5 Heresies
1) Mnemon Drogan, the satrap over the Five Dragon's Island Chain, has taken "honoring" his ancestors, living and dead, to a new extreme. He has forced the people of the island chain to form ritualized and formalized cults performing "honorariums" to Mnemon, the Empress and his dead father and grandfather. The Order has condemned these honorariums as being far, far too close to ancestor worship. There is even a rumor that he has lain with his dead wife, Tepet Kassanda, and that she has given birth to a ghost-blooded child that acts as the high priest of this group. However, Drogan seems to currently have Mnemon's protection, and the Order has been compelled to leave him alone and to keep their mouths shut. Unofficially, the Paragon's are thinking of dispatching wandering itinerants from the Scavenger Lands to deal with the problem without having any evidence lead back to them.
2) The lama, Master Forgotten Shogun Shrouded in Flames, has recently been declared apostate for preaching that Dragonbloods and Elementals are of a kind. At first, this was subtle, with Shogun arguing that elementals were the most pure and righteous of all spiritual beings, and with his development of Fire Dragon style to enhance and emphasize the Claw, Breath and other such movements by copying the natural grace of Lesser Elemental Dragons of Fire. Now, booted from the Order and exiled from the Isle, he has taken residence in the Tri-Khans court and claims openly that Exalts and Elementals are brothers. He recently defeated the three martial scholars dispatched to expose the flaws in his dogma, making him a minor threat to the martial supremacy of orthodoxy.
3) The mystical cloister of Sacred Scales on Crowberry Isle, just off the Jade Coast, believe that only Dragonbloods are real people, and everyone else is an illusion. They also believe the human bodies and histories of the Dragonbloods are illusory, and that each Prince of the Earth is an incarnation of the Elemental Dragons. As the group keep to themselves, do not recruit or proselytize and have deeply pacifistic philosophies, the Order is treating them with kid gloves for now, trying to return them to the faith quietly.
4) There is a growing group of young secular theologians, attached loosely to House Leedal and to the Curse le'Grande artistic movement, that argue that the Unconquered Sun should be penalized for his failure to protect his power from theft by the Anathemic blasphemers. They especially point to the campaign against Jarrack, the Bloody, and claim the hundreds of thousands of lives he claimed can be traced back to the Sun's failure. There is disagreement as to exactly what sanctions should be taken against the Sun by the bodies that assign worship.
5) There is a rapidly growing cult of Invisible Cricket Practitioners (think a Terrestrial style that carries the vibe of Mantis Style and Ebon Shadows Style) in Tuchara. This hidden cult utilize the new forbidden art to emulate and pay homage to a mysterious figure known as the Invisibles Embodiment of Justice Black. This figure is usually portrayed as a tall black clad man in a black cloak, wearing a Black helm's helmet modified with the visage of a praying mantis. He is beloved for having brought down the Red River of Laugher gang (opium smugglers led by a faeblood), the Monarchi family (a patrician clan heavily involved in extortion and supported by House Peleps) and the Abbot Dandelion (who was subsequently shown to be using his temple as a brothel). As such, the Order has so far made little headway against his growing support and no headway in even proving the existence of this man.
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