Editing Rouen Fien Rua (section)

==Background==

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		<td><font class="small">To the people of the east, the Theocracy of Eladan is a complete unknown. Even the greatest sages of Erethol have heard only vague rumours of what goes on beyond the forbidding walls that surround what was the centre of psionic learning in Gavilan. The tales vary wildly with each teller, some speaking of a paradise ruled by living gods, where men roam the land freely without fear of bandit or monster and gifted seers manipulate the future through prophecy to ensure a time of unlimited prosperity. Others of a harsh totalitarian state, ruled by despotic aberrations dominating the minds of their human subjects and whose every whim is law. <br><br>Both stories likely contain grains of truth, but since the guardians of the wall are instructed to slay anyone approaching the walls of Eladan without question and reaching Eladan by boat requires journeying through the Bitter Sea, whose tainted waters are home to a kingdom of Aboleths and their aberrant slaves, little of the Great Theocracy is known.<br><br>Certainly it has been many centuries since Eladan sent out missionary-knights to convert those of the surrounding countries to worship of the Elan Prophet-Kings, either by the book or by the sword, and entered an unbroken period of isolationism. Indeed, the young Disciple of the Divine Form (or Psychic Warrior, as the few surviving Gavilan texts on psionics refer to them) is probably the second Eladine citizen to travel more than fifty yards from his countries’ borders in over a hundred years.<br><br>Ostensibly Rouen is a missionary charged with spreading the teachings of the Divine Mind and Form to the eastern barbarians, though even Rouen himself doesn’t give that lie much credit. The young noble will freely divulge that his real reason for being here concerns his family and the prophecies of his homeland, and ask if they have heard tell of another psychic from Eladan who bears close resemblance to him. Though anyone wanting to pry further would first have to earn his trust.<br></font></td>
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