The Light Leyan Order

> Those Light Order guys are a total buzzkill, but they're unrivaled in knowledge of Healing Arcana. You could give them a singular seed and they will have a whole field within 2 days. They see the untapped nature in things and know how to bring it out. It's honestly incredible, and if it wasn't for them living in literal leaf huts and having a... we'll say liberal outlook on latrine spots, then I'd be totally down with them.
>
> - Lehbana Sin, when asked about the Light Leyan Order.

### Allied Forces

The Grand School of ArcanaThe Grand Library

### Opposing Forces

The Zeltranite Clergy The MageHunter Guild The Dark Leyan Order

## Overview

**The Light Leyan Order** was founded long ago by a legendary arcanist known only as The First Sage. The sage's followers, now known as the Order of Sages, formed The Grand School of Arcana, which now houses both the Light Leyan Order and The Dark Leyan Order.

The Light Leyan Order as a group has dedicated itself to the understanding and research of more advanced Healing Arcana and it's applications in day to day life. They seek to eventually cure the world of most, if not all, diseases and make the standard of living for all people easy. Their goals are to work along the natural energies of the world to enhance things like agriculture, medical fields, and protection of the innocent.

Most members of the Order are inducted at a young age and live most of their adolescent and early adult lives at The Grand School. People of all races and genders are allowed to come into the school and learn from them. The Light Leyan Order also has the strict policy of taking care of any and all refugees that they take in.

The beliefs at the core of the Light Leyan Order are as follows:

* Respect one another at all times, to fight is below civilized beings.
* Honor the Gods, for their favor is a gift.
* Give kindness and humility to those in need.
* Uphold the Order's law, and do not inflict pain on others. Those who oppose the Order are left to do so in ignorance.
* Those who purposefully inflict pain on others are expunged from the Order and exiled from the School. (Though most end up staying anyways...)
* Find peaceful solutions to conflict.

## Relations with The Dark Leyan Order

**The Dark Leyan Order** are separatists who follow beliefs in opposition to the Light Leyan Order. The Light order refuses to give them recognition as part of the school due to their failure to act with respect. The two factions have opposed one another but inhabit the same building due to an agreement between **The First Sage** and Orga made back when Leyanthe was first formed as a nation. The Light Order rests in the upper, above ground part of **The Grand School**, whereas the Dark Order keeps to the sub-ground levels of the school.

In modern day, the opposing orders are silently vying for total control of the school in secret. The current leaders of each faction prefer to keep matters behind closed doors but they have yet to come to any sort of decisive conclusion to the disagreement.

## Relations with the Clergy and The MageHunter's Guild

**The Zeltranite Clergy** and **The MageHunter's Guild** both dislike the Leyan order for existing, but for vastly different reasons. Put simply, the Clergy dislikes they allow the worship of other Gods, and the Magehunters dislike any and all mages. The MageHunters specifically blame the Leyan Orders for the majority of Arcana-related issues, and will usually try to find a way to link rogue mages to one of the orders. The problem arises from the fact that most of the time, their links are correct.

## Tools and Expertise

Members of the order always don a robe and a sash. Hanging from the sash is a cincture with the sigil of the Light Leyan Order on it. The robes and cinctures differ depending on the wearers status and placement within the hierarchy. The cincture's sigil gains more of a complex golden pattern with each level higher in the Order. For example, Initiates have no pattern upon the cloth whatsoever save for the sigil itself, while the Grand Sage's has snaking vines of gold covering the cloth atop a repeated rhombus pattern.

Initiates have a simple hooded robe of a single white color, and their cincture is white in color. When they reach the rank of Magus, their robes are replaced with white robes with golden accents, and their cincture is changed to one of a forest green color. Upon becoming an Archmagus, the robe becomes purple, with golden accents, and the cincture is changed to a dark blue. Thaumaturges have their cincture replaced with one of a lapis blue. Sages no longer wear their cinctures from their sashes, and instead have them draped over their shoulders, and they become a light sky blue. Sages also are required to wear brimmed hats.

Great Sages and above no longer have to adhere to the strictness of their robes, however they must wear a hatband around the base of their brimmed hats denoting their abilities in some way.

## Hierarchy of the Light Order

The hierarchy has been decided and amended many times over the years. Moving up is a matter of passing multiple, "tests" to prove ones proficiency with the Healing and Natural arts. Time spent working for the Order and accomplishments usually qualify the user to be able to take the tests, but other means of moving up are possible.

The hierarchy is as follows:

* The Grand Sage
* The Order of Sages
* The Great Sages
* Sages
* Thaumaturges
* Archmagus
* Seers
* Magus
* Votaries
* Apostles
* Acolytes
* Initiates