The Faith

The faith is an order of priests that comprises the primary core of the conservation school. The order originated as a primary segment of The Fallen pact and entitled The Kingdoms to major concessions by the convervationists. The pact states that the faith may maintain major control over the worship of the ten fragments so long as their first role is to serve greater good of The Kingdoms. As such members who join the conservationists are first trained to serve in the faith before they have the possibility of of pregressing further in the school. This training can take many years depending upon the skill and the power of the brother or sister in question and their outcomes correspond to the service they are to provide to the realm. This service can range from serving lords as healers and advisors to stations as town physicians. All members of the order are owned as proterty of the High King of The Kingdoms and are distributed to each nation by his disgression following the recomendations of the Restored Council. Assigned members of the faith are except from the right to own property outside that which is required for their duties and are forbidden to charge for any service that they provide. They are required by law to provide aid to any in need regardless of any personal or moral issues they might encounter in providing that aid. The majority of major and even most minor lords have a member of the faith in their service with higher class lords generally have better trained and more powerful healers. Those assigned to high lords are usually given the prime directive of protecting that lord and his family from harm while less powerful followers are given more generalised duties. Brothers and sisters of the faith can also be assigned to patrol larger areas to assist those outside of towns and villages. Those who peform this duty are part of a subgroup of the faith known as Guardians. Members of this branch are reffered to as Paladins and are trained and equiped for combat better than their city stationed counterparts. Paladins of the faith are forbidden to use bladed weapons but they are permitted to enter battle if it is directly in the service of the greater good of The Kingdoms. They are allowed to protect themselves and may extend that protection to any in need with the condition that killing another is reserved as an absolute last resort. If given the authority to do so they may detain an individual but are forbidden to hold judgement over that person and are required to hold to their other vows regardless of any crimes the person may have committed. As such it is not uncommon for a brother or sister to subdue a threat before then immedietly rendering them aid. If a Paladin takes a life they must face the ultimate judgemnet of the members of the Restored Council. If their actions are found unjustified the brother or sister involved faces a lengthy a process in which they repent and are cleansed of their sins. .