The Church

Across the world, temples are raised to numberless spirits and gods.

Some are totally false, invented by mad or evil men. Others are not gods, but daemons, whispering voices from beyond the sacred boundary of the world. They promise power, hope, and truth, and deliver damnation.

The Authority first revealed His truth to a nameless Badian slave, five Ages ago. He would be the Prophet of Chains, the first of the servants of God. He said that there was but one God, who is perfect in form and soul, who is the future of all the righteous.

He said that He found all the souls of men wretched, drowning in a Sea of Torment, but that he saw divinity within them, and took pity. He said that the Authority created the world with a thought, a paradise, an oasis, and island in the sea. He said that he walled the world with Word and holy Water, and gave the souls form, and created Man. Man who is imperfect, and tainted, but who can be purified, who can arise to join Him.

His Word spread. The Prophet of Chains worked miracles, and by his death, toppled a tyrant. But it was not enough. In east and west, Hestria and Leng, men were seduced by the promises of daemons. They tore the world apart with their warring, and thought themselves gods. The flood wiped them from the world and divided the land into east and west, separate and apart.

And still His Word spread. More prophets came to serve Him, and more Tyrants to serve His enemies, the daemons. Finally, 834 years ago, the Last Prophet arose, the Prophet of Blades, the first Radiant Emperor. The daemon-serving kings fell, and the Seven Saintly Armies of the first Emperor swept across the world. In Holy Anhalus he found his throne, the throne from which his sacred line would rule the world.