Knights of The Soul Wick

Government type: Republic

Territories: They have a simple area of 3 towns in Anastria which they help to rule, overall they mostly keep to themselves due to the concern others have of their curses.

Hierarchy: They function off a council of 6 (secretly 7), 3 are the strongest of their orders (see below) and the remainder are their lieutenants. Each leader is a member of a subgroup of the knights

Culture: The legion has simple rules of cooperation and assisting those in need, but it does have a few stranger habits that the members follow. A prime example is that they always hide their skin, be it through gloves, scarves or otherwise when wearing common clothing the only thing you will see is those burning eyes. Other habits include of course the candles on their armor and uniquely they tend to get custom crafted armor to show their personalities, though it makes the legion look like a mixed militia if they didn’t have the connecting candles.

Demographics: Anyone is accepted in, but everyone in the group is or atleast was cursed in some way. Though many that stick within the group and rise in rank retain the trail of a curse of burning, turning their bodies into contained inferno’s and their lives into mere candles that can die if too much fuel is used up. Though something to note is the weirdly high amount of short folk amongst the legion.

History: The progenitor of this legion was originally a gnome who was unfortunately born cursed with the same flame that burns in the knights now. Solarian grew with the pain of his flame and despite it all became an adventurer and found that through his jolly cooperation with his allies his burden became easier. This made him in the end a rather happy fellow welcoming of others with curses and beginning the scholars. Eventually they had to help knights and more with their painful curses from bad deals, poor luck, infesting weakness and more. This gnome created the knights soon after and from there 3 masters have taken the helm each one leading from the jolly cooperative nature of the first and attempting to strengthen those cursed and prove to their people that the cursed can grow to be the greatest with a little help. Eventually though they found that nobles and other people of higher power wanted the order to fall and were sabotaging the candlemakers. Though through a time lost soul the extinguished were made and the knights began to manipulate things in the underworld to ensure that cursed people got the help needed to become the best they can be. Even if it is not as noble as they act it is a stain they were proud to help others.

Military forces:  “PRAISE THE CANDLE’S LIGHT!” (Their warcry)

**Scholars of The Soul Wick (Sometimes called Candle Hats):** a battalion of mages which research, remove, and specialize with curse magic and its qualities. Often they turn their internal flames into roaring fireballs containing lethal curses.

**Knights of The Soul Wick:** The majority of their forces are knights who retain and adapt to the curse of burning and become paladins of cursed strength. They use their internal flames and will to master the curse to become a legion of fearless and just warriors who use the curse to reinforce and train their forms.

**The Candlemakers:** A much smaller, more clerical force, these individuals travel out and find those afflicted with curses, hoping to either relieve them of the harmful curse or find those of strong will who can embrace the legion’s flame. Though the candlemakers are religious they are not clerics, and actually have no god sworn by their order. They use their passion and techniques to refine their cursed vessels to become masters of their flame, being able to use unique weapons and animating wax with curses precisely made.

**Extinguished (nicknamed as Will o Twins):** A few criminal individuals and spies assist the order and some even join in the curse of burning to become these ominous lantern holding and cloaked individuals. These people spy, plan and execute orders which cannot be done in the light of the sun. With their burning eyes seeing every secret they can and the curse only safekeeping their words in wax.