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| - Unlike many other factions, the origins of the Oblationists can be traced back to a single individual and a single moment in time. In 738.M41, the so-called "War of Brass" erupted, engulfing the Calixis Sector in one of the worst conflicts seen since the days of the Angevin Crusade. The hive worlds of the Gelmiro Cluster fell into sedition following the charismatic leadership of a figure calling himself the "Emperor of Brass," debasing themselves into the worship of the Ruinous Powers. Heavily militarised, the renegades quickly sponsored and armed rebel groups on worlds throughout the sector. When counter-attacked, these groups revealed the hand of dark forces drawn from the Eye of Terror in their number. For five years, the entire sector was dragged into bloody warfare, and the Calixian I
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| - Unlike many other factions, the origins of the Oblationists can be traced back to a single individual and a single moment in time. In 738.M41, the so-called "War of Brass" erupted, engulfing the Calixis Sector in one of the worst conflicts seen since the days of the Angevin Crusade. The hive worlds of the Gelmiro Cluster fell into sedition following the charismatic leadership of a figure calling himself the "Emperor of Brass," debasing themselves into the worship of the Ruinous Powers. Heavily militarised, the renegades quickly sponsored and armed rebel groups on worlds throughout the sector. When counter-attacked, these groups revealed the hand of dark forces drawn from the Eye of Terror in their number. For five years, the entire sector was dragged into bloody warfare, and the Calixian Inquisition itself suffered heavy losses in the fray. During the aftermath, the Calixian Conclave became riven by schism and division in its own ranks. Following the War of Brass, the chief tenants of Puritanism in the Calixian Conclave were shaken to the core by the excommunication and execution of Inquisitor Lord Godella Morn. Morn was a noted Monodominant who had based every endeavour of her long and distinguished career on unbending Puritanism and intolerance of any deviation or heresy. The event that was to trigger this crisis of belief was the discovery that Morn had been practicing sorcery and the malefic arts in secret for centuries as a secret Xanthite of fearsome ability. She had made pacts with dark forces to grant her ever-increasing power. Her denunciation before a gathered Conclave of Inquisitor Lords drawn from across the Segmentum was extraordinary: far from denying the accusations, Morn confessed that she had embraced the corruption of the Warp and used the tools of Chaos, xenos, and heretics as her own. She also, however, fiercely professed her belief in the tenants of Monodomination. She was, she said, an "Oblationist" rather than a fallen Xanthite; she had willingly damned herself so that she could act on her beliefs “in truth rather than in wishful dreaming.” Inquisitor Lord Morn faced her excommunication and execution by immersion in molten brass without flinching. The heresy and death of Godella Morn sent a shockwave through the Calixian conclave of the day. Inquisitors of all ranks could not comprehend how such a stalwart puritan could countenance such a heretical doctrine as she had professed. Many, after reflection, came to the conclusion that Chaos is infinitely subtle and its arts can claim the brightest and most pure, and saw Morn’s fall as an object lesson and memento mori. Many Radicals secretly laughed, venturing that the truth of their philosophies come to all in time, and that Puritanism can only be indulged by those blind to the war that the Inquisition wages. The story of Morn’s fate and her professed beliefs, however, had a profound effect on a small core of Puritans in the Conclave that was both traumatic and transforming: Inquisitor Lord Morn had been of such complete dedication to her task that her words and actions could only be the product of madness. Yet Morn had shown no sign of madness. Quite the contrary, she had seemed rational and clear throughout her excommunication and went to her pyre willingly for her crimes. These Inquisitors argued that if she was not mad, then her arguments and final testament must be considered, and as they saw her consumed in molten fire, many faced the grim realisation that she must be right -- the choice they faced was between wilful damnation and ineffectual idealism. In that moment, in the death of Inquisitor Lord Morn and her challenge to the paradox of Puritanism, the Oblationist faction was born in fire, death, and sorrow.
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