Category:The Home Faith
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The Home Faith is the Borcan, and original, branch of the Church of Ezra. The majority of its clergy are of Lawful Neutral alignment, and its clerics most often take the Mists Domain and the Law Domain as their spell-domains. However, neither alignment nor domain selection are requirements for individual anchorites, merely major trends.[1] The Home Faith is headquartered in the Great Cathedral of Levkarest, where Praesidius Levin Postoya currently leads the faith. In the Cathedral, the Home Faith plays host to representatives from all of the recognized splinter sects.[2]
Clerics of the Home Faith are charged to heal the faithful and deliver them from harm.[3] Unlike the Mordentish Sect or the Nevuchar Springs Sect, the Home Faith shows disengagement from interfering with the fates of nonbelievers and leaves such fates to Ezra's discretion.[2]
Within Borca, the faith represents a source of hope and succor for the oppressed lower classes, whom flock to the Great Cathedral in droves every day. "S" contends this represents a source of social control originally imagined by Yakov Dilisnya, the Church's Mordentish founder. This is not to say that the church does not attend to the religious needs for the Borcan nobility, because the Church and Borcan politics have become entangled together[2] as evidenced by the events of the First Schism. However, in the past Camille Dilisnya made it clear the clergy should stay univolved with any talks of revolution or dissidence.[4]. In the present, Levin Postoya does his best to keep the Home Faith's political stance neutral. Whatever degree he may hope to keep the Church so neutral, Levin Postoya nonetheless privately meets with nobles to appease their demands and secure their donations.[2]
Beyond Borca, the Home Faith is also popular Richemulot[5] and Invidia.[6]
History
The history of the Home Faith is largely synonymous with the history of the Church itself. In 666 BC, [Yakov Dilisnya, then resident of Mordent, was struck with a seizure. While recovering, he penned the holy text known later as the First Book of Ezra. After he was fully restored to health, Yakov began to spread his message in his native Mordent, but he largely failed. After Borca formed due to the actions of Camille Dilisnya in 684 BC, she eventually called all of the Dilisnyas to join her there. Yakov left Mordent for Borca, and there he persuaded Camille to support the Church and fund the construction for the Great Cathedral. Earth was dug for the cathedral's foundation in 685 BC. Although he had failed in Mordent, Yakov plied his ministries upon the temple builders, and his message reached the rest of Borca over the next ten years, particularly among Borca's oppressed peasants.[7]
In 698 BC, Camille poisoned a great number of her relatives, including Yakov, at the funeral of Oleh Fortich. The poisoning cause great social unrest and rebellion among Borca's lower classes. To calm the uprising, Camille made massive donations to the Church and funded the construction of a memorial statue of Yakov on the Cathedral's grounds. The motion quelled the unrest. She secretly gave the clergy dire warnings to refrain from inciting further unrest.[7]
Camille's public acts quenched the fires of social unrest, but brought another firestorm within the Church's clergy. Although the dominant faction within the church believed it necessary to accept a settlement from Camille, a sizable number saw this appeasement as little more that a bribery, not to mention the offense of constructing a statue of a mortal upon Ezra's sacred ground. In 699 BC, the religious dissident left for Mordent led by Felix Wachter, their leader. There they founded their own sect of the religious, the Mordentish Sect[7] Following the debacle, the Church established the Rite of Revelation in order to separate true revelation from heresy.[1]
Despite First Schism and later breaks, the Church (and thus the Home Faith) continued to grow in power in Borca, to the point where the Praesidius could issue edicts against witchcraft. In 701 BC, Praesidia Donella Borovsky decreed witchcraft (and thus the Church of Hala) to be hag magic and thus a corrupting force. Though this never led the Church to active pogroms, it did alienate the Borcan public from Hala's faith. Borovsky's edict against witchcraft was later withdrawn by Praesidia Kristyn Stoyista in 732 BC. However, Borovsky left the Borcans with a deep fear and suspicion of witchcraft, including Hala and her faithful.[2]
Although church services were first held in the skeleton of the Great Cathedral in 695 BC, the Cathedral did not reach final completion until 745 BC, fa time by which the Church was a major force to be reckoned with in all of Borca[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gazetteer III p. 110
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Gazetteer IV p. 26-27
- ↑ Ravenloft Third Edition p. 51
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gazetteer IV p. 17
- ↑ Gazetteer III p. 93
- ↑ Gazetteer IV p. 53
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Gazetteer IV p. 16-17
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Subcategories
This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total.
A
B
- Bastion of the Home Faith (2 P)
F
S
- Sentire of Ilvin (1 P)
- Sentire of Lechberg (1 P)
- Sentire of Levkarest (1 P)
- Sentire of Sturben (2 P)
- Sentire of Vor Ziyden (1 P)
T
- Temple of the Home Faith (4 P)
Pages in category "The Home Faith"
The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
