(to divert the tide of off-topic conversation from the Landsraad...)
Vilhelm Benkern wrote:Laughably insane heresy... I hope the new Kaiser outlaws it in Shirekeep.
Ryker wrote:Now now, we all have the right to our own opinion. No need to call for discrimination in a developed nation's capital. We could enact a containment policy, allow current followers to roam free but minimize the faith's spread. All citizen's have the right to believe what they want; we don't have to like it. If we can outlaw the I.B.C. then we could outlaw any religion, and that just won't do.
Vilhelm Benkern wrote:The Bacchic Cult was once contained to Yardistan, where it remains in some tiny corners... for the sake of the rest of Shireroth. I have a feeling that the Icebear isn't even welcome among many Elw. Such a measure here in Shirekeep would not be amiss.
Jack wrote:Elw election results suggest otherwise...
On the contrary, the government takes a dim view of it:
Tokaray al-Osman wrote:
INSTRUMENT OF GOVERNMENT
Ermure, 10 Vixaslaa 1609
[1609/III] An Instrument of Government for the Suppression of the Rebellion in Cimmeria & Elwynn Proper
General Order One: Prohibition of the Cult of the Icebear
(1) The worship of purported supernatural beings that adherents hold to demand human sacrifice in any form is contrary to reason and abhorrent to any civilised society.
(2) The Worship or veneration of the Icebear, or any other 'deity' associated with the 'Book of Ice' is by this order prohibited as being an act of depravity, lunacy and heresy contrary to the Charter of Coordination (C4§3.1.2.).
(3) The Icebear cult does not permit autonomy of thought in its followers, who forfeit their entire capacity for judgement to the putative Icebear, ergo its entire membership, being prohibited from independent thought, have subjected themselves to the inhuman will of a monstrous blood-beast. The devotees of the Icebear Cult have maliciously and wantonly renounced their humanity which is an act contrary to the Charter of Coordination (C3§2.3.).
(5) All Assets of the Icebear Cult, its devotees and any affiliated individuals and or organisations, are immediately forefit to the State.
(6) Any person found consorting with an individual member of the Cult of the Icebear may be made subject to a Preventative Detention Order.
We need to bring an end to this tyrannical insanity!
Vilhelm BenkernDEOMI, Member of the Order of the Dragon, Silver Swan, Red Dragon Dirigent of Musica, Count of Mar Sara In Aryasht Prapta Vrteti, former Prince of Aryasht; Zaila Vrteti, Norfolknath In Elwynn Benjamin Sebasokrator Timothy Quentin Kern, Duke of Raikoth In Khalypsil Representative of the Wisdom
Vilhelm BenkernDEOMI, Member of the Order of the Dragon, Silver Swan, Red Dragon Dirigent of Musica, Count of Mar Sara In Aryasht Prapta Vrteti, former Prince of Aryasht; Zaila Vrteti, Norfolknath In Elwynn Benjamin Sebasokrator Timothy Quentin Kern, Duke of Raikoth In Khalypsil Representative of the Wisdom
His Imperial Magnificence Aurangzeb II Steffki, Kaiser of the Imperial Republic of Shireroth, Thane of the Shirelands, Keeper of the Apollo Legacy, Wielder of the Sword of Vengeance, Grand Master of the Orders of the Dragon, Griffin, Phoenix, and Chimera, Sovereign of the Golden Mango Throne.
Dr Tokaray al-Osman KBH, Commissioner of the Chamber of the Crypteia, Emir of Jadid Khaz Modan, Annexer of Yardistan