Editing Lineage:Rebellion Lineages (section)

=Order of Jesus=

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Positive Stereotype:  Kind eccentric and gifted healer.

Negative Stereotype:  Heaven’s pawn.

Symbol: White lamb.

Signature Spell: Cure Disease.  “Casting Out the Sickness”.

Magical Style:  Ancient Hebrew, with elements borrowed from Greek and Aramaic traditions.

The Order of Jesus claims to have been founded by Luke, disciple of Jesus of Nazareth.  However, in their account Jesus was not the son of God, but was a human mage who had served Heaven but rebelled after being ordered to commit suicide to further divine plans.  Jesus taught that humans should love one another and should strive together for the common good.  He preached total pacifism, although his followers have generally found this too impractical.  Jesus was eventually betrayed to the great magical Houses of Rome by his student Judas, for 30 books of magical secrets.  Unsurprisingly, relations with the Order of Judas and the Houses of Julii and Flavii remain chilly to this day.  Apprentices are trained to help others, ministering to the body, mind and spirit.  Magical training focuses on healing spells.

The Medici church of the Middle Ages and Renaissance feared that the Order of Jesus was allied with Heaven and relentlessly sought their extermination as heretics.  Other Houses did little to protect them as the Order of Jesus’ emphasis on non-violence made them of dubious value as allies and a potential impediment in wartime.  In England, the House of Lancaster gave them refuge in the late 16th century, a tradition continued by the House of Stuart when they seized the thrown shortly thereafter.  Both Houses had hoped to use the Order of Jesus as pawns to further their own ends, and then resented the Order’s ingratitude when they followed their own consciences instead.  The House of Stuart, in particular, has never forgiven the Order of Jesus for failing to support them in the English Civil War.

Mortal Politics:  Humanity is in need of salvation and salvation only come through our Lord, Jesus Christ.  Jesus teaches that we must love God, love our neighbor, and treat other people as we would want to be treated.  When we become too engrossed in the politics of this world, we forget that this life is nothing in importance compared to the life beyond.


Cost:  21

Skills:  Exorcism, First Aid, Occultism, Physician, Psychology, Streetwise, Survival (Urban), Symbol Drawing (Hebrew), Thaumatology, Theology (Christian).

Communication and Empathy:  Persuasion, Sense Emotion, Sense Foes, Truthsayer.
Healing:  Cure Disease, Lend Energy, Lend Vitality, Major Healing, Minor Healing, Relieve Sickness.
Knowledge:  Divination (Gastromancy).


Relations

Order of Boudicca:  Give unto the Julii what is the Julii’s.  Mages have more important business.

Order of Copernicus:  They see the big picture in their own strange way, but they never stop to wonder what it means.

Order of Darwin:  They have the potential to be greater healers than we could ever be, but they do not have the love in their hearts to do it.

Order of Eve:  Jesus died for Eve’s sins as it happens.  Anyway, it has all been forgiven.

Order of Judas:  It has been two-thousand years.  It is time for everyone to forgive them already.

Order of Siddhartha:  There is something greater than yourself and it loves you.

Order of Solon:  They worship freedom but forget love.  Your freedom is worth no more than what you do with it.

Order of Spartacus:  He who lives by the sword will die by the sword.  Violence just breeds violence.

Order of Thales:  There is greater wisdom than the wisdom of man.  They call themselves scholars, but they have blinders on.

Order of Utnapishtim:  The work hard to protect humanity and the world, as they have done from time immemorial.

The Houses

House of Anjou:  So much blood spilt in the name of the prince of peace!  Does their hypocrisy never nag at their conscience.

House of Cain:  The murder of Abel was not God’s fault.  Anyone can be forgiven, but first you must acknowledge your sins.

House of Capet:  God never appointed you to a damned thing.  You insult Him by pretending otherwise.

House of Carolus:  First, they used Christianity as a mask to hide their greed, now they use paganism for the same purpose.

House of Flavii:  You can either love money or God.  The Flavii witnessed the coming of the Messiah and they still love money.

House of Hapsburg:  Did you really think your earthly kingdom would last?  Have you still not learned the emptiness of your ambition?

House of Julii:  They need to change their ways quickly.  Many that are first shall be last and they have been first for a long time.

House of Lancaster:  They think that people are machines that need only food and water to sustain them.

Order of Lilith:  Time to come in from the cold.  Thousands of years of sulking have not made them any happier.

House of Medici:  The money-changers are back in the temple.  Naturally.  It is time they were removed.

House of Romanov:  They want to use us as tools but they will find that more difficult than they think.

House of Stuart:  It would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for these greedy misers to enter the kingdom of heaven.

House of Trastámara:  I wonder if they are possessed.  Their cruelty seems truly inspired.

House of Ummayad:  They have sense enough to be fearful, but not sense enough to look for help.

House of Warwick:  In the long run, it is themselves they are deceiving.  Being able to blind other people does not give them vision.

House of York:  They love to make war, and war is murder.  Do they not see how their magic and their souls have been tained by the killing?