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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 402025" data-attributes="member: 5137">Just some revising and thinking <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.Some Reference Links<a href="http://www.costumes.org/pages/timelinepages/14thcent1.htm" target="_blank">Costumes</a><a href="http://www.crcs.k12.ny.us/lib/hs/medieval_europe.htm" target="_blank">Useful links</a>1332 ADA century before, the Children's Crusade, the Magna Carta and the Inquisition. A generation before, the Cathedral at Chartres was completed in France.Two years ago, King Edward came to power, after imprisoning his mother (it should be noted: his mother's lover was his father's murderer). His mother gave him some small claim to the French throne, which was to be his primary excuse for the Hundred Years' War.Currently, English and France are largely dominant, and gearing up for the Hundred Years' War with each other (although it has not officially started yet). The first rumblings of the Renaissance can be heard in a burgeoning merchant class and urban economy. The first few canons are in use, although they will continue to be rare well into 1350. And the Black Plague is a mere generation away, locked in away in a flea somewhere.In our Earth, this was a period when evil dominated. The climate shifted to be dramatically colder (this was the Little Ice Age), and everything that could go wrong, from plagues to famine to fires, did.In this Earth, however, this is the year of the Flowering.The Basic IdeaIt has been twice 666 years since the death of Christ. It is the dawn of the third day by the reckoning of angels.For twice 666 years since the death of Christ, God hath hidden His Light from the world in mourning, and the world wept in vile darkness as corrupt priests made mockery of His Word and worshipped base metals and soft luxuries. And each such period was a day as measured by angels, and so for two days God mourned and concealed His Light.But at the dawn of the third such day, in remembrance of the Resurrection and in forgiveness of the sins of Man, God took back His concealing Hand, and let His Light shine through to the world again, and Man, in vile darkness for centuries, was bathed in His glory.Priests, Clerics, PaladinsThe priests of flock and field, who stood among the people and thus suffered for their virtue beneath corrupt superiors, hath risen up as one and knew the Word of God, and from their mouths the Word doth spill gloriously as spoken sacramanet and miracles doth abound and the people rise up with the priests and bear God's wrath upon the very doors of the Church against corrupt and evil priests, and replace all therein.In the service of God one can find the militant orders (clerics), men of the cloth (priests; maybe sorcerors with spheres instead of schools) and holy knights (paladins, of course). All of these do fight in God's Name to reform the Church and replace its dark corruptors.SorcerorsFrom Canis: "Diluted over the centuries and unfed by God's Light, the blood of the Nephilim lingered still in the hearts of some few men. Basking in the return of the Light, their blood awakened, bringing with it the power of their forebears, though greatly reduced in scope. The distant children of the Fallen, be they king or peasant, merchant or soldier, Christian or heathen, felt the stirring in their blood at the Flowering. Over some years, they learned to focus their will, and bring ever greater manifestations of the power of Azael back into the world of men."In addition to the children of the Nephilim, the blood of the House of David ran through the royal line, and the King (and many of those with his blood) also manifested sorcerous powers. And lo, the King's children were many, and scattered, and the children of the Nephilim began to attempt to conceal themselves among the children of David.PsionsFrom Canis: "Just as the Flowering touched the hearts of the children of the Nephilim, so did it touch the hearts of all men. Far away from the influence of the Church, in the Empires of the East, lived men who, through ascetic practices and meditation, were in Harmony with the Divine. These men felt the stirring of their hearts as other men did not, and sought deeper, to where the Light of the Flowering rebounded from the Light in their own souls. The most disciplined among them were able to reach into that Light, and draw it out of themselves into the world. And with it, they could perform wonders.""And to the West, even as the Faithful tore down the idols of a Church corrupted, there were those who contemplated the Divine. Some who were Brothers to the Faithful were not men made to rail against the corruption of the Church, nor to guide a flock of God's people. These men lived a simple life, and bent their minds to the touch of the Divine on their souls. Subtler perhaps did the Flowering touch these men than their Brothers among the Faithful. Subtler, but no less profound. For as time passed, the resonance of their souls to the Flowering was made manifest. And much as their spiritual counterparts in the East, they drew the Divine out of themselves to perform miracles."DruidsPost will be editted with this tomorrow morning <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.Major Possible EventsThis is just a collection of adventure seed ideas, as well as some possible "flava" events in the background.A Cabal of wizards forms quietly in the background. PCs could discover them, be asked to investigate strange lights in the academic quarter of a large town, or be members trying to learn the new methodologies with witch-hunters breathing down their backs.The most high of the priestly orders, the Popes and Bishops, are wielding strange powers of their own... but signs indicate that these may be powers from the Devil!(And/Or... John XXII is discovered in hiding far in Italy, where he is attempting to roust & rebuild the survivors of the Knights Templar (destroyed by his predecessor, Clement V). And the Pope leading the Church with his dark powers...? Uh, that's not the Pope.)The King of England has sided with the "priests of flock and field", and is aiding them in their war against their own Church. His divinely granted gifts, shared by his sons and daughters, will prove fair menace to the corrupt ministers of the Church.Or... The King of France has sided with the papacy, and declared the priesthood's civil war to be a blight in God's eyes... and he's got the power to prove it! Dozens of "flock & field"  warriors have been decimated by massive gouts of fire from Heaven. Is the Church in the right after all? In France, the heart of the papacy, at least, it would seem so!The Nephilim are at large! (Literally <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />) Indeed, they have taken advantage of the general chaos to forge their own political faction, with the intent of guiding humanity, once and for all, down the path they feel is righteous... which primarily means Nephilim at top, humanity at bottom.</blockquote>

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