037 – Diacon of Anguish

One True Faith consider itself to be evangelical. It really had little choice as their monstrous God is both real and very eager to encompass the world in its terrible graces, and so, the children of his voice and blood will try their very best to spread the faith of suffering, pain, agony and purity it brings through blessed transformation far and wide. Often when not called upon. By force, if need be. Or other lowly tactics. It is not unheard of the missionaries of the Church to kidnap the younglings of any community to introduce them to their ways, to bless them with the drop of blood, to introduce them to bone wrenching suffering. It is not uncommon for the locals of any tribe, town or gathering to fight the ministers and the preachers, to see them away, but it is a dangerous game to play, for the Church has wealth, power and true terror behind it in form of their tangible God and his many monsters he can call upon to enforce his will, emboldening the place of the faith on the face of the ruined realms. There are however some places that even the Church tries to thread on carefully. City of Brass with the blasphemous, painless machines. Wharf Town, that while allows their church to exist, curbs any attempts at spread and political power grabs. And of course the Underempire – vast, powerful, rich. The souls of the insects might burn small, but converting their rich biomass for the purpose of the Church would be a great victory and a start of the real flood of the faithful…