Godherja Encyclopedia

The Conclave (clique)

Technically a branch of the Conclave of Raocourt, Gisredde's Conclave controls everything from back-alley chapels to the (oft literally) warring cathedrals. Despite being Chevalie's most powerful regional conclave, Raocourt openly despises them more than any Magi Cabal or Stavroist cult, largely because the Gisreddean Church is, generously, the world's pettiest organization and with absurd frequency answers every 'violation' of 'rights' (total independence) with great schism.

These schisms (and following Chevalie-wide riots) come with alarming regularity. Such as after Raocourt's 599 IS attempt to account for leap years with minor calendar reform; 654 IS when chastened for exchanging Waysainthood for money and/or sex; or the 789 IS rejection of local Waymother Isaia's self-declared Living Sainthood because of her 37 (public) Assassin's Guild contracts and unconcealed embezzlement of church funds to build what she proudly called, 'a sex castle', in the pleasure district.

Greatest of all was 857 IS, when drunk Peti Gisreddean mercenaries exhumed Grande Gisreddean Waysaint Ivre and took the corpse brothel-hopping. Citizens of Grande Gisredde then did likewise to Peti Gisreddean Waysaint Âne, but knocked over a lantern and incinerated Âne's cathedral and forty sacred icons and artifacts. Raocourt promptly excommunicated all Gisreddeans (including all past and future ones), which was technically never rescinded and remains de jure. An insanely petty and insubordinate collective of influencers, they're naturally seen as exemplar's of Gisreddean culture, and represent all local believers (excluding registered and taxed foreign faiths, shadowy cults, and banks claiming religious status for tax reasons).