The Good Church

the leading religious power on Aure. The physical church itself sits east of the Acuiele Empire's borders, though the church's doctrine (referred to internally as "The Good Word"), spreads to almost everywhere. The Good Church is all for peace, love and unity, as long as the peace love and unity mean the very specific definitons of those words they define. The Good Church is dedicated to maintaining peace, to bringing happiness to everyones lives. At any cost! The Good Church has 3 subjugators which carry out their dirty work and violently, publicly execute any who stand against the church's path. TGC is operated by the Archbishop, who, currently, is a man named Michelangelo, who claims to have seen his goddess frmo the moment he was born. The Good Church worships Rhea, the goddess of life and creation, even though their means of which are very against what Rhea stands for. TGC is operating off of a mistranslated holy tablet which spoke about how Rhea stands for unity under one faith. In reality, this is entirely false, as Rhea stated that mankind should be unified (meaning DONT KILL PEOPLE), but as this was the one quote the church had from their goddess, they did their darndest to, in fact, kill people. TGC is a morally bankrupt religious power that only exists as an important factor because a good chunk of the population of Aure subscribe to their beliefs, whether they take their liberties or not. So if you outwardly denounce the church, or attempt to take down the church, you will be met with public outcry or riots or worse. Besides. blessed with the weapons of god, you'll have a hard time Thematically, TGC is based on christian fundamentalism specifically, but more so my trauma surrounding it. Turning the violent and hateful doctrine of which into actual literal physical oppression in a symbolic wayof making the pain people face at the christian church's hand exponentially more prevalent