Eurusi Crusade
Posted by Apostate on 02/18/20
The Grandmaster of the Templars, Sir Preston, has sounded a call for a crusade against the Dune Kingdoms of Eurus, citing clear justifications such as the Eurusi embrace of slavery and religious practices that are anathema to the Faith of the Pantheon. Response is, to put it mildly, mixed.
The templars themselves are seeing true religious fervor begin to creep into their ranks for the first time in generations, mostly following the lead of the Grandmaster. Some may privately harbor doubts about the feasibility of a crusade, as no sea invasion of Eurus has been attempted in any large scale since at least before the Crownbreaker Wars, and never with any great success, but most see the development of caravels as at least a promising possibility.
The Knights of Solace are considerably more guarded about the idea, as crusades have typically made their mission of guarding the vulnerable of Arvum significantly more difficult and contributed to costly periods of instability that have made the realm bleed, so even Knights of Solace eager to free slaves in Eurus tend to be less militant.
The newly founded Liberators are a larger voice in the Faith, and the Faith as a whole tends to be enthusiastic, while the Oathlands Orthodox in particularly are fervently in favor, though there are some nuanced concerns. Some of the most conservative members of the Faith are troubled that the announcement did not come from a formal convocation of the Faith with the Dominus presiding, and the Legates and Archlectors and even all the senior seraphs giving their say. Among that group, they see the Grandmaster declaring it as either a sign of the tacit approval of the rest of the Faith leadership, or a sign that the Oathlands Orthodox embodied in Preston is becoming more of a significant power in the Faith, and they approve.
And if any disapprove, well. Crusades and carnifex appointments tend to go together.
Mirrormasks are contrarian by nature, so it's largely condemned, but this is complicated that the Skal'dajan fleet is coming as a response to the Saffron becoming an extended Lycene holding in the sense of House Pravus. So while most Peers of the Realm are alarmed by a call for crusade, even against loathsome slavers, it's very much torn between those who see the Skal'dajans as a threat to the Compact, or regard in solely in the context of House Pravus' expansion, and whether that is in the interests of their house.
The response from the Mourning Isles is suspiciously muted, in that many are undecided on what will happen when the Skal'dajans arrive, and are not certain it should be war yet at all. Of course, if the templars should invade Sungreet to get at Eurusi in peace talks, well. Then things get interesting.
The templars themselves are seeing true religious fervor begin to creep into their ranks for the first time in generations, mostly following the lead of the Grandmaster. Some may privately harbor doubts about the feasibility of a crusade, as no sea invasion of Eurus has been attempted in any large scale since at least before the Crownbreaker Wars, and never with any great success, but most see the development of caravels as at least a promising possibility.
The Knights of Solace are considerably more guarded about the idea, as crusades have typically made their mission of guarding the vulnerable of Arvum significantly more difficult and contributed to costly periods of instability that have made the realm bleed, so even Knights of Solace eager to free slaves in Eurus tend to be less militant.
The newly founded Liberators are a larger voice in the Faith, and the Faith as a whole tends to be enthusiastic, while the Oathlands Orthodox in particularly are fervently in favor, though there are some nuanced concerns. Some of the most conservative members of the Faith are troubled that the announcement did not come from a formal convocation of the Faith with the Dominus presiding, and the Legates and Archlectors and even all the senior seraphs giving their say. Among that group, they see the Grandmaster declaring it as either a sign of the tacit approval of the rest of the Faith leadership, or a sign that the Oathlands Orthodox embodied in Preston is becoming more of a significant power in the Faith, and they approve.
And if any disapprove, well. Crusades and carnifex appointments tend to go together.
Mirrormasks are contrarian by nature, so it's largely condemned, but this is complicated that the Skal'dajan fleet is coming as a response to the Saffron becoming an extended Lycene holding in the sense of House Pravus. So while most Peers of the Realm are alarmed by a call for crusade, even against loathsome slavers, it's very much torn between those who see the Skal'dajans as a threat to the Compact, or regard in solely in the context of House Pravus' expansion, and whether that is in the interests of their house.
The response from the Mourning Isles is suspiciously muted, in that many are undecided on what will happen when the Skal'dajans arrive, and are not certain it should be war yet at all. Of course, if the templars should invade Sungreet to get at Eurusi in peace talks, well. Then things get interesting.