Order of the Sable Moon
Clash of Dreams Era Beliefs
- Beliefs changed: Needs expansion on illuminated and draining
Lyra Era Beliefs
The moonies, as they are labaled are a house of study, known to be one of the greater scholar houses of all time. Peaceful until forced to defend themselves, the moonies practice, live, breath, preach, debate, and whatever else you can think of the freesoul beliefs.
The moonies are indeed "enlightened" freesouls in which they believe there is SOME link to the dream and the waking world.
The Order is a imprisonment house. They imprison the mare in order to study from it so that they can either rid the dream, permanently destroy, or another way of dealing with the mare essence.
House Emblem
"Sable Moon" represents the order, it was almost first opened as a dark house that drew power from mare essences. The black moon served as that evil. Now it represents the whole dreamer. The six points make up the variables of the dreamer. The top three stand for mental, physical, and emotional. The bottom three on the emblem stand for lust, greed, and hatred. The idea is that while we strive for perfection in the dream, each dreamer has parts in them which are truly evil and parts which are truly good.
House Chronicles
Alliance of the Eclipse History of the House as told by Damath
The Alliance was founded by a group of astronomers who wished to study the sky undisturbed by the politics andconflicts of the rest of the dream. The astronomers were illuminated though, and when the Dreamer Wars began,their brothers in the Illuminated Front demanded their aid, for many of the astronomers were high in sphere, theirresearch had yielded powerful arts. Not wishing to halt their research, the astronomers started a new branch in thehouse, the Knights of Star. They recruited the best warriors from among free spirits, luring them in with promises ofsecret knowledge and powerful new arts. These Knights would fight in the wars for the Alliance, while theastronomers continued to study in peace.
The Star Knights were very successful in the Wars. As the Dreamer Wars drew to a close, the Star Knights cameto believe that they, and not the astronomers, were the true Alliance of the Eclipse. And when the battles betweenIlluminated Front and Freesoul Knight reached a pause, as the enforced peace of dreamstrike settled over the city..the battles between Star Knights and astronomers within the Alliance began. The Star Knights used blades andchakrams of great power, and the astronomers countered with their arts. Gathering together, the astronomers useda newly created art, to draw power from the sky, and channeling it (through the Power Room), they forced nearlyevery Star Knight dreaming to awaken. Once this was done, the astronomers demoted the Knights, and regainedpower over their houses.
Seeing the harm wrought by the Alliance's involvement in the Dreamer Wars, Alliance Ruler Kal'Arakos was thefirst to swear the oaths of peace.. never to do violence except in the most dire of times, to seek to avoid conflict, notencourage it. Some of the other astronomers swore these oaths as well, those who did not were encouraged to leavefor other houses. And so the Alliance became a house of peace.. but a far smaller, weaker house than it had oncebeen.
When the nightmares entered the city, scholars flocked once more to the Alliance's gates. While other housessought to fight the mares, the Alliance sought to study them. Until the creation of the portals, the city was adangerous place, and the many peaceful scholars needed a safe place to rest and study. Throughout the NightmareWars, the Alliance continued its peaceful studies, and just before the Great Loss, Kal'Arakos announced adiscovery. Through a process called Chaos Infusion, a dreamer could learn to understand the mares. Unfortunately,this process inevitably drove the dreamer mad. Alliance researchers were seeking to correct this problem when theOverscanners tried to repair the walls, and the Dorsal Rift swept through the city. Those Alliance Rulers who hadnot been dreaming gathered, and drew straws to determine who would remain behind in Cloudsbreak in case of asecond rift. Damath was chosen. The other Rulers perished, presumably in the Caudal Rift.
Reopening of AotEas told by Nziri
After the loss, House Calenture and the Dreamers of Light were the first to reopen. Both these houses, of course,are devoted to fighting against the mare threat. The Order of the Sable Moon was next, and the Protectors ofRadiance followed. Again, both devoted to fighting the mares, though some in the Order consider peace an eventualpossibility. But there were a few dreamers dedicated to peace in these times as well. Some looked back on ourhistory, and saw the unceasing violence of our past, and sought a new course. Others tried to hunt.. and found theydidn't like the feeling of harming another living being (yes, I know some contest that mares are not alive). Stillothers, like myself, came from peoples on Cloudsbreak, whose beliefs simply forbade violence as a solution toproblems. There were many reasons.. but two dreamers, Ambi and myself, sought to bring these peaceful scholarstogether. We formed a movement which many titled "mare-huggers" but which we named the Seekers ofEnlightment. We were not as organized as a house, to be certain.. but we were there. When Damath chose to returnto the dream, he found this group, the Seekers of Enlightment, holding beliefs not too far from his own and those ofthe Alliance. Seeing a way to restore the Alliance to its former numbers, Damath joined this group and initiated itsleader, Ambi, into AotE. Many of the Seekers joined as well. I was among the last to do so.. resenting Damath'sclaims to Rulership over a movement my sister Ambi and I had worked so hard on (and also the perceived lack ofrespect which Damath gave us for our efforts). Since that time the Alliance has grown to include many newdreamers who were never members of the Seekers and also older dreamers who either changed their ways orsimply chose to join once we gained a house rather than being just a movement.
Turgin Lambent's Treaty, and the Flatsas told by Nziri
During the dreamer wars, Turgin Lambent always sought peace. Eventually, he ended the wars with the enforced"peace" broght by Dreamstrike, but he made many attempts before that. One such attempt was the Treaty ofLambent Flats. Turgin Lambent called all the houses to negotiate. Over several days, he convinced them to declareLambent Flats to be neutral ground (this was presumably pre-Star Knight) and under the guardianship of theAlliance of the Eclipse. No violence was to be brought, by any house, into the Flats. Remember, this was beforesanctuaries, so peaceful places to discuss and negotiate could be hard to come by. It may be that the Flats weregiven Turgin Lambent's name because of his success in brining about this treat.. and it may be that the "Turgin's"rooms where the places where the treaty was forged. Lambent never joined AotE, but he did work closely withKal'Arakos on several secret research projects later in Alliance history.
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