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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 9618365" data-attributes="member: 1125">My Dark Shadows over Europe campaign features both the Inquisitors Papacy in Rome (The Grand Inquisitor of Spain was elected Pope) and the Papat d'Avignon in France, although the Great Schism is shifted in time to fit the rest of the setting and both persist due to magic.  Southern France is in a state of war with Aix rebuilding after burning in a seige, Marseille and Toulouse on alert but defiant as they are threatened by both Roman forces as well as smugglers, pirates and Barbary corsairs exploiting the chaos.The problem of DnD magic was solved by first making Heaven silent and instead cohorts of Angels exist in the World but are cut off from Heaven by the Veil of Shadow. Some of those angels finding themselves cut off, lost faith and fell into despair, others rebeled turning their backs on the mandate of heaven, three cohorts remained faithful - the Purifiers who believe their Angelic duty is to battle the Darkness directly, the Redeemers who seek to guide mortals to find redemption within, and the Dominion which holds that mortals must be ruled with an iron fist and their sins purged. Different cults have risen around these Angelic Cohorts so while the true Angels (both exalted and fallen) tend to remain invisible in the World, they do empower clergy and paladins or their divine presence manifest in a mortal Scion of Angels (Aasimar or Tieflings)</blockquote>