Endovelicus

"Cute." Comments Stephen "Bugnanov" Carolus

Aesterwald joins the schism

“I don’t get their fixation on such things, anyhow.” Replied a spectral Kristoff in paradise, scratching his missing eye’s socket with a stump where his right hand used to be. “Back in my day people were going crazy over...oh what’s it called? Oh yes the printing press or whatever it was.” The man yawned, stretching back on a comfortable chaise longue in the heavenly palace where the saints reside.

Application form (for detailed mechanics, please confer with the ruleset linked above) Discord: João#4069 Name (colony): Apostolate of the Word Archetype: Religious Community Mother Nation: None in particular, support from the Vatican Sponsoring Space Agency: The Catholic Church if allowed Colonial Leadership: Oligarchic Mission classification: Expansion Add. starting equipment: 1 G, 2 Population, 2 C Background: The first foray of the Catholic Church into space began with Blessed Simon Langford, retired NASA astronaut and convert to the faith. Inspired by the early Christians who became monks and went into the Egyptian desert in order to be separated from society, Blessed Langford and some of his disciples created various orbital hermitages. These hermitages were regarded well by the Catholic hierarchy, and this was the start of the Sidereal Monasticism movement. These are the roots of the Apostolate of the Word. With the increase in secularism and atheism in the west, the Catholic Church's outlook changed, from a global, open organization ready to flex its influence into a much more introspective and pastoral church. It's active members in Western nations became fewer, but those few grew in their fervor and so the steady decline plateaued. Now a new opportunity of proselytism and growth presents itself to Rome. Pope Gregory XVII has called for new church reforms and the beginning of a new Apostolic Age, he had a dream of a truly Universal Church, with its presence in the stars themselves, it was this task that the Pope presented to the Langfordian Fathers. With donations from the Roman Curia and Congregations from all over Earth, a colonial endeavor was started, colony ships were built and a new Apostolate under the Langfordian Fathers was started. Soon the very word of Christ would be proclaimed not only in space, but in Alien worlds!

when will u and i play another frp like when we first met? also, nerd. when will u and i play another frp like when we first met? also, nerd.

Stephen nods, getting the news on the weekly mail service, confident that justifce will be done.

Stephen nods, reading the work of his brother Wigbrechtian. He places it upon his home altar, dipping his head gently as he takes out his pipe, lighting it and taking a heavy drag. “The new Wigbrechtian Theological Movement, focusing on a personal relation with God and Theosis as well as the modus by which God operates on an individual basis with each believer ushers in a new time of personal and common piety in contrast with the more abstract and distant view of God in ages past.” He writes to a weekly canonist periodical being published later that Saint’s Week.

ON SALVATION & SALVIFIC GRACE A THESIS ON CONDITIONAL ELECTION AND PREVENIENT GRACE Penned by Stephen Carolus, Wigbrechtian Tertiary, Esq. Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat granted by His Excellency, Abram Virgilius Calistovich, Archdiocese of Caeruleum The Rendering of the Void during the End Times, by Christopher FitzBishop, Circa 1677. ✠ DEDICATION This treatise on Salvific Theology is in part dedicated to His Holiness James II, to whom I swear fidelity as his most faithful son in God, to my friend, His Excellency Bram, Archbishop of Caeruleum. Furthermore, I beseech the illumination of Exalted Siegmund, the prayers of Saint Jude, Blessed Wigbrecht, and the aid of God, so that I may write truthfully. ✠ GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY OVER TIME AND MATTER God is, as revealed by the Holy Scrolls through the Sacred Prophets, all-knowing and all-powerful. It was He that in the very beginning made all the planes of existence (Godfrey 1:2-5), and it was He who commanded all the Aenguls and Daemons to build the firmaments and create the living creatures of lesser intellect (Godfrey 1:10-13), and it was He who made and breathed life into the First Coupling, the progenitors of the Four Brothers (Godfrey 1:27-30). No being nor construct is above Him, for He made them all. So too time does this rule apply. Time is a mere construct, it has its ultimate foundation in matter. For, we divide time according to the movement of the Sun or of the swing of a pendulum, and since God begets matter and matter begets time so does God beget time. With the supremacy of God over time established we must now establish His relationship with time itself. For God, there is neither past nor present nor future. He simply stands above all time and acts as He wishes to act. If someone prays for the wellbeing of all, God may take said prayer that was uttered in 1732 and distribute His grace on a group not yet born, or even for a group already dead, because while the faithful may pray now, God does not use the context of now. For God everything that has happened, is happening and will ever happen is at His disposition and control. It is now that the main question unfolds. If God has supremacy over time in all aspects, does He not determine if someone is saved or damned? Does He not know the ultimate destiny of each soul before the individual is even born? ✠ CONDITIONAL ELECTION As stated in Holy Scripture, God is our Father (Horen 1:5-6), and like any father, His aim is our ultimate satisfaction, here on earth through virtue and the worldly pleasures He has given us, and later union and theosis with Him in the Skies (Horen 3:3-4). Seeing as it is God’s ultimate will for us to be saved, and there are people who are damned (Siegmund 2:44-45), and seeing as God is our Father and a father’s ordered aim is the good of their progeny God cannot be evil, it, therefore, follows that any of the damned are damned due to their own Free Will. If God, therefore, does not will for the damnation of some and the salvation of other, but rather the salvation of all of those who wish to heed His word: there is no unconditional election, wherein all are either saved or damned according to His whim, but a conditional election of all those who wish to be saved, which he knows due to his position outside of time. The condition upon which the salvation of the individual depends upon is, very clearly, the reception of baptism at the hands of His priesthood (Godfrey 5:23-24). Thusly without baptism and the reception into God’s salvific plan, there is no salvation for the soul of the individual because he was never called in the first place. ✠ THE ELECTION OF THE GENTILES INTO GOD’S COVENANT The reception into God’s salvific plan, should, in most cases, only be received by those of Human descent. Because only Horen, the father of Humanity, was chosen to carry God’s covenant through the baptism at Gamesh (Godfrey 2:33-38), the Gentile races, the various children of Malin, Urguan and Krug, need only follow the precepts of the Scroll of Virtue in order to be redeemed. This, however, means that they shall not receive perfect communion with the creator at the end of times when Iblees and his servants are destroyed, they shall instead be given dominion over a new cleansed earthly paradise (Siegmund 3:11-13) that is, nevertheless, outside of the Skies and therefore not a place of supernatural spiritual rejoicement and perfect theosis, but one of supernatural worldly happiness. ✠ THE TOTAL DEPRAVITY OF CREATION & PREVENIENT GRACE Due to the fall of Iblees, disobedience and doubt, and therefore sin, became ingrained in the material world. As one can see through careful reading of the Holy Scrolls, shortly after the fall of Iblees the four brothers began to lose faith in God without any external incentive to do so (Godfrey 2:2 & Godfrey 2:5-7). Thusly it was Iblees’ ‘non serviam!’ towards God that doomed the material world and the spirit of the four descendants into gradual decay. This further explains our constant nature as exiles from previous continents, as some leviathan or natural disasters drives us further and further away. This also explains the necessity for the regeneration of the fallen world at the end times (Sigismund 3:4-10). The salvation of those who wish to join in the covenant with God comes through Prevenient Grace, or grace that comes before the act of man. Being all-knowing, God grants graces to those who He knows will accept it, and being outside of time He acts before man, in order to conform his soul to Him (Horen 2:5). This is necessary because without supernatural grace the soul cannot truly yearn for God and wish to be with him due to our sinful nature as outlined before.

"Brother sun and siiister moon..." sings a Wigbrechtian friar as he works on his garden.

****** rly be leaving fr ??? **** lotc tho bro keep ur head up king haven't been actively playing in a while and I don't miss it

"This kinda slaps tho.” Says a youth.

Prince-Abbacy of San Anselmo PINK João#4069 HISTORIA DE RELIGIOSI ANSELMINI Started by the hermit, Saint Anselm the Lesser, the town grew around the lonely hermit as shepherds and farmers seeked his holy wisdom, as well as defend themselves from country bandits in the hillock where the saint seeked refuge. Saint Anselm soon found himself with various disciples whom he took under his wing and thus made his own monastic rule, mixing heavy asceticism with a semi-cloistered lifestyle, with the Saint’s motto being: “Urbis Manemus, in Coelo Speramus”, In the City we dwell, in Heaven we hope. This mixture of asceticism with urbanism led to, in the 1000s, after the town of San Anselmo had been raided by various roaming bandit groups, the town folks throwing off the yoke of the Signoria and choosing the Abbot as the local lord. Dom Idelfonse, 5th Abbot of the Order of Saint Anselm, became the Lord San Anselmo and the surrounding pastoral fields. Using the Monastery’s defenses and by contracting mercenaries the Monastery proved a worthy defender of the local people. The Anselmites’ influence quickly spread across the region previously devoid of any strong central authority, with the local mannorial and pastoral lords accepting the monastic rule. During the Rupertian War of Unification, in the 1100s, the Anselmites supported the cause of the Prince, sending some meagre troops for the war effort as well as sending some monetary aid. Being one of the few eastern lords to support Rupert, the now King gave some parcels of land to the otherwise impoverished holdings of the Abbot, as well as legally recognising the Anselmites as lords of the local lands, elevating the Abbey into a Princely-Abbey. This new growth of land, however, meant that new lords were now under the abbot. Being displeased with this arrangement, in 1197, the northern nobility raised their hosts, fighting a skirmish with the Abbot’s militia near Guilianno’s Well. The battle was inconclusive but with both faction’s financial situation in peril they agreed to sign an agreement, the Abbot would preside over a new Signoria which would vote on various monetary matters. This Signoria was made up of the petty mannorial nobility and the Bonshommes, rich peasants and merchants given access to the Signoria by the Abbot. The Order of Saint Anselm the Lesser is not in particularly good relations with the Klangenfurtian church hierarchs, Saint Anselm’s Rule did not sit well with some past Archbishops, who sought to bring the abbey under their control as well as to bring the order’s Regula more in line with Dominican and Benedictine standards. The Anselmites fought against this, even recurring to foreign Bishops to confer holy orders and to tonsure future monks. ABATI DE ANSELMINI Abbots: St Anselm the Lesser - 947-964 Dom Guilemme - 964-973 Dom Anselm II the Younger - 973-991 Dom Yyves the Franconian - 991-995 Dom Idelfonse - 995-1013 Dom Anselm III the Drunk - 1013-1013 [Deposed] Blessed Bernard the Goodly - 1013-1016 [Martyred] Dom Hadriano - 1016-1028 Dom Hughes - 1028-1033 Dom Idelfonse II the Old - 1033-1066 Dom Idelfonse III the Third One - 1066-1079 Dom Ulfo - 1079-1082 Dom Bruno the Benedictine - 1082-1086 [Deposed] Dom Anselm IV - 1086-1087 [Poisoned] Period of unrest which led to no abbot being elected - 1087-1093 Dom Anselm V the Hopeful - 1093-1111 Dom Giacommo - 1111-1127 Dom Bernard II - 1127-1140 Dom Reinhard the Styrian - 1140-1151 Dom Ulfo II - 1151-1159 Ulfo II officially recognised as Prince-Abbot: Prince-Abbots: Dom Ulfo II - 1159-1160 Dom Carmino - 1160-1164 Dom Richard the Anglian - 1164-1188 Dom Gianni - 1188-1204 [Signoria Re-established in 1197] Dom Bonifacio the Senile - 1204-1204 St Frederico the Godly - 1204-1243 Dom Domingo the Dominican - 1243-1246 [Deposed] Dom Hernando the Child - 1246-1305 [Elected as a new-born, most of reign enacted by the Signoria] Dom Enrico the Unlucky - 1305-1306 [Killed by the Signoria] Coup of the Signoria, monastery is disbanded until being reinstated in 1325 - 1306-1325 Dom Anselm VI - 1325-1330 Dom Gianni II - 1330-1337 Dom Bernard II the Boastful - 1337-1342 Dom Guerard - 1342-1356 Dom Frederico II the Boring - 1356-1366 Dom Johan the Poxy - 1366-1377 Dom Reinhard II - 1377-1379 Dom Anselm VII - 1379- CIVITAS SAN ANSELMINIENSIS THE FORTIFIED MONASTERY TOWN OF SAINT ANSELM San Anselmo is a small town of set around the monastery that bears the same name as the town. Began by the hermit, Saint Anselm the Lesser, the town quickly grew as the hillock was defensible against the country bandits. As more and more people came into the hillock and surrounding plains. As the city grew it began holding various leatherworkers, a few smiths, some taverns and a couple of parish churches. The real economic boon of the town, however, is the annual pilgrimage in June, where pilgrims come from many parts of Klagenfurt in order to pray near the relics of Saint Anselm. Every June thousands of pilgrims come and go, leaving plenty of coin as they leave donations to the monastery, they buy food, and sometimes, as they buy women. Other than the businesses associated with the pilgrimages, San Anselmo boasts of a thriving leatherworking industry, as every year at the start of Autumn, the various cattle ranchers, be they freemen or serfs of various noble families, bringing their cattle to San Anselmo to be slaughtered. As the meat is cured, salted and traded away, the leather stays, being cured, tanned and made into various products. Alongside all the economic factors San Anselmo is the political and religious center of the region, being where the Palazzo de Signoria is located and where the Abbey of Saint Anselm the Lesser is located. This makes it the most important urban center in the region. That being said, San Anselmo is still one of the smallest urban centers of Klagenfurt, with little over than 10.000 inhabitants, being the poorest also. The remaining 80.000 are spread across the Prince-Abbacy, with 5.000 living inside the walled port of San’Angelo in the south.

"Why is this all in yellow? Did Haense run out of black ink?" Aska Gideon.

"Pfff being a Judite monk is way cooler." Comments Father Gideon, OSJ.

Father Gideon, OSJ, nods in approval.

“You little ones are cute.” Father Gideon, OSJ, comments jovially.

“Democracy is against GOD’s will. The prophets weren’t chosen by their inferiours, but by their only superiour, GOD Himself.” Comments Father Gideon, OSJ.

Nation applying for: Crimean Khanate BREIF History of your Nation: As the Borjigin mongols drove westerwards they came in contact with turkic kipchaks, mixing quickly began as the Borjigin, led by Bodonchar Munkhang, incorporated various kipchak tribes. This mixture of peoples resulted in the “tatars”. Bodonchar settled in the middle of the scythian steppe, dividing his tribe upon his death, his son receiving parts. One of his sons, Bodonchar Batu, known as Batu Khan, led his host south, moving to the old Kingdom of the Bosporus. The greek colony had been in a long state of decline over the centuries, being subject to countless raids from northern steppe peoples, both of turkic and indo-european extraction. This led to an easy occupation of northern crimea. Whilst cities in the north like Tanais along the Don river had fallen, cities like Kimmerikon, Theodosia and Scythian Neapolis resisted the northern advances of the tribes. A local despot had arisen, Alexandros Gabras, claiming the title of “Basileius of Kimmerikon”, and as a military man he proved to be a competent leader, causing the Tartars many defeats. Seeing that the south would not yield Batu Khan approached Alexandros and a compromise was met: Batu would marry one of Alexandros’ daughters and their progeny will inherit both the Khanate and the greek colonies. Batu married Alexandros’ daughter, Athena, the ceremony being performed in both the hellenic and tengri rites. With the death of the aged Alexandros, Batu placed his son, Aegimon (Ayushiridara in Tatar), as Basileius of Kimmerikon. The aged Batu spent the remainder of his life subjugating surrounding tribes and greek colonies. Passing away, Aegimon ascended as both Basileius to the greeks, and Khan to his father’s people. The fusion of greek and turkic beginning in his reign. To cement this he took the name of Bargion-Garbas (Bargion being the hellenised version of Borjigin). Leader(s): Cassinian II Bargion-Garbas. Discord: João#4069

“Our Pontiff sees himself as a reformer?” Brother Gideon muses, recovering from the bloody flux. “Let us pray that the Holy Light doesn’t illumine him too radically.”

Brother Gideon smiles.

Brother Gideon approves.

Saint Kristoff grimaces as the works of a known iconoclast are published!

APPLICATION Discord Name; João#4069 Nation of Choice (and why?); Vatican Head of State: Pope Benedict XVI, kept alive in his Golden Cathedra Head of Government: Cardinal Peter Hoffman III, Graf von Wiederhausen-Strassbecken und Leinigen-am-Rhein Ideology: RadTrad Catholicism Military statistics: 1.000 Elite Swiss Guard, 2 Battle Cruisers, 5 Cruisers, 20 Destroyers Did you read all the information?; Yes Suggestions or feedback?; N/A