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Post by bentusi16 on Jan 12, 2014 18:14:35 GMT -5
Posted in the slums of Valkurs Roar, as well as near Greels shop and on the fence near Talbots. I, Edthin Vidry, Paladin of Tyr, shall be giving a sermon in the city of Valkurs Roar later this day. All who wish to attend are welcome, no matter of station or social group, nor race or ethnicity. The sermon will be held near the great hall. // 8 PM EST tonight, roughly in two hours. I know it's short notice but I'll be doing alot of these over the next until I stop. Near the town hall in VR, right by the Fountain
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Post by bentusi16 on Jan 12, 2014 20:28:30 GMT -5
The First Sermon of Edthin Vidry in the City of Valkurs Roar
Ignorance is the enemy of civilization. There is no temple of Tyr here in Valkurs Roar. In fact the only temple to him in this entire kingdom is in the capital of Suzail. And so I come here to dispel some of the ignorance, some of the darkness of what it is the church of Tyr believes. What it is I, as a paladin, as a living embodiment of the dogma and will of my god, believe.
Because, I have been around a few years now. I have had the honor of serving as a knight-errant for nearly eight years now. And I have heard much in that time. I have been called a tyrant. I have been called unmerciful, unkind. I have been told my church exist only to repress freedom. So I come here today to speak on that, and perhaps more over the coming days and weeks.
The maimed god, my lord Tyr, is not from our world. He came here many years ago and lead a host of angels and other divines against the rising chaos that emerged during the fall of the psionic kingdoms. For those of you outside the faith, you may see him as an unblinking god of stern justice, who punishes without mercy.
Nothing could be further from the truth. He loves this world, and its people. He sees in all of us, from the lowest commoner to the highest lord, potential. Potential for greatness. For He is as a father to us. Not just those of us in his faith, who understand him, but all of us. And like a good father who loves us, he must be stern at times.
But he struggles for us. For His hope, and the hope of His church through our actions, is to create a truly just world. A paradise where people need not fear the dark for the outlaws in it, nor their masters for greed. Instead, a world where everyone is as a loving family. Because as I said, he is as our father, and would have us all be his beloved children.
Let us take his symbol. You see it now upon my shield, a hammer with scales above. And yet the shield symbol is cracked. These are not actual scuffs, these are part of the symbol of Tyr.
The hammer is the arm. To ensure justice, you must be willing to take up those arms in its name, to be willing to fight. For what is a man who will not fight for what he believes in? This our father teaches us.
Around the hammer is wrapped a silk cord in red. I'm sure many of you will recognize it. It is the symbol of an ally of the maimed god, the Martyr, Ilmater. It is a universal symbol in our world for mercy, and here it keeps that meaning.
And finally, atop the hammers are the scales of justice, in which we are weighed, for our crimes and our sins, our deeds and virtues.
Justice must be supported by righteousness, the fervor to take up arms in a right cause. But that righteousness must be tempered by mercy, and benevolence. And all of these things are the center, and the strength, of honor. For what is more honorable then to be a shield for those who have no shield against those who would take advantage of them?
A tyrran is expected to act in four ways, all at once. He must be honorable. He must be just. He must be honest. And he must be righteous.
Do these sound like the commandant of a tyrant? Do they sound like the beliefs of someone out to oppress you, to take away your rights and freedoms? No. For our Father who is in the heavens loves us, and like any good father wants only what is best for us, and teaches us that we have the means to achieve greatness, not simply in power, nor in money or influence, but in soul. In spirit. But how can we hope to learn if we are not reminded of these things? If we are not reminded of our transgressions, our failures, so that we may improve on them and not repeat our mistakes?
And like any good parent, if they see evil in a child's heart, what do they do? Do they ignore it? Do they unleash it upon the world? No. Because they love the child they try to correct the behavior, to drive the evil out of their heart, so that the child and those around them may live happily. And He is no different in this regard.
So I hope this has made you understand it least in some way the nature of my God. For I know, if any of our failings are so glaring, that the confusion others have to who He is to us is is one of the greatest ones.
And now I retire my speech and instead hope to answer questions about Him, his church, myself and my role in it, or anything else related tangentially to those things.
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Post by bentusi16 on Jan 13, 2014 1:17:10 GMT -5
Posted in the slums of Valkurs Roar, as well as near Greels shop and on the fence near Talbots. I, Edthin Vidry, Paladin of Tyr, shall be giving a sermon in the city of Valkurs Roar later this day. All who wish to attend are welcome, no matter of station or social group, nor race or ethnicity. The sermon will be held near the great hall.
This evenings topic is Justice. // 8 PM EST on monday night. Near the town hall in VR, right by the Fountain. Roughly in 17 hours from now.
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Post by bentusi16 on Jan 13, 2014 16:45:10 GMT -5
// Bump, three hours from now
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Post by bentusi16 on Jan 13, 2014 20:22:33 GMT -5
The Second Sermon of Edthin Vidry in the City of Valkurs Roar
Justice is a heady concept, for it is a made one. There is no justice in the natural world. There are actions and consequences, and survival. But justice came about as civilization made it. And the maimed god, Tyr, is the god of Justice.
But what is justice? In it's most literal form, and this is the form we directly apply as the church of Tyr, it is the seeking out of the truth and the punishment of the guilty. Simple enough isn't it? But what is guilt? Again, the literal interpretation and one most people easily agree with is the breaking of the law.
But there are laws that expand beyond those that man makes. Not laws of nature, for the laws of nature are simple and state that only the strong survive, but rather rights of those with sentience. All beings of the natural world, whether human, elf, dwarf, gnome, or orc, have inherent value. I know these words will bring controversy, but hear me out.
Every being has the right to a chance at life. No child of nature is born evil. Evil requires sentience, and a babe doesn't have it yet. They will develop it. They have that ability. Magical creatures are different, because they are influenced by magic. But dwarves, elves, humans, orcs, gnomes, halflings?
The only influence on them is their blood, but to a much greater range their culture, as they grow and develop and become living thinking beings rather then living instinctual beings.
And so they have the right to develop. Should they be found wanting, if they use that chance at life to murder, or worse, then they used their chance. But they are given a chance, they must be, for justice to have occurred.
For the greatest gift the gods have given us, all of us, no matter what our race, is free will. It is the ability of all of us to over ride our natural instincts, whatever they may be, and work together and cooperate in a manner that in the savage world would not occur.
But what does this have to do with justice? Everything. For freedom of will means that we, and we alone, are responsible for our actions. So when we do something, it is we who must answer for it. Their is no excuse. There can be no โI had ordersโ. There is only you, and the multiverse. And the laws civilization has developed.
Guilt does exist without the laws of men. Because there are crimes that strike against the very nature of existence. There are those, who even now, today, are guilty of treating others as nothing more then objects or tools, their crime being that of reducing others, in one breath or thought reducing them to nothing. For it is theft of humanity, theft of self worth.
But justice is also about the justness of a law. Is it just that one group is treated one way and another is not, simply for being of one race, or social class? No. It is unjust.
And so we come to the most important part. Justice and the law, are not one in the same. Not in the world as it is. The ultimate goal of the church of Tyr, of the maimed god, Our father, is to see that meeting, to see justice and law be the same thing, for no unjust laws to exist.
Justice is simple. To find the truth and punish the guilty. But it becomes very complicated when we ask ourselves, what is guilt? What is the law? What laws exist beyond those of men? It is these sorts of question that we in the clergy of the church of Tyr deal with, and argue over, and I am no different.
As I spoke yesterday, Tyr wishes us all, all of those in the world of Toril, to be as a family. And even in a family there a disagreements. But the bond we share as a family means even when we disagree we still care for each other, we simply disagree on something.
That is all I have to say on justice at this time. Thankyou for attending.
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Post by bentusi16 on Jan 13, 2014 20:26:54 GMT -5
Posted in the slums of Valkurs Roar, as well as near Greels shop and on the fence near Talbots. I, Edthin Vidry, Paladin of Tyr, shall be giving a sermon in the city of Valkurs Roar later this day. All who wish to attend are welcome, no matter of station or social group, nor race or ethnicity. The sermon will be held near the great hall.
This evenings topic is Freedom. // This will be held in approximately 23 1/2 hours, I'll bump it a few hours before hand.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2014 0:24:07 GMT -5
*Posted in Valkur's Roar outside the Great Hall are two posters on either side of the square. At the top of the page are what look like a few small smears of dried blood.*
This place was the site of blood. Two evil spellcasters attacked a paladin here in this place for standing up against evil, speaking out about what is right, and championing the cause of simple goodness in Valkur's Roar and Cormyr. That paladin stood here, together with eight Valkur's Roar guards and a single adventurer. The blood on this page is their blood. Blood shed standing up against criminals that threaten the safety and security of Cormyr. Blood shed standing up, vastly outmatched, against a devil and two men who called it to do their will. Blood shed without fear.
That paladin will be giving another sermon on freedom and its relationship to Tyr's law inside the Greathall at the time he has appointed. All are invited to come and hear the words of the gods above about truth, justice, and what is right, and to repeat them and live by them where ever they will go. Which do you prefer? Bloodshed when a person sticks their head up and speaks what is right? Or do you have a different idea in mind as to how things should go, which you are willing to stand up for? Because evil isn't sitting back, content to let you have safety and security if you'll just plug your ears and block your eyes, and most importantly, shut your mouth and put your hands back in your pockets. It is moving, and advancing, and it doesn't like people getting in its way, calling it out, or speaking up against it. If you need evidence of that, then look back again to the blood at the top of this page. Come. Join the fight. Stand by others who want to make this city, and even this world, a better place. Let the darkness continue to tremble, and let it know that its worst blows can only strengthen the resolve of others to stand against it.
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Post by bentusi16 on Jan 14, 2014 20:05:24 GMT -5
I'll push this back another half-hour or so because I got busy and forgot to bump like a derp but it's gonna be in about 26 minutes.
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Post by bentusi16 on Jan 14, 2014 21:09:05 GMT -5
The Third Sermon of Edthin Vidry in the City of Valkurs Roar
One of the arguments I have heard quite often in my time here in Cormyr is regarding Tyr, and the law, and freedom. People falsely believe that my lord is somehow anathema to freedom. I come today to speak to you on that, for it is simply untrue.
What these people forget is that freedom requires boundaries. No, you are not free to murder, you are not free to rape, to seize what isn't yours. What you are free to do is have options, and choices. The church of Tyr supports that.
The freedom of association, the freedom of worship, the freedom of movement, the freedom of choosing your career, and with all these the freedom to receive consequence. Yesterday I spoke of the free will that the gods gifted to us. This is part of that.
There are of, course, reailties. Not everyone, even if the law guarantees it, is capable of taking advantage of that freedom. It is tragic, but it is part of life, and part of the crusade of good is to allow it to be an option for the most amount of people.
But boundaries. How, you may ask, can a person be free when the church of Tyr hunts down and destroys people of various religions, or who commit acts that church disagrees with? Well the key there is the religion themselves.
You are free to worship as you will, except you are not free to spread a dogma of fear, or terror, or compulsion. Tyr allows the worship of almost any god that doesn't preach these things. For these things are anathema to the very freedoms the maimed god wishes to enforce and protect.
Freedom without the law is just a concept. I have traveled in the wild lands of the west, looking to bring the light of justice to them, and I can speak to you fully. They call themselves free, but their freedom is only that of their own strength. The weak, the helpless? They are not free. Simply food for the strong.
We developed civilization. We realized that this was not the way to live, and so we grew and we evolved. And to help define those civilizations, to help make the civilized world, we developed law.
But laws are not inherently just. That is the sad truth I have repeated throughout these sermons. We do not live in a perfect world. But that is what the maimed god cruasdes for, hopes for, drives us towards. A world where all laws are just.
Tyr, and the law, are both powerful allies of freedoms, not enemies. As I spoke of yesterday, there are certain rights sentient beings have, and one of those is a chance. I spoke of how the chance is a chance and not a blessing.
Because there are people in this world who would use that chance to curtail the freedom of others. They would see themselves boosted and all others lowered, for power or pride or even belief.
What the evil people in this world want is not freedom for people, despite what they may protest, but freedom for themselves. They want the freedom to do as they will, without allowing for others to do so. They want control.
What they want more then anything is the weakness of good. Because evil isn't about freedom for all. It's about freedom for some. But they are not always roaring, chaotic evil. Sometimes, evil is methodical. But it is all, ultimately, selfish. It will sacrifice anyone and anything in order to achieve its goals. Even things like love can be twisted by evil. And the law most certainly can.
Evil men sought me out and killed me. Why? Why do they wish to silence a message of hope, and freedom for the most, and cooperation and love between all good people?
Because they are afraid.
Cormyr has to long been under their dominion, these shadow men and controllers, these destroyers and malefactors and dominators. These people want nothing less then to rule cormyr, even if only from the shadows.
So why did they attack me? Because I am changing things. I wish to awaken Cormyrs heart, to remind it of its righteous fury and pride, to rekindle the flame of freedom.
I wish to remind it's people that they HAVE freedom. They have strength! They have rights, and dignity, no matter if they were born in a gutter or born in a palace, no matter they were born elf, dwarf, human, gnome, or other.
And these evil men attack me because they thought it would make me stop. They attack me because they wanted to show that they are powerful, and good is weak.
They are right. They are right when good refuses to stand up, or is to afraid to stand up, but let me ask you, where are these powerful men? Where are they now, the ones so powerful they attacked me?
Hiding. Fleeing. Like rats at approaching torches. They sought to extinguish my torch, to bring back darkness.
But here I stand, and they hide. Here I speak, and they cower.
For my one torch lights many torches. And those torches light more. The good in the world shall arise as a great inferno of light that sweeps away the darkness, with each of us bearing our own torch.
Cormyr stands on the rain slick precipe of darkness. Shall it seize it's destiny and climb forth, and light the world once again with its righteousness, its fury, it's goodness, and its strength?
Where freedom flourishes, people flourish, and I bring the torch of freedom back to Cormyr. For where justice is, there is true freedom. Let us fight to create this world. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where faith and progress lead to all mens happiness.
A decent world. A That will give men a chance to work, to give youth a future, and old age security. Tyrants promise these things, but they free themselves and enslave the people.
Let us fight to fufill this promise, to do away with greed, and intolerance. A world where we are as a loving family, as Tyr wishes.
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Post by quelunia on Jan 14, 2014 22:15:56 GMT -5
* Pew stands in the shadows and when Edthin finishes nods leaning forward into the light offering a clap*
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Post by bentusi16 on Jan 15, 2014 1:05:42 GMT -5
Posted in the slums of Valkurs Roar, as well as near Greels shop and on the fence near Talbots. I, Edthin Vidry, Paladin of Tyr, shall be giving a sermon in the city of Valkurs Roar later this day. All who wish to attend are welcome, no matter of station or social group, nor race or ethnicity. The sermon will be held near the great hall.
This evenings topic is Paladins. // This will be held at 4 O CLOCK EST (That's 9 O'Clock GMT, consider this the 'European TImezone' sermon and again at 8:30 EST. Since I know we have plenty of european players.
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Post by bentusi16 on Jan 15, 2014 14:21:30 GMT -5
// One and a half hours
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Post by bentusi16 on Jan 15, 2014 19:49:46 GMT -5
// About half an hour now
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Post by bentusi16 on Jan 16, 2014 20:27:23 GMT -5
// bump the sermon is at the normal time tonight, in af ew minutes. Sorry.
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Post by bentusi16 on Jan 16, 2014 22:25:26 GMT -5
The Third Sermon of Edthin Vidry in the City of Valkurs Roar
Today I am going to deviate slightly from my previous motif on Tyr and who he is to speak on something more personal and possible even more misunderstood then the ways of the maimed god. Instead I wish to speak on paladins.
Paladins are one of the rarest groups in our world. For paladins is not something you can become as you wish. You have to be born with the potential. And unlike the sorcerers of the world, that potential stays locked unless it is unleashed. It takes years of training to become a paladin. Many who have the potential never get the chance to train for it, and many who try fail.
Because ultimately what a paladin is, is in an impossibility. No man can actually live so tightly to the paladins code that he never fails. Instead paladins fail constantly in many small ways.
Some of you, I have no doubt, have heard, or perhaps even seen, a fallen paladin. It occurs. But what most people confuse is why paladins fall. Most think it is because suddenly the paladin does evil. In fact, a vast majority of of paladins fall because they make a choice.
Every paladin, when faced between the decision of obeying the law, and their oaths, and their beliefs, and doing good, will choose good. That is the essence of a paladin. We must be good. There is no challenge there.
But sometimes the acts of good we perform are so extreme, so breaking of our oaths, that we fall. It occurs. When it does, most paladins will seek atonement. A priest of their faith can pray for this spell and cast it upon the paladin, but it is far more then a spell to be cast.
Atonement requires the desire to atone, to genuinely atone for their sin. They must desire atonement. Thus, they must understand why what they did was wrong, and avoid doing it in the future. Further, this is usually bought alongside a quest of penance and atonement. Depending on the sin in question, these quest can vary.
But why does a paladin strive? To what end? Why chase a impossibility? Most simply, as an example. A paladin is a light shining in the darkness. We burn brighter and as such many of us burn short. But we are as lanterns versus torches.
And through our example others strive towards the impossiblity of perfection. For paladins should always try to imbue, physically, spiritually, and mentally, the seven virtues of good.
Chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, patience, kindness, humility.
A paladin strives to perfect these, and in doing so, become perfect, but it is a doomed quest. That doesn't matter. All things fade and die in time, but it is in our lives, in the brightness of our existence, that we imprint ourselves upon the world.
Because of the topic of paladins, I thought it better to leave good time to answer direct questions rather then just talk about it, because it is a confusing topic, and more questions can be raised. And understand that, while there are some universals of being a paladin, like all theology there is debate, and we are theologians at our base.
Please feel free to ask any questions as you have them.
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Post by bentusi16 on Jan 17, 2014 0:41:55 GMT -5
Posted in the slums of Valkurs Roar, as well as near Greels shop and on the fence near Talbots. I, Edthin Vidry, Paladin of Tyr, shall be giving a sermon in the city of Valkurs Roar later this day. All who wish to attend are welcome, no matter of station or social group, nor race or ethnicity. The sermon will be held near the great hall.
This evenings topic is Crusading. // Nine o clock eastern standard time (9PM EST), if any european players would like to hear the speech in person please shoot me in a tell in game and we can arrange it, since Ed would probably give more then one sermon a day. This is mostly an OOC consideration for anyone interested. If no one shows interest, I'll just do it at the normal time.
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Post by bentusi16 on Jan 17, 2014 21:23:35 GMT -5
// Bump for time. Gonna be in about 5 minutes ish, 9:30. Delayed due to stuff.
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Post by bentusi16 on Jan 17, 2014 21:51:05 GMT -5
The Fourth Sermon of Edthin Vidry in the City of Valkurs Roar As you stand before me today, I come to speak of Tyrs crusade. For those of you who have attended previously, some of this will sound familiar. Why does the church of Tyr crusade? What does it hope to accomplish? I talked about how Tyr fights for a perfect world, a world in which we are all as a family with him as our divine father, where our problems are solved as a loving family, where we care for eachother. But that world is not here. It will not be here for many years, perhaps never, and to make that world happen, we crusade. We fight and crusade to achieve this world. We fight to achieve a just world where it does not matter what race, what creed, what religion you are, but the results of what you do. Do you believe in freedom for as many as possible? Or only freedom for yourself. If the former, we embrace you as a brother. If the latter, then our crusade is aimed at you. But not all crusades are violent. If we can teach you why other people matter, then we gladly embrace you. Because you our as our brother or sister. And we would love for the world to be made up of this dynamic, of our brothers and sisters in spirit. Let me tell you that the evil in this world hates you. They hate you because of this crusade. They hate the idea of freedom for as many as possible, because ultimately, what the evil in this world wishes for is sheep. They want you to be afraid. They want to be able to shepherd you as lambs, and what do they use lambs for but meat and wool? They don't want you thinking. They don't want you moving about without their watchful eyes. That is their crusade. You most of all, Cormyr, must fear this. For cormyr has value to the evil. It's land is rich. Its people strong. The heart that beats in its chest is mighty. And the evil people in the world know it. Some wish simply to destroy cormyr, to see it laid low, it's people scattered, cities torn down. They are bad, but much, much worse is those who would poison it and corrupt it. Greed and selfishness poison mens souls. Noble rulers, once scions of houses old and noble, fall to corruption. Common men, who in other circumstances would long for nothing else but to be kind to their neighbors, find themselves acting selfishly just to survive. Is this the world you long for, Cormytes? Is the the world you fought for, your sons and daughters, your brothers and sisters, your wives and husbands, have fought for, bled for, died for,? A world where you are made afraid to stand up. A world where your will is stolen from you by the corrupt, the greedy, and the selfish? To those who see you as nothing but sheep, what say you to them? No! You will cry no, because I know in your hearts beats the strength of good, and I will tell you that you do not stand alone in your declaration! For every good soul, now, and in the past, stands with you! Each one a crusader! Do not give yourselves to these unnatural people! These unnatural people who view you as sheep, tools! You are not sheep! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your heart. Even now, the message I speak echoes around the world, as paladins, and clerics, and good men speak on the same things I do. To those who hear this message I say: Do not despair. For it is in you that you have the power to stop this evil, you more then anyone else, more then me, more then the church, for it is you that we even fight. You the people have the power to make this world better, to invent and create and love! Evil cannot succeed so long as good men and women are willing to stand! In the name of liberty, of freedom, of justice, of will, of good, let us all unite! Let us all unite for a better world. A peaceful world. A world where good men may live to see the glories of old age. Where the weak need not fear the strong, where the young not fear the future, where the man not fear the night. In the name of freedom, let us all UNITE! // I'm not going to meta the crowd response, but I kind of assume there would be an NPC Crowd More tommorow!
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Post by bentusi16 on Jan 18, 2014 18:41:05 GMT -5
Posted in the slums of Valkurs Roar, as well as near Greels shop and on the fence near Talbots. I, Edthin Vidry, Paladin of Tyr, shall be giving a sermon in the city of Valkurs Roar later this day. All who wish to attend are welcome, no matter of station or social group, nor race or ethnicity. The sermon will be held near the great hall.
This evenings topic is What Will Tyr Bring to Valkurs Roar?
// Bump, ~ 3 hours (about 9 PM).
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Post by bentusi16 on Jan 18, 2014 21:35:45 GMT -5
The Fifth Sermon of Edthin Vidry in the City of Valkurs Roar
Good evening to you all. Welcome. Over the past few days I have spoken on heady subjects, some more so then others. Today I would like to speak on more practicals.
For the purpose of these sermons is to try and introduce you to who the maimed god is, what he wants, and what his church does. And it is on the final that I will speak today.
I stand before you today as a paladin. But I was not born a knight, a noble, nor even into the church. I certainly was not born pretty.
I was born less then a commoner. I was born a slave, in darkness. I knew no religion, I knew no light, or knowledge. When they pulled me out of the pit, the paladins who freed us, I could barely speak.
I was afraid of the sky. I was afraid of the sun. I was afraid of the tall pale men in their shining armor. Fear ruled me. Ignorance ruled me.
But these men saw the beast that I was and saw the potential in me. The potential to do good in the world, to be good.
Now I stand before you, having been given the most important thing In this world. A chance. That is what tyr grants us, as those of you who attended my first sermon may recall.
A chance. A chance to do good, a chance to stand tall and proud, but not cruel, a chance to help others for the sake of helping them.
The reason I am running for high priest is not because I love politics. It is not because I desire power. It is because I look around Valkurs Roar, and in it, I see myself. And to best serve Tyr, I must participate in a game I do not wish to play
I see a beast, enslaved by cruel and evil people, made a beast by their hands. I see so much potential for good, a cities worth. And what is a city but its people? If its people have no chances, what can a city have?
What I bring, what my lord brings through me, is a chance. I wish to give each and every one of you, and the city itself, a chance. He desires to bring you justice. To bring you safety, that you may know you may walk from home to work, without fear of muggers.
I wish to bring you stability, so that ship captains from here to Thay, their cargo holds full of goods, will know that this city is safe, and their wealth becomes your wealth. So that the mugger need not mug, but instead be able to find a well paying job.
But most of all, I wish to bring you hope.
In the West, in the land of Tethyr, there stands a great fortress, the fortress of the faithful, the largest complex dedicated to my god in all the realms. The kingdom was torn asunder by the civil war their, its people living in fear.
The church of Tyr came. It came with its troops, its might, and its crusade, and bought Tyrs justice and wisdom to the land. And now it grows in strength, in wealth, in hope.
I want to bring that here, to your city. I wish to establish a new fortress of the faithful, based in this kingdom, in this city.
At this place you can bring your children, where they will be educated, returning to your homes at the end of the day. At this place it will not matter if they are the future baron or the son of a street peddler. Nor will it only be sons. All daughers of Valkurs Roar are welcome.
In this temple, they will be taught by Oghmites, by Tyrrans, by Waukeenars. As they grow older they will take up the trades of their fathers and mothers.
They will learn everything they need to to become loyal, dedicated, exceptional individuals of Cormyr, of the -world-. They will be given the chance I was given. The chance for the lowest to become as the highest. A chance for them each to stand proud and tall, with honour.
I have lived here for nearly two years now. I have heard how those in Suzail refer to this region. It's not kind. Uncivilized, savage, backwards. Where shall they put their faces, when Valkurs Roar becomes the spiritual, educational, and economic capital of their world?
That is what Tyr desires, what I desire. For Valkurs Roar, and all of cormyr by extension, to shine. So I call upon you, people of Valkurs Roar. Let your voices be heard. For as the nobles may rule, they do so at your behest.
Let them know whose church you support. Let them know whose crusade you follow. Let them know your names, your beliefs, your hopes, your dreams, by the way you act, you walk, you talk, you think.
I know this may not be easy. I know you may be afraid. But do not let fear rule you. For that is what your enemies want. They want you to scared to act. They want you pacified, unthinking, ignorant.
The Lord Tyr knelt before the chaos hound, before the other gods, and placed his hand in the beast mouth. Why? TO show he was willing to sacrifice. To show he would not be daunted, nor afraid, to do what was necessary to see the perfect world come forth.
The men and women of Tyr, in honor of our gods sacrifice of courage to the chaos hound, wear a black gauntlet on our right hand, and a white on our left.
I follow this tradition. Today I ask those of you who believe in the words I speak, who hope for a better future, to do the same. A strip of cloth. A glove. Something to mark your hands.
And those of you willing to do this, I ask you to speak to those you know about what I have said. Tell them to read the words I have written. Tell them to come to me, for I will help them.
And for those of you unwilling, there is no shame in this. What I ask is heavy, and not to be taken lightly. But I do ask you to do this.
Think. Talk. Debate. Philosophize. Come to conclusions. Live freely, and as humans, not as beast to be whipped.
Go in his Grace, that you know no injustice.
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Templar
Old School
A female dwarf?! No really! What do you play?
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Post by Templar on Jan 19, 2014 2:04:21 GMT -5
** a number of dwarven miners and a few guards attend the sermons as they pass through. if any talk to them some say they came because of their own curiosity, others because they were bored, but there are a few who bluntly state they were instructed to by the Clan Warden of Oghrann due to the new trade that is going on between roar and Skull crag. **
// ruby would of been there personally but IRL came first so I sent a few of our clan your way to let you know we support Valkurs roar building themselves up!
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