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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]]. Though originally composed of a few devout friends of Imithia, the Church grew quickly, 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. | 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]]. Though originally composed of a few devout friends of Imithia, the Church grew quickly, 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 Tower of the Luminai in Shallam. The [[Luminai]] were the most ardent opponents of the ancient [[Occultist|Occultists]] and guided the Church's fight against them. Though denied by the Church, the Occultists claim that the Luminai and the Church perpetrated many injustices against them, including torture and the destruction of their scholarly texts. The Luminai, likewise, claim that the Occultists were responsible for the arson that destroyed their tower within Shallam. | Though based in the [[Delos|Delosian]] Basilica, the Church had many branches and chapels in other [[city|cities]], including the Tower of the Luminai in Shallam. The [[Luminai]] were the most ardent opponents of the ancient [[Occultist|Occultists]] and guided the Church's fight against them. Though denied by the Church, the Occultists claim that the Luminai and the Church perpetrated many injustices against them, including torture and the destruction of their scholarly texts. The Luminai, likewise, claim that the Occultists were responsible for the arson that destroyed their tower within Shallam. One member of the ancient Luminai survives today, Sir [[Gladius]], the former [[bloodsworn]] of the priestess-turned-Goddess of the [[Sun]], [[Mithraea]]. | ||
The Church | The Church was responsible for many of the [[:category:roads|highways]] within [[Sapience]], built under the Archprelacy of [[Raphael I]]. Through their construction, continental commerce was improved, travel hastened, and the Church was able to extend its influence to a greater degree within [[Ashtan]] and Shallam. The Church had great influence within the [[Seleucarian Empire]] whose founder, [[Nicator]], the Church named Fire Saint. It had blessed the coronation of every ruler of the empire; an absence of this blessing was seen as a sign of disfavour from the Gods, and on one occasion prevented the immediate accession of Prince [[Mycale]] after the death of King [[Valerias]]. While it often placed itself as a neutral mediator during the world's conflict, healing wounds physical and political, its influence tended to waned greatly in Ashtan though it continued into modern times in Shallam. | ||
Other Church notables include: | |||
Miraman 24th, 568 AF saw the end of the Church era. A string of miraculous signs in the | *[[Aquinas]], the peacemaker | ||
*Sister [[Lavaine]] | |||
*Father [[Orlan]], Bringer of Hope | |||
==Modern Times== | |||
The [[Modern Age]] saw the relocation of the Church's base of operations from Delos to Shallam by the [[Sarapis|Logos]], and the renaming of the [[Templars]] guild to the Paladins Guild. Later both guilds became Houses and went through bouts of renaming and reform. The Church became a subordinate but essential part of Shallamese government, an arrangement which not only contributed to a heightened spirituality and strengthened force of arms but also political embroilment over time. | |||
Miraman 24th, 568 AF saw the end of the Church era. A string of miraculous signs in the six city-states followed a prophecy by Imithia, leading to divine symbols appearing in the air above the Chrysalis Basilica and Shallamese Royal Palace, creating a silent explosion which bathed Sapience in its incandescence. A spire of emerald appeared in its afterglow, dubbed the [[Citadel of Light]], a symbol of the union of church and state. The Citadel itself was destroyed along with the rest of Shallam in 612 AF. | |||
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