Continental Congress

The Continental Congress is the primary religious organisation of the modern Mevhan for scholarly debate and consensus, peer-governance of Wards and Wardens, and most significantly the recognition and consecration of such. While a full Congress has only ever been called four times, including its months of conception as a peerage after the Migration, smaller regional councils are held yearly to maintain the faith, and a constant flurry of letter writing and theses is maintained.   Wardens aspirant must be recognised by a plurality of the Congress after a pilgrimage for character references, and submission of a thesis on their readings on the articles of faith, a process that can sometimes take years. However, mutual respect and reasoned debate is considered a fundamental internal pillar of the Mevhan unifying faith, the Congress holding to a discipline of polite censure and peer shaming for its members who lead division in unacceptance of other sects. In the most extreme cases, Wardens have even been deconsecrated, but by and large the Congress is widely considered a benevolently impartial organisation for the spiritual betterment and fellowship of all Mevhan.   While the Continental Congress has succeeded, and continues to succeed in unifying the traumatised, radicalised and tumultuous diasporas of the Old World in embrace of a syncretic faith, controversy and reaction continues to arise in troublesome pockets across the continent. Founded on principles of creating unity sorely needed in the New World to precent further ethnic divide or pogroms over the limited resources and settlements of the early construction periods, the Congress can hardly call itself innocent of trampling diaspora culture in dress, practice or language.    Most visible remains the modern distaste for trews or breeches as outerwear, to the historical extent of some cities even banning such in public at the time. Attitudes have softened since, but it's undeniable that enforcing a common style of dress is only a surface aspect, greater is the slow loss of two entire spoken tongues and eventual extinction by conversion of faiths that were once the Old World's majority.