From: Argrath@aol.com
Date: Sun 21 Jan 1996 - 16:06:07 EET
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Here's something I wrote on the subject, all IMHO of course:
Sorry, second try <deep sigh>:
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In the early Third Age, the main division in the Seshnelan
church was over how much to purge the church of pagan influences,
which the hierarchy saw as corruptions sent by the God-Learners. =
The Purifiers (who were mostly Rokari) went to great extremes,
condemning city saints and guild patrons as pagan. The Realists
said that such saints predated the God-Learners and that, in any
case, they served a useful role with the lower castes. Their
fierce political battle came into the open over the succession
after the first Ecclesiarch, Juwayrai, died. The relatively
young Purifier bishop of Segurane, Gerar, vied with the older
Realist bishop of Arnlor, Renfeu. =
The Duke of Tanisor supported Renfeu, who succeeded to the
post and ruled for twenty years. This averted a schism, as
Renfeu was a great diplomat. His answer to the split was
twofold. He purged the rites for the lordly and priestly castes,
removing all pagan influences. At the same time, he blessed all
but the rankest of the lower caste saints and rites. After
Renfeu died, Gerar came to "hold the golden wand and wear the
mantle." By then, though, he was old and deaf, and he could not
reverse Renfeu's policy. He outlawed a few minor guild patrons.
Some of the Purifiers took matters to extremes, and
condemned icons and amulets as being pagan and God-Learner
snares. Those who smashed the icons were known as Iconoclasts,
but they never took power. Their influence remains, and even
today there are Iconoclasts in every Rokari city. =
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