We definitely can. And I think we are talking in general, if as I suspect the Order's charter was drafted by Gerald and there were not many alterations done to it over the centuries.
And if the Revival was the response to pulling them out of the dark ages, as it were, they would have needed warriors strong in the faith. It stands to reason that tradition would have been maintained, and likely the knights would have fought in the Holy Crusade.
But overall, if the purpose of the Church is to transform Erna on such a deep level that the fae no longer reacts to humans, then there's a reason there's nothing about peace. Because sorcerors and those of other faiths would not give up Working easily, would they? "Gods" would fight this, too. It would be messy.
My best guess, the post-war PR is post Holy Crusade, when they got their asses handed to them. Because, to quote Damien from an earlier chapter: The Church once tried to master it by massive applications of faith - that was the last of the Great Wars, as I’m sure you know - but all it did was give them back their nightmares, with a dark religious gloss. Such power prefers the guarded secrets of the unconscious to the preferences of our conscious will.
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Date: 2021-01-24 02:06 pm (UTC)We definitely can. And I think we are talking in general, if as I suspect the Order's charter was drafted by Gerald and there were not many alterations done to it over the centuries.
And if the Revival was the response to pulling them out of the dark ages, as it were, they would have needed warriors strong in the faith. It stands to reason that tradition would have been maintained, and likely the knights would have fought in the Holy Crusade.
But overall, if the purpose of the Church is to transform Erna on such a deep level that the fae no longer reacts to humans, then there's a reason there's nothing about peace. Because sorcerors and those of other faiths would not give up Working easily, would they? "Gods" would fight this, too. It would be messy.
My best guess, the post-war PR is post Holy Crusade, when they got their asses handed to them. Because, to quote Damien from an earlier chapter:
The Church once tried to master it by massive applications of faith - that was the last of the Great Wars, as I’m sure you know - but all it did was give them back their nightmares, with a dark religious gloss. Such power prefers the guarded secrets of the unconscious to the preferences of our conscious will.