Category:The Nevuchar Springs Sect - Revision history

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<p><span class="autocomment">History</span></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:24, 5 November 2020</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l11">Line 11:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==History==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==History==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Following the Grand Conjunction of [[740 BC]], Teodorus Raines saw this as a sign of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">eminent </del>end times, and he wandered Darkon for the next eleven years preaching fiery [[prophecy|prophecies]] of the impending doom that will fall upon the land. Raines's efforts went poorly until [[the Requiem]]. The chaos and fear it brought, plus the weakening of the Eternal Order, was the chance Raines needed. In [[751 BC]], Raines wrote the [[Fourth Book of Ezra]]<ref name="RLCS p.18">[[Ravenloft Third Edition]] p.18</ref><ref name="RLPHB p.20">[[Ravenloft Player's Handbook]] p.20</ref>, past the [[Rite of Revelation]], and henceforth won recognition as the [[Bastion]] and [[founder]] of a new sect of the Ezran church. Teodorus Raines settled down in Nevuchar Springs<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref>, making the [[Last Redoubt]] his [[seat of spiritual authority]] after ejecting the clerics of the Eternal Order.<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 39">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 39</ref> The decline of said rival faith following [[the Requiem]] has left a void of religious needs the Nevuchar Spring sect has eagerly filled.<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Following the Grand Conjunction of [[740 BC]], Teodorus Raines saw this as a sign of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">immanent </ins>end times, and he wandered Darkon for the next eleven years preaching fiery [[prophecy|prophecies]] of the impending doom that will fall upon the land. Raines's efforts went poorly until [[the Requiem]]. The chaos and fear it brought, plus the weakening of the Eternal Order, was the chance Raines needed. In [[751 BC]], Raines wrote the [[Fourth Book of Ezra]]<ref name="RLCS p.18">[[Ravenloft Third Edition]] p.18</ref><ref name="RLPHB p.20">[[Ravenloft Player's Handbook]] p.20</ref>, past the [[Rite of Revelation]], and henceforth won recognition as the [[Bastion]] and [[founder]] of a new sect of the Ezran church. Teodorus Raines settled down in Nevuchar Springs<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref>, making the [[Last Redoubt]] his [[seat of spiritual authority]] after ejecting the clerics of the Eternal Order.<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 39">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 39</ref> The decline of said rival faith following [[the Requiem]] has left a void of religious needs the Nevuchar Spring sect has eagerly filled.<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Over the following fifteen years, the Nevuchar Springs sect grew in power and number while at the same time embracing increasingly extreme and ruthless practices over time. Bailey Lacrese, one of the Mordentish clergy, experienced a vision of their Darkonian kindred wiping out all the clergy of the Mordentish sect. After a council of senior clergy deemed Lacrese's visions to be true, a secret faction within the church began assembling the [[Blessed Army of Ezra]] in preparationn for such a conflict.<ref name="HoL p. 52-53">[[Heroes of Light]] p. 52-53</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Over the following fifteen years, the Nevuchar Springs sect grew in power and number while at the same time embracing increasingly extreme and ruthless practices over time. Bailey Lacrese, one of the Mordentish clergy, experienced a vision of their Darkonian kindred wiping out all the clergy of the Mordentish sect. After a council of senior clergy deemed Lacrese's visions to be true, a secret faction within the church began assembling the [[Blessed Army of Ezra]] in preparationn for such a conflict.<ref name="HoL p. 52-53">[[Heroes of Light]] p. 52-53</ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{ref}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{ref}}</div></td></tr> </table>

Rock http://fraternityofshadows.com/w/index.php?title=Category:The_Nevuchar_Springs_Sect&diff=148410&oldid=prev The Lesser Evil at 21:06, 26 June 2019 2019-06-26T21:06:47Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 15:06, 26 June 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Church of Ezra]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Church of Ezra]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Darkonian]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Darkonian]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{canon}}</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Founded]] upon the fire-and-brimstone, apocalyptic visions of [[Bastion Teodorus Raines]], the branch of the [[Church of Ezra]] based in [[Nevuchar Springs]] is perhaps the most [[zealous]] (and even [[fanatical]]) branch in weeding out the [[Legions of the Night]] that supposedly prey upon the faithful of Ezra. It is also the youngest (though not necessarily the last) branch, established only in [[751 BC]] in the wake of [[the Requiem]]. Mostly [[Lawful Evil]] in [[alignment]], the Nevuchar Springs [[Zealots]] engage in many extremist practices to prepare for the impending [[Time of Unparalleled Darkness]]. These include religious [[conversion]] through coercion and performing [[torture]] and [[experiment]]s] upon the presumed [[agent]]s of the Night's Legions to discover their vulnerabilities.<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30-31">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30-31</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Founded]] upon the fire-and-brimstone, apocalyptic visions of [[Bastion Teodorus Raines]], the branch of the [[Church of Ezra]] based in [[Nevuchar Springs]] is perhaps the most [[zealous]] (and even [[fanatical]]) branch in weeding out the [[Legions of the Night]] that supposedly prey upon the faithful of Ezra. It is also the youngest (though not necessarily the last) branch, established only in [[751 BC]] in the wake of [[the Requiem]]. Mostly [[Lawful Evil]] in [[alignment]], the Nevuchar Springs [[Zealots]] engage in many extremist practices to prepare for the impending [[Time of Unparalleled Darkness]]. These include religious [[conversion]] through coercion and performing [[torture]] and [[experiment]]s] upon the presumed [[agent]]s of the Night's Legions to discover their vulnerabilities.<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30-31">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30-31</ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> </table>

The Lesser Evil http://fraternityofshadows.com/w/index.php?title=Category:The_Nevuchar_Springs_Sect&diff=147148&oldid=prev The Lesser Evil at 02:58, 2 January 2019 2019-01-02T02:58:20Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:58, 1 January 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l7">Line 7:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 7:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Bastione Raines faces some degree of faces opposition within The drift of the Nevuchar Spring sect towards [[darkness]] has caused many [[dissident]]s in the faith to label Teodorus as [[mad]].<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref> However, converts still continue to pick up. Another [[prophet]], [[Bailey Lacrese]], within the [[Mordentish Sect]], has experienced visions of the [[corruption]] of the Nevuchar Springs sect leading the latter to take up arms against and wiping out the Mordentish Sect. The Mordentish have been covertly building the [[Blessed Army of Ezra]] in preparation for this great conflict.<ref name="HoL p. 52-53">[[Heroes of Light]] p. 52-53</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Bastione Raines faces some degree of faces opposition within The drift of the Nevuchar Spring sect towards [[darkness]] has caused many [[dissident]]s in the faith to label Teodorus as [[mad]].<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref> However, converts still continue to pick up. Another [[prophet]], [[Bailey Lacrese]], within the [[Mordentish Sect]], has experienced visions of the [[corruption]] of the Nevuchar Springs sect leading the latter to take up arms against and wiping out the Mordentish Sect. The Mordentish have been covertly building the [[Blessed Army of Ezra]] in preparation for this great conflict.<ref name="HoL p. 52-53">[[Heroes of Light]] p. 52-53</ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Cleric]]s of the Nevuchar Springs sect most frequently adopt the [[Mists Domain|Mist]] and [[Destruction Domain|Destruction]] [[spell-domain]]s, though, as with the [[Lawful Evil]] alignment, these represent the most common trends and not requirements for [[anchorite]]s of this sect.<ref>[[Gazetteer III]] p. 110</ref></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==History==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==History==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Following the Grand Conjunction of [[740 BC]], Teodorus Raines saw this as a sign of the eminent end times, and he wandered Darkon for the next eleven years preaching fiery [[prophecy|prophecies]] of the impending doom that will fall upon the land. Raines's efforts went poorly until [[the Requiem]]. The chaos and fear it brought, plus the weakening of the Eternal Order, was the chance Raines needed. In [[751 BC]], Raines wrote the [[Fourth Book of Ezra]]<ref name="RLCS p.18">[[Ravenloft Third Edition]] p.18</ref><ref name="RLPHB p.20">[[Ravenloft Player's Handbook]] p.20</ref>, past the [[Rite of Revelation]], and henceforth won recognition as the [[Bastion]] and [[founder]] of a new sect of the Ezran church. Teodorus Raines settled down in Nevuchar Springs<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref>, making the [[Last Redoubt]] his [[seat of spiritual authority]] after ejecting the clerics of the Eternal Order.<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 39">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 39</ref> The decline of said rival faith following [[the Requiem]] has left a void of religious needs the Nevuchar Spring sect has eagerly filled.<ref>[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Following the Grand Conjunction of [[740 BC]], Teodorus Raines saw this as a sign of the eminent end times, and he wandered Darkon for the next eleven years preaching fiery [[prophecy|prophecies]] of the impending doom that will fall upon the land. Raines's efforts went poorly until [[the Requiem]]. The chaos and fear it brought, plus the weakening of the Eternal Order, was the chance Raines needed. In [[751 BC]], Raines wrote the [[Fourth Book of Ezra]]<ref name="RLCS p.18">[[Ravenloft Third Edition]] p.18</ref><ref name="RLPHB p.20">[[Ravenloft Player's Handbook]] p.20</ref>, past the [[Rite of Revelation]], and henceforth won recognition as the [[Bastion]] and [[founder]] of a new sect of the Ezran church. Teodorus Raines settled down in Nevuchar Springs<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref>, making the [[Last Redoubt]] his [[seat of spiritual authority]] after ejecting the clerics of the Eternal Order.<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 39">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 39</ref> The decline of said rival faith following [[the Requiem]] has left a void of religious needs the Nevuchar Spring sect has eagerly filled.<ref <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">name="Gazetteer II p. 30"</ins>>[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Over the following fifteen years, the Nevuchar Springs sect grew in power and number while at the same time embracing increasingly extreme and ruthless practices over time. Bailey Lacrese, one of the Mordentish clergy, experienced a vision of their Darkonian kindred wiping out all the clergy of the Mordentish sect. After a council of senior clergy deemed Lacrese's visions to be true, a secret faction within the church began assembling the [[Blessed Army of Ezra]] in preparationn for such a conflict.<ref name="HoL p. 52-53">[[Heroes of Light]] p. 52-53</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Over the following fifteen years, the Nevuchar Springs sect grew in power and number while at the same time embracing increasingly extreme and ruthless practices over time. Bailey Lacrese, one of the Mordentish clergy, experienced a vision of their Darkonian kindred wiping out all the clergy of the Mordentish sect. After a council of senior clergy deemed Lacrese's visions to be true, a secret faction within the church began assembling the [[Blessed Army of Ezra]] in preparationn for such a conflict.<ref name="HoL p. 52-53">[[Heroes of Light]] p. 52-53</ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{ref}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{ref}}</div></td></tr> </table>

The Lesser Evil http://fraternityofshadows.com/w/index.php?title=Category:The_Nevuchar_Springs_Sect&diff=147147&oldid=prev The Lesser Evil: /* History */ 2019-01-02T02:55:19Z

<p><span class="autocomment">History</span></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:55, 1 January 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l9">Line 9:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 9:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==History==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==History==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Following the Grand Conjunction of [[740 BC]], Teodorus Raines saw this as a sign of the eminent end times, and he wandered Darkon for the next eleven years preaching fiery [[prophecy|prophecies]] of the impending doom that will fall upon the land. Raines's efforts went poorly until [[the Requiem]]. The chaos and fear it brought, plus the weakening of the Eternal Order, was the chance Raines needed. In [[751 BC]], Raines wrote the [[Fourth Book of Ezra]]<ref name="RLCS p.18">[[Ravenloft Third Edition]] p.18</ref><ref name="RLPHB p.20">[[Ravenloft Player's Handbook]] p.20</ref>, past the [[Rite of Revelation]], and henceforth won recognition as the [[Bastion]] and [[founder]] of a new sect of the Ezran church. Teodorus Raines settled down in Nevuchar Springs<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref>, making the [[Last Redoubt]] his [[seat of spiritual authority]] after ejecting the clerics of the Eternal Order.<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 39">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 39</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Following the Grand Conjunction of [[740 BC]], Teodorus Raines saw this as a sign of the eminent end times, and he wandered Darkon for the next eleven years preaching fiery [[prophecy|prophecies]] of the impending doom that will fall upon the land. Raines's efforts went poorly until [[the Requiem]]. The chaos and fear it brought, plus the weakening of the Eternal Order, was the chance Raines needed. In [[751 BC]], Raines wrote the [[Fourth Book of Ezra]]<ref name="RLCS p.18">[[Ravenloft Third Edition]] p.18</ref><ref name="RLPHB p.20">[[Ravenloft Player's Handbook]] p.20</ref>, past the [[Rite of Revelation]], and henceforth won recognition as the [[Bastion]] and [[founder]] of a new sect of the Ezran church. Teodorus Raines settled down in Nevuchar Springs<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref>, making the [[Last Redoubt]] his [[seat of spiritual authority]] after ejecting the clerics of the Eternal Order.<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 39">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 39<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ref> The decline of said rival faith following [[the Requiem]] has left a void of religious needs the Nevuchar Spring sect has eagerly filled.<ref>[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ins></ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Over the following fifteen years, the Nevuchar Springs sect grew in power and number while at the same time embracing increasingly extreme and ruthless practices over time. Bailey Lacrese, one of the Mordentish clergy, experienced a vision of their Darkonian kindred wiping out all the clergy of the Mordentish sect. After a council of senior clergy deemed Lacrese's visions to be true, a secret faction within the church began assembling the [[Blessed Army of Ezra]] in preparationn for such a conflict.<ref name="HoL p. 52-53">[[Heroes of Light]] p. 52-53</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Over the following fifteen years, the Nevuchar Springs sect grew in power and number while at the same time embracing increasingly extreme and ruthless practices over time. Bailey Lacrese, one of the Mordentish clergy, experienced a vision of their Darkonian kindred wiping out all the clergy of the Mordentish sect. After a council of senior clergy deemed Lacrese's visions to be true, a secret faction within the church began assembling the [[Blessed Army of Ezra]] in preparationn for such a conflict.<ref name="HoL p. 52-53">[[Heroes of Light]] p. 52-53</ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{ref}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{ref}}</div></td></tr> </table>

The Lesser Evil http://fraternityofshadows.com/w/index.php?title=Category:The_Nevuchar_Springs_Sect&diff=131444&oldid=prev The Lesser Evil at 18:08, 13 November 2016 2016-11-13T18:08:27Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 12:08, 13 November 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l12">Line 12:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 12:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Over the following fifteen years, the Nevuchar Springs sect grew in power and number while at the same time embracing increasingly extreme and ruthless practices over time. Bailey Lacrese, one of the Mordentish clergy, experienced a vision of their Darkonian kindred wiping out all the clergy of the Mordentish sect. After a council of senior clergy deemed Lacrese's visions to be true, a secret faction within the church began assembling the [[Blessed Army of Ezra]] in preparationn for such a conflict.<ref name="HoL p. 52-53">[[Heroes of Light]] p. 52-53</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Over the following fifteen years, the Nevuchar Springs sect grew in power and number while at the same time embracing increasingly extreme and ruthless practices over time. Bailey Lacrese, one of the Mordentish clergy, experienced a vision of their Darkonian kindred wiping out all the clergy of the Mordentish sect. After a council of senior clergy deemed Lacrese's visions to be true, a secret faction within the church began assembling the [[Blessed Army of Ezra]] in preparationn for such a conflict.<ref name="HoL p. 52-53">[[Heroes of Light]] p. 52-53</ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{ref}}</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

The Lesser Evil http://fraternityofshadows.com/w/index.php?title=Category:The_Nevuchar_Springs_Sect&diff=131443&oldid=prev The Lesser Evil at 18:08, 13 November 2016 2016-11-13T18:08:06Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 12:08, 13 November 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l11">Line 11:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Following the Grand Conjunction of [[740 BC]], Teodorus Raines saw this as a sign of the eminent end times, and he wandered Darkon for the next eleven years preaching fiery [[prophecy|prophecies]] of the impending doom that will fall upon the land. Raines's efforts went poorly until [[the Requiem]]. The chaos and fear it brought, plus the weakening of the Eternal Order, was the chance Raines needed. In [[751 BC]], Raines wrote the [[Fourth Book of Ezra]]<ref name="RLCS p.18">[[Ravenloft Third Edition]] p.18</ref><ref name="RLPHB p.20">[[Ravenloft Player's Handbook]] p.20</ref>, past the [[Rite of Revelation]], and henceforth won recognition as the [[Bastion]] and [[founder]] of a new sect of the Ezran church. Teodorus Raines settled down in Nevuchar Springs<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref>, making the [[Last Redoubt]] his [[seat of spiritual authority]] after ejecting the clerics of the Eternal Order.<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 39">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 39</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Following the Grand Conjunction of [[740 BC]], Teodorus Raines saw this as a sign of the eminent end times, and he wandered Darkon for the next eleven years preaching fiery [[prophecy|prophecies]] of the impending doom that will fall upon the land. Raines's efforts went poorly until [[the Requiem]]. The chaos and fear it brought, plus the weakening of the Eternal Order, was the chance Raines needed. In [[751 BC]], Raines wrote the [[Fourth Book of Ezra]]<ref name="RLCS p.18">[[Ravenloft Third Edition]] p.18</ref><ref name="RLPHB p.20">[[Ravenloft Player's Handbook]] p.20</ref>, past the [[Rite of Revelation]], and henceforth won recognition as the [[Bastion]] and [[founder]] of a new sect of the Ezran church. Teodorus Raines settled down in Nevuchar Springs<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref>, making the [[Last Redoubt]] his [[seat of spiritual authority]] after ejecting the clerics of the Eternal Order.<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 39">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 39</ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Over the following fifteen years, the Nevuchar Springs sect grew in power and number while at the same time embracing increasingly extreme and ruthless practices over time. Bailey Lacrese, one of the Mordentish clergy, experienced a vision of their Darkonian kindred wiping out all the clergy of the Mordentish sect. After a council of senior clergy deemed Lacrese's visions to be true, a secret faction within the church began assembling the [[Blessed Army of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">EZra</del>]] in preparationn for such a conflict.<ref name="HoL p. 52-53">[[Heroes of Light]] p. 52-53</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Over the following fifteen years, the Nevuchar Springs sect grew in power and number while at the same time embracing increasingly extreme and ruthless practices over time. Bailey Lacrese, one of the Mordentish clergy, experienced a vision of their Darkonian kindred wiping out all the clergy of the Mordentish sect. After a council of senior clergy deemed Lacrese's visions to be true, a secret faction within the church began assembling the [[Blessed Army of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ezra</ins>]] in preparationn for such a conflict.<ref name="HoL p. 52-53">[[Heroes of Light]] p. 52-53</ref></div></td></tr> </table>

The Lesser Evil http://fraternityofshadows.com/w/index.php?title=Category:The_Nevuchar_Springs_Sect&diff=131442&oldid=prev The Lesser Evil at 18:06, 13 November 2016 2016-11-13T18:06:33Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 12:06, 13 November 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l4">Line 4:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 4:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Founded]] upon the fire-and-brimstone, apocalyptic visions of [[Bastion Teodorus Raines]], the branch of the [[Church of Ezra]] based in [[Nevuchar Springs]] is perhaps the most [[zealous]] (and even [[fanatical]]) branch in weeding out the [[Legions of the Night]] that supposedly prey upon the faithful of Ezra. It is also the youngest (though not necessarily the last) branch, established only in [[751 BC]] in the wake of [[the Requiem]]. Mostly [[Lawful Evil]] in [[alignment]], the Nevuchar Springs [[Zealots]] engage in many extremist practices to prepare for the impending [[Time of Unparalleled Darkness]]. These include religious [[conversion]] through coercion and performing [[torture]] and [[experiment]]s] upon the presumed [[agent]]s of the Night's Legions to discover their vulnerabilities.<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30-31">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30-31</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Founded]] upon the fire-and-brimstone, apocalyptic visions of [[Bastion Teodorus Raines]], the branch of the [[Church of Ezra]] based in [[Nevuchar Springs]] is perhaps the most [[zealous]] (and even [[fanatical]]) branch in weeding out the [[Legions of the Night]] that supposedly prey upon the faithful of Ezra. It is also the youngest (though not necessarily the last) branch, established only in [[751 BC]] in the wake of [[the Requiem]]. Mostly [[Lawful Evil]] in [[alignment]], the Nevuchar Springs [[Zealots]] engage in many extremist practices to prepare for the impending [[Time of Unparalleled Darkness]]. These include religious [[conversion]] through coercion and performing [[torture]] and [[experiment]]s] upon the presumed [[agent]]s of the Night's Legions to discover their vulnerabilities.<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30-31">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30-31</ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The faith has spread through the eastern parts of [[Darkon]] as [[the Eternal Order]] has been crumbling.<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref> This expansion has not been peaceful, as the Nevuchar Spring [[anchorite]]s have been feuding with the faithful of Darkon's [[state religion]]. In fact, the Nevuchar Springs anchorites displaced and replaced the Eternal Order [[cleric]]s from at least two [[temple]]s. These include the [[Last Redoubt]] in [[Nevuchar Springs]] and [[The Ward of Perdition]] in [[Maykle]]<ref name="Gazetteer II p. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">30</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">31</del>">[[Gazetteer II]] p. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">30</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">31</del></ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The faith has spread through the eastern parts of [[Darkon]] as [[the Eternal Order]] has been crumbling.<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref> This expansion has not been peaceful, as the Nevuchar Spring [[anchorite]]s have been feuding with the faithful of Darkon's [[state religion]]. In fact, the Nevuchar Springs anchorites displaced and replaced the Eternal Order [[cleric]]s from at least two [[temple]]s. These include the [[Last Redoubt]] in [[Nevuchar Springs]] and [[The Ward of Perdition]] in [[Maykle]]<ref name="Gazetteer II p. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">39</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">40</ins>">[[Gazetteer II]] p. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">39</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">40</ins></ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Bastione Raines faces some degree of faces opposition within The drift of the Nevuchar Spring sect towards [[darkness]] has caused many [[dissident]]s in the faith to label Teodorus as [[mad]].<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref> However, converts still continue to pick up. Another [[prophet]], [[Bailey Lacrese]], within the [[Mordentish Sect]], has experienced visions of the [[corruption]] of the Nevuchar Springs sect leading the latter to take up arms against and wiping out the Mordentish Sect. The Mordentish have been covertly building the [[Blessed Army of Ezra]] in preparation for this great conflict.<ref name="HoL p. 52-53">[[Heroes of Light]] p. 52-53</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Bastione Raines faces some degree of faces opposition within The drift of the Nevuchar Spring sect towards [[darkness]] has caused many [[dissident]]s in the faith to label Teodorus as [[mad]].<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref> However, converts still continue to pick up. Another [[prophet]], [[Bailey Lacrese]], within the [[Mordentish Sect]], has experienced visions of the [[corruption]] of the Nevuchar Springs sect leading the latter to take up arms against and wiping out the Mordentish Sect. The Mordentish have been covertly building the [[Blessed Army of Ezra]] in preparation for this great conflict.<ref name="HoL p. 52-53">[[Heroes of Light]] p. 52-53</ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">==History==</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Following the Grand Conjunction of [[740 BC]], Teodorus Raines saw this as a sign of the eminent end times, and he wandered Darkon for the next eleven years preaching fiery [[prophecy|prophecies]] of the impending doom that will fall upon the land. Raines's efforts went poorly until [[the Requiem]]. The chaos and fear it brought, plus the weakening of the Eternal Order, was the chance Raines needed. In [[751 BC]], Raines wrote the [[Fourth Book of Ezra]]<ref name="RLCS p.18">[[Ravenloft Third Edition]] p.18</ref><ref name="RLPHB p.20">[[Ravenloft Player's Handbook]] p.20</ref>, past the [[Rite of Revelation]], and henceforth won recognition as the [[Bastion]] and [[founder]] of a new sect of the Ezran church. Teodorus Raines settled down in Nevuchar Springs<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref>, making the [[Last Redoubt]] his [[seat of spiritual authority]] after ejecting the clerics of the Eternal Order.<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 39">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 39</ref></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Over the following fifteen years, the Nevuchar Springs sect grew in power and number while at the same time embracing increasingly extreme and ruthless practices over time. Bailey Lacrese, one of the Mordentish clergy, experienced a vision of their Darkonian kindred wiping out all the clergy of the Mordentish sect. After a council of senior clergy deemed Lacrese's visions to be true, a secret faction within the church began assembling the [[Blessed Army of EZra]] in preparationn for such a conflict.<ref name="HoL p. 52-53">[[Heroes of Light]] p. 52-53</ref></ins></div></td></tr> </table>

The Lesser Evil http://fraternityofshadows.com/w/index.php?title=Category:The_Nevuchar_Springs_Sect&diff=131440&oldid=prev The Lesser Evil at 17:28, 13 November 2016 2016-11-13T17:28:11Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 11:28, 13 November 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l6">Line 6:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The faith has spread through the eastern parts of [[Darkon]] as [[the Eternal Order]] has been crumbling.<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref> This expansion has not been peaceful, as the Nevuchar Spring [[anchorite]]s have been feuding with the faithful of Darkon's [[state religion]]. In fact, the Nevuchar Springs anchorites displaced and replaced the Eternal Order [[cleric]]s from at least two [[temple]]s. These include the [[Last Redoubt]] in [[Nevuchar Springs]] and [[The Ward of Perdition]] in [[Maykle]]<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30-31">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30-31</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The faith has spread through the eastern parts of [[Darkon]] as [[the Eternal Order]] has been crumbling.<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref> This expansion has not been peaceful, as the Nevuchar Spring [[anchorite]]s have been feuding with the faithful of Darkon's [[state religion]]. In fact, the Nevuchar Springs anchorites displaced and replaced the Eternal Order [[cleric]]s from at least two [[temple]]s. These include the [[Last Redoubt]] in [[Nevuchar Springs]] and [[The Ward of Perdition]] in [[Maykle]]<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30-31">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30-31</ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Bastione Raines faces some degree of faces opposition within The drift of the Nevuchar Spring sect towards [[darkness]] has caused many [[dissident]]s in the faith to label Teodorus as [[mad]].<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref> However, converts still continue to pick up. Another [[prophet]], [[Bailey Lacrese]], within the [[Mordentish Sect]], has experienced visions of the [[corruption]] of the Nevuchar Springs sect leading the latter to take up arms against and wiping out the Mordentish Sect. The Mordentish have been covertly building the [[Blessed Army of Ezra]] in preparation for this great conflict.<ref name="HoL p. 52-53>[[Heroes of Light]] p. 52-53</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Bastione Raines faces some degree of faces opposition within The drift of the Nevuchar Spring sect towards [[darkness]] has caused many [[dissident]]s in the faith to label Teodorus as [[mad]].<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref> However, converts still continue to pick up. Another [[prophet]], [[Bailey Lacrese]], within the [[Mordentish Sect]], has experienced visions of the [[corruption]] of the Nevuchar Springs sect leading the latter to take up arms against and wiping out the Mordentish Sect. The Mordentish have been covertly building the [[Blessed Army of Ezra]] in preparation for this great conflict.<ref name="HoL p. 52-53<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</ins>>[[Heroes of Light]] p. 52-53</ref></div></td></tr> </table>

The Lesser Evil http://fraternityofshadows.com/w/index.php?title=Category:The_Nevuchar_Springs_Sect&diff=131439&oldid=prev The Lesser Evil at 17:27, 13 November 2016 2016-11-13T17:27:46Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 11:27, 13 November 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l6">Line 6:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The faith has spread through the eastern parts of [[Darkon]] as [[the Eternal Order]] has been crumbling.<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref> This expansion has not been peaceful, as the Nevuchar Spring [[anchorite]]s have been feuding with the faithful of Darkon's [[state religion]]. In fact, the Nevuchar Springs anchorites displaced and replaced the Eternal Order [[cleric]]s from at least two [[temple]]s. These include the [[Last Redoubt]] in [[Nevuchar Springs]] and [[The Ward of Perdition]] in [[Maykle]]<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30-31">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30-31</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The faith has spread through the eastern parts of [[Darkon]] as [[the Eternal Order]] has been crumbling.<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref> This expansion has not been peaceful, as the Nevuchar Spring [[anchorite]]s have been feuding with the faithful of Darkon's [[state religion]]. In fact, the Nevuchar Springs anchorites displaced and replaced the Eternal Order [[cleric]]s from at least two [[temple]]s. These include the [[Last Redoubt]] in [[Nevuchar Springs]] and [[The Ward of Perdition]] in [[Maykle]]<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30-31">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30-31</ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Bastione Raines faces some degree of faces opposition within The drift of the Nevuchar Spring sect towards [[darkness]] has caused many [[dissident]]s in the faith to label Teodorus as [[mad]].<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref> However, converts still continue to pick up. Another [[prophet]], [[Bailey Lacrese]], within the [[Mordentish Sect]], has experienced visions of the [[corruption]] of the Nevuchar Springs sect leading the latter to take up arms against and wiping out the Mordentish Sect. The Mordentish have been covertly building the [[Blessed Army of Ezra]] in preparation for this great conflict.<ref name="HoL p. 52-53>[[Heroes of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Horror </del>p. 52-53</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Bastione Raines faces some degree of faces opposition within The drift of the Nevuchar Spring sect towards [[darkness]] has caused many [[dissident]]s in the faith to label Teodorus as [[mad]].<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref> However, converts still continue to pick up. Another [[prophet]], [[Bailey Lacrese]], within the [[Mordentish Sect]], has experienced visions of the [[corruption]] of the Nevuchar Springs sect leading the latter to take up arms against and wiping out the Mordentish Sect. The Mordentish have been covertly building the [[Blessed Army of Ezra]] in preparation for this great conflict.<ref name="HoL p. 52-53>[[Heroes of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Light]] </ins>p. 52-53</ref></div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 11:27, 13 November 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Church of Ezra]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Church of Ezra]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Darkonian]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Darkonian]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Founded]] upon the fire-and-brimstone, apocalyptic visions of [[Bastion Teodorus Raines]], the branch of the [[Church of Ezra]] based in [[Nevuchar Springs]] is perhaps the most [[zealous]] (and even [[fanatical]]) branch in weeding out the [[Legions of the Night]] that supposedly prey upon the faithful of Ezra. It is also the youngest (though not necessarily the last) branch, established only in [[751 BC]] in the wake of [[the Requiem]]. Mostly [[Lawful Evil]] in [[alignment]], the Nevuchar Springs [[Zealots]] engage in many extremist practices to prepare for the impending [[Time of Unparalleled Darkness]]. These include religious [[conversion]] through coercion and performing [[torture]] and [[experiment]]s] upon the presumed [[agent]]s of the Night's Legions to discover their vulnerabilities.<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30-31">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30-31</ref></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The faith has spread through the eastern parts of [[Darkon]] as [[the Eternal Order]] has been crumbling.<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref> This expansion has not been peaceful, as the Nevuchar Spring [[anchorite]]s have been feuding with the faithful of Darkon's [[state religion]]. In fact, the Nevuchar Springs anchorites displaced and replaced the Eternal Order [[cleric]]s from at least two [[temple]]s. These include the [[Last Redoubt]] in [[Nevuchar Springs]] and [[The Ward of Perdition]] in [[Maykle]]<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30-31">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30-31</ref></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bastione Raines faces some degree of faces opposition within The drift of the Nevuchar Spring sect towards [[darkness]] has caused many [[dissident]]s in the faith to label Teodorus as [[mad]].<ref name="Gazetteer II p. 30">[[Gazetteer II]] p. 30</ref> However, converts still continue to pick up. Another [[prophet]], [[Bailey Lacrese]], within the [[Mordentish Sect]], has experienced visions of the [[corruption]] of the Nevuchar Springs sect leading the latter to take up arms against and wiping out the Mordentish Sect. The Mordentish have been covertly building the [[Blessed Army of Ezra]] in preparation for this great conflict.<ref name="HoL p. 52-53>[[Heroes of Horror p. 52-53</ref></ins></div></td></tr> </table>

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