Order of Raelae

The Order of Raelae is a prominent Maninist Order and member of the Concourse. The Raelites take as their patron Harada their founder, the Faronun Raelae Sirofan, a devoted follower of Doru o Ierai who converted to Maninism in the mid 6th century RM. The Raelites consequently retain a number of features reminiscent of the Faronun search for truth: they are famously abstract and mathematical in approach, sponsor and run a great many schools of varying size and quality across the Halyrate, and retain relatively close ties with thinkers in Helsia. The Order is based at the Sirofan Academy, a monastery complex nestled in the Haidali above Krsh.
===History===
===Practices===
The Raelites, as might be imagined, prize knowledge and education above all else. Initiates are expected to at least comprehend and spread as much of the accumulated knowledge of mankind as possible, and ideally to increase it however they may. They are largely an Order of scholars and philosophers, and produce a great many works on those subjects. As with the Faronun counterparts, Raelites have a great deal of faith in pure reason, and often seem to believe that if they could just think about it for long enough they'd work out the world and take a shortcut to Terminus. Of late the activities of the Jarceun have begun to percolate into the Raelite sphere, and among the younger generation there are some who are more interested in finding out how the world actually works than reasoning about how it must, though this is still not an entirely respectable occupation. 
===Organization===
Althought relatively impoverished and few in number - at least for a Synothal Order; they still outstrip the lesser Orders and some small kingdoms - the Raelites retain a great deal of prestige. Raelite initiates form a significant proportion of the scribal and clerical classes across the Halyrate, the more adventurous Orders often maintain Raelite retainers to fulfill roles similar to those performed by the Sephashim for the Vellari High Princes, and at least some Raelite instruction is de rigueur among adherents of the wealthier Orders. The Order maintains a number of large academies partially for this purpose, along with the numerous smaller codaries scattered across Athis. The Sirofan Academy, as the center of the Order, is a bustling hub of scholarship, and generally regarded as providing the best education in the Halyrate: a Sirofan graduate can expect doors to open across the continent.
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