS, AND THE MOST SINFUL, LUST-DRIVEN CREATURES KNOWN TO AEVOS. THEY PURGE AN UNHOLY MIX OF MAN AND DWARF (OR HOWEVER HALFLINGS ARE MADE). TO LAY WITH ANOTHER TRIBE IS SIN. THUS, THEIR BIRTH IS SIN. THEY SHOULD STRIVE FOR INFERTILITY, AND YET, IN SPITE OF THE LORD GOD, THEY REPRODUCE. FOR THIS, THE VIRTUOUS GALAHAD WILL STRIKE THEM DOWN. THE GOOD MEN OF LORRAINE HAVE SEEN TO IT THAT THE CANONIST PRINCE GALAHAD IS AIDED IN THIS TASK. THOUGH GALAHAD HAS SINNED IN NOT SPREADING THE FAITH, AND PERMITTING THE HEATHEN IN HIS LAND, HE IS A CANONIST PRINCE, BUT FOREMOST, A CANONIST FATHER, PATRIARCH, ALL THE SAME. FOR THIS, A SWORD TO HIS CAUSE IS A SWORD TO A RIGHTEOUS ONE. IN REVERENCE OF THE MEN OF LORRAINE I SHALL PRAY WITH THEIR ANCESTOR, AND THE NAMESAKE OF MY FRIEND: ADRIANUS. HADRIEN DE SARKOZY WAS A SAVOYARD ALLY OF THE MEN OF LORRAINE. THE PATRON SAINT OF STATESMEN, HADRIEN DE SARKOZY WOULD BE THE MAN, IF THERE WERE ANY, TO LEAD GOOD CANONIST BOYS AND MEN AWAY FROM EARLY JUDGEMENT. A PRAYER WITH ST. ADRIAN O’ LORD GOD, BEHOLD HOW WE HAVE SINNED. BEHOLD HOW WE MUST PRAY TO YOU FOR PEACE AND SALVATION. BEHOLD HOW WE MUST REPENT, AND LASH OURSELVES FOR EVERY SIN WE DEAL BEHOLD HOW OUR TRIBES QUARREL AND ARGUE OVER THE SINFUL FEW THAT HAVE FALLEN TO CORRUPTION. HEAR OUR PLIGHT SAINT ADRIAN, AND PRAY FOR US. PRAY FOR OUR SOULS TO BE JUDGED, AND GRANTED ETERNAL REFUGE IN THE SEVEN SKIES. JUDGE OUR CAUSE RIGHTEOUS, STEER OUR COURSE TOWARD PEACE, TOWARD ETERNAL PEACE. MAY OUR KIN ALWAYS SEEK THE PATH OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, JUSTICE AND MERCY. MAY THE SINNER BE HUNG AT THE DECREE OF OUR JUST GAVEL. ASK THAT THE LORD GRANT THAT THE VIRTUOUS MAY BE ENABLED BY THE LORD GOD’S POWERFUL PROTECTION, SAINT ADRIAN, TO LEAD MEN WITH HONESTY AND INTEGRITY. GUIDE US IN YOUR VIEW, LORD GOD. AMEN ON MURDER AND DEATH LIFE IS THE MOST DIVINE GIFT GRANTED UNTO US BY GOD. WE ARE MADE IN HIS LIKENESS AND HOLD A RESPONSIBILITY TO LIVE AS VIRTUOUSLY AS WE CAN SO OUR SOULS MAY PASS TO THE SEVEN SKIES, SHOULD WE LIVE IN IMITATION OF THE EXALTED. WE LIVE IN IMITATION OF THE MOST HOLY OF MEN, THE MOST HOLY OF MEN, WHO, EVEN THEY, SINNED. LIFE IS SACRED, LIFE IS A GIFT. TO TAKE IT UNJUSTLY IS A REJECTION OF A GIFT GRANTED BY GOD, AND A VIOLATION OF DIVINE LAW. LIFE IS THE TEST THROUGH WHICH OUR SOULS ARE WEIGHED: OUR TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS DICTATE OUR ABILITY TO PASS INTO THE SEVEN SKIES, TO LIVE LIKE HE ABOVE. THUS, IT IS NOT WITH AN EASY PEN THAT I MUST WRITE THE DEATH OF HERETICS AND HEATHENS AND ALL THE DEMONSPAWN AND SINNER AND THE LIKE. IT IS WITH CONVICTION THAT I ACT, IN EVERY ACT, IN EVERY WORD. IT IS WITH CONVICTION THAT I DECREE THE DEATH OF THE HALFLING HERESIARCH AND ALL THOSE WHO SERVE THEM TWO VIRTUOUS, WITH NO MORE AUTHORITY THAN IS VESTED IN ME BY SIMPLY BEING. I, THE PEASANT, THE MILLER’S BOY, CALL THE MEN OF LORRAINE VIRTUOUS IN THEIR FELLING OF SINFUL BEASTS. EVEN IF THE WEEMAN IS NOT A SINNER IN HIMSELF, HIS DEFENSE OF THE SINNER EVEN AFTER THEIR OWN HERESIARCH’S EXPOSURE AND COLLUSION WITH THE SINNER, EVEN AFTER THEIR OWN DIPLOMAT’S OATH BREAKING, HONORLESSNESS, AND DEFAMING OF HIS HOLINESS, MAKES HIM A SINNER IN AND OF HIMSELF. HE HAS BECOME SLOTH. HE HAS BECOME SO DISILLUSIONED WITH LIFE THAT HE IGNORES THE HOLY, AND UNHOLY FACTS BEFORE HIM: THE KINGDOM HE RESIDES IN IS A KINGDOM OF SIN. THUS THE ONLY VIRTUOUS ACT OF THE WEEMAN OR OTHERS IN THE SERVICE OF THE HERESIARCH-THAIN WEEMAN HIMSELF IS TO REBEL, AND TO SLAY ANY THAT THEN SERVE THIS HERESIARCH. CONSIDER THIS CALL A CALL TO ALL WEEFOLK: RISE AND REBEL. THE TRIBES OF MALIN AND KRUG ARE ONES WHO HAVE BATTLED EACH OTHER AND THEMSELVES INFINITELY MORE THAN YOUR OWN PEACEFUL FOLK. YOUR ONLY CHANCE FOR PENANCE, AND SURVIVAL IN THIS WORLD, WITHOUT PASSING ONTO THE VOID (WHERE YOU ARE ALL HEADED SHOULD YOU NOT REBEL) IS THUS TO REBEL. THEREFORE, IT IS ONLY VIRTUOUS THAT THE MEN OF LORRAINE, WHILE YOU DO NOT REBEL, TAKE YOUR SINNER NEIGHBOR, TAKE YOUR SINNER WIFE, TAKE YOUR SINNER CHILD. SO LONG AS THE CHILD CAN THINK, SO LONG AS THE CHILD CAN SEE, AND SO LONG AS THE CHILD CAN HEAR WORDS OF SIN BEING CAST UPON THEIR FELLOW, AND THE CHILD DOES NOT REBEL, OR THROW STONES AT THE PASSING WEEMAN SOLDIER WHO SEEEKS TO ENFORCE THE AUTHORITY OF A HERETIC, THE CHILD TOO IS CAPABLE OF SIN. THE MAN OF LORRAINE WHO KIDNAPS, AND DOES NOT HARM THIS CHILD, THEN, IS IN HIS VIRTUOUS RIGHT TO DO SO. THE VIRTUOUS MAN OF LORRAINE WHO HOLDS RANSOM THIS SINNER, THEN, AND DOES NOT KILL HIM, IS VIRTUOUS. BUT, SO TOO IS THE MAN OF LORRAINE THAT HOLDS RANSOM THIS SINNER, AND PASSES THEM TO JUDGEMENT FOR GOD. IT IS NOT US TO JUDGE THE SINNER AND WEIGH THEIR SINS TO THEIR VIRTUES, THEIR EVIL TO THEIR GOOD, BUT TO THE LORD GOD WHEN HE CHOOSES TO CAST THEM ETERNALLY INTO THE VOID OR WELCOME THEM INTO THE SKIES. A FINAL PROCLAMATION DEATH TO YOU, HERESIARCH. SHOULD YOU STILL LIVE BY THE TIME I VENTURE OUT OF THIS BLASTED CELL, I SHALL HUNT YOU DOWN AND CLEAVE YOUR HEAD FROM YOUR BODY UNTIL YOUR BLABBERING MOUTH DECIDES TO REPENT. YOU MUST REPENT AND SUBMIT TO THE DEMANDS OF THE CANONIST PRINCE OF CAUROST. YOU MUST REPENT AND EXPEL THE DEMONIC PURGE UPON YOUR LAND. YOU MUST REPENT AND SLAY THE IBLEESIAN THAT YOU HAVE SO SLOTHFULLY ALLOWED ENTRY INTO YOUR LAND. YOU MUST REPENT AND COME TO LEMON HILL BEFORE HIS HOLINESS TO ACCEPT YOUR HUMBLE PENANCE. I RAISE FOR ONE INSTANCE, A SHIRE KNIGHT. I PLACE ON THIS ‘KNIGHT’ A BOUNTY TO ALL THOSE OUTSIDE MY CELL, AND ALL THOSE WITH A SHOVEL TO DIG UP WHAT LITTLE GOODS I BURIED: LEONI MAY THE SCORE OF 50 MINA GO TO WHICHEVER BLADE BANISHES THIS SCOURGE TO THE HELL FROM WHICH SHE WAS BORN. HERESIARCH, THIS IS FIRST OF YOUR MANY SINS FOR WHICH YOU MUST DO PENANCE. REPENT FOR EVER HOSTING THIS UNGODLY CREATURE. CLEAVE THIS CURSED CHILD’S HEAD FROM ITS BODY, AND SALT THE SEVERED SPINE TO MAKE SURE IT NEVER RETURNS FROM THE HELLS. LUCIEN LUKAS VON BERKHOVEN