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| [[Image:Ezran_shield.png|thumb|100px|right|The symbol of Ezran faith.]] | | #REDIRECT[[:Category:Church of Ezra]] |
| The '''Church of Ezra''' is an institution that follows the messianic figure Ezra, who may or may not have existed as a human or a goddess. Its symbol is a silver longsword on a kite shield with a sprig of belladonna.
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| ==History==
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| The religion originated through the prophecies of one Borcan man, [[Yakov Dilisnya]].
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| ==Bastions==
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| There are four sects of the Ezran religion, though some followers expect a final fifth.
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| ==The Book of Ezra==
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| <blockquote><i>[[Image:I.png|left|80px]]n the time before, in a land cloaked in [[Mists]], there was a woman, and She was Ezra.
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| <b>E</b>zra was a healer of the sick and protector of the weak. Such was Her lot in life. Such was Her role in the grand scheme. Ezra took pride in the role Fate had given Her. Her duty was Her joy.
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| <b>F</b>or many years, Ezra healed the lame and watched over Her people. Yet as time went on, Ezra began to see the Hollow. From the Mists of Death came horrors of the night. They were the drinker of blood and the stealer of breath and the beast that rends. Many were their legions. Many were the roles played by darkness in the Grand Scheme.
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| <b>E</b>zra knew that Death would come for Her, as it comes to all in time. When Ezra entered the Gray Land, there would be no guardian to fill Her role. There would be no one to stand between Her people and the Legions of the Night.
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| <b>E</b>zra set forth on a quest to find a guardian for Her people. She sought the One Pure Heart who would assume Her role. Ezra sought for the One Pure Heart in many lands, but ever did She seek in vain.
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| <b>I</b>n time, Her quest brought Ezra to the end of all things. Behind Ezra stretched all the lands of the world. Before Ezra rose only the Mists of Death.
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| <b>E</b>zra spoke to the Mists. Asked She, “The world is yours. You set its shape. Why do you allow its people to wander, lost and afraid?” But the Mists did not answer.
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| <b>A</b>gain Ezra spoke. “Why have you filled your world with the Legions of the Night?” Yet the Mists would not answer.
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| <b>A</b> third time did Ezra speak. “All things have their role in the Grand Scheme. The Legions of the Night have their place, but Guardians and Guides have their roles in turn.” Still the Mists offered no reply.
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| <b>E</b>zra spoke once more. “I have searched all the vastness of your lands, but I have found no Guardians for My people. I have found no Guides for the lost.” Again the Mists were silent.
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| <b>F</b>or the last time did Ezra speak. “You have failed the Grand Scheme. You have created a Hollow that must be filled. If you will not watch over your people, then that task falls to me.” Upon the fifth entreaty did the Mists of Death reply.
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| <b>F</b>rom the Mists came a Voice, and the Voice spoke, saying, “Turn back, Mortal. You know nothing of the Grand Scheme. You know nothing of the Mists. You have reached the end of Your world. Continue and You shall find only Your destruction, nothing more.”
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| <b>Y</b>et Ezra held fast against the Mists, saying, “You cannot bid Me enter, yet I cannot turn away. I offer Myself to you so that you may know the suffering of My People. If I must be destroyed for them, then that is what must be.” The Mists of Death fell silent.
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| <b>T</b>hen the Voice spoke once more. “Enter the Mists if You must, Mortal, but not as You are. Your kind has no place here. To enter the Mists, You must become as one with the Mists. Never again shall You leave them. Will You forever sacrifice Yourself to watch over these few mortals?”
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| <b>S</b>poke Ezra, “Such is My role in the Grand Scheme. So must it be.” And with these words did Ezra become Our Guardian in the Mists.
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| -''The Book of Ezra, I:i-xv''</i><ref>[[Book of Secrets]]</ref></blockquote>
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| ==References==
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| '''WIKISEED FROM CATALOGUE :''' Main headquarters in [[Borca]], [[Mordent]], [[Dementlieu]], and [[Darkon]]''(Please edit freely, then remove this note and WIKISEED label)''
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| ==Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue==
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| ''[[Ravenloft Third Edition]]''<br />
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| ''[[Domains of Dread]]''<br />
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| ''[[Heroes of Light]]''<br />
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| ''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume II]]''
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| ''[[Ravenloft Third Edition]]'' - p51<br />
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| ''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume II]]'' - p32
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| ''[[Ravenloft Third Edition]]'' - p54<br />
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| ''[[Domains of Dread]]'' pp 265-266<br />
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| ''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume II]]'' - p31
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| ''[[Ravenloft Third Edition]]'' - pp14,17,51,115<br />
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| ''[[Domains of Dread]]'' pp 134-135, 265-266<br />
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| ''[[Heroes of Light]]'' - pp52-56<br />
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| ''[[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume II]]'' - pp30-32
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| Our Guardian in the Mists<br />
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