The Shrine of Hamaskis.

The Femphreyan/Glantankan Religious Revolution

This page is not yet complete. See the Recent Developments room for details of completed areas of the shrine. Below lies a description of the possible events in the land of Femphrey, in the Old World, from the date 290AC. onwards. This article was kindly supplied by J. Stock.

The Old World in 290 AC was, on the whole, a very stable place. After the successful retrieval of the Crown of Kings from the evil Archmage of Mampang and his Bird Men, the countries prospered and grew. With the aid of the Crown of Kings, pointless wars were avoided, justice was swift and fair, and the people were happy. In fact, one Allansian merchant who had landed at Forrin in Gallantaria remarked that it was the one thing that Allansia longed to be - a haven.

However, while the common man in the street was happy, the continent's sorcerers and wizards were depressed. They knew, through vast experience, that all this peace was too good to last. It always is. In 293 AC the priests of Glantanka, the sun goddess, in Femphrey and southern Gallantaria began preaching messages of hate for the "infidels" and "sinners" and "heretics" with their "warped and perverted religions". In fact, although their deity was a vehemently Good one, the followers of Glantanka became specifically Evil in both their words and actions. In one town the congregation during a service became so frenzied in their hate of their ever-present Antichrist equivalent that they ran out of the service and lynched twenty-four innocent people who didn't worship the same deity as them.

In Locking 293, a charismatic high priest of Glantanka emerged in Chalannabrad and was witnessed to perform quite unnatural feats. Miracles happened whenever he walked by, and the followers revered him for it. In fact most of these miracles were simple magic spells, but by judicious use of the spell Personalize they could appear incredible. Thousands and thousands of non-believers converted and he proclaimed himself "Voice of the Sun", a title normally only given to prophets of Glantanka.

By the spring of 294 the Voice of the Sun was advocating the deaths of non-believers unless they converted, however, many people became Glantankans and only paid lip-service to it. The Voice of the Sun noticed this, and in Watching 294 he set up an elite group called the Divine Cleansing Fire, which became an "army" of sorts. These highly trained and ruthless individuals murdered, raped and pillaged their way across Femphrey, in addition to keeping an eye on the populace. The Femphreyan Government sent their own armies to resist the Fire. Suddenly, less than nine months into his reign, the new King of Femphrey was facing a full-fledged civil war.

This war lasted five short and bloody years until the Voice of the Sun personally assassinated the king by slashing his throat with a rusty knife. The defeated royal armies were offered a simple choice - join the Divine Cleansing Fire or die horribly. Only a few offered to die horribly. Those that joined the Fire were put into the notorious Infidels Regiment, a division made up of unwilling converts that were used as expendable troops and assigned suicidal missions. The really devout Fire members were assigned to riot control and making sure the people trod the line. The people were controlled strictly and were little more than slaves. Their daily routine consisted of waking, morning prayer in a public place, work, midday prayers & lunch in a public place, work, evening prayers, free time, bed. However, the free time wasn't exactly free. At all times the Divine Cleansing Fire were patrolling the streets and the fields, keeping everyone under their beady eye. Furthermore, especially in the dense conifer forests in the north-west of Femphrey, food was rationed so that those people with excess food had to give up their surplus for those with less than the ration per person. Although some towns and villages chafed that the Divine Cleansing Fire's dominion over supplies, none dared defy them.

That is, until Locking 296 AC, when the local priest in a remote town in the north of Femphrey called Fort Fearon noticed how their daily lives were kept under scrutiny at all times. He also noticed the Divine Cleasning Fire, an army of supposed benevolents, performed evil acts all over. He manage to stir up the civilians, who captured the entire Divine Cleansing Fire occupation in Fort Fearon. All, that is, except one.

That one, whose name we know to be Curwyn Redslice, travelled, wounded, to the Voice of the Sun in Chalannabrad and told the people of the uprising in Fort Fearon. The Voice of the Sun's reaction was a knee-jerk one, and a harsh one - Two regiments of Divine Cleansing Fire were to be sent up to Fort Fearon and the town put to the sword.

Meanwhile, however, the town was more than prepared, as was the neigbouring town of Fort Findlay on the east coast. They smashed the Divine Cleansing Fire and made sure that there were no survivors. The Voice of the Sun became even more angered, and it is said he screamed like a demon. Not two, but fifty-two, battalions of Divine Cleansing Fire, including the new War Golems that were fanatically loyal, deadly, and ruthless. The towns were utterly destroyed, and a sizable force of Divine Cleansing Fire remained in the northern province to keep an eye on things.

Rumour has it that the Voice of the Sun is planning to invade Laurenna, the easternmost county of Mauristatia. If he is, then somebody, somewhere, must stop him. Also the local sages amd sorcerers have noticed the presence of an unidentified evil being in Chalannabrad. Could the Voice of the Sun really be a demon in disguise?

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