>>5410037The Charnel Lands of The World Father. A place few in their right minds would ever go, letalone reside in. A vast and cursed domain rending the continent in two, where divine war put a bloody end to the old order and permanently scarred the world.
When The New Goddess came, those who took up her cause were able to use Her power to drive back the worst of the fallout, and Her teachings to restore order. Little by little, century by century, the world you grew up in was made.
But the heartlands of The World Father could never be truly recovered. His power and that of the foreign divinities that tore through lingers still. It is a place of phantasms and dark magic, where things from other places still slip through and where the evil doers who cannot bear to live under Her Mercy flee to lurk.
You are able to return to your home for a week between your sentencing and your exodus. but there is little to keep you busy: the Church of the New Goddess commands a bureaucracy of vast scope and efficiency, and already arrangements have been made for your demesne. The estate shall remain with the Carouliti family at least: your niece will administer the lands until you return, if ever that should happen.
All that you have left to do is to say goodbye, to loyal subjects and old friends. Still, the week goes by too quickly.
On the morning of your departure, laymen of the church are ready to escort you away. Your necessities such as arms and armour have been loaded onto the horses. All that remains is a quick search of your manor for any personal effects you want to bring with you.
That’s when you remember, the token of allegiance, hidden in the bottom of a chest. You were once part of a goodly band of men and women. When you lost <span class="mu-i">her</span>, your relationship with them deteriorated. You hid the item, too painful a reminder of her and of the man you once were. But now, on your way to lands most foul, any reminder of better times would be welcome.
The reminder is…
>A livery badge of the Order of the Opened Heart. A knightly order and the true masters of chivalry, dedicated not only to the battlefield but to the arts and romances. You were just as deadly with a quill or brush as you were with a sword.>A rosary of the Rule of Saint Camiola. A unity of clerics and knights, sanctioned by the church, dedicated to the military efforts of The New Goddess. Doctrine and war were one in you as you sought to battle against the darkness and master the Violet Light.>A livery badge of the Esoteric Fraternity of the Old and New. Philosophers, artists, warriors and antiquarians unified in the search of truth, to understand the legacy of The World Father and what it means for The New Goddess. You knew more about what happened in that awful cataclysm and the nature of the divine than most. 