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==History== | ==History== | ||
According to legend, the Church was founded by [[Imithia]], the great-great-great-granddaughter of [[Pasiphae]], when she held the [[Rite of Ending]] to both commemorate the life and mourn the death of the last of the [[:Category:Offspring|Offspring]]. This act also marks the beginning of its ancient internal dating system, the [[Calendar|Imithian Calendar]]. By modern reckoning, the founding of the Church occurred on Chronos 20th, 3131 BF. Though originally composed of a few devout friends of Imithia, the ancient Church grew slowly, eventually giving birth to the Templars and Priests. Though much different from their [[modern]]-day counterparts, they each played important parts in the functioning of the ancient Church. | According to legend, the Church was founded by [[Imithia]], the great-great-great-granddaughter of [[Pasiphae]], when she held the [[Rite of Ending]] to both commemorate the life and mourn the death of the last of the [[:Category:Offspring|Offspring]]. This act also marks the beginning of its ancient internal dating system, year zero on the [[Calendar|Imithian Calendar]]. By modern reckoning, the founding of the Church occurred on Chronos 20th, 3131 BF. Though originally composed of a few devout friends of Imithia, the ancient Church grew slowly, eventually giving birth to the Templars and Priests. Though much different from their [[modern]]-day counterparts, they each played important parts in the functioning of the ancient Church. | ||
Though based in the [[Delos|Delosian]] Basilica, the Church had many branches and chapels in other [[city|cities]], including the [[Minorus Basilica]] in [[Ashtan]] and the Tower of the Luminai in Shallam. The [[Luminai]] were a scholastic sect; the most ardent opponents of the ancient [[Occultist|Occultists]] and guided the Church's fight against them. Though denied by the Church, the Occultists claimed that the Luminai and the Church perpetrated many "injustices" against them, including torture and the destruction of their scholarly texts. The Luminai, likewise, claimed that the Occultists were responsible for chaotic atrocities against local villages and the arson that destroyed their tower in Shallam. One member of the ancient Luminai who survives today, Sir [[Gladius]], is the former [[bloodsworn]] of the priestess-turned-Goddess of the [[Sun]], [[Mithraea]]. | Though based in the [[Delos|Delosian]] Basilica, the Church had many branches and chapels in other [[city|cities]], including the [[Minorus Basilica]] in [[Ashtan]] and the Tower of the Luminai in Shallam. The [[Luminai]] were a scholastic sect; the most ardent opponents of the ancient [[Occultist|Occultists]] and guided the Church's fight against them. Though denied by the Church, the Occultists claimed that the Luminai and the Church perpetrated many "injustices" against them, including torture and the destruction of their scholarly texts. The Luminai, likewise, claimed that the Occultists were responsible for chaotic atrocities against local villages and the arson that destroyed their tower in Shallam. One member of the ancient Luminai who survives today, Sir [[Gladius]], is the former [[bloodsworn]] of the priestess-turned-Goddess of the [[Sun]], [[Mithraea]]. | ||