Council of Wardens
The Council of Wardens guards over the Wraiths imprisoned in barren lands of Edgeward Barrows.
Shades of Truth Era Beliefs
Wraiths (spirits like Bashir, the Shadow) exist within and outside of the Dream City, with a great number of them contained in The Palisades under the former Temple of Bashir. Wraiths are extra-planar creatures that gain power in the Dreamscape through the recognition and servitude of dreamers. Wraiths can exist intangibly and can also take avatar form. They are more powerful while in avatar form, but are also vulnerable to imprisonment and Dreamstrike. It can be beneficial for Wraiths and dreamers to coexist and use one another for mutual gain. It is wrong to worship Wraiths, lest they become too powerful, at cost to dreamers. The Wraiths imprisoned in the Palisade are presumably danger out and must remain bound to the prison. Dynroth is demonstrably dangerous and must be kept imprisoned as well.
The Council of Wardens view the minor beasts as an extension of a long-escaped wraith. They feel that centuries ago, a wraith of great power broke free of the Palisades and the variant itself, fleeing to a foreign City where he or she established a religious order. Similar to the empowerment of Bashir with the Cult, this escaped wraith grew exponentially stronger and amassed a great following. Once the wraith felt comfortable in its own power, it decided to return to our variant to seek vengeance. At this time, he or she called on loyal followers to commit eternity to their self-styled god, transforming themselves into the Hotai, similar to the Echten Knights of the Coven. Despite some limited success on exacting vengeance upon returning to this variant, the master wraith felt his or her wrath was not being sufficiently executed. As such, the master wraith split its soul into a seemingly limitless number of fragments that took form as the lesser beasts (Emphants, Bogroms, Shamblix, etc) to more directly affront the City that had once imprisoned him or her.
With this view of the lesser beasts in mind, the Wardens feel it compulsory to take the essences and re-imprison the soul fragments into the Palisades. The goal is to, literally bit-by-bit, re-incarcerate the master wraith. The Wardens do not accept the other factions utilizing the essences: they feel an accumulation of wraith soul within the other factions' Primes will lead only to malice and destruction. They are willing to compromise should another faction wish only the essences' strength but will defer the soul fragment to the Wardens for proper handling.
Charter
1. Wardens will obey the commands of their superiors.
2. Commands will comply with the doctrine of the Charter.
3. There shall be no more than two rulers.
4. There shall be no fewer than two and no more than four guardians.
5. Candidates for initiation must be sponsored by an active Warden. The candidate shall complete a task set forth by the sponsor. Upon completion, the sponsor shall present the candidate for approval by the Council.
6. Guardians are appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the Ruler.
7. Rulers are the supreme authority in all matters relevant to the integrity of the Palisade and in extreme circumstances, may suspend part, or all of the Charter in order to preserve the long-term integrity of the organization.
8. Rulers are appointed by succession.
- 8a. If a ruler is absent for a period greater than three weeks, a new ruler shall be appointed by the Head Warden and confirmed with a majority vote.
- 8b. Rulers may be voted out of their position, in extreme circumstances. A member will publicly approach the Head Warden to initiate a vote of No-confidence in the ruler. The Head Warden will supervise the vote. In two-thirds total active members have no confidence, the Guide shall demote the ruler to initiate rank. A majority vote, conducted directly after the demotion, and supervised by the Head Warden, shall occur to instate a new ruler. If no clear majority exists, the Head Warden shall appoint a new ruler.
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10. Wardens will never intentionally bring harm to one another. Except in cases of ceremony, where deemed necessary.
11. Wardens will maintain their arms, their equipment, and selves at all times.
12. Wardens will actively harvest prime energy to power the house.
13. (Addendum) Wardens shall actively collect the essences of the minor beasts to imprison the soul fragments within them.
14. (Addendum) Wardens shall not tolerate other factions or individuals jeopardizing the soul fragments of the essences.
On Wraiths:
1. Wardens shall enter into parole agreements with imprisoned wraiths only in cases that pose clear benefit to the Wardens, and never to the extent that the wraith is given boundless freedom within the city of Underlight.
2.The agreement shall always stipulate a time limit.
3.Wardens shall never kneel to nor offer supplication to a wraith.
House History
In the third variant of Idoaclesia, the ex-Chosen Ra'as reemerged with the findings of a Palisade below the closed Edgeward Stronghold. He gathered several of the old Faithful: Gromnir, Anyasha, and Jade - as well as several others that were not previously associated with the Cult. At this time, the former Cultists had realized their mistakes in following Bashir, believing in his lies, and giving their all to serve his evil ways.
He wanted to open the house to go against our old beliefs, and this time imprison and contain wraiths like Bashir within the Palisade, so that that our City would never be plagued with these creatures again. Not only that, but he believed it would be beneficial for wraiths and dreamers to coexist and use one another for mutual gain. Worshiping wraiths was forbidden, as that would give them a chance to grow in power and gain footing back in the City. That is what went wrong with the Cult's unyielding worship for Bashir.
Wraiths exist within and outside of the Dream City, with a great number of them contained in the Palisade and Lower Palisade. Wraiths are extra-planar creatures that gain power in the Dreamscape through the recognition and servitude of dreamers. Wraiths can exist intangibly and can also take avatar form. They are more powerful while in avatar form, but are also vulnerable to imprisonment and Dreamstrike.
Ra’as assigned me to forge our prime, the Ankh. After it was created, the Ankh blessed me with the very first Warden crest.
Focal Blades
Liolira Mohr approached rulership of the Council of Wardens and their house guide Sidari Kai, wanting to create a weapon that could imprison wraiths. She pushed forward an experiment to create the blade in the Palisade that was cautioned against, but proceeded anyway.
During the experiment, an outside force in the form of Kenra, whom would later claim she was acting to stop worse from happening, sabotaged the ceremony and the result was two wraiths rising from their crypts. Their names were Liad and Hajir.
From this time, Liolira and Naphtali Mohr, as well as Jade and other affiliated Wardens were attempting to fix the damaged blade and make it into a functional weapon against the wraiths and cast the two freed wraiths back to the Palisade.
Little progress had been made until Trisha Pawm assumed rulership of the Wardens. Upon this occurrence, she gained the help of Pazin Nalis and the knowledge of what the four focal weapons could do that was necessary to re-imprison the wraiths.
From this time, the DreamSeer blade ‘Dagger of Acumen’ was remade from the blade that Liolira and Naphtali Mohr had first intended. Over the watchful eye of Pazin Nalis and with Angele’s assistance this was successful.
From there, no more than half a moon cycle later, Em’et proceeded to the construction of the FateSenders weapon, the ‘Spear of the Transpicuous’. This being conducted in the Conclave forged to perfection.
Xyn Rhade then proceeded in efforts, along with SoulMasters Dina and Vampyro, which was directed by Pazin Nalis, to create the SoulMaster weapon ‘Sickle of Ductility’ to again success and the wraiths seemingly oblivious to the efforts to this point.
At this point, the Gatekeeper weapon is still in the works and once it is made and in the Wardens hands, we will be ready to try and send the wraiths back to where they came from.
Dina
House Emblem
House Facts
Plane: Edgeward Barrows
Beliefs: Imprisoners
Role: Warriors
Prime Artifact: The Ankh
House Art:
First Elder: Sidari Kai
Previous Elders: Sidari Ka], Malloren, Nicholas Kai
First Rulers: Ra'as
Previous Rulers: Ash, Ra'as, Jade
First Guardians: Bortami, Sala Erosa
Previous Guardians: Anyasha, Jade
Previous Initiates: Cuero, Dar'canon, Gromnir, Naphtali, Trisha Pawm
Gallery
References
- Codex as inscribed by Jade, available in the Archives of the Planes.
- Warden Standard in the Archives of the Planes.
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