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| - These are the pieced together histories of our order...some found within ancient Nemedian tomes, others from the mouths of Pictish shaman. We are still in the process of rediscovering who we are and who we were for it seems we will never be able to be one or the other. All was not lost in the splitting of the world, but much was. With the re-awakening of Acheron, we who have stood against them in aions pasts, we whose blood has not thinned too much, are finding a rebirth of purpose as our forefathers hereditary oaths, old magicks, a kindling, in our veins.
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| - These are the pieced together histories of our order...some found within ancient Nemedian tomes, others from the mouths of Pictish shaman. We are still in the process of rediscovering who we are and who we were for it seems we will never be able to be one or the other. All was not lost in the splitting of the world, but much was. With the re-awakening of Acheron, we who have stood against them in aions pasts, we whose blood has not thinned too much, are finding a rebirth of purpose as our forefathers hereditary oaths, old magicks, a kindling, in our veins. Naophulax Aion, commissioned by King Kull of Valusia, greatest of the seven kingdoms, during the Thurian Age. Naophulax Aion was a sect of Valusian society integrated into a military structure so that it would be able to continually move to new fronts as a cohesive unit in the kingdom's war with the Serpent Men and Snake Cult societies. Kull the Conqueror, Kull the Atlantean, took the Valusian crown and instituted a policy of social equality and religious tolerancy (much to the dismay of the Valusian aristocrats and priests). Kull was forced to exclude the Serpent Cults from this policy of tolerance after they attempted to assassinate him and overthrow the government. He banned all religious practices that involved human sacrifice and created Naophulax Aion to enforce this edict. In time, the struggle with the serpent cults escalated to full warfare. The serpent cults used illusion magicks to twist the minds of men. In response, the Mages and Priests of the Seven Kingdoms enchanted the soldiers of Naophulax Aion with a protective magick, a magick that would negate that of the serpent cults' and continually remind the soldiers of their purpose (a secondary precaution against illusions). This magic took the form of an oath of allegence to the King and his cause. It is not known if the hereditary nature of this magic was intended or only an accident, but in either case, it was found that the children of the soldiers of Naophulax Aion carried the same resistance to the illusion magicks, as well as the drive to fulfill the king's edict. With the breaking of the world, our order was lost. We passed into history. Those individuals who survived to carry on the magick, were scattered to the winds. Millennia passed, the blood thinned. Within recent generations some have awoken and felt an odd burning in their veins. A drive to do that which they cannot seem to recall, only to fall back asleep and have the sensation gone upon reawakening. Fewer yet of us do not forget in the morning. It is beginning, the magick is reawakening. We believe it a reaction to two possibilities: One, the awakening of Acheron and the reemergence of the serpent cults, or two...we have heard rumors that some seers believe the king of Aquilonia, King Conan, is the reincarnation of a great king from the past. We tend to subscribe to the first explanation, but...
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