My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.
John 17:15-19
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“Sanctity is not giving up the world. It is exchanging the world. It is a continuation of that sublime transaction of the Incarnation in which Christ said to man: You give me your humanity, I will give you my divinity. You give me your time, I will give you my eternity. You give me your slavery, I will give you my freedom. You give me your death, I will give you my life. You give me your nothingness, I will give you my all. And the consoling thought throughout this whole transforming process is that it does not require much time to make us saints; it requires only much love.”
~Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
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New Sanctity post, new Sanctity lore...
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Ulgetin is only a planet in the sense that it's large enough to hold an entire civilization on its surface. In practice, it is a turtle, with two heads, four flippers, and a shell with no underbelly. It orbits his star, the four flippers are timed over the course of decades.
Yes, Ulgetin does live on a geologic time scale, her limbs slowly drifting up and down. Fast enough that living on them is impossible, slow enough that the first calendars used his flippers as a way to tell time and year.
In fact, many of those systems are still used today; the location of all four flippers is useful for determining what the year is, and given that the they rotate consistently on the Eastern axis, it is easy to tell what day it is.
Upon Ulgetin is the Principality of Ibercori, once named for a prince, and after his execution, is now named due to its adherence to the Principles, a series of laws that have been revised and rewritten time and time again over the past two hundred years of rule.
It is currently at Revision 55.2, Errata 9. Revision 55, marking its 55 Major Revisions, .2 marking minor federal changes, and Errata 9, marking minor loophole closures.
The nation is run by a Councilship. For every ten thousand people, there is a councilor. And that councilor must follow the desires of its people, or else. It's the one law that's gone unchanged throughout Revisions. The council is ruled by the Proletariat. There can be no Bourgeois.
If there is a chance that a Prince-like ruler can come into existence, then under Ibercoran law that person must be executed.
As of the year that Sanctity was born, there were 8,257 councilors, for 8,257 major population segments. Population growth has slowed as Ibercori reaches the end of its expansion, well over 200 years into its existence.
And with any large Empire, there must still be expansion. Sanctity herself is from one of the edges of Ibercori; the state of Ernoka. She worked as an enforcer, trained under standard Ibercoran regiments.
All Ibercoran Knights are to be trained in advanced studies and standardized education. One Ibercoran Knight must be worth one-hundred of the enemy's, and standard Ibercoran soldiers are to work in tandem with the knights; it's been regular regimen for the past three decades.
Sanctity herself was essentially law enforcement. Her family presided over Ernoka, her father running the estate. In service to the State, she lost her left and third eye, her left hand, and her tail was damaged, making it far more sensitive.
She has sacrificed much in the name of a nation she truly believed in.
So why was it that when she arrived in Barovia, she was wild-eyed, and covered in blood?
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