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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GlassEye" data-source="post: 4482080" data-attributes="member: 40413">[sblock=Illene Mystics redux]Since the Illene Mystics announce their affiliation to the order with the tattoos crossing their faces and hands it has been joked that the only way to leave the order is by the hand of a Lawgiver.  The Illene themselves say there are two ways.  The first is to achieve a perfect understanding of the law and transcend this life into a higher state of existence.  While they claim this state has been achieved by several anakoretes (high level mystics) there is no way to prove it one way or the other.The second way is to lose control of the chaos that they have invited into their bodies.  If the Illene cannot regain control fairly quickly they are lost to the dream.  And so are born the Reaverwraiths.  Their presence is announced by obscene black symbols that hover and pulse to some unheard manic beat.  Since the reaverwraiths haunt the night these symbols are rarely seen until it is too late and the reaverwraith begins to manifest.  The bodies of reaverwraiths vary greatly but are generally horrid mockeries and mutations of the men and women that they used to be.  The only constant seems to be the symbols that stain the beasts body where the face might have once been.  Understandably, the Lawgivers point to the existance of reaverwraiths as an argument against the Illene Mystics.[/sblock]</blockquote>