Malosia

Malosia
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Culture Level	Medieval (CL 7)
Ecology	Full
Climate & Terrain	Forest, plains, mountains
Year Formed
Population
Races (%)	Human
Languages
Religions	Empyrean Church, various pagan faiths and witch cults
Government	Theocracy
Ruler(s)
Darklord(s)	Sir Diederic de Wyndt
Nationality	Malosian
Analog	Various Crusades, inquisitions, and witch hunts
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Malosia is the domain seen in the novel Black Crusade. It is a land of contrasts and dualities. On the one hand, the inquisition agents of the Empyrean Church, a religious institution of monolithic power that also controls the country, zealously scout for heresy and witchcraft and can take away anyone with an odor of transgression against the church. Transgressors are taken away to horrible prisons such as Perdition Hill, where they face religious indoctrination and hard labor. Anti-witch hysteria has even spread to some communities even in the absence of Redbreasts. On the other hand, old pagan beliefs and witch cults can lurk secretly within these very same communities. The Laginate Cabal, Malosia's most long-lived witch tradition, practices close in proximity to the Caercaelum.

Things, Creatures & Personages of Legend

• Citadel of Truth
• Empyrean Inquisition
• Fair Folk of Cineris Forest
• Perdition Hill
• Witches
  • Laginate Cabal

Geography

Terrain

Hills and Mountains

• Scions Mount

Forests

• Cineris Forest

Population Distribution

Cities

• Caercaelum, the Heavenly City

Towns

• Firalene Down

Villages

• Birne
• Parsimol

Authority

Darklord

• Although an outlander unconnected with the Empyrean Church, Sir Diederic de Wyndt is nonetheless recognized as the hero who ended a plague of madness that gripped the land.

Temporal and Spiritual Rule

Ever since the Empyrean Church subsumed the power of the royal crown, the Church has ruled over the country of Malosia with Caercaelum as both the seat of temporal authority and the seat of spiritual authority. The Pontiff is the head of the Church, previously this was Pontiff Cornelis Antheunis the First, but he was arrested by the Inquisition for collusion with and failure to report a witch. Pontiff Cornelis may likely have had his status and powers removed.

Law-Enforcement

The Empyrean Inquisition keeps a watchful (some even within the church would say paranoid) eye for witches and heretics. Their church soldiers are commonly referred to as Redbreasts. The current leader is First Confessor Oste van Brekke.

Intelligence Gathering

• Special members of the Empyrean Church's clergy called Truth Seekers see to the interrogation of prisoners and evaluate potential witch activity. Although it is taboo for the clergy to spill blood, this potential restriction on interrogation techniques can be gotten around through many creative means of injury.

Gods and Religions

• The God Most High is the sole deity recognized by the monotheistic Empyrean Church. His children, the Sixfold Scions, are recognized as the saviors of humanity.
• The people of the villages still hang onto the beliefs of old. Witches and their cults lurk out of sight, but the presence of a witch pact with fey spirits and demons might be judged by the flourishing of crops and agriculture.