Nine Lilies

The Nine Lilies were a group of shrine maidens who served the Flintlock Twin Deities, Maudra and Mihras. They were notorious for their increasingly extremist views, in particular that the Flintlock deities could speak through anything with a Silica or Quartz-timed heart and that all quartz-made beings also have souls.

A brief description:

• Located in various places where shrines to Maudra and Mihr were found
• Mihr and Maudra once ruled many elements and each shrine specialized in research of the Noble Elements
• There are nine members (posthumously named):
• Lily-of-the-valley (Convallaria) :
  Sheena Mirverch (Halfwing, Locii, raised by Cynipina)
  Place of Origin: Abellion Orchards
  Flintlock Temple of Bel the Prophet
  Heno Province of Caer Sidi
• Garnet-lily (Hesperantha) :
  Merdith verch Maudra (Vespula, Pilotesk, tkfamily)
  Place of Origin:
  Flintlock Temple of Hesper the Prophetess (Coven of the Garnet Dancers)
  Heno Province of Eskern (South)
• Ditch-lilly (Hemerocallis) :
  Lor Argianos (Kubeleya, Sulyafuj, tkfamily)
  Place of Origin: Heularia, formerly tkfamily Kingdom of Sulyafuj
  Flintlock Temple of Arianrhod
  Heno Province of Sadorna
• Bog-lilly (Arisaema) :
  Madrun Morgana (Cambion, Glendatis, Morganae)
  Place of Origin: Mannan
  Flintlock Temple of Gog and Magog the Prophets
  Heno Province of Moroven Islands
• Fawn-lily (Erythronium) :
  Galli Coil (Galu )
  Place of Origin:
  Temple of Carno the Mediator
  Heno Province of Pestilentia (North)
• Calla-lily (Zantedeschia) :
  ????
  Place of Origin:
  Flintlock Temple of Leuci the Prophet
  Heno Province of Kargast
• Heath-lily (Agapanthus) :
  Wychazel [C0il H3n]
  Place of Origin: Cadmia Mountains
  Flintlock Temple of Merlyn Sylvester
  Heno-occupied Wychazel (which includes modern Ghealas and Raudan)
• Pond-lily (Nuphar) :
  Iago Morcana (related to Morgaine)
  Place of Origin:
  Flintlock Temple of Latis of the Lake
  Heno Province of Karkebi
• Water-lily (Nymphea) :
  Braelen Coil (Braelen)
  Place of Origin:
  Temple of Braci the Intoxicatress
  North Eskern Marches
• Flame-lily (Pyrolirion) :
  Vortecorias (the Heretic)
  Temple of Meld the Prophet
  Meldland

Their public agenda (purpose, mission, aims)

• The nine lilies managed some the earliest incarnations of the Clockmaker religion, then known as the Druwits "knowers of the wood", and eventually became the precursor for the Gannwyll Gwydd
• The fate of all of the members is unknown, some have never been heard from again, others have risen
• The attempted massacre is what brought Sheena into the light as a martyr and prophet, and fueled the movement

Describe their visuals (flag, motto, uniform)

• A lily-of-the-valley flower with nine blossoms with a small wheel in the centre
• They dressed as priestesses of Maud and Mihr, wearing mostly white and pale clothing that reflects the sunlight
• Posthumously they are assigned different elements and planets
• Much of what is remembered and depicted of the Nine Lilies is folk memory

Their secret agenda (if they have one)

• Their leader and visionary was Sheena, and they were known posthumously as the Nine Lilies as it was found that Sheena had given each of them seeds to ingest if they were cornered. After the coordinated massacre, only some managed to survive as Alrauna.
• The Lilies are all alive or at least, exist, in one way or another, some as Wrakka who Sheena is attempting to make into Saints, but due to their arcane nature they are often deemed heretical