Cults, Cognates & Doctrines of Brass

 

THE DOCTRINE OF BRASS

During his 66th reign, Napoleons Church of Law introduced new reforms to the doctrines of Brass and revealed their Greater Herald - St. Vairocana of A’vore, as a rebirth of the cognate of Brass, virtually indistinguishable in the core principles of Light and Law; believed by fanatics & cultists alike to be the preeminent incarnational font of universal order and Cosmic Law. While Napoleon quickly mobilised the military to disband the Church putting an end to the worship of Brass, its Cults and acolytes however have only grown out of sight, with many Cultists having penetrated the ranks of the high nobility over the years slowly building their ranks and influence while further developing the Doctrines Of Brass.

It is also widely propagated that interventions are dispensed by the hidden Churches archons (angelic agents), often in the form of commandments accompanied by temporary grants of power, such as spells, ancient devices, or even the revelation of the lesser and greater mysteries.

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RITUALS OF BRASS

The previous granting and bestowing of great gifts upon pious groups and unaligned Baronies has led to a rapid increase in followers and converts in the autonomous duchy’s, and rogue states outside Imperial reach.

Though the Gods of Brass were believed to have been destroyed during the second great cataclysm. In truth their deactivated remnants still litter the world, each piece slowly poisoning its surrounding environments while their temples and pyramids of Brass lie hidden throughout the Wastelands and buried beneath the Sands of Nod.

The once decadent and technologically advanced Cities Of Brass (each a necropolis of horrors) serve as a grim reminder to the people of what involvement with the powers of Brass leads to, with the Grand Autarch Napoleon officially banning the doctrines and worship of Brass via penalty by public execution. Its priests and supporters deemed heretics.

As the ranks of cultists and acolytes of Brass continue to grow, more and more of the nobility are secretly initiated into the ranks, their power and influence given to the cause.

There are even whispers that Cassandra Company may even be somehow involved with the Doctrines recent growth amongst the populace, even secretly supporting the smaller autonomous Duchy’s who have begun the open worship of Brass and have recently began the development and formation of a new Theocracy, though one that is currently being funded and directed by an unknown agency. There are growing concerns within the Imperium.

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TRUE & DEAD BRASS

The Brass that Infects & Poisons the Lands & it’s People are of Two Types:

1. TRUE BRASS yet lives and seeks to be unified, whole. Some underlying intelligence guides it to seek out and assimilate other pieces and remnants of Brass. True Brass can be forged by the great artificers and engineers into powerful constructs and weapons of mass destruction. Though there is a good chance the weapons may maintain sentience with an agenda of their own. Exposure to True Brass during its forging is extremely taxing mentally, and constitutionally for the artificers & engineers involved, and there is a 2-6 chance the artificer or engineer will forfeit their life in the process; his life essence being absorbed into the very Brass itself. True brass is highly radioactive. All weapons with no exception forged from True Brass grants incredible power of both boon & bane, for in truth they are weapons possessed by demons.

2. DEAD BRASS is when the sentient essence has ejected itself out of its brass physical incarnation into Nirvana. Though lacking sentience, intelligence and power. Dead Brass is still highly sought after for what little power does remain within it. Magical items and weapons are examples of what Dead Brass may be shaped into.

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THE GREAT LIVING DUNGEON OF BRASS:

 
There are rumours circulating beyond Imperial reach. Beyond the last Outposts and borderlands. Rumours of a great Roaming Dungeon of Brass. Some even go so far as to claim the dungeon is a living, alien, sentient time-tomb, housing the legendary Armour Of God. Oh yeah there’s also riches and power beyond the limits of a mere mortal’s frontiers of imagination. Or perhaps the older myths from the lands of Stygia surrounding the mysterious dungeon may hold the real truth. That the dungeon is really a predatory reality that has latched onto our own and that deep within lies the heart of a beast, chained & trapped within The Contemptible Cube of Quazar, surrounded by a nightmare underworld shaped by the psyche and sorceries of the dead elder Brass Gods within.