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Time of Two Keepers

In 497 YK, Keeper Kyra Danth was challenged for leadership of the Church of the Silver Flame by a peasant woman going by the name Melysse Miron. Melysse claimed to have received a vision from Tira Miron, who had told her that she was a direct descendant, and that she was the true Keeper of the Silver Flame.   She challenged much of the church's doctrines, claiming that the church had strayed from the path set out for it by the Voice in the Flame. Her words were reinforced by her astonishing divine power, as she was able to directly call upon the Flame, just like the Keeper of the Flame. Initially, divination magic failed to confirm or deny her story, and it very much seemed like the Flame had chosen two Keepers.   Melysse's differing opinions to Kyra Danth and the general direction of the church caused the biggest schism in the church's history, the faithful had never been more divided. Both Keepers were undoubtedly chosen by the Flame, and both wielded it's divine power. Both claimed to hear the voice of Tira Miron, but they had such different views and accounts of what was said. Whereas Kyra Danth argued for compassion in the face of evil, saving those that could be saved, Melysse argued for ruthlessness. Melysse argued that if evil was afforded any space, it would take root and grow, and that the only solution was to burn it out wherever it was encountered.   Eventually, it was revealed that Melysse was not the Keeper of the Flame, but the Keeper of the Shadow in the Flame. It was not the power of the Silver Flame that she channelled, but the power of Bel Shalor, which also explained her increasing strength when in proximity to the pillar of flame within Flamekeep. Whilst the overlord was bound by Tira's Sacrifice, it could still whisper to the faithful and lead them astray, and Melysse Miron represented the most brazen and explicit example of this.   This revelation led to a brutal conflict within the church, as the followers of both keepers asserted their righteousness. Eventually, the forces of Kyra Danth won out, and Melysse Miron was put to the sword. The conflict was used as a lesson that founds one of the doctrines of the church today, that every person has the potential for evil within them, and that the faithful must be aware of their own capacity for evil, that they might protect themselves against the whispering of the Shadow in the Flame.

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