Episode: Dominus
Posted by Story on 11/16/20
As self-proclaimed Dominus Waldo's proclamation is shouted in towns and cities throughout the Compact, reactions are varied.
By and large, the Northlands and Crownlands clergy are vocal in their support for the Arx Church, although the reasons appear to be political rather than out of great support for the new doctrines or those who champion them. Neither domains particularly want a holy war, and the Northlands particularly doesn't want the Faith - any faction - getting too invested in proving its legitimacy by war, since that tends to end with a Crusade in the Northlands. Somehow.
Clergy in the Lyceum and Pravus territories are notably irritated at yet another Lycene Dominus getting assassinated, but publicly suggest that some critique of Church trends may be overdue. Sales of popping corn might also have risen notably across both domains.
Slightly over half of the clergy in the Isles, primarily those in conservative territories, vocally support Dominus Waldo, and even clergy in less conservative parishes speak about fine people on both sides. Very few of them are mad about the central Arx Faith getting a bit of mud slung on them.
Many eyes turn to the Oathlands, birthplace of the Faith, for their reaction. Orthodox clergy find themselves divided between a distaste for a Lycene Dominus (who engineered the fall of an Oathlands Dominus before him) and his 'reforms' which seem to have contributed to a spread of shamanism and other unorthodox philosophies, and equal distaste for a self-declared Anti-Dominus who has attached himself to those who champion thralldom and dubious claims of a 'True King' on the other side of the world. No official statements are issued by the Seraph of Sanctum, and it seems likely that the Oathlands Orthodox are still considering which faction to throw their considerable weight behind.
By and large, the Northlands and Crownlands clergy are vocal in their support for the Arx Church, although the reasons appear to be political rather than out of great support for the new doctrines or those who champion them. Neither domains particularly want a holy war, and the Northlands particularly doesn't want the Faith - any faction - getting too invested in proving its legitimacy by war, since that tends to end with a Crusade in the Northlands. Somehow.
Clergy in the Lyceum and Pravus territories are notably irritated at yet another Lycene Dominus getting assassinated, but publicly suggest that some critique of Church trends may be overdue. Sales of popping corn might also have risen notably across both domains.
Slightly over half of the clergy in the Isles, primarily those in conservative territories, vocally support Dominus Waldo, and even clergy in less conservative parishes speak about fine people on both sides. Very few of them are mad about the central Arx Faith getting a bit of mud slung on them.
Many eyes turn to the Oathlands, birthplace of the Faith, for their reaction. Orthodox clergy find themselves divided between a distaste for a Lycene Dominus (who engineered the fall of an Oathlands Dominus before him) and his 'reforms' which seem to have contributed to a spread of shamanism and other unorthodox philosophies, and equal distaste for a self-declared Anti-Dominus who has attached himself to those who champion thralldom and dubious claims of a 'True King' on the other side of the world. No official statements are issued by the Seraph of Sanctum, and it seems likely that the Oathlands Orthodox are still considering which faction to throw their considerable weight behind.