Plain Order of Westfall

The Plain Order of Westfall is an ascetic priestly order of itinerant preachers. Adherents to the Order's teachings refuse to establish permanent ministries or to adhere to any territorial division of the faithful, preferring to wander in search of needy communities and peoples. To facilitate this, they abstain from owning property that cannot be carried either on their own back or on the back of a donkey, with the exception of the Order's small lodgings and farm in south-west Westfall. Donations and begging provide much of the livelihoods of the Plain Order, though its preachers also work readily and often for nothing more than food and temporary lodgings while in communities.
The second, and more perplexing, practice of the Order is stoicism. Destructive emotion is strongly shunned in favour of a reasoned and rationed ethical response to a situation. This particular philosophical tenet - deriving its supreme authority from the tenet of respect - demands that the Order carefully consider every situation from a logical perspective and act to maximize the good of an outcome, so long as the actions taken to do so remain moral. A common example is the curious practice of refusing to heal minor wounds caused by a sufferer's own actions, in order that the underlying lesson will be remembered by those who bear them.
The Plain Order is based loosely on some of the attitudes of Father Revil Kost
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