Church of Transcendental Theosophy

== Overview ==
No idols, no names. Founded by the members of the Northern Expedition. Called the CTT for short. All priests of the King have familiars (daemons).
== Hierarchy ==
* Main Hierarchy: 
** Pontifex Maximus: Head of Church, Bishop of New Arendur - Leo Calixtus
** College of Cardinals: A group of twenty bishops appointed by the Pontifex. Cardinals occupy the highest positions in the dicastries.
** Bishops: Head of a diocese, regional governor.
** Priest: In charge of a parish/small towns.
** Deacons: Civil servants, laymen.
* The Curia: Administrative body of the church.
** Secretariat of State: Political and diplomatic functions of the church. Headed by the Cardinal Secretary of State, Cardinal Christopher Harrell.
** Council of Dogma: Inquisition/secret police in charge of enforcing orthodoxy. Headed by the Prefect of the Council of Dogma, Cardinal Isaac Outterridge. 
** Magisterium: Judicial body of the church. Headed by the Prefect of the Magisterium, Cardinal Gloria Landry.  
Other schools of thought:
* Gnostics: The heretics who founded the College, led by the church father Arthur Renwick. Interested in knowledge, and in what happened in the sea.
== The Great Awakening ==
The death of the King in Yellow and the destruction of the Pallid Mask should have spelled the destruction of the church, but the warlocks unknowingly transferred their pacts to Hastur. Ironically, their god was just as unknowing as his new priesthood, being non-conscious force of entropy. The character of the church began to merge its pursuit of aesthetic validity with a more destructive, nihilistic creed, and shift from the use of necromancy to the open veneration of undeath. Category:Churches
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