If not, why the frick not? If yes, what‘s their deal and who do they hunt?
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Does your setting have an inquisition?
If not, why the frick not? If yes, what‘s their deal and who do they hunt?
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They were originally a clade of demon hunters and exorcists that took care of random acts of possession, warlocks and general devilry. Co-founded by several orders of sorcerers and knights, they actually managed to get a lot of shit done. Cue 600 years of cultural drift and the sorcerers fricking off to do whatever, they get subsumed by the continent's dominant faith that rejects any magic not drawn from its own deity as unholy and ungodly. Now they hate sorcerers too and have very much become the bloody inquisition archetype.
What if I told you my world has several similar organisations.
no because the aristocracy are lycanthropes and the church is divided in squabbling sects
Sounds like a perfect environment for multiple opposing inquisitions to form, dead set on outing only the evils of the opposing factions.
Formed from the ranks of medical academia from a once-esteemed research circle.
They seek the whales and anything that exudes the sickly sweetness of the Oldsea.
Open them up, to understand what makes them this way.
Open them up, to effect a cure for this godless affliction.
Sort of. It's more like magical FBI than anything else.
See, it started out when kingdoms and magic were finally developed enough that rampant magic use was becoming a problem. Someone learns to throw fireballs and suddenly property value drops through the floor. These early Inquisitions were pretty hamfisted and ineffective. Ever see what happens to armed thugs face down a war mage? It's not pretty.
So Inquisitors had to study magic just to do their jobs. As a result, they actually got really good at magic and became a lot less fearful of the practice. Inquisitors became authorities on the dangers and benefits of magic and it wasn't long before they were appearing in Royal Courts asking for various types of magic be permitted.
These days the Inquisition is more of a regulatory body, more concerned with Apprentices practicing fire spells in cities and fertility spells being cast near Kudzu than demon worshipers and human sacrifices. They've still got the thumbscrews and hot pokers but mostly because sometimes you need to get answers out of the caster to figure out how to fix their frickup.
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>If not, why the frick not?
Because the main religion of the setting is based on Pentecostalism.
Yes. The Catolic InQuisition is responsible for hunting down heretics who bring, willingly or otherwise, the Gray Tissue Plague (Gray-T Plague or Great Plague for short), by tarnishing people's souls with heresy. Only the Holy Church with its advanced technology can keep the people living in the Span safe from mass contagion. PRAISE THE MIGHT PUSSY!
No. It's such a tired fricking cliche and if there's anyone in the group who likes Warhammer, there's no end to spouting HERESY at every possible drop of the hat.
if you think its cliche, then explain langley.
cliches don't have to be a bad thing
Which part of "tired" you need explained?
cliches are inherently tired that's what makes them cliches
seconded "tired cliche" is like saying wet water
>777
wasted on a homosexual post
please reflect upon yourself develop better opinions
Not the subject, but I love finding images and making characters out of them. Grave Cleric.
Multiple nations have similar groups for a number of reasons. A couple of High Elven societies have a Gestapo-style organization dedicated to harassing, spying on, and occasionally disappearing some of the "lesser races" like humans or other types of elf, while some kingdoms with a religious or cultural intolerance of magic use such organizations to hunt down magic users and deal with them. The Not! revolutionary France/Russia nation uses inquisition/secret police style forces to hunt down nobles/their families and "counter-revolutionaries" who disagree with or are a threat to the revolutionary leaders.
Of course, such organization are frowned upon at home and abroad wherever they are, so they often fall victim to assassination attempts, spark international incidents (or even crusades), and find even otherwise loyal or satisfactory citizens avoiding and impeding them.
The inquisition mainly carried out by holy orders of the main religion. They employ monks/clerics and paladins against undead and demons of all sorts (Vampires, Liches, Demon Cults) etc. Also against witches and werewolves.
>Does your setting have an inquisition?
No.
>If not, why the frick not?
Because it's not the kind of setting where that thing is relevant.
>Witchfinder General
Based Price poster. Fricking love that movie.
>You must have X in your setting!
What are you, a israelitetuber making a "10 things your game MUST have" video?
No, but you're such a tourist that you know jack shit about /tg/ and how it has behaved for about a decade and a half.
Inquisitors, by and large, are old or middle-aged men who are accomplished scholars in one or more relevant fields. Each inquisitor is expected to be a university graduate; know at least three or four different languages; be an expert in theology, philosophy, canon law and rhetoric; and possess solid foundations in occult and natural sciences. Women are theoretically accepted in their ranks as an inquisitor doesn't need to be an ordained priest, however in practice this almost never happens. Along with inquisitors proper, the inquisition employs numerous clerks, servants and handymen. They also have a small number of guards, although most inquisitors prefer to request an escort from templars (particularly those of the Order of Sacred Tome) when traveling to dangerous or distant locales. When performing their official duties, inquisitors are expected to wear their distinctive silver-trimmed robes.
They don't really "hunt" anyone; by and large they focus on monitoring the clergy and the templar orders for unacceptable breaches in orthodoxy. Senior inquisitors do this via correspondence with templar grandmasters, senior priests of major temples, and so forth. Junior inquisitors do this by traveling far and wide; many spend months at a time riding from on insignificant village to another, staying in the village for a day or two to observe the situation and attend a sermon if possible, then moving on to question the local priest about any irregularities that might be going on. Quite often breaches in tradition are deemed acceptable: holding a sermon on Sundays would be wasted if many of the locals couldn't attend it then, and so holding it on Mondays or Saturdays would be justified. While an inquisitor whipping up a lynchmob to burn a dissident priest at a stake isn't unheard of, most of the time a discussion on the matter is sufficient. A village priest can't really be expected to know and understand all the quirks of tradition, after all.
My main fantasy setting has an army of crusaders that hop from various dimensions/realms/whatever you want to call them to fight in the eternal war against the demonic/daemonic/devil threat. Their deity is represented as THE sun in the center of all things. The crusaders pretty much have the whole Sisters of Battle BURN AWAY THE EVIL theme going on. Pyromancer warpriests and such. Their deity bestows upon them said pyromancy, and it burns as hot as hellfire so the nasties can't resist it like they would normal flames.
reminds me of time bandits