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A Purge of Heresy and Dissidence! (PMT Intro Open)

Deatharon
23-09-2007, 09:06
OOC: I know this kind of thread, has been done to death; but I feel every fanatical religious nation should have a major purge of heretics to prove their faith….


IC:



The city of Death Hold was a massive metropolis home to over a billion citizens ranging from serfs to the highest ranks of the aristocracy. This metropolis was considered holy land to the five billion followers of the mandatory Church of Deatharon. This church had originally been started as tool for the aristocracy to maintain control over the Realm and keep it a feudal Empire for the last couple of centuries. The problem was that the Holy Church eventually became a power of it’s own harnessing the beliefs of the common man to gain influence and power across this once complacent Empire. The Emperor Ronaldo XII himself was deposed as a heretic several years ago and his head was placed on a pike outside the gates of the Imperial Palace. The Inquisition and the Church quickly seized this chance and quickly placed their leader the Archon Viktor III on the Divine throne.


His Holiness, Archon Viktor III had in a single brilliant stroke managed to seize control of the nation and prove that the church had the power to overpower the nobility. The nobles quickly swore allegiance to their new leader after the news feeds started showing the head of Ronaldo on his pike outside the gates of his own palace. The message was clear the Archon was now ruling over the Realm in both spiritual and physical matters. The Imperial Legions were not even given a chance to mobilize to stop the church when the Inquisition quickly pacified them with orders to stand down or be destroyed. The Legions upon receiving threats of heresy and punishment quickly stood down.


The coup was quick and not even that bloody in terms of people killed. The fatality count was in the lower hundreds as the Imperial family, their servant, and guards were butchered by the Holy Paladins of the church. The official word given to the press was that a revolutionary movement had managed to infiltrate the Imperial Palace and assassinate the Imperial Family in one night of blood and violence….


The Holy Inquisition have already begun grasping their tendrils into all levels of Deatharoni society. The goal was simple to create a theocracy inside the Realm and crush the heretics and heathens that constantly seek to undermine the goals of the Holy Church. In this new age of science and technology the Imperial Holy Realm of Deatharon is still a land of religious superstition with a draconian theocratic government seeking to suppress all rival religions, supernatural cults, and any other heretical beliefs that could possible try and break the will of the church..

The nobility have all become absorbed into the church serving as Arch Clerics and Grand Bishops for the Church and increasing the power of the Holy Church inside the Realm. The Imperial Legions have also become the dogs of the church. They now act as the military arm serving as the barrier keeping out foreign barbarians and heathens from invading the Realm and causing the people to be influenced by their barbaric ways….


The Imperial Holy Realm of Deatharon has currently isolating itself from foreign influences by closing down the borders and using it’s combined Legionnaire force to brutally patrol the borders while within the Realm the Inquisition and the Holy Church brutally oppress and pacify the masses with religious rites and divine decrees that often lead to the disappearance of suspected heretics inside the Realm.


This isolationist policy was about to end as a new political movement came from the underground seeking to overthrow the current system and bring back the Imperial monarchy. The monarchist movement was a small movement of mostly freemen and old style nobles seeking to bring back the old ways of the Empire instead of this living in fear of the every watching Inquisition seeking to protect the spiritual needs of the whole Realm.

The monarchists used their limited resources to gain weapons and equipment and started their little revolt in the province of Tramolo. The Tramolo province was a small border province on the out skirts of the Realm. It would take time for the central Legions stationed in the inner provinces to mobilize and put down the revolt and the forces stationed in Tramolo were just local border patrol groups seeking to keep out foreigners.

The revolt in Tramolo was a success thanks to their surprise attack in the provincial capital of Velgrade. The Inquisition headquarters in Velgrade was liquidated by bands of armed rebels and the main church was firebombed. The local police were supporters of the uprising and joined in the revolt. The Grand Bishop of Tramolo was quickly captured and was executed without trial for his part in supporting the mad schemes of the church. The fires of heresy and dissidence had been flamed and the Holy Church would soon send her response…..



Velgrade…..



The newly crowned Duchess of Tramolo Victoria Aladossa was the leader of the monarchist movement inside the Imperial Holy Realm of Deatharon. She was tired of living in fear of the Inquisition and serving as a lowly cleric in the employ of the church. Victoria had finally decided to fight back using her influence from the church. She was able to amass enough support to get weapons and equipment to the eager youths in the freeman class seeking to change the Realm for the better…


The Duchess was not about to settle with the takeover of one province. She planed to bring back the monarchy at any cost. This meant she needed the support of other nations to help combat the Imperial Legions and their Inquisition masters that were sure to be marching towards Velgrade in a matter of a couple of days…..


She watched as her followers gathered their weapons and prepared to barricade themselves in the city. It was no secret the villages and towns along the road in Tramolo would be pillaged and put to the torch to set the example to the rest of the rebellion but the city was the most defensible place in the region and sniper nests and machine gun emplacements were quickly being put together to put up a great last stand if need be…


A Transmission was broadcast to all listening frequencies….



This is Duchess Victoria Aladossa, I am the leader of the monarchist movement inside the Imperial Holy Realm of Deatharon. We are currently fighting to overthrow the tyrannical rule of the Holy church of Deatharon and their brutal attack dogs the Holy Inquisition. We would like to request any kind of aid to our cause ranging from food, weapons, money or allied assistance against the vile rule of Archon Viktor III…


The Holy Church upon receiving the message along with what could be estimated as half the world decided to send a response to warn foreigners of what will happen if they provided aid to these heretics. A Holy Decree was announced within a few hours of the rebel transmission…



IMPERIAL HOLY DECREE!



To: All Nations
From: His Holiness, Archon Viktor III



The Holy Church of Deatharon will not allow foreign interlopers to cause any kind of trouble to our Holy Realm. If any nation is found giving aid to these heretics the punishment will be both harsh and severe. We will not spare any barbarians that come to our lands seeking to martyr themselves to the false duchess’s cause. The Holy Church would also like to add that should any nation decide to give aid to these barbarians that they should pray for the wraith of the gods will fall upon their nation and nuclear fire shall be their retribution to their barbaric peoples….

Signed,

His Divine Holiness, The Holy Archon Viktor Wallencrest III….




Death Hold……….


The streets were amazingly empty as the sight of thousands of Legionaries were seen marching down the main streets of the city. The Legions had been mobilized and this display of power was to show that the Church had the power to unleash the wraith of the Legions upon their enemies and also adding to the spectacle were the Inquisition's elite forces the Holy Paladins. These heavily armored cyborgs were serving as the main heavy assault units as armored vehicles continued to down the roads seeking to bring divine justice down on the heretics heads. If no help came the fight would be a bloody massacre….