Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-27550231-20160726000337/@comment-28358106-20161024020803

"That's partially correct, and more correct than you know." She looks to Brannon.

He steps forward. "The founder of our sect was a man named Julius Abernathy. He lived several hundred years ago, roughly a hundred years after the Demon Lord took to power.   He joined the Order, as many do, to seek enlightenment.  But details of his early life were not well known.  He rose in the ranks of the clergy quickly, as he was a just and pious man.  It was when he became a bishop that he petitioned the papacy to create the Cathars, a sect of the Order dedicated to the protection of the weak and the ministering of the poor and sick.  The Cathars remained unchanged for two hundred years, until the trial of Lescatie."

He continues. "After Lescatie, everything changed. The Cathars were ordered into increasingly militant roles, until they were part of the Inquisition sent to Nilhasse eighty years ago.  They were ordered to round up Mamono for purging, and they refused.  That would only have likely resulted in their excommunication, but the Inquisition leadership discovered that the high ranking clergy of the Cathars were adherents of the True God theory.  They had to be, to prepetuate their beleifs of mercy to all."

"The bottom line result is, it has been the mission of the Cathars, since we came to Whitemarch, to discover the truth behind Bishop Abernathy's origins. After his death, we had long suspected that he was of extraplanar origin, and now we are closer to proving just that."

Adelaide looks to Jorge. "The danger comes from this, Jorge. If the Order were to discover that the Cathars were able to prove the superiority of their beliefs with hard, tangible evidence, they would stop at nothing to destroy it.  They would place everything they have into stopping this idea."