Our Righteousness

== Ordo Righteousness: ==
The mysterious Order of the Righteous is one of the smallest Orders, a chosen collection of men and women around the world who must pray, nonstop, for days, weeks or months on end, to keep the barrier between our frail world and the regions of hell apart. If they would ever fail, the Veil could be ruptured and the hordes of hell would come crashing through into our world.
At any given time they number around 40 people, and legend has it that if their numbers should ever drop below 10, it would trigger the End of Days...
Righteous Adepts are not suitable for player's characters. All they really do is pray, and while that's great in real life, it's not really appropriate for a role-playing game most of the time. Righteous are normally NPC's in need of assistance from the player's characters, usually to defend them from agents of the Darkness who are hunting them.
=== Facts: ===
-Man's sin is so great, the Veil between earth and hell has been weakened - the Order of Righteous is designed to stem that problem and reinforce the failing wall in the face of man's concupiscence.
-The prayers and devotions of the Righteous Adepts is what generates and helps maintain the Veil.
-The Order of Hellraisers, one of the Damned, are the eternal enemies of the Righteous. Their power to bridge earth with hell is countered by the prayers of the Righteous.
-The Order of Righeous takes its roots from the story in Genesis of God and Abraham watching as Sodom was destroyed.  God's promise not to obliterate the city if He could find ten righteous is the foundation of the entire Order. 
== Theophany: ==
The Righteous don't beat back the realms of hell itself by their own power, they do it through ritualistic chants and their prayers which call God to earth to save us all. Righteous are about stopping hell, yes, but at the core of their nature, they are about asking God to come to Earth. 
To do this, Righteous must pray ritually at certain intervals during the day. If they fail at this, it weakens the Order as a whole. In theory, if enough Righteous fail to keep up their priestly duties, the Veil will fail and we will have hell on Earth.
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