Church of the Evernight Goddess

Praise the Lady!

 — A concluding word of the Evernight believer
on *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 26

The **Church of the Evernight Goddess** was founded in the Fourth Epoch. It helped humanity through the Cataclysmic Era.

This organization is in control of the Darkness Pathway and is one of the 7 orthodox churches. Along with the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery and the Church of the Lord of Storms, the three churches are influential throughout the Loen Kingdom. However, after the war, Church of the God of Steam and Machinery was expelled from the Kingdom.

In general terms, The **Church of the Evernight Goddess** has thirteen archbishops and nine high-ranking deacons made up the upper echelons of the church, convening at a Council of Cardinals. The twenty-two ladies and gentlemen were all equal in terms of their rankings. They only followed the orders of the Evernight Goddess, and they were only answerable to the Pope.

They also have numerous squads of Beyonders under them they are called the Nighthawks. They address supernatural issues related to Evernight Goddess believers. The Church of the Evernight Goddess uses the Chanis Gate to contain various Sealed Artifacts.

## History

According to Snowman's dream, the Church appeared earlier than the historical records and can be traced back to the Third Epoch, but it existed in the form of a secret organization.

According to Mobet Zoroast, in the Fourth Epoch when deities directly walked the land, the divine kingdom of the Evernight Goddess was the Tenebrous Heaven in the Amantha mountain range, and was separated from the real world by an illusory door.

According to Old Neil, the Moses Ascetic Order had a very good relationship with the Church before their fall. Their beliefs and results on ritualistic magic have heavily influenced them.

Currently, their Headquarter, as well as their Holy Cathedral, is the *Cathedral of Serenity*, in the Winter county, Loen Kingdom.

## Sacred Emblem

The symbol of **Church of the Evernight Goddess** is the Dark Sacred Emblem. Its base was black, with a crimson half-moon that was surrounded by radiant points of light.

After the World War by 1352 of the Fifth epoch, the symbol changed from the crimson moon to that of stars because the Goddess give up her authority on the Moon Pathway.

## Characteristics

The **Church of the Evernight Goddess** is known to promote gender equality between men and women.

The Church value marriage, and seek equal gender roles in families, women are not forced take their husband's last names.

Unlike the Church of Storms and the Church of the God of Combat, clergymen of the Evernight Goddess were prohibited from excessive drinking. They needed to reject distilled spirits, and they could only drink champagne, beer, and red and white grape wine in moderation.

The Church was not a powerful force at sea.

### Prayer Position

Their prayer gesture is to tapped their chest four times, drawing a clockwise circle. Sometimes believers won’t draw four stars on their chests at times. At most, they’ll just go through the final motions.

## Pathways

### Complete

* Darkness Pathway
* Death Pathway
* Twilight Giant Pathway

### Incomplete

* Hermit Pathway
* Fool Pathway

## Enforcement Divisions

Main article: Nighthawks
* **Nighthawks:** A division formed of Beyonders from the Church of the Evernight Goddess, they usually undercover as law enforcement or security companies. They are primarily dealt with Beyonder mattered crimes, cults, and supernatural influences.
	+ Deacons are qualified Sequence 5.
* **Red Gloves:** The elite team that promoted from Nighthawks. Their mission was to reinforce Nighthawk teams that had called for help, as well as track down and arrest evildoers without any restrictions.

## Festivals

The **Church of the Evernight Goddess** doesn't have many festivals, and the most important one was Winter Gifts Day. The second most important was the Mass held during the full moon, also known as the Moon Mass. The rest are just normal Masses and prayers on weekends. However, different dioceses and different cathedrals have their own patron saints and angels which would have a corresponding special festival for them.

### Winter Gifts Day

Winter Gifts Day is the Evernight Goddess’s holy memorial day. It is the longest night of every year, believed to be the birthday of the Evernight Goddess.

On this day, all Evernight believers would head to a nearby cathedral to witness the sunset of the sun. When night fell, they would participate in Mass, enjoy a holy meal, listen to the hymns, and do all sorts of activities.

### Moon Mass

The Mass held during the full moon. The believers will go to the church to the remembrance of the dead, to celebrate and mourn the life of a loved one. Believe it will help them sleep in the Goddess’s nation and receive eternal peace. The priests will give water and bread represents the loving grace of the Goddess, the food that people both alive and dead could share.

## Notable Members

**Sequence 5** is qualified to be a enforcement division deacon or a diocese bishop. If he or she can gain the favour of a Holy Artifact, the Beyonder can even compete for the position of an archbishop or a high-ranking deacon.

### Pope

* Marianne *(Fourth Epoch, Trier War)*
* Current Unknown

### Thirteen Archbishops

* Arianna *(Chief of the Thirteen Archbishops)*
* Anthony Stevenson
* Ilya
* Ince Zangwill *(Former)*
* Samuel
* Chanis
* Selena

### Nine High-ranking Deacons

* Leonard Mitchell
* Crestet Cesimir

### Priests

* Smine (East Chester County, Stoen City) *(Psychology Alchemists)*

### Nighthawks/Red Gloves

* Dunn Smith
* Daly Simone
* Old Neil
* Frye
* Seeka Tron
* Royale Reideen
* Soest
* Kenley White
* Cindy
* Aiur Harson
* Klein Moretti

## Sealed Artifacts

### Grade-0

* 0-08 Quill of Alzuhod
* 0-17 Angel of Concealment

### Grade-1

* Saint Selena's Ashes
* 1-29 Unknown name
* 1-42 Berserker's Armor
* 1-63 Unknown Mirror. Power resembles a Sequence 3  of the Demoness Pathway.
* 1-80 Unknown name
* Antigonus Family’s Notebook
* Unnamed Golden Sundial
* Concerto of Light and Shadow
* Rotting Meteor
* Life's Cane

### Grade-2

* 2-030 Inexhaustible Poison
* 2-049 Antigonus Family Puppet
* 2-078 Door of Death
* 2-105 Blood Vessel Thief

### Grade-3

* 3-0611 Peaceful Hair Strands
* 3-0217 Spirit Medium's Mirror
* 3-0625 Misfortune Cloth Puppet
* 3-0782 Mutated Sun Sacred Emblem

## List of Buildings

### Dioceses

* Saint Selena Cathedral (Tingen City)
* Morse Cathedral (Morse Town)
* Saint Samuel Cathedral (North Borough, Backlund)
* Myriad Star Cathedral (Hillston Borough, Backlund)
* *Unnamed small Evernight cathedral* (Empress Borough, Backlund)
* Sleep Cathedral (Dinos Island)
* *Unnamed Cathedral* (Midseashire County, Midseashire)
* *Unnamed Cathedral* (*Unknown City*, Midseashire)
* *Unnamed Cathedral* (East Balam)

## References

1. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 21
2. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 1064
3. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 698
4. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 51
5. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 364
6. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 260
7. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 753
8. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 773
9. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 857
10. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 732
11. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 819
12. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 620
13. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 992
14. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 1324
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 272
16. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 754
17. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 1189
18. ↑ 12-22-2023 Official Weibo Post
19. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 18
20. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 285-286
21. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 908
22. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 1056
23. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 1296
24. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 1309
25. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 1392