The Sovereigns of the Leashed Flame

**The Sovereigns of the Leashed Flame** were a council of Long who made a pact with the Forge of Days (who is also referred as St. Spark) to empower England with the shaping magics of heat and industry in the mid-15th century. A good portion of their number were descended from English royalty. They were sometimes referred to as **the Children of the Leashed Flame** and they based their incantations on the Deep Mandaic language.

## History

The Sovereigns of the Leashed Flame, possessing tremendous power thanks to their dealings with the Forge of Days, moved to conquer the entire European continent in 1450. That event came to be known as the War of the Roads. They were the aggressing party, in this sense. They found their conquests of Europe opposed by a coalition between the Church of the Unconquered Sun and the Sisterhood of the Knot. These joint defenses sometimes managed to keep the Sovereigns back, but casualties were always obscenely high for the enemies of England.

The Sovereigns and the Forge of Days experienced a degradation in their relationship as the war dragged on due to the "Great Debasement" of King Henry VIII, in which he somehow tried to cheat the Forge. Eventually, the Sovereigns lost control of the Forge of Days and were obliterated. The survivors were said to have lost their Long status and become ordinary mortals.

Much later in history, the traditions and teachings of the Sovereigns inspired the creation of another occult order: **the Society of the Noble Endeavour**, also called **the Endeavor Lodge**. The goal of this order was to ascend via amassment of occult power; to be reshaped into something beyond human by the magics of Forge. Members of this order would take on ceremonial names linked to noble tradition: 'Parsival', 'Roland', 'Oisín'.

## Known Members

* **Francis Welland:** A Forge-Long with allegiance to the Lionsmith and the Forge of Days, a veteran of numerous wars and a member of the Society of the Noble Endeavour. He can be encountered in the Apostle Aestuant legacy as an enemy Long, and also appears as a character in *The Lady Afterwards*.

* **Feirafez Bruneau**: A young British-Syrian mortal with high standing in the Endeavor Lodge. He is one of their primary agents in Alexandria during the events of *The Lady Afterwards*, and a gentleman who begins harboring doubts about their current activities.

## Other Notes

* The reign of the Sovereigns of the Leashed Flame and the War of the Roads correspond roughly with the War of the Roses and the Tudor Period of England and Wales which followed. The War of the Roses was a period of conflict between the Houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England, which began in 1455 and ended in 1487 with Henry VII taking the throne as the first Tudor Monarch. The Tudors reigned until 1603, when Elizabeth I died without an heir. This period of English history is often presented as a period of prosperity and peace for England following the chaos and instability of the previous century.
* Members of the Endeavor Lodge appear in *The Lady Afterwards*, promoting British military interest abroad.

## Sources

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Study a censored edition of 'The War of the Roads, 1450-1580'
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Read 'How the End will Begin'
3. ↑ Study Deep Mandaic with a Tutor
4. ↑ The Irreproachable Traditions...
5. ↑ Read 'The Irreproachable Traditions of the Society of the Noble Endeavour'
6. ↑ Captain Welland, Our Enemy's Identity, #welland\_unknown