The Church of the Eye Organization in Jourg | World Anvil

The Church of the Eye

The Church of the Eye is an organization dedicated to worshiping Mendax and is dedicated to rooting out evil at any cost.

Structure

  • Mendax rules over the Church of the Eye.
  • The Speaker of Truth issues commands and commandments for Mendax.

Culture

  • Members are expect to adhere to the faith and punish the false believers.
  • Members must bring upon truth by destroying the liars.

Public Agenda

  • Destruction of the false gods and their followers.
  • Destruction of false knowledge that would bring upon madness.

Assets

  • Weapons.
  • Limited amount of magic items.

History

  • Mendax established the organization by informing the people about the importance of truth in order to destroy madness.
  • Mendacium was constructed in Mendax's honor.

Divine Origins

  • Mendax established the Church of the Eye in the Age of Strife when more people were being led to believe in false gods.
  • Mendax seeks to stop the spread of madness and belief in false gods that will lead to the destruction of Jourg.
  • Strict adherence to truth is mandated as lies lead to madness.

Cosmological Views

  • Mendax was the first god that emerged in the age of creation.

Tenets of Faith

  • False gods and their believers must be destroyed.
  • False knowledge will lead to madness and must be eradicated.
  • Deifying Dragons, giants or other such creatures is false and must be dealt with.

Ethics

  • Truth above all else unless lies can be used to wipe out falsehoods.
  • Believing in any false god is a sin, the list of false gods is:
  1. Psychosis
  2. Osipitus
  3. Venari
  • Spreading the belief of these false deities must be punished.
  • Allowing the belief of theses false deities is a sin and must be punished.
  • If a false believer cannot be converted than the false believer must die.
  • Any believer of Psychosis is already lost and must die.
  • Spreading false information is a sin.
  • Those diseased with madness must be removed before spreading the madness unto others.

Worship

  • A believer must visit Mendacium at least once a year to gain a new perspective on the truth.
  • Rooting out and destroying falsehoods is a testament of faith.

Priesthood

  • Members that have destroyed madness by removing a false believer may ascend the ranks.

Granted Divine Powers

  • The ability to see lies.
  • The ability to seek out false believers.

Political Influence & Intrigue

  • Influences the laws to ban the false religions that worship the false gods.
  • Influences law enforcment to be lenient or to over look when false believers are held for conversion or when a false believer is executed.

Sects

Founding Date
1254
Type
Religious, Organised Religion
Leader
Deities
Divines
Controlled Territories
Notable Members

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