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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 4033747" data-attributes="member: 467">The Covenant of the SoulORGANIZATIONThe Covenant of the SoulThe Covenant of the Soul is a militant sect recently separated from the Church of [a god with a big anti-undead mission].  Like the orthodox members of that Church, the Covenant's mission is the destruction of undead and the strengthening of the veil between the World and the Shadowfell.  However, the Covenant has another mission: the eradication of the Animus in total, if not literally then at least spiritually and symbolically.The Covenant believes the Animus to be the root of all mortal evil.  In the doctrine of the Covenant, the Animus causes all passions, all desires and all wickedness.  It is the Soul that holds the Animus at bay and allows for righteousness, and only through the cultivation of the Soul can the Animus be suppressed, paving the way for a righteous life.  As such, the righteous must drive out all passions and desires and basic mortal emotions, through self denial and flagellation.  Moreover, the Covenant believes that their message must be spread and their doctrine enforced, even among – especially among – the unwilling and the wicked.The Covenants operations in Kingsbarrow is typical of their mission: a small company of soldier-priests arrives in town and sets up a temple to [the God].  they begin providing support to the poor, patrolling the outskirts of the town to protect the locals from foul creatures.  They cleanse and consecrate haunted tombs and other locales.  As they gain notoriety and the trust of local people and officials, drawing converts across all social classes, they begin to spread their doctrine and turn their attention from wandering horrors and haunted locales to the people of the town in which they have established themselves.  In many cases, by this point the local leadership is strongly in support of or even members of the Covenant and harsh laws against wicked behavior are enacted.  At first, these laws seem just: harsh punishments for thieves, rapists and murderers.  Those laws begin to spread, however, to purveyors of pleasures (physical and otherwise) and those whose businesses revolve around the accumulation of wealth.  Soon, these towns are embedded with strict moral laws, punishing any and all displays of passion, emotion and desire.  Once a town has fallen fully under the heel of the Covenant, a small company, usually new converts, is sent out to find another Point of Light in need of moral guidance.Kingsbarrow only recently saw the arrival of the Covenant sect.  They have just finished their temple and begun their “good works” and are slowly building a following among the townsfolk.  Not yet strong enough to eradicate the evils of the Witchwyrd Wood or the Barrow Mounds, they are establishing themselves in the area and hiring local adventurers to investigate these and other and report back to them.  At the same time, they are treating with Kingsbarrow's powerful, beginning the process of insinuating themselves in local government.</blockquote>

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