Clergy of the Holy Light

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I heard that the church discriminates against gnomes! Is this true?!

That was only Mellar. We are out of the dark ages now.

Gnomes enjoy several rights under the Moorwhelp papacy such as the right to serve as bishops. They even have their own diocese!

[crossworlds]

Council of Breakfast!!

God this look a long time.

@cothl @lilitholethos @nelybean @qiennaolethos @ahensaanmyr @voriendawnstrider @melchiztzedek @baldrec

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What are the Clergy's primary interests outside of Stormwind?

The Eastern Kingdom in general is considered the foothold, and the most desperate part of that, the Lordaeron sub-continent. We do recurring server-wide events that we try to give a regaled pilgrim-warrior feel to the area, protecting the land for which some of the best warriors fought and died for. We have Uther’s Tomb, Faol’s Rest, Light’s Hope, the Sanctum Light’s Dawn, and other very important pilgrimage sites for the faithful that we must defend with honor unblemished. 

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Headcanon: Bishop Tzedeck and Bishop Adamant are actually secretly attracted to each other. CONFIRM/CONFIRM?

Why OF COURSE they are. 

Werewolves and vampires are always friendly with one another.

As previously said, “Not even the Light could sink this ship!”

[niklosadamant-deactivated201912]

You are horrible.

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Is it true that the image of a crawdad will be implemented on to the Clergy's tabard?

The surcoat adorning our hearts always has the crawdad emblazoned in triumph. Below, our guild motto...

Pinchy With Us.

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I heard rumors that Moor makes his worgen Bishops wear collars with their name tags and gives them biscuits. I wonder if they are holy biscuits.

True, true... he keeps them on a tight leash. But if they were holy biscuits, wouldn’t that make them more like donuts?

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Headcanon: Bishop Tzedeck and Bishop Adamant are actually secretly attracted to each other. CONFIRM/CONFIRM?

Why OF COURSE they are. 

Werewolves and vampires are always friendly with one another.

As previously said, “Not even the Light could sink this ship!”

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Melchiz and Niklos. Make it so.

Not even the Light could sink that ship.

[giantspiders]

Remember when I did a post about real-life Azeroth? I found more locations! Borean Tundra - Greenland tundra

Arathi Highlands - Scottish Highlands, St.Kilda

Stonetalon Mountains - Oak Creek Canyon, USA

Zul`Gurub - Ta Prohm, Cambodia 

Desolace - Atacama Desert, South America

Thunder Ridge (pre Cata) - Antelope Canyon, USA

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More progress. I should make an animated gif when it’s all done.

I managed to slip some grapefruits in!

@cothl @melchiztzedek @baldrec @lilitholethos @qiennaolethos @ahensaanmyr

@nelybean @voriendawnstrider 

I really really need a list oh all the COB tumblrs.. @cothl please make one.

[melchiztzedek]

Great as always

[rennali]

Commission for Banes (Lightwardens).

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What is the policy of the guild in regards to permission in RP?

Excellent question, and a wonderful opportunity to express what has been on our mind lately.

We are a community guild. We base ourselves around having a place in the community. However, our RP is opt-out. Why? Because that’s how it has to be. You cannot force your roleplay on the unwilling. Any guild worth its weight will allow people to say, “hey, we don’t want part of this.” And, in these situations, all we can say is, “All right, cool!” 

As far as the whole “server canon” junk that is often tossed around, there is a distinct difference between wanting your RP to be widespread and successful and recognized by a community and promoting a server canon. There are many guilds that are entirely insular, depending on strictly themselves for story. That is fine and maybe there is some merit to it, but we are very simply not that sort of guild. We participate in various projects, all of which are a part of something bigger. That isn’t server canon; that’s called RPing with people outside of your guild, an activity that a great many Moon Guard players do and love to do.

Looking down at the micro sense, even those people who are attacked by our guild members must be asked for permission to engage. That is just how we do things, how we’ve always done things. We think that that sort of OOC communication usually prevents conflict which results in misery for all involved.

tl;dr, permission is essential to the object of RP, which is mutual fun. 

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Clarification on Stromgarde and Koah

Moorwhelp here with some clarification on the IC thoughts on his cardinals ask.

To clarify on this in-character matter, Koah is a great bishop. The problem is, Allrick’s politics - which consisted on splitting Arathi Highlands between East and West, inactivity, and handing over power to Court of Uther/Stromheart loyal anti-church folks - disarmed Koah of many of the typical tools that are used in administrating the flock. So, despite Koah being a wonderful bishop (and a wonderful person out-of-character), the Diocese of Stromgarde is failing, in Moorwhelp’s opinion, due to the seeds planting by Koah’s predecessor.

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Headcanon: Bishops wear undies that correlate with where they are from. Confirm or deny?

“Bishops wear undies”

I think that’s the part where the fantasy crumbles. :(

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What are Alonsus II's thoughts on his three Lords-soon-to-be-Cardinals?

Lord Chamberlain Niklos Adamant

Niklos Adamant and Alonsus are longtime friends, dating back to when Moorwhelp was a lowly priest in Lordaeron. Since he has returned, Moorwhelp regards their history as somewhat troubled - as he does with all of his three Lords that were instrumental in the reign of Caspius, who, in many ways, shot down Moorwhelp’s ambition to make the Clergy guild more essential to the church.

 But, Caspius and Moorwhelp made amends, and the Clergy adapted. Moorwhelp doesn’t spend any time consuming those memories. He reappointed him Chamberlain after election. As Chamberlain, Niklos has served Alonsus well in uniting the Congregation of the Silver Hand to be the largest paladin organization that has existed since the days of the Third War. He believes that more attention ought to be directed to Lordaeron, and though he was in the past disillusioned by failures in the north, he is pleased to see a brand new group surrounding Niklos and advising him well: the Remnant of Lordaeron.

Niklos runs a tight ship, and Moorwhelp respects that in a co-leader of the Church. In many ways, the flaws of one are compensated in the strengths of the other.

Lord Vicar Melchiz Tzedeck

Alonsus taught the Lord Vicar as a priest, so he has a natural filial relationship with him that is above that in others. He did not believe that Melchiz was ready to become a bishop when he did, but he was complicit in the wishes of his Archbishop at the time. Melchiz, in Moorwhelp’s thoughts, was too rigid to be the face of the faith to Gilneas, a notoriously independent and sometimes isolationist people, and that that would lead him to be an ineffectual leader.

However, Moorwhelp was wrong, and, especially lately, Melchiz has impressed Moorwhelp by his ability to keep the Lightwardens in line. He finds the Lightwardens to be essential to the growth of the Church. He is baffled by how he manages to produce so many good priests, but he decided long ago that he didn’t need to understand. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, as they say!

Melchiz produces results in the priesthood and, most importantly, keeps the Sacred Texts people at arm’s length for him. That’s important, you know!

Lord Chancellor Allrick Antonius

Moorwhelp is disappointed in Allrick. He is susceptible to bribes, bad decisions, and no small amount of deception. He failed Moorwhelp in obtaining peace and devotion in Stromgarde and gave it to Koah, who, despite his best intentions, is also failing, giving way to the notoriously belligerent Alliance of Arathor; furthermore, he, when asked to help him reform the canon law, gave Moorwhelp only suggestions that Moorwhelp thought were bad. Moorwhelp promised the people at his election to reform canon law, the only promise he made that he has not kept to date. He takes that promise seriously and sees that he isn’t getting any meaningful help with Allrick. Recently, Allrick disappeared and has stayed gone for months, as he is also prone to doing.

Moorwhelp was willing to overlook that for some time, but lately, as the Church has experienced a booming growth, Moorwhelp is confronted with the fact that he has choices in the cabinet. He honored Allrick’s position only out of a desire to work with an establishment that censured him only a month before his election.

Alonsus is considering his options for replacing the ineffectual Chancellor, for which he has no affection anymore.

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What is Moorwhelp's funniest memory of Qienna?

Baptizing her monster of a child...

or...

When they first met, when he knew that she was afraid of priests and bad a bit of fun with it.

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I heard the church has a zombie. Confirm/deny?

Confirm. We even have a zombie archbishop, but that’s neither here nor there.

Please direct all complaints to @niklosadamant or his art blog, @crossworlds.