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==Fate== | ==Fate== | ||
− | The Order of the Seventh Question also teaches that everyone must not merely accept Fate and submit to it (as the Mundus Humanitas preaches), but ''seek'' Fate and embrace it with fiery joy. According to the Order, it is the failure to find and seize this True Fate that cause one to be reborn on the Wheel of Fire, to be reforged and tempered until the flaws are eliminated, fate is accomplished, and the soul is as a perfect blade or | + | The Order of the Seventh Question also teaches that everyone must not merely accept Fate and submit to it (as the Mundus Humanitas preaches), but ''seek'' Fate and embrace it with fiery joy. According to the Order, it is the failure to find and seize this True Fate that cause one to be reborn on the Wheel of Fire, to be reforged and tempered until the flaws are eliminated, fate is accomplished, and the soul is as a perfect blade or tool. |
==Psychology== | ==Psychology== | ||
− | Psychologists are highly regarded in the Order; it is believed that they have more potential & | + | Psychologists are highly regarded in the Order; it is believed that they have more potential – and therefore more responsibility – than anyone to find and fulfill their True Fate, perhaps even find the Seventh Question. |
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=Status and Relations= | =Status and Relations= | ||
− | The Order of the Seventh Question is detested by the Mundus Humanitas as a litter of foul heretics. Its members have been hunted down and destroyed throughout the old Empires, and Nova Sparta is one of the Order's rare havens & | + | The Order of the Seventh Question is detested by the Mundus Humanitas as a litter of foul heretics. Its members have been hunted down and destroyed throughout the old Empires, and Nova Sparta is one of the Order's rare havens – perhaps the only one left now. If – or when – the planet falls to the Worms, the Order will be destroyed and all hope may be lost to find the Seventh Questions. |
Like most of the other cults that have sought refuge on Nova Sparta and are used by the Merchant League as cheap mercenary forces, the Order has grown fiercely defensive from a long habit of fighting off violent attacks. | Like most of the other cults that have sought refuge on Nova Sparta and are used by the Merchant League as cheap mercenary forces, the Order has grown fiercely defensive from a long habit of fighting off violent attacks. | ||
=Assets= | =Assets= | ||
− | The main temple of the Order is the | + | The main temple of the Order is the Temple of Triyuginarayan, where an eternal flame is kept ablaze. It has a small, well-trained anvil force of sodales that act as highly mobile troops deployed from the Order's main military asset, its small but powerful Hammer fleet. |
==Important Figures== | ==Important Figures== |