Faith of the Flaming Soul

Decision making

The faith, for the most part, is structured like a direct democracy. Whenever a decision needs to be made on the faiths further operations all it's currently available members come together to vote on it. This holds however does not count for decisions regarding who is granted access or not. Only the dragon holds the authority within the faith to decide on these matters.

Golemmancers

Due to the faiths rather direct approaches when it comes to obtaining knowledge, they have many enemies. In order to defend they masterfully sculpt Golems out of stone and clay, before weaving the ancient magic into their bodies.

Flameweavers

These individuals are highly skilled craftsmen and mages, they craft all the tools and weapons the other members need for their tasks. Their most outstanding creations are the <flame daggers> (PLACEHOLDER), including not only forging them but also weaving the dragons fire into the blade. Trapping it's magic within the gold to unleash at a later date. This requires a lot of time. A single Flameweaver might need several days to finish a single dagger.

Diplomats

They are responsible for leaving the caves and travel to surrounding nations and local cultures in search for dangerous knowledge. When they do cross paths with knowledge deemed dangerous they will attempt to either steal, destroy or buy it's sources and bring it back home to the library.

Librarians

Managing the books, scrolls and artefacts collected over hundreds of years is no easy task. Let alone dealing with decay and the aging pages. This is the job of the many librarians, which make up the largest body of the faith. A librarian is easily recognisable by the blindfold or mask they keep with them, to protect their mind from the influence of corrupting knowledge. Whenever handling a book they wear it.

The day to day life of a normal member is rather normal. As they tend to their daily shores within the caves, such as cooking, cleaning, harvesting mushrooms and local plants. These members do no have access to the vast library and collection of books but are nonetheless important to upkeep the faiths functionality and to enable the others to fulfil their tasks.

Although the community is old it is very small and secluded. Everyone knows each other by their name.

• historians
• they blindfold themselves or wear masks without holes for the eyes in order to consume and thus be corrupted by the knowledge they store
• very secluded and shrouded in mystery
• Golemmancers
• very small community
• they never lost access to ancient magic but it is not very developed
• use/access to particular metal, similar to gold or closed in flames (metal shrouded in mystery for the rest of the world as the Faith keeps all it's information very close to their chest)

• collect knowledge and record history for save keeping
• willing to destroy in order to obtain (steal) knowledge deemed especially corruptive

A golden dagger with the dragons fire weaved into it.

Golems