Friendly, curious, and eternally optimistic, Holy Lanterns embody the virtue of hope. They are formed of living light given corporeal shape, and they serve as beacons, guiding mortals out of their darkest moments and toward the path of righteousness. After terrible, terrible horrors or monsters or destruction of cities, these humble Lanterns will come and aid, give gifts, and otherwise help in nonviolent manners the people of the Story.
Their luminous bodies can flicker with the subtlety of a candle flame or flare up like a torch. Holy Lanterns can control all aspects of their light as easily as other creatures control their facial expressions, leading them to change color, twinkle, and otherwise dim and brighten in time with their actions and words. While effervescent and chipper in conversation, Holy Lanterns are impressive pacifists, but when the purity of large masses of kind mortals is threatened, they are capable of uniting to form powerful warriors of light called Gestalts, which in Reivantan means "When a Good Man goes to war".
IN AETERNUM. AD INFINITUM.
The Warden Manifesto, by Scribe-Warden Demetrius, in 723 AB.
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