Kachasti Heresy

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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:19:23 -0000


The author of the Durengard scroll has a clear label for the Aeolian Church - he calls them followers of the Kachasti heresy.

The Kachasti were the speaking tribe of Danmalastan who had settled continental Genertela, around the region where now the Nidan Mountains stand. Revealed Mythology tells the story how the Vadeli subjugates of the Kachasti drain up the available magic of the Kachasti Zzaburi by forcing them to resurrect them after a mass suicide, and how the Mostali make the Nidan Mountains erupt under the Kachasti lands and overcome them all. (Afterwards, Peloria tells tales of woe about blue sorcerers coming up the rivers.)

The God Learner church appears to be well-organized, with clear labels for their heretics.

Irensavalists for condemning Makan as evil demiurge,

Stygians in Ralios and Maniria for following Arkat's ways,

Zabandanites for Henotheists offering animal sacrifices to other deities, and

Kachasti apparently for Henotheists identifying pagan deities with humans or Erasanchula and giving them veneration.

The Return to Rightness crusaders managed to stamp down many of these heresies (although they seem to have failed to eradicate any of those for good). When the Slontan archduke makes his conquests in coastal Heortland (not in person), the conquerors appear to tolerate the Aeolian heresy, even allowing them to settle in the shelter of their fortress in Leskos. (Or possibly building the fortress at an existing settlement and taking no steps to correct the heresy while campaigning through "King Beserid's" Savage Forest.)

Were the church authorities sufficiently mollified by the inclusion of the Abiding Book into Aeolian scripture, or did the Slontans treat this as the conquest of pagan peoples in the course of the Kotor Wars?            

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