Trenchist

After the Battle of the Flowers of Westmark, Sir Prenkus stood amid the wreckage, his blade stained and armor scarred, but his stance unbroken. The meadow, once bright with color, now bore the marks of a hard-won victory. Around him lay the fallen—enemy and ally alike—testament to the price of triumph. He did not mourn in silence; he stood tall, the banner of The Holy Host still in hand, a symbol that justice would endure.

"That there is a King Who Rules Forever they willingly forgot." Commented a Fr Elim in his priestly garments overlooking the crusaded city, taking another mallaria pill.

Fr. Elim forwards his registered paper to the office of Kardinal Konigsberg Sariant Lion in Judah. CLERIC REGISTRATION FORM: Full Name: Elim Temmeck de Langford Birth: 1XXX Homeland: Waldeno-Kaedrin Title: Secretary-Cardinal, Bishop Lemon Hill, Justice of the High Court Ordainer, and Ordainment Date (Imperial Time): Bishop Guy, 19XX Sect: Lemon Hill Confession, SFLH (Scholastic Fraternity of Lemon Hill) Biography: Born to a fledgling Heussen (Waldeno-Kaedreni offshoot) tribe in diaspora, studied Law at St. Everard University with dual PhD. in Insurance and Zoning Law, before an existential-crisis prompted career change in the Church of the True Faith. Ordination and early missionary work alognside Fr. Callahan (HP Harrentzedek) and the development of Lemon Hill as a Pontifical enclave aswell as co-founding the early Lemon Hill School of Thought. Symbol: Accumulated Works: ADDRESSES: WAYWARD SONS, 2021 LETTER TO ALL VANDERS, 2021 BISHOPRIC OF LEMON HILL, 2013 TIME OF THE JUDGES, 2003 HORENIC DETERMINISM & PARADISIUS, 2001 THEOLOGY: ON COSMOLOGY AND GENESIS, 1997 COVENANTS OF THE EXALTED

Cardinal Elim had just given his best attempt at baking a Pizzaball, manifesting hard his reckless appetite, but he heard from underhill-way a great dwarf screech, but instead his bespectacled eyes rose skyward - and he beheld the WHITE CLOUD of WHITE SMOKE and soon his pizzaball forgone in dough he ran to the Tabernacle with glee a-hundredfold more Provident to receive the spear Pontiff anew.

Cardinal Elim mails a High Priest and Lamb Miniature Figurine 2025AD Edition Collectible to the Sohaer of the High Elfs.

"The water... it makes you forget. They put something in it." says Elim to Citizen Raullin @OBJCTION

"It's never been more back," whispers Father Elim to her.

A wrinkly bespectacled priest in one of the myriad labyrinthine offices of the Holy See Complex, Building 5 [nondescript] begins compiling the names.

wish @wowj never stepped down...

A Cardinal (Elim) wheezes when he reads this.

W A Y W A R D S O N S or A Rebuke of “the Forgotten Calling”, To Fathers Godfrey, Witmar and Bro. Matteo, who it seems the calling forgot themselves, & those with faculties of reason; I shall spare the preface, for my fingers grow cold in the chill wind, and your fallacies need answering. “On Dubious Loyalty to Canon Law” You agree in your wording own that the Decree of the High Priest, through his role as vicar of G-d, made ex cathedra is infallible. The High Priest has been vocal in his reformation and dissolvement of the existent copies of Canon Law, and dictated that they no longer hold a binding stance in Canonist legislature or judiciary. To quote the very legal code deemed unequivocally disused to insist upon itself leads your arguement nowhere. There is no other way to go about this, lest one disowns the authority of the Supreme Pontiff, and I drear to think the dissident priesthood would damn itself so far in the defense of an excommunicant prince. Canon Law, in any of its revised versions, has never held sacred or divine inspiration; not in the time of its framing, not in its publication or in its subsequent revisions. It is not binding to or sovereign to the Pontiff. This is why (Anti)pontiff Arnaud Sixty-Six sat the chair as the most sinful and criminal priest in recent memory, by the standards of G-d and Canon Code both, and Cardinal Callahan never rebelled his station. Just as the Canon Law was made applicable law by Ecclesiastical Decree, so too it has been undone. A grave FOLLY is to put one’s Faith, obedience and loyalty to a manly, and for all purposes of divinity, arbitrary paper. It seems you have made in your view the Canon Code into a truth on terra. I remind you the words of Pontiff James II in his attack of the Worship of Reason, that manly laws are not His Word, amuch as some would like them to be, and chiefly too the words of Prophet Owyn, who divined future man’s descent into the worship of idols in painted names of sanctity, and at its core is that very line which you currently tread: ‘There is no innovation in Faith.’ (Epistle to the Jorenites). The claims of a Legal Code’s sacrosanctity verges very dangerously on blasphemy, too. I heed caution in the elevation of legalism, the devisement of lawyers, to the same pedestal reserved for our truly sacred Scripture, the dictated Word of G-d. His Holiness, in the time of his health, and currently the Curia, refers to Scripture on the arbitration of justice, as the Priesthood is bid and expected (by the very same Scripture), and not to a legal framework declared defunct. If the metric for the governance of the priesthood is, as you claim, the Canon Law, I should like to direct you to the SOLE and UNCHANGING CONSTITUTION of the Faith and its Church , that is, the Holy Scrolls. To deny this is to deny the foundation of Canondom wholly, which is not the Canon Code version of the day, but the Word of G-d and His Prophets. I don’t rightly know why seedlings of hypocrisy now stir in your mind. The same extends to your resignation from the College of the Cardinals. If the Faith is chief in your mind, Father Godfrey, why do you seek to distance yourself from the institutions where you have not once been silenced, and the purpose of which is the governance of the Church you so attack now? It is evident your entire arguement for “disobedience” to Canon Law is wrought by your continued fumble to grasp at anything you have learned to lean on and love in a docile, inactive and advisoral Church. Too, you lend your arguements to very arbitrary and personal differences you hold within the Curia, that should never cascade to the disownment of the Church, and ‘calls for our penance’. You hold not the authority for it. You mighty had actually did, until you resigned. I had expected more of a great legal mind, given you are a priest and scholar of the Faith, to make the simple equation of OBEDIENCE to the Church. I might outline those duties of a priest to you in a very simple formula for you later. “On The Administration’s Unjust War” The single and foolproof fact that dismantles your argument that the Church wages war on Canondom is that it is not the Church which began hostilities, but the Kingdom of Haense by their use of the Vinovan Company. Further flair about the warmongery of the Curia is not needed when it were the Faithful who were first put to death on the steps of the Holy See. The war had already been declared, much as the Prince of Haense would like to distance himself from it, and his refusal of penance has thus set him on the defensive. To invoke the ‘Canon Code’ to rule that the King’s heir-apparent and brother must not bear the weight of penance for himself, as heir, and for his kingdom, just goes further to show that your reverence for legalism and the written Scripture are quite detached from one another. In O’ IDIOCY, Chapter II, Hanseti-Ruska, As Regards Joren I, these are well refuted. In short, Scripture is riddled with both direct passages and overarching narratives about the succession of sin among nations and their rulers. In your defense of Joren and Haense you are at best advocate-subservant of an Excommunicant, or at worst insolent to Scripture. It baffles me that men and princes and now priests stand to fight in defense of this illogic. On the argument that the among the allies of the Church are counted dwarfs and orcs and pagans, I say in likened words to those of Ilia Aeneth in her refutation of the Covenant’s Idiocies; The Mission of the Church is Universal among Horen, Krug, Malin and Urguan alike, as bid by our Covenant of Instruction (something the Canon Code would not tell you), and the True Faith in its mission must extend to all life on G-d’s Earth. That this ‘administration’ has worked into being three consecutive True Faith orc-kings and the Canonist faith of the elfen ruler of Caurost, by virtue of its ‘involvement’ with non Humans, should not on the lips of any Faithful member of the Priesthood be ‘an affront to G-d’. Your haughtiness is costing you the standing of your soul, Father Godfrey. You forget what the Ministry is about, because you have drowned it so in legalism and constraints that you see no longer The Mission and the Promise. On the barbarity of the heathens, I say, it is lamentable, and being worked upon in earnest. Otherwise, the captives of Human race are judged fairly for their penance. If only the princes of Hyspia, crowned not a fortnight ago, would stand by the Church which devised its desert peace and kinghood. If only the lords of Reinmar, supposed ‘Vanders’ (who drove the term to a deep and solemn grave in the true test of loyalty), would stand by the Church instead of Haeseni interests. If only John of Balian, who regained his kingship by virtue, penance and obedience would had remembered the fruits of piety that bore him his crown back. It is astounding, still, that heathens and pagans would stick out their head in defense of the Church, while so many princes in Humanity stand against it. It is indicative not of a fault with the Church, as you would have it, but of their own disobedience. Again, this argument that the Princes do not recognize the institution of the Church does not serve itself; it goes only to prove that tyranny and an an extrajudicial reign; nay, a belief in sovereignty over the Church, free in its delirious impunity, unshackled by virtue or due justice, is the only defense of the covenant when the Church comes to check. “On The Corrupting Influence of Secular Affairs” Your arguement here is reflective of your on staunch support of the separation of Church and state, or in other words, the docility and sterilization of the Faith in the world. I refer in part to the writings of Father Witmar, who helped you devise this apparently, but has criticized this divorce between the Faith and the Estates of man, and your Sigismundic notion of subjugation and detachment of VIRTUE from KINGHOOD. Who, do you recommend, could had taken Citizen Charles to prison for kinslaying? Who, do you think, should had tried the King of Balian for conspiracy to kill the Pontiff? Certainly not the Church, since in your perfect world, it is reserved the role of advisement and ‘instruction’. I shall remind you that when a Father instructs his son, to get to any length of progress, he must also reprimand his son, when he faults gravely. I disagree fundamentally with your sterilized vision of the Church, and therefore find rebuking your arguments on this matter helpless. It seems to me, Father Godfrey, you have forgotten your namesake. Your vision of bright things has been tempered with by legalese and five hundred years of docility. The yoke of tyrants has left its mark so deeply imprinted that even when the Liberty of Faith stares you in the face you shirk in fear and accuse it of ‘deviating’. I refer you to Ilia Aeneth’s defenses of the historicity of things temporal. Most of your levied criticism begins in the admittance of the truth of the Churchly position, and continues only to critisize in the form of your opinions. That this is ‘in bad taste’, and that is ‘unprecedented’, and there is no great retort to that subjectivism but history and fact. Each time your Priestly mind conjures a defense of the Church to build a criticism to, continue reprimanding yourself, because you yourself disprove all your arguments from the get-go. In conclusion, To Father Witmar, I know not why your mind changed so quickly, for you know yourself the answers to half these arguments. Do not let political interests cloud your theology and good Faith. I know not how much hand you had in this document, and hope for the sake of your service to Truth that it be as least as possible. To Father Godfrey, your impudence perils your soul, and I say this in no authority or will to defrock you, but as a friend who sees you wound yourself. You have taken our kindness and good faith in you, in your invitation to the Curia, spat on it and by your own doing antagonised the Church and all who you counted peers. Do not let the interests of damned Princes guide your conscience. You defile the mantle of the Priesthood in doing so. This is not how disagreements are reconciled, not in severance of yourself from Churchly instruments, and not in hypocrisy, and especially not in your feeble attempt of reprimand, in calling us to penance. You know it to be so. I can only hope for you that there are some among us in the College or the Curia who will accept your penance after Haense is taken to virtue by the Holy Host. I know it will take much more convincing to earn back the good grace of myself personally. I recommend heavily you read Ilia Aeneth’s O’ IDIOCY, too, because you have fallen prey to the same frail arguments they recite. Send a letter to me with your standing arguments repeated and formalised, in organized manner, so I may dissolve them more succinctly, please. Repent. ALL THANKS BE TO G-D, Cardinal Elim

"Succinctly and beautifully put, When reading The Idiocies outlined by the Covenant's creme-de-la-creme, my feeble words failed me, for each warranted not more than a sentence in logic to refute. You have proven even that can be made enjoyable to read. All Thanks be to G-d, -Father Elim"

Cardinal Elim, on his daily walk with Cardinal Ledicort (L.A.L.) in the Pontifical Villa garden, reviews the Brother George's newest thesis. "I tell you, Ledicort, in the proficiency of both the Word and the Sword, the boy shall grow worthy of the Grail yet. Our Knights of Holy Persuasion are as much the Church's spearhead as they are our bedrock." He sends a word of commendation to the Chaptermaster.

LETTER TO ALL VANDERS, Elim, Priest of G-d, a Waldenian of the tribe of Königsberg von Senntisten, by blood, and a spearbearer of the Lord in youth, fashioned Vander by creed, sent not by king or steward, but by vocation, by the soul that yearns, and all the brothers and sisters in Faith with me, To G-d’s holy people in Reinmar and the Vander folk, to the priests of the churches and lords of the courts and the knight riders and the field farmer, among the Faithful in Canon in the Principality and abroad; Grace and peace to you in the name of G-d our Lord and the Horen the Father; PRAISE be to our Lord G-d without peer who has blessed us with heavenly benediction and bestowed upon Horen, man and nation alike, His word of Virtue, His blessing to all living things; FOR in the creation of the world, holy and blameless, He has chosen us to carry His benevolent will in mercy upon earth; IN HIM we have redemption through love, the forgiveness of our sins, the wisdom of the stars and the rolling hills green, the bounty of the field and the peace of the Skies; WE thankfully acknowledge that He is the Lord G-d without peer and the G-d of our fathers and our Father first: YOU ARE the strength of our life and the shield of our salvation in every generation; FOR YOUR miracles that are with us daily, morning and noon and night; FOR YOUR beneficences and wonders which never cease, and should they cease, so would creation and existence; FOR YOU who Is the unmoved mover, the creator, the protector, the life, the love; WE are slaves to Your will, for you are our Lord G-d, the Lord G-d in Truth. IN HIM we were chosen and predestined in accordance to His plan divine and uninterrupted, in conformity with the natural order bestowed upon us in total conformity with virtue, the foundation of the Estates of men and the halls of the Courts of justice. And among the tapestry weaved in mankind by kings just and warriors holy, the House of the Vander Creed, exemplary among the nations of the world in the pursuit of the Lord’s Justice ceaselessly, in ardent marriage of the sword and the cross, has proven century again and again that before the Lord stands none and the Host of the Lord gives no respite to the wicked. FEW are the zealous, the crossed, the penitent warriors who carry the Lord’s will on their shoulders, laden in toil and in blood and in death, in the trade of the blade, in risk of the greatest sacrifice of them all; martyrdom; in the working of His name eternal, and who among the nations of Horen today are unequal in zeal. I have not stopped giving you thanks, remembering you in prayer, and asking of the Saints patrons; of the sword and the quill, of five centuries past or five centuries hence, who on their shield or cape reared the Eagle or splayed the Red Cross or the Black or the Green or the Yellow, to endear to you the spirit of wisdom and prudence in our time. I write to you humbly in search of likened soul and likened grit, in light of the affairs of the worldly stewards of Horen. I divine not the coming of the morrow, and as goes the saying of the qalasheen; know not the way the bird shall fly in the wind; whether up or down or to or fro. But know I that the Lords of the Vanders have valued amongst themselves and the nations of their peers the admonishment of the imperial, and the despot, and the warhawk. And the dove of Horen’s peace I send by way of the Vander in a bonded heart and a prudent mind, for I rejoice! Say I, yes! For nowhere truer does echo the CREED OF THE VANDERS than in the dispensation of justice on the unjust, on the machinator, on the snake in the grass and on the clenches of despots unchecked. And rejoice with me too I know the Horen peoples of the highlands and the lowlands, westerly and easterly, and along the river and at its mouth and at its source. I know not the man among Horen’s courts all whose hands relish despotism and whose lips whisper tyranny. I know not the man among Horen’s courts who would see the Eagle and the Dragon and the Tower and the Horse and what-have-you become one, without color, without tint, an amalgam of legacies and tapestries turned to naught overnight. I know not the man who relishes in totalitarian uniformity, who wishes to quell the Reinmaren from the Petran from the Haeseni. Should one point to this man, who has been made manifest by whispers of paranoia, fear unfounded, I shall take the helm in his rebuke, so too shall Canondom united. I shall in my efforts thus betroth the creeds of the Vander and the principles of the Church, and defend by quill and breath the lasting of the two, for set betwixt the Estate and the Faith they are one in the same. I shall entail the grievances I have heard in mine own ears levied against the Church, and endeavour to dismiss the misplaced fear, that cloud of distortion and miscommunication and misconception that had set division and suspicion among the lords of the realm. On the Crusade of the Edelites “To Persevere to the End Any Enterprise Begun” - Vandercode That of the The Eternal War on Evil, Duty Eternal of Canondom “The Lord saw the penance of Owyn, which was the death of the unrepentant; And Owyn was made again as the light of his blade, and the great city was destroyed.” Scroll of Gospel, Book of Owyn, 19-20 A paranoiac has been led to dub the Church militant unfounded. And to the paranoiac, who fears that among the nations of Horen has sprouted a new sword, aflame in righteous fury, that so dishelves the agreed order of things, I say; who wants a Church disarmed? Man knows well thoroughly, by our shared histories, the implications of a weak, debased Ministry. We have known closely all the past five hundred years of the death of the Faith, the withering of parishes, the appointments nepotic, the bribed silence. G-d’s Law, just law, applied holy and benedictive has been the privilege of the machinations of princes in their pursuit of the Fidei Defensio, the titular defense of the faith, when the Church feebled. The Church was weak to invoke crusade, or holy war, unless a kingdom among the kingdoms housed the Pontiff in her bosom and lent to his cause men and swords, but only when their interests aligned, and it was comfortable to rebuke the blasphemous. But nay, I say, for the cause of the Pontiff is the cause of all Canondom, now as before. The vanquishing of the Edelites; schismatics, sorcerers, ibleesians and blasphemers, in the streets as in their lordly courts, needs no justification. As assuredly as a Vander knows his right from his left, the just cause of the recent Crusade goes without saying. But so to they who call the Church conquerors, in the riddance of the Edelites from the East, I say; would a humanity ever dispensed them of their own accord? Lest magickal boons and gifts formed shortly after the defeat of the Edelites, none would, if not by initiative of the Church. I fear that without the Ministry, that knows its right from left too, that loves Man and hates Man’s foe, the Edels of the East would continue promulgating worldly sin, tearing the perilous fabric between the world and the void, and even threaten the borders (and the heart, in the case of Hokhmat) of Canondom if allowed to reign unchecked. A Church is naught without the Sword of Owyn. The few instances when in unity the sons of Horen marched to rebuke evil together was done indubitably in the good faith and piety of her zealous Faithful, among whom the sons of the Vanders have never been without, but so scarce in occurence. On the Mandate of Aaun “To fear the Creator and maintain His Church” - Vandercode That of the Equal Justice before the Lord, Cornerstone of Canondom “The Lord is the Lord G-D without peer, but you fail in His Virtue, and neglect the good of G-D for what is forbidden. And this is a sin of sightless pride, for what the Lord bids, He has thus bidden.” Scroll of Spirit, Epistle to the Godwinites, 7-8 Dei gratia, the divine right to rule is among the manifold blessings endowed by the Lord G-d, King of Kings, as instrument of just and prudent leadership since the begotten brothers were given their tribes to lord over and their lands to provide with. The blessed lines whose heavenly appointment was to rule the Estates of Man, whose bloodright is the anticipation of the Diadem of Horen’s, our father and his sons and their sons. The right to rule is inseparable from the divine, it is one in the same with the wielding of powers temporal as with the accounting of a ruler’s soul to own king, the Lord G-d. The King of kings did not devise the contract of the crowned to serve man alone, and never to serve the interests of the impassioned ego alone. On terra, the right to rule pours out wholly forth from G-d’s Church, who are the agents of the stewardry of G-d’s Word, and for that reason precisely they are tasked with the coronation of kings to begin with. This ensures that sordidness does not seep in the sanctified institutions of the crown, and that beneath G-d’s visage might not pass such a thing that blasphemes the source of the very right they are bestown. And so, in the dereliction of the duties of the priesthood coinciding, hand in hand, with the growing impudence of princes, one king Charles stroke his brother own, put to the sword, in a square public and to the eyes of all, for upon his head nestled the crown of his forebearers, and no man on earth could rebuke him otherwise, that he is a kinslayer and his smirch is like the sin of Owyn upon Harren. Whereby under the auspice of a Church that derelicts not its duties to man nor G-d, the just trial and the revokation of Citizen Charles of Aaun of his regal disposition ensued, by all the proper channels and by right of the laurels of the prophets, the Kingdom of Aaun in assent with its councillors was placed in Pontifical Regency until a time Godwin III, inheritor to his right of kingship could redeem his domain, at the age of his maturation in spirit. And yet, too, Godwin III derelicted in his duties, and by his absence was passed upon, for the true successors of Aaun were the assorted feudals who congregated under charge of the Duchy of Alba who today prosper unprecedently as wardens in the Lowlands, over the valley of their inheritance, redeeming in whole the sins of the nation in piety and in diligence, working the estates of man as decreed and willed by our Lord G-d, whose blessing is the fruit of the tree and the spring harvest. The Church exercised G-d’s law for perhaps the first time in centuries, upon a king who considered himself either detached or superior from virtue and from the decreed laws of heaven, who stroke his brother in cold blood and in haughtiness felt no less innocent for it. A weak Church, as has existed for centuries through the vulgar indifferences and sins of princes past, sealed its lips under the key of its continued existence, and opted for the negligence of its mission on earth. The prime purpose of the Church is refused neglection today. That of the salvation of man, of peace between brother and neighbour, and the triumph of virtue over wickedness, by whichsoever form it dons. I know not an advocate against despotism and tyranny more blatant than the priestly delivery of justice in service of G-d solely, to Whom all is owed, and nothing escapes, as in the rebuke of Citizen Charles and the succession of Aaun into the prosperity of the Alban Duchy. In the case of Aaun, the existence of Alba, a beating heart of Horenic tradition and virtue growing nearer by the day to resemble that extinct breed of Horenic gentry of noble spirit true, and wrought under the supervision of the Church in the Pontifical States, and yet, neither does a priest rule among them, but a noble Duke by Churchly blessing, whose virtue is expressant of his eligibility and right. There is no imposition on the right to rule by Canondom, and folly be to the priest who claims the secular powers of mankind’s estate are illegitimate in any form. On the Penance of Balian That of Subversion In Sin, Penance and Reconciliation “To at all times speak the Truth” - Vandercode “Those virtuous freedmen that remained were anointed as priests of G-D, and they bore the Virtue and the Spirit. Thus the Word of G-D was kept for a thousand years of His Silence, and man’s purity of faith and blood was so sworn.” Scroll of Gospel, Book of Owyn, 61-62 Out of the tomb of the corrupted monarchy of Aaun had arisen a formless spectre in a far more terrible guise than any of those which in former times wronged only the souls of its wicked victims in crime. Going straight forward to the end of things, undeterred by faith, unchecked by remorse, this phantom bellowed schism! and sacrilege! and encapsulated a conspiracy to murder the High Priest and install a pauper, whose word could never challenge the impudence of princes in their pursuit for worldly tyranny again. And by the virtuous deeds of simple and just men, the plan was foiled, and at its head was the king of the Balianese, distant cousin to the Citizen Charles, and he, too, in just trial was brought to heel, confession, submission before the Lord G-d and his Vicar and regency, under the helm of Cardinal Ivan, was placed in Balian. Unlike the regency in Aaun, here the heir knew his right from wrong, and chose penance for the sins of his father, and had been crowned justly and rightfully when the seeds of corruption and descecration had withered from the halls of Balian. And to this due process, to this most just trial in historical memory, men still proclaim ‘Church overreach’? If about came the accusation that the Church has in its mind to usurp the secular and powers temporal that a king may reign with, then I say; King John of Balian, himself, was once an excommunicant. And yet the crown of rulership are upon his head again, and the Balianese dynasty in its rich legacy has endured by virtue, as he proved his character in diligence and humility before G-d’s virtue. The case from Aaun is differentiated only by the extent of the cooperation of the ruling dynasty, and their keenness to work G-d’s name in wisdom and good faith. The terror of tyrants and schismatics, liars, dividers and warmongers is the bright beacon of justice, and to this I err not in knowing Vanders herald, and for this too I count Vanders brethren in sword as in faith, resolutely. I hope to have in these words, painting things as they are but perhaps not rightly communicated to the world, to dispel the cloud of uneasiness and suspicion. To uphold truth one must first know it, and I felt compelled to write to the people of Reinmar what I speculate you might hold in the periphery of cautionary thought. Iblis, cursed be his name, revels in diunity. In suspicion and fear. And to the end of his rebuke I adjoin with you and with Canondom whole. Our strength is in our unity, under G-d. To the extent of my ability as a minister in the college of cardinals, henceforth, I shall embark on every effort to maintain friendship with Vanders close and far, and entreat many times more such heartwarming gestures as the grant for the Monastery of Saint Calliope and the blessed readings emanating from the Sholastic Fraternity of St. HP Caius-Brandt. To the Prince Erwin and the Esteemed Lords of Reinmar, To the Waldenic Diet and her Electors, To the Priesthood of the Vanderfolk, And all those whose way is the Vander Creed. Please, write in earnest! In dearest thanks, brother in Vander, Cardinal Elim G-tt mit uns Emmanu El

"A United Canondom." Proclaimed Fr. Elim to so some unassuming wayfarer on Saint Daniel's crossing, who gave him in turn a 'wtf' face. "I druther think there are none on terra who wish to see it otherwise."

Holyser Prenkus, filling late night shifts in the Papal Newspaper office in Grense (alternative income), receives the notice by an eager intern. He scrutinizes it from behind his helmets visor, tapping his side in contemplation. This would make a good scoop... he could even get a raise from the editor. This Mitch McCanon was a rising vigilante in the headlines. But his knightly persuasion soon triumphed the yetzer ha'ra. He was a Vander knight of Holy vocation. He forwarded the lead to Holy Ser Vincenzo of the Grail Order instead, opting for the safety of the realm before his measly climb in the corporate world. @DancingZebra267

"Ahyes. They should probably return to the galaxy they came from" commented Father Elim to Holyser Raullin, his daily companion, while shopping for lemons now that the orchards were fertilized in bandits blood.

A Holy Knight in a yellow tabard smirks from behind his visor. He then commented to his compatriot, Kurt Lemon, while on the road. "They aren't even asking for payment these days..."

"The Spokesman's office for The Canonist Union of Vanders, Lucienists and Humanitarians, Lemon Hill branch, seeks to distance itself from the statements and opinions of one Holy Ser Raullin and does not condone nor endorse his sayings."

B I S H O P R I C o f L E M O N H I L L & A REVIEW OF DIOCESAN LIFE IN THE PONTIFICAL STATES + Published in the 9th of Owyn's Flame, 2013 by His Eminence, Cardinal Elim of Esbec, Bishop of Lemon Hill, Secretary to His Holiness, Justice of the High Court, Scholastic Fraternity of Lemon Hill, + Dedicated to the LEAL, FAITHFUL and VIRTUOUS peoples Of the Pontifical States of the Church And the pious of the Canonist world; In memory of Father Harrieniel, Repentant Soul + DIOCESAN SURVEY The hamlet of Lemon Hill, situated on the peninsular hill at the fork of the rivers Constance and Northflow, was founded in 1927 and completed in its first iteration in 1935 following a successful campaign for funding by Mother Lorina and Sir Morgan of Angren in the fledgling years of the Arcas landing. At first a lonely tavern by the roadside greeted wayfarers on their way up to the Monastery of the Sacred Heart of Owyn, constructed atop the Hill, besides an open air sacramental altar under the prodigious Lemon tree. Through the years, by the diligence and virtue of its caretakers, the village of Lemon Hill grew in religious and cultural significance as many Canonists of note found in it an agrarian sanctuary amidst the wars and vices of the worldly realms, and contributed to its growth and prosperity in those trying times. The Second Charter of Lemon Hill in 1991 saw the independence of Lemon Hill as an enclave of the Holy Mother Church and some years later, following the ascension to the Pontificate of High Priest Ro'eh Tzon, the officiating of Lemon Hill as the seat of the Holy See. The Bishopric of Lemon Hill itself encompasses the entirety of the Pontifical States territories, with the exception of the jurisdiction of the Holy See atop Mount Lemon and the Bishoprics of Rhosmark and Midkanberg in the east of the States. The Bishopric consists in itself a division of parishes, each headed by a pastor, servicing their respective and varied communities; Saint Owyn Parish, of the township of Grense and its surrounding land, seat of the Bishopric, serviced by Vicar of Lemon Hill the Reverend Father Witmar [@rep2k]. Saint Lucien Parish, of the city of Gottenthal and its surrounding land serviced by the Reverend Father Keen [@shadow__2k]. Saint Godwin Parish, of the city of Elizabeth and its surrounding land, serviced by the Reverend Father Edmund “the Blind” [@Franczhiz]. Wickwald Parish, of the town of Broomtown and its surrounding land, serviced by the Reverend Father Casimir [@_Security]. Saint Publius Parish, of the Republican City of Venic and its surrounding communities, serviced by the Learned Rebbe Asher [@forwhatpvrpose]. PRAYER To Wayfarers, Travelers and Adventurers; Hear us, O Lord, G-d of Horen, Owyn and Godfrey, that it be Your Will before us that we are Lead us to Safety, and Guided to our destination in Earth and in Spirit to peace and happiness in the working of Your Name. Save us from prowling wickedness and from the piteous enemies of Goodness. Send in our hand Your Blessing. Bestow upon us abundant kindness and hearken to the voice of our prayer, for You hear the prayers of all. Blessed are You our G‑d, who hears all prayer. PILGRIMS’ WAY The Way of Venerable Deunoro A popular route of pilgrimage crosses through the Bishopric, stretching from its westernmost border along the cliffs of the Constance to the hearts of the eastern Bishoprics Rhosmark and Midkanberg, and meanders through both centers of religious activity and offroad marvels in its countrysids course. The Way is sown with varied demonstrations of ancient and recent Canonist traditions in architecture, history and culture that speak of the rich piety of the heartlands, developed exponentially since the ascension of the consecutive Three Good Pontiffs. The Way of the Venerable Deunoro follows the Red Crab Pontiff's lived life through the heartlands and connects at large a network of shrines, relics and religious sites in his light. Embodying the pilgrimage are themes of spiritual development, hospitality and wayfaring, and reflects through it lessons on the piety, theology, humility, leadership and martyrdom of the Venerable Pontiff. Throughout the pilgrimage there are several theses and tomes presented for pilgrims, some ancient and some contemporary works, such as Doctrina Sancti Grael, On the Road to Paradisius and Sefer Rashi, that chiefly originate or are studied in the Diocese. Via Mont Vindicta The Way begins in its first phase upon the Bridge Luciensteig, the gate of the Pontifical States, and centers around Mount Vindicta and the religious significance of the Temple of Saint Lucien in Gottenthal and the Altar of the Living Tree at the bosom of the mountain lake (in the adjacent Bishopric of Casica), both sites expressive of the endurance of the Lucienist and naturalist Canonist philosophies amid the stone crevices and howling winds of the highlander peaks. Artist’s impression of Luciensteig, above the river Constance. [pickledbrick] Via Sancti Citrus The Way continues eastward through the woodland onto the Saint Lorina Wildlife Reservation and the Township of Grense, the Owynsmoque, and upward to Temple Mount, wherein rises the heart and jewel of Aevosi Canondom; the shrines, chapels, mausoleums and churchyards of the Holy See. The traditional rituals of sheepherding and sheepbreeding are heavily encouraged in the ecclesiastical capitol, with guidance from the growing cult of the Kohanim, caretakers of the Temple. Artist’s impression of Mont Lemon. [pickledbrick] Via de Langkette The Way continues across the Saint Daniel Crossing onto the Duchy of Alba and the Wickwald, with its myriad of hidden woodland shrines and hillside religious sites, and coalesces in the Langkette Mountainpass, from where the Way continues onto the Bishopric of Rhosmark. To the north of the Langkette Pass, atop the mountain range, a notable yet underdeveloped site of pilgrimage is the Tower of Godwin which continues to fascinate arhaeologists as to its nature and history, but is regardless considered a mandatory site of prayer and reflection to the kingly Saint. Artist’s impression of the Langkette mountainpass. [pickledbrick] Mount Capra (Kaparah) The apex of the Pilgrimage coalesces in the ascension ans discovery of Mount Capra in the fringes of the Vortician Peaks, the reputed site of revelation of HP Saint Caius-Brandt, HP Ro’eh Tzon and a mysterious roving samurai. The first navigable point of beginning the ascent is the Temple of Saint Lucien de Savoie on the Gollap Heights, from where sprawls an unlikened vista of the Blackspire Valley and the Lurinite archipelago. To the shrewd, it is noted that Mount Capra was not in Canonist hands before the Robertine Crusade, and was always a site of reclusive retreat for the most ascetic of monks, recreating the steps of the first three devotees. Today, the precise location of Ard’Capra is not widely known, and no shrine marks the location of the revelation but a single burned bush at its peak. In attempting to ascend and find the mountain, it is said pilgrims undergo extensive physical and spiritual strife, with only prayer and providence as guide. Some mystics who had found and ascended the esoteric site claim to have experienced prophetic visions and miracles, often retreating afterwards to reclusion and undergo a streak of unexplained lamentation. Artist’s impression of the Gollap Heights viewpoint. [pickledbrick] SCHOLASTIC FRATERNITY OF LEMON HILL The Scholastic Fraternity of Lemon Hill is a religious circle concerned with the development and promulgation of the Lemon Hill School of Thought, a view on theology and interpretation of Scripture inspired by the teachings of the Learned High Priest himself. Although the Fraternity rarely convenes, its members are masters of the Canon in their own right, and instead invest in theological discussion and the formulation of dissertations and theses on the Faith and its history from across the Canonist world. The Fraternity Hall is seated in the Monastery of the Sacred Heart where, since the founding of Lemon Hill on Arcas, ideas and concepts were discussed and from where Lemonhill-Owynist proselytization, led by the current High Priest, began in earnest. L.H. TRADE BOARD The Bishop of Lemon Hill holds the chair of President of the Lemon Hill Trade Board Corporation (LHTB Corp.), a regulated union of merchants, companies and entrepreneurs in the Pontifical States who enjoy regulative leniency and benefits and cooperate in the mutual mercantile advancement of specialized and rare trades throughout Canondom. LHTB Corporation holds together a variety of subsidiaries which operate both publicly and privately in the Pontifical States and abroad and employ a network of diligent employees and agents, aswell as manages the operation of a port, a tradehouse, depots, laboratories and research sites, all furthering the interests of its businesses. The surplus revenues of the LHTB Corporation are directed chiefly to the Pontifical Treasury and are allocated for the furtherance of charity, the construction of Churches and wayshrines and the funding of humanitarian endeavours across crisis-stricken regions in the Canonist world. The nature of the work of the LHTB Corporation is discrete and therefore is not advertised in its services directly, but rather through the storefronts of its independent businesses. Despite this, the Board has voted to offer its hand in cooperation with Canonist businessmen in the Pontifical States and to consider the profit-relevant virtues of any wishing to claim an executive chair in the Board. CHARITY PROJECT The Bishopric is steadfast in its mission to promulgate the construction of wayshrines, churches, almshouses and pilgrimhouses across the Diocese, aswell as the sponsorship of artisanry and the furtherance of religious Lemon Hill culture. For the efforts of funding impending construction projects, including a roadside pilgrimhouse, a new monastery and a Canonist university and library, the Bishopric asks to enforce a tithe, dependant on any layman’s material capabilities, to be given in charity to any minister of the Church found in the diocese. In the words of the Past Learned Masters of the Canon; “On three things the world rests; on Scripture, on Mercy and on Charity.” DIOCESAN CONTRACTS In the earnest pursuit of Diligence and the Universal Mission of the Mother Church at large, the Bishopric seeks to develop and expand the services offered to the laity in every tenable aspect of diocesan life. Henceforth, in the publication of every Minor Bull of Lemon Hill, the Bishopric shall publish its current pressing list of endeavours and projects. To this end, the Bishopric shall offer contractual opportunities with any willing Canonist professionals in advisoral, per-contract or leadership capacities. The Bishopric currently offers agency in the following fields; Architects and stonemasons for the ‘Land of the Hundred Temples’ vision, aswell as foresters and land prospectors for the development of the countryside. Scholars and librarians for a specific research venture in Early Church Era histories and otherwise for the compilation of a comprehensive Canonist Library for payment per book. Canonist frontiersmen and rangers, of counter-necrotic specialization, for contract-based employment. For more information contact Holy Sir Talbott Talhoffer. Permanent contractship and landing for potential farmowners, for the establishment of a well supplied almsgiving endeavor across the Diocese. Sponsorship of artisans and poets for the further development of Lemon Hill religious culture and festivals. For those interest in employment or contracting in the listed fields, or for propositions regarding potential projects, please direct a letter to the Bishopric office. FELLOWSHIP OF CANONIST SHEPHERDS AND STUDENTS The Road Is Home In the steadfast upholding of H’oren’s mantle as Light unto the Nations, and in keeping with the first Covenant of Instruction; the commandant of spreading the Lord’s Virtue across the realms, the Bishop seeks to reformalize his bygone habit of pagan prostelyzation and hopes to form from the heart of Canondom a fellowship of traveling master theologians and their students (lay and clergy as one), and teach among them the principle of ‘Conversion through debate’, employing the firm truth that the Creator is the only rational conclusion for the universe and that the Canon is unequivocally His Divine Word. The Fellowship of Canonist Shepherds and Students shall be assembled intermittently to pursue Missions across the pagan world and engage in thorough in-person dismantling of anti-Creatorist and anti-Canonist arguments through rationalism and theology. The Bishop works to compile, with the help of the SFLH and His Holiness an organized guideline for the doctrines of the Faith, rebuttals of paynim anti-truths and introduction of the Apologist’s Ladder, a time-tested scale outlying both commonplace and higher levels of intellectual (albeit more commonly anti-intellectual) arguments by heathenic archetypes. (Through the exhaustive life of a missionary, one comes to learn that all heathens fall into categories, all invariably wrong, and in attempting to exclude themselves intellectually they fail. Nonconformists are a surprisingly predictable group.) The upmost imperative of the Mission is the Saving of Souls. This doctrine holds that in the prostelyzation efforts of the Fellowship, debate may only be accepted voluntarily by the heathen and no belligerent prejudice is to be assumed before any interlocutor of mortal disposition. Remember, as members of His Ministry, that before the Lord there are those who dance at the summit of profanity and the clueless who creep at its depth, and to both His Love is unwavering when reciprocated. Although the Mission in its purpose is peaceful and employs sole universal Truth in its arsenal, there remain still in our earth wild places, where only few regard either G-d or mortal with good will. Thereby, it is recommended that members of the Fellowship travel armed and with added company in any venture into the pagansphere. “When G-d’s judgment falls on a land, there is one solution. It’s not the elfs printing more magic, or seculars passing more laws, or manslaves shrieking one octave louder about the worse degree of evil of their tribe-rival aengudaemon. It’s repentance. A nation will either repent and return to the true and living G-d or it will hold its ears and go screaming further into the caverns of its idolatrous, utopian fantasies.” High Priest Ro’eh Tzon, Accumulated Sayings TRAVEL WARNING: Anti-malaria pills are prescribed by the Bishopric a week before embarkation on a Mission. DIRECTORY + HOLY AND MONASTIC ORDERS Operating chiefly within or from the Diocese; Holy Order of the Grail of Saint Lucien, Headquartered in the Fort of Ard'Karden Abbey of the Sacred Heart, Situated atop Mount Lemon, Holy See DIRECTORY OF HOLY SITES As compiled within the Diocesan territory; HOUSES OF WORSHIP TEMPLE MOUNT, Holy See The Owynsmosque, Township of Grense Blessed Temple of Saint Lucien of Ulmsbottom, City of Gottenthal Monastery of the Sacred Heart, Mount Lemon Abbey of Saint Catherine, City of Elizabeth Tabernacle of Saint Publius, Republican City of Venic Chapel of Saint Daniel the Pilgrim, County of Enswerp Chapel of Broomtown, Broomtown Chapel of the Seven-Thousand, Sterhwog Camp Church of Saint Lucien de Savoie, Gollap Heights Abbey of the Sephardi Martyrs Hermitage of the Hallowed Virtue, Mount Lemon Chapel of Waldo the Martyr, Underhill Chapel of Saint Robert of Metz, Crusader Street, Underhill Chapel of the Rebbe and the Goylem, Underhill SHRINES Sarcophagus of Venerable Deunoro I Shrine of Blessed Ailred of Druzstra, Soldier of G-d Shrine to Saint King Caius, Lord of Laughter Shrine to Saint Robert the Fat, Repentant Soul, Knight of Heaven Wayshrine to Saint Daniel of Al’Khazar, Protector of the Bridge Saint Godwin’s Menorah Celebratory Tree of Saint Tuvya Wayshrine of Father Wert Shrine of Saint Daniel of Al’Khazar Enswerpian Cross for the Souls We Have Lost Shrine to Saint Catherine of Felsen SITES OF INTEREST Of religious and geographical signifiance; Mausoleum of Saint Robert the Fat and the Reliquary of the Ring of St. Robert Underhill Catacombs and its cavernous Hermitages Saint Daniel's Crossing Tower of Godwin Domvs Noster, Rex Aavn, Godwin Horenson Langkette Pass Ard’Capra Summit Note: This is not a Minor Bull of Lemon Hill ☻

Fr Bishop Justice Secretary Cardinal Elim of the Esbec, Lemon Hill, Mont Lemon, surveys the Pontifical Bulletin with a lemon mint cigarette hanging from his mouth. He taps the printed portrait of the new Premier of the States. He exclaims to Kurt Lemon, Internal Affairs: "A son of the Malinim in office. No brighter horizon!"