Editing Flamepunk: The Church of the Holy Flame (section)

==Life and Death (and Life after Death) in the Church==

'''Benefits'''
* Power and Prestige: none are as universally respected and feared as Templars and Paladins, and you get to look good as altruistic benefactors, too. Plus you know you're better than everyone else.

'''Drawbacks'''
* Once you're ordained, you get this inhuman thing living behind your eyes. Its thought are really too alien to understand, but it does enjoy lighting things on fire. Also, sometimes your flame will go for a little jaunt in your body without your permission, generally when you're asleep or incapacitated during a fight. It sometimes gets a little "out or hand" during these jaunts. But all is not lost, for as you practice and gain experience using the powers of your internal flame, the better you get and understanding what its thinking; even if it gets harder to remember human concepts, like mercy and justice.

'''Powers'''

* No one else has the pure control you have over fire; tattoos and bindstones are static effects, but you actually house living flame. The better you understand it, the easier it is to put your thoughts, or prayers, into terms your living flame can understand. Your flame even can allow you to confuse or misdirect the smaller flames in their tools for a short time. There is nothing that a tattoo or bindstone can do that your flame can't copy without the need for tools, and a few things you can do they will never understand.

'''Termination'''

* There is nothing so evil as heresy, those ordained who do not strive to better understand the Eternal Flame; they must be found and their souls cleansed by Inquisition fire. Fortunately, heretics are easy to recognize - their internal flame has fled, taking its blessings with it.

'''Flamepunks'''

* Flamerunners learn to understand and speak to the flames around them, which is how they are able to beguile the flame into doing their bidding. The better they get at thinking like the flame, the better they get at "talking" it into doing what they ask. The Church generally views Flamerunners generally as talented, misguided, wrongheaded, stubborn children who despite their best efforts refuse to enter into full communion with the light. There are rumors of Inquisitors taking a firmer stance, though...

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