CC Chaplaincy Training

## Battle Chaplaincy

During your recruitment process, you were set apart due to answering questions in ways that suggested you may have been divinely appointed to act as a Herald of the Ortueist Faith among the soldiery in the Grienzen Army. Despite the tremendous responsibility this elect status confers, you were tested by priests of several Ortueist denominations and confirmed chosen for chaplain duty.

This position comes with significant honor already as a matter of course, but on top of that you decided to take up arms and fight alongside your countrymen on the frontlines, keeping watch over them body and soul. Thus you were inducted into the ranks of the Battle Chaplains, an order of soldier-priests whose struggle is as much spiritual as it is physical.

## Faith

Faith is a unique Attribute specific to Battle Chaplains. It is not merely a matter of personal belief in the Living God. Faith is the measure of a Battle Chaplain's capacity to act upon the promises and commandments of the Holy Scriptures and to become the active conduit for the power of the Living God to manifest on the battlefield. Since even the Living God's chosen ministers are still flawed Human beings, becoming the bridge through which His terrifying and awesome power flows can be a spiritually exhausting experience.

Your Faith Attribute is calculated differently depending on your Branch of Ortueism. This will usually be the one you selected for your childhood religion, though it may have changed as a result of your Hardship or by the influence of your most important relationship.

Consult the table below to find how to determine your Faith Attribute. **Round normally**.

 Church of Unity
 Heavenly Tree
 Austericism

### Reduced Faith

Faith can be temporarily reduced by achieving a Disaster on a Skill Test taking in the course of an Observance. Additionally, Petitions have a cost of 1 Breath or temporarily reducing Faith by 1.

### Restoring Faith

Temporary Faith reductions can be restored through a period of devotional prayer or reading of the Holy Scriptures, taking at least 30 minutes. Each denomination of Chaplain has a Supplication to restore Faith.

## Ortueist Observances

The most impactful duties of a Battle Chaplain are to carry out Ortueist Observances in accordance with the teachings of his Branch of Ortueism. There are three categories of Observances, and each Branch has its own directory of Observances that its chaplains are taught.

### Petitions

At their core, Petitions are swift prayers intended to focus the mind and soul on service to the Living God. Petitions are based upon the promises given to the faithful in the Holy Scriptures, or requests modeled after miracles displayed therein.

Making a Petition takes 2 Actions [ADD HYPERLINK] by default.

After a Petition has been resolved (i.e. after any Tests), the Battle Chaplain must either immediately expend 1 Breath, or temporarily reduce his Faith Attribute by 1.

### Supplications

While a Petition is a quick prayer, Supplications are longer forms of religious Observance. Supplications include periods of intense prayer to orient one's personal will to the divine plan of the Living God, as well as more complex rituals to demonstrate obedience to His commands.

Supplications take longer than Petitions (at least five minutes) making them too long to complete in active combat situations where every second counts.

Supplications have their own Vitality costs associated with them, specific to each one.

### Ministries

For all other pastoral duties pertaining to tending to the flock of believers, there are Ministries. These are more social in nature and as such do not use the Faith Attribute to determine their effectiveness, nor do they temporarily reduce it.

## Sin and Forgiveness

The Living God grants his servants with the strength to confront evil and fight for righteousness, but with that power comes temptation. It is important for any Battle Chaplain and those under his charge to stick to the virtuous path laid out for Mankind by Ilhaduel, the Risen Son. For the holiness of the Living God does not bear the stain of Sin. Those blessed by any Observance who go on to commit wicked acts while under the benediction of the Living God will find themselves suffering His judgement.

### The Costs of Sin

Upon violating the Living Law while benefiting from one of the Ortueist Observances, sinners find their hearts convicted and spirits crushed under the weight of guilt. In mechanical terms, this temporarily reduces the character's current and maximum Fire and Nerve by 1.

### The Forgiveness of Grace

Even the most heinous of deeds are not beyond the power and mercy of the Living God to forgive, and a sinner need only seek atonement for his wicked ways to be relieved of his burden. Battle Chaplains can do this by spending time in prayer or studying the Holy Scriptures if they themselves are being judged, though the easiest solution is to go another priest or chaplain seeking the rite of Confession.

## **Next Step**

With the effects of your Denominational Training added to your stats, click on the Branch of Ortueism that you belong to in order to move on to choosing your Observances:

**Synenolicism**

**Church of Unity**

**Heavenly Tree**

**Austericism**