Exorcist Profession
A tall Rudran moves through the hills of Ashkath, looking for her prey. A sound catches her attention and she whipped her matte black stone body around. The Sula Incantation formed and ready. She glances back and forth, finding the maker of the sound; a thin Boneling. She brandishes her Banishing Gun and prepares for the scuffle.
Wreathed in a dark and tattered coat, the Ursalian touches one of the many scratched trees. He closes his eyes and whisps of smoke trail from his eyes. He watches the events of the grim area fold in front of him. He figures out what he's hunting, how longs its going to strike, and how to track it. The hunt begins.
A young Goh'Blyn looks at the Smolder Karathigan. It rears back and releases a torrent of fire. The Goh'blyn leaps and flips over the fiery breath, aiming their banishing gun at the Prime Karathigan's eye. They utter a small honorary blessing for their fight and vanquishes the creature.
Exorcists are clever, mystical, and magical monster hunters driven by the urge to be rid of the abominations of monsters from Rakasha. Armed with misunderstood technologies, genetic mutations, potions, and precise training capable of dispatching any humanoid or monster, Exorcists watch from the shadows that every monster tries to hide behind. They are the hidden beacons of light when the Devoted preach against their demise. They are the contracted slayers of Celestials, Undead, Elder Things, Daemon, Abominations, and Fae. They are the Exorcists.
Career
Qualifications
Exorcists require knowledge of the monsters they hunt, figuring out their hunting patterns, how to track them, resistances, and their weaknesses. They usually bestow this type of training and knowledge at a very young and impressionable age, so the pupil retains this knowledge.
Exorcists also know how to work tools for that of an alchemist. This is needed for their potion, mutagens, and with the Creed of Prometheus, their advanced mutations.
Career Progression
At first the young Exorcist will go through swordplay, fire-fighting, minor Incantation practice, and alchemy. At thsi point, the young Exorcist will also be tasked with research on the monsters that lurk in Rakasha.
The Exorcist will go through two trials before they undergo "The Proving." These trials are the Trial of Endurance, and the Trial of Combat.
Once they go through these trials and have undergone The Proving, then the Exorcist will be assigned to their Creed based upon their Proving's result.
For the rest of their time, the Exorcist will go out into Rakasha, until the individual Creed leaders will gather together with the Exorcist in question and begin to test he's/she's/their abilities. If the result satisfies the Creed leaders, then the Exorcist tested will be deemed a Chancellor within that particular Creed. This is a very high honor for the Exorcist and is the final step in their training.
When an Exorcist reaches the Chancellor stage of his/her/their career as an Exorcist, they are considered to have a voice on the Creed Ministry.
Payment & Reimbursement
The Exorcists mostly take Gildings, Sovereigns, Shillings, and sometimes Elfyn.
They usually get this via contracts or being hired. An Exorcist will almost never take an assassination job.
The actual payment of the contract depends on the contract and what the contractor can offer, but most usually way from 20-1000+ Soverigns. A Exorcist will always try to haggle for their services, as is their right to. The contractor isn't the one putting their neck out while a monster is rampaging a city.
Another form of payment that the Exorcist can invoke is the life binding Law of Life. This law states that a Exorcist may take the child instead of coin. If this child isn't born yet, but is promised by the Law of Life, then the Exorcist will most likely come back for the child when the time is right.
Other Benefits
With being an Exocist, the person will be able to travel Rakasha's planes, explore places that have never been touched by humanoid hands, and even get paid! They will be able to cast Incantation and save lives, as well as, live a longer life. They will be able to sleep knowing that they are making the world a safer place with every contract they take, and every trophy they bring back for payment.
Another frequent benefit that the Exorcists reap is their stories. Many people find an Exorcist stories to be one of the most fascinating tales ever told. Many a dirge's songs have been tellings of this stories. Most of the stories told are of great beast they've hunted and slain but some are on the comical side.
Perception
Purpose
The Exorcists serve as a way to eradicate the monstrous vermin that Rakasha is infested and grown with. They serve as the last defense between the ravaging beasts and the humble abodes of Rakashan humans, elves, dwarves, Nikolyn, and many others.
Exorcists provide what most—if not all— the people of Rakasha would never want to do. Instead having that burden of killing a monster upon them. Tolling their sanity instead of the contractor.
Social Status
Most of society views the Exorcists as good for nothing freaks. This is mostly because of the misunderstood mystical element that they posses. They practice many genetically altering formulas and have killed numerous candidates just with their training alone. But ultimately, society caves in. Otherwise there wouldn't be a single contract on wanted boards.
Demographics
Across the several continents of Rakasha, only 5% of the world's population are Exorcists. This is because they live longer than most races because of their genetically mutating mutagens.
Exorcist Creeds are located all over the world of Rakasha, with some in the main continent of Zepharog, while others are on the continents Arkenwald , Ashpon Coast, as well as the arctic world of Erran.
History
The Tyrant Era
The Mirage
During the Nine Tyrants reign, a disaster laster deemed "The Mirage" occured during a Tri-Lunar Eclipse. This event lasted for both days as did the Tri-Lunar Eclipse, but it caused a shimmering mist to be released. The Mirage was a collapse of two planar veils held back by the Weave of Magic; the Mortal Plane, and the Savage World.
During the collapse and the after math of it, monsters from the Savage World to shift, warp, and cross over to the Rakashan Plane. The Shimmering mist started to absorb into many inhabitants skin, causing them to warp, and shift with to the effect of the savage world as well, causing only a few to survive during the Mirage.
As the monsters roamed the enternal night lands of Rakasha, they quickly started to adapt supernaturally. Some beasts started growing multiple eyes, limbs, and even heads. While others manifested a capability to access the Weave of Magic and enhance themselves further. For thirty years, each night and true night passed only held more of the slaughtered in the mass graves dug for them.
Chaos ruled the early lands of Rahk, causing them to split into the large continents known as Zepharog, Ashpon, Arkenwald, and Erran. The Nine Tyrannies started to have their lands shift and move, the Tidal Prime Karathigan Skyt started to have their domain expand. The three massive bodies of water known today as the Lernan Sea, Urda Ocean, and Soran Sea grew into the masses of water they are today.
During the chaos, there was a small glimmer of hope from a young Nikolyn who was affected by the Mirage Mist, but not turned into one of the weird twisted mutants that the Savage World had bled into Rakasha. This Nikolyn was named Kribell von Stry.
The First Exorcist
Kribel von Stry was the first ever recorded Exorcist in Rakasha's History. She was smaller than average Nikolyn height with white fur black stripes. She exhibited a unique eye coloration of green and purple swirls. This unique coloration was summed to the exposure to the Mirage Mist and the dormant Weave of Magic that she was stored within her.
On the 13th of Myxia during the season of Volt, Kribel started to exhibit strange and unexplained powers. Her ghost started to appear and disappear from her body. She was able to wander through walls, get a better price on a slice of bread and most importantly: access to the Weave of Magic. When she was the age of 15, she was attacked by a Roeshark juevenile. She had, at first, ran fro mthe beast, but the Roeshark's enahced smelling would always find her.
When the Roeshark pounced on top of her, she experienced a burst within her. This burst was the power each Exorcist has. This power of "Banishing." It damaged and stung the monster's skin, forcing it back. Her very soul leapt from her body and started to assault the beast.
At first, she didn't know what to do, but when she took up a nearby rock and jammed it into the creature's gills. The battle lasted for only a few more seconds, with Kribel clawing at the creature's eyes, throat, jaws, and underbelly.
After the battle, Kribel ran back to her home, covered in the creature's ichorous fluids. Her family rejected her for what her abilities had exhibited, thinking she was more similar to the creature she slain than her own flesh and blood.
Kribel decided to take their threats to heart and vowed to become exactly that. The creature she slain. For ten more years, she journeyed across the fractured islands that would become the main continents, journaling research on the beasts that crossed her path as well as learning more about the Weaves of Magic that had influenced her.
Formation of The Creeds
During those ten years of research and journaling, Kribel discovered there were more like her. More of these special humans and creatures that were exposed t the Mirage Mist and didn't become a bloodthirsty monster. She recorded each of their abilities and traits as well as what they exhibited. Some showed an affinity with Glass, while others showed more affinity toward blood, some of the subjects showed Lycanthropic abilities. But each and every one of them possessed something in common. The ability called "Banishing." The mixed manifestation of Mirage Mist and Weave of Magic.
She asked each and one of them to join her. Each one of the subjects she recorded agreed, since they were in the same boat as she was. This became the first Exorcist Creeds: Creed of The Eclypse, Creed of The Poltergeist, and the Creed of Viscera.
Exorcists And The Karathigan Crusades
Over time the Tyrants started to lose faith in their people, and they rebelled. This rebellion turned into The Karathigan Crusades. Kribel and her appointed Creeds avoided the conflict, instead showing more research on this power that lurked within them, discovering why it was there, what it could do, and were there were more of them?
As the Abishari fell and the new amalgamation called the Abishai were created, a new Creed was created. The Creed of Prometheus. Members of the Creed of Prometheus were observed at a distance and were misunderstood like the rest of the other Creeds, since most of the Creed were Abishai.
Kribel started to research them, figure out what their Banishing could do as well as see how they trained—what their banishing style was? She had recorded and tested so much about the other Creeds, the Creed of Prometheus would need to deserve the same treatment as well.
It was around this time, the Creed Ministry was formed. The Ministry would centralize the Creeds into a central Creed. It served as a means for Exorcists to communicate future ideas as well as discuss what each of the Creeds should do further on in time.
It was the Ministry that presented a shrouded means to an end to the Mirage's disaterous monstrosities. Thus, Exorcism contracts were made and to this day are still upheld as well as members of the Creed Ministry are held secret and only certain Exorcists are allowed to know of the Ministry's members.
Creation of The Banishing Gun
Toward the very end of the Tyrant Era, Exorcists were using magical bolts of energy as their banishing means. But, a young Abishai Creed of Prometheus Exorcist, by the name of Ban'acul, forged a new way to harness the Banishing energy into a more focused and precise conduit. He created the first Banishing Gun.
Exorcists were immediately trained with this device and it proved useful for quite a white, but it needed to be modified slightly. The olden Banishing gun was the size of a heavy crossbow and it weight like one as well.
Over time and as the Godings Era occurred, the Banishing gun was formed into a sleek and compact design that the Exorcist could maneuver, fight, and protect themself with it.
Creation of The Trials
Toward the end of the Karathigan Crusades and enevitably the Tyrannical reign of the Prime Karathigan rulers; the Exorcists were starting to die due to a mysterious circumstances, one of them being the founder of the Creed of Prometheus, Promithon. The available Poltergeist Exorcists immediately started to research this cause, finding that it was because the Mirage Mist had started to decay and loose the bond within the Exorcists Weave of Magic. It was Kribel who discovered this and with help of the remaining Prometheus Exorcists concoct a form of elixar that could generate the necessary mixture of Mirage Mist and Weave of Magic.
Once the concoction to create new Exorcitst was made, they needed a means to deliver the elixar. They needed subjects as well, preferably ones that were the same age so the new young Exorcists body could handle the elixar. And so a new law was established and put into effect. This optional method of payment was known as The Law of Life. A life for a life. The Exorcists would train young children in their ways.
As the Trial of Endurance started, there were a few complications with the elixar. The elixar was transforming the young children into monsters. After three dozen batches of the elixar was made, it was perfected in time for a new era in time to start. The Godling Era.
With the Trial of Endurance being the first stage of creating an Exorcists and the second being combat. Another trial was created. The Trial of Combat. This trial would serve as the catalyst for the Exorcist's elixar. It would make a crack in the dam keeping the Exorcists Banishing away. If the child proved to be worthy with their combat strategy, the second battle was knowledge. The Trial of Combat proved the Exorcists they could fight, but knowing was half the battle.
Exorcists were put through several classes on the anatomy of beasts from the Savage World as well as beasts and monsters that roamed around the world of Rakasha.
After the young Exorcists passed the first two trials and they were at least 13-17 years in age, they would begin The Proving. The Proving would serve as the ultimate trial and break the Banishing dam the two Trials had cracked.
Another name for the Proving is "The First Contract," and it was properly nicknamed so. The Proving would serve as first hand experience with another Exorcist. The Exorcist during their Proving would be tasked with tracking, knowing, and fighting the creature in their contract.
There were only two ways The Proving ended, with the young Exorcist dying or the young Exorcist passing and in turn revealing what their Creed is based upon the Banishing style shown.
Upon arrival, the Exorcists who passed The Proving would be given their Creed's symbol and mount where they would be told to ride toward one of the Monastaries with their Creed's symbol on it.
The Godling Era
Exorcists And The Godlings
At the beginning of The Godling Era, new Exorcists were coming out in small batches due to the elixar recipe. It was during the first beginnings of Godling contact, that the Exorcists had a new prey to be rid of. Celestial beings were put on the hit list by every Exorcists alive.
Why?
This is because the Karathigan Aspects were the Nine Tyrant rulers living under the guise the Abishai had given them, which was diety status. They would rule their tyrannical society from the mask of religion. They eventually became the dieties they were portrayed as and Exorcists had no means of fighting Celestial beings. They had no means of killing them. So the order was to figure out a way to kill them, finding that a they needed a stronger conduit to fight these monsters.
Creed of The Eclypse's Exile
In the early years of the Godling Era, the Creed of The Eclypse had sat back and watched each of the other Creeds in their dealings while they were the most persecuted because of their Banishing style, they were hunted for being lycanthropic. They were slaughtered for this and they were tired of it. For ten years, Exlypse Exorcists fought for their freedom, but after the battle between the two came to a close, a decision was made. The Creed of The Eclypse would be exiled and revoked from the Creed Ministry.
Creed of The Fiend Appearance
As the Trials were created and the Proving for those created Exorcists were active, a new type of Banishing was introduced. It was Daemonic in nature, almost fiendish. This daemonic banishing style was created by the Creed of The Fiend.
There was superstition around the Creed of The Fiend's sudden appearance, thinking the Creed of The Fiend was going to be like The Creed of The Eclypse— exiled from the Creed Ministry. But the Creed of The Fiend proved to be more than just a superstitous new Creed born, they proved to be loyal allies and masters at fighting the Damonic Influence that the Savage World had brought over in The Mirage.
Exorcists And The Calamity
The Exorcists used the opportunity The Calamity presented to study the Godlings and Celestial anatomy so they could fight, learn their weaknesses, and eventually kill, them.
They watched from afar and took notes. The 45 years the Calamity took effect was the busiest years in Exorcist history. During the time of the Calamity, another threat started to peer through and produce some of its spawn into the world. This spawn was the Elder Things.
Exorcists And The Elder Thing Emergence
When Elder Things first started to appear in the world of Rakasha, exorcists took notice of this, but they kept an eye from afar. Doing what any trained hunter would do, find the weakness and then strike.
This aberrant game of "cat and mouse" lasted for 40 years, but during this time a new type of Exorcist showed and presented themself.
Creed of The Technomancer
During the Proving a Goh'blyn child was given the elixar and instead of exhibiting Banishing styles of the other Creeds, it was more technological, using the knack of Goh'work and created ceratain bombs, gadgets, and even potions. The Creed of The Technomancer is responsible for all of the technological advancements in the Creed Ministry.
Additionally, the Creed of The Technomancer is responsible for creating the new and improved version of the Banishign Gun that every Exorcists is equipped with.
Cosmic Era
The Fall of The Mirror Monasty
In the continent of Erran, the Creed of The Mirror's Monastary was attacked by Savage World Damons, an Arcanist by the name of Tor'vil Vystra, as well as a few other assailants from the Creed of The Fiend.
When the monastary fell, each and every one of the Mirror Exorcists took refuge in another monastary the Creed of The Mirror possessed.
Exorcisms of Exorcists
At the beginning of the Cosmic era, exorcists became outlawed and charged with treason when one of the Kal Empire's King Henrik Kal III was killed. Only the evidence of a single Exorcists was found. The identity of the Exorcist has never been uncovered and immediately the trials against Exorcists began.
These Exorcisms lasted for two decades before the Exorcistst started making deals with the new King of the Kal Empire, King Henrik Kal IV. This treaty would help the Exorcists kwwp their jobs as contracted monster hunters, but if any Exorcist were to harm a non monster, they would be hanged and killed. But this rule has lackened due to the correuption in the Tri-Faction War between the Horde, the Kal Empire, and the Daemonic Legion.
Current Day Exorcists
You will often see an Exorcists riding in the true night's extremely dark like, looking for contracts for coin. Or they are enjoying the luxaries of a nice hot spa, brushing the main of their mount, or even preparing to hunt another monster.
Operations
Tools
Every Exorcist is equip with mutagens to alter their bodies metabolic and genetic code for any situation given, their Creed training equipment such as bombs and gadgets (this is especially true for the Creed of The Technomancer), their Banishing Gun, as well as armor of various shapes and sizes that matched the banishing style each of the different Creeds possess.
Since the freaks have to brew their mutagens, they are also equipped with the very supplies to brew them.
Materials
Most nights the Exorcist is equipped with travel food, or they hunt their own. They also take some sort of hydration with them on a night to night basis, as well as their equipment; which is usually carried on a mount they've acquired either as a gift or by taming.
Another useful material the Exorcists require is their currency. They need it to be able to purchase alchemical supplies for their mutagens, or for better equipment other than their Banishing Gun.
Workplace
An Exorcists workspace is a fairly common thing to see, considering the Exorcist themself is their workplace. Exorcists barely bathe because they are just going to get covered in monster blood and guts. But they try to keep up with hygiene, even if it isn't as successful. They usually have a perpetual horrible smell lingering around them, and depending on the monster slain, could make the musk worse.
Provided Services
Mostly the services of the Exorcist can get is information from the contractor, expediency of services they choose to partake in, such as bathing, "entertainment,", haircuts, and many others. They also may dine on meals provided in taverns, or even the bed in a tavern (if available).
Dangers & Hazards
Exorcists are constantly putting themselves in the dangers of monster. The most common hazard for this line of work is death, decapitation, mutilation, being eaten alive, being poisoned, etc.
Alternative Names
Freaks, Monsters, Saviours, Hellions, Hunters, The Scum of The World, Rejects, Mutants, Demon Hunters, and many more.
Type
Public Services
Demand
Extremely High
Legality
Exorcists are an accepted illegal service across Rakasha, usually by passing the law in most situations. But there have been several Exorcist executions in the eyes of the Kal Emprie's King, Henry Kal.
Exorcists, with enough coin or magic, can bypass most defenses that townsfolk put up. They are also some of the only ones able to be inside the Solar Palace of Felwind, but they cannot stay. They must stay outside,of the palace for sleep, and once rested, are able to enter the palace again to continue their work.
If an Exorcist is caught doing anything other than that, they are charged with Fellen insubordanence and are punished accordingly.
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