Ververal Holy Order

The Ververal Holy Order, also referred to as Ververal Heilig Orden, commonly abbreviated as VHO, was an extremist Bachengarter religious military order based in Archducal City of Bachengart. It was founded around the year 30 VE by Jax Bingleton. Its primary task was to protect the Ischanic Pantheon, enfoce religious laws, as well as protecting the followers of the diety Daudin from heretics and infidels. The order was sponsored by the wealthy western ischanor magnate Albercht Levand, before facing a chain of stirrups and ending up getting disbanded 6 years in its subsequent founding after its founder, Jax Bingleton, was found dead for reasons unknown. 
== Founding ==
In 30 VE, and in the wake of several tensions within Ischanor, commoners and merchants, all from Bachengarter origin, would decide to band together and devote their time, effort and resources for the creation of a religious military order, seeing this as a way to strengthen and protect a faith which most Bachengarters believed in, and to invite others to convert to said religion and to devote their own life for Daudin.
Both Jax Bingleton and Albercht Levand, with the latter being one of the wealthiest in Bachengart and the former being a commoner, decided to found the organisation with a clear purpose in mind, beginning with the construction of the Ververal Chapter House which was an old personal property of Albercht that he gave away to the VHO cause. 
The organisation would amass 50-70 followers initially in 30 VE, with a surge of upwards of 1,200 followers during its peak in 35 VE, 70 of whom were renowned squires and knights of the Ischanori military and Bachengart retinue. 
== Activities ==
During the time of their activity, the VHO had not been that prominent in the livelihood of many Bachengarters, they did however host several congregations and baptism sessions, baptising new converts, with these mostly being immigrants that came to Bachengart.
Furthermore, the order also operated a Daudinist inquisition, targeting those who did not conform to their interpretation of the Daudin sect, in addition to the Rugundians and immigrants who aren't affiliated with the Ischanic Church. 
Said targetings often came in the form of harassment, blackmail, threats and even beatings and torture in certain extreme cases, something which caught the ire of the Archducal Council of Bachengart, who did not condone the intolerant and insubordinate nature of the Holy Order.
== Issues With The Government ==
The rogue and wayward nature of the Ververal Holy Order would guarantee it a myriad of issues with the government of the realm they were based in. With instances including a disagreement between a member of the Archducal Council and a knight from the VHO on the placement of a baptism pond next to the bema of the Bachengart City church, and quarrel on whether or not the Holy Order falls directly under the Archduchy’s ministry of culture and religion, amongst other instances where the VHO disregards repeated realm calls not to carry on with their Daudinist inquisition. 
In the forefront of all of this was the VHO’s grandmaster Jax Bingleton, who directly opposed government intervention against said order, gaining him rivals within the council, and enemies all across the realm. 
== Dissolution ==
On the fall of 36 VE, news would surface on the finding of the grandmaster’s body next to a cut tree trunk alongside path trails of a stallion next to his corpse outside of Bachengart City, his death cause would subsequently be ruled as misadventure, assuming he received severe trauma to his head while galloping on his mount shortly before internally bleeding to death. 
The Ververal Holy Order, now without a leader and under heavy government austerity would begin to crumble, starting with one of its key figures, Albercht Levand, estranging himself with the religious order, effectively cutting all forms of funding to it. What followed was the rest of the command structure and all knights, squires and a majority of the devotees abandoning the organisation and cutting off any affiliation to it in fear of being persecuted. The religious military organisation would be effectively dissolved by winter of 36 VE, its equipment, war gear, and tools repossessed by its former sponsor Albrecht Levand, with only the Chapter House being seized by the Archducal Council, now a property of the realm. 
Many sceptics and intellectuals of the realm believe that the death of Grandmaster Jax was an orchestrated plot by the council to rid themselves of such liability that sewed chaos and internal disdain, however, and with said religious order now effectively disbanded, what remains of its legacy is its old religious pamphlets littered on the streets of Bachengart City.