>BORISTS
> Peter M. and I have had a brief off-line discussion about
>these fellows, and here is some of the stuff we've wholeheartedly
>agreed upon.
>
>1) The Borists are a secretive Cathar-like sect. Instead of a
>complete caste system, they have only worshipers and priests, and
>most pretend to be members of the Galvosti or Rokari sects in the
>"real world".
I think the believe in castes, but they can not live in such a borist
society where they will find real boristi castes (only in Borin they are
able to live in such a structure IMO). They accept the law of Malkion
concerning the castes. So it is no problem for a borist priest living in
Tiskos to accept the Rokari faith in this case. But I would like to disagree
the Boristi will only have worshipers and priests. I think there must be
something more. In my description of the Borist church they have founded a
knightly order in the time of the Gbaji wars. This order only existing
mostly in remains now. IMO there are not more than 100 knights in the west
which are believe they are fighters against the devil (Gbaji or Arkat). For
them this will have some advantages, because they know they will be forgiven
all sins because they got shriven by their priest. If you will think further
you can imagine knights which are free to kill everybody without any thought
on sins. They know everybody who is not of the boristi faith will have the
chaotic taint on them which must be destroyed. If you know you can do
everything you want and you will be forgiven, this will destroy you thoughts
on morale totally over the years.
Furthermore I think the Boristi will have only some people which will live
as Rokari and Galvosti in the "real world". Most peasant will not have more
than one faith they believe in. So you will find this peasants which are
believe in Boristi faith and live in fear of the devil only in some regions
near Borin (Sentanos or Naskorion) or in Borin itself. The church can not
exist is they will have only this inner circle (secret register of Borin).
They must have simple worshipers which can be shriven. So the boristi could
not live only in their catacombs playing with chaos beasts. They must defend
'their' peasants and convert new to have a stock of worshipers. IMO they are
sending out missionaries which are going through the countryside on the
borders of some country as for example Sentanos to tell the people there
they have to fear the devil and can only escape if the will converting into
the boristi faith (then doing the gag with the gorp as Peter Metcalfe has
mentioned). Outside of the regions only people of the nobility will be able
to afford two faiths. They will have their own priest who will shrive them
and can forgive them all their sins. So you can do a lot of bad things as a
lord you could not do as Rokari or Galvosti. You will always aquiting of
guilt. The boristi are so corrupted and eroded by their work with chaos they
will do this job.
>
>2) The Borist view of Arkat is as follows (In Our Esteemed
>Opinion): When Arkat went to Dorastor, he successfully killed
>Nysalor and saved the world, but he was killed in the process. Gbaji
>the Deceiver, (whom other faiths falsely know as Arkat) then came
>out of Dorastor and set up the Dark Empire. Arkat's true
>illumination was lost, and only Gbaji's vile contamination was left.
I agree wholeheartly to this. If you see thinks like this you will understand why the boristi will mobilize their whole power because the prophecies say the devil (Arkat) will return in time. After 1.000 years of waiting the moment is near when the Boristi will have to fullfill their holy task of killing the devil (Arkat) and everybody who believe into this demon. Imagine all the boristi going around on Rise of Ralios which try to tap Foyalfine, Surantyr and the prelate of Col as well as the Duke of Naskorion because they all believe in Arkat the liberator. There is a lot of work to do and we will do it, hail borist!
> Basically, the Borists believe the Arkati doctrine that
>there is both a dark and a light side to Illumination. But, they
>differ about which is which.
I think this is true. They got the secret of illumination from Arkat and there must be a lot of discussion about the light and the dark side of illumination. The boristi will see that over the centuries some of their priests (with the light illumination on them) where fallen to the dark side and backwards.
Ingo Tschinke
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