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-====== Crisillyir ======
+====== Le Saint Royaume de Crisillyir ======
 <WRAP relinfobox>
 <WRAP relinfoboxtitle>Crisillyir </WRAP>
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+{{ :zeitgeist:places:flag_crisillyir.jpg?nolink&200 |}}
 ^Capitale: | Alais Primos |
 ^Gouvernement: | Théocratie élective |
-^Dirigeants: | Primus Cardinal Tito Banderesso, Arx Secula Natalia Degaspare |
+^Dirigeants: | Primus Cardinal Tito Banderesso,\\ Arx Secula Natalia Degaspare |
 ^Langue officielle | Commun |
 ^Races | Human 85%, gnome 7%, dwarf 4%, other 4% |
 </WRAP>
+Crisillyir is ruled by the hierarchs of the Clergy, the religion that
+freed the nation from demonic rule a millennium ago. Today,
+Crisillyir is a rich land, its fields bountiful, its coffers full of colonial gold. Centuries of divine rituals have turned its great cities
+into beacons of enlightenment and magical research, though this
+prosperity seems to attract attention from supernatural threats.
+Elaborate aqueducts feed water from the snowcapped Enfantes
+Mountains throughout the nation; it is said that each column
+in the aqueduct system is engraved with one chapter from the
+Clergy’s holy book, acting as a massive ward against the ancient
+evil that still lurks in the land.\\
+In Crisillyir, the power of the church is supreme, but not unquestioned. While the grand summoners conjure forth tortured
+specters from the Bleak Gate to cow their flocks into piety, collegial arcanists debate conceptions of the cosmos that do not
+match church dogma. Fat merchant lords pay lip service to the
+faith, sell weapons and ritual components to eladrin assassins,
+then purchase indulgences to absolve themselves. And though
+the inquisitive halo-bearing geneu credetos (‘spirits of belief,’ or
+more commonly ‘godhands’) are tasked with guarding the nation
+from unholy, fey, and undead influences, criminal organizations
+nevertheless manage to smuggle in contraband and use resurrec-
+tions to extort even the dead.
+===== The Clergy =====
+According to the church’s holy text, one thousand years ago a
+human fisherman named Triegenes from what today is Danor
+discovered the secret of divinity while lost in a storm at sea. He
+returned and preached about the divine spark within all mortals,
+and how by constantly challenging oneself, a person can become
+like a god. He inspired followers to fight beside him, and together
+they toppled tyrants, slew legendary monsters, and eventually established a new nation, based upon a hierarchy of divinity, where
+rank and reward were based solely on merit.\\
+After his kingdom was established, Triegenes undertook the greatest challenge left in the mortal world: to defeat the Demonocracy that
+oppressed the lands to the east. He confronted the abyssal lords who
+had taken residence on this world, sacrificed himself to banish them
+forever, and then left his mortal shell and ascended to godhood.\\
+The Clergy believe in many gods, with no pinnacle godhead, but
+they preach foremost the teachings of Triegenes, that every man
+has greatness within him, and he merely needs to be challenged
+to awaken his potential. And while a thousand years have burdened this original message with a complex celestial bureaucracy,
+vaguely-interpreted visions of a multiverse of planes, and a strong
+emphasis on the superior potential of humans above all other races,
+the simple dogma that anyone can improve their life, and that
+indeed this is the main purpose of life, holds strong appeal. The
+Clergy is now the most widespread faith in Lanjyr.
+===== Cities =====
+The capital city Alais Primos is dominated by massive temples, sepulchers, and libraries, some so large they straddle the canals that
+run through the city. Massive and enchanted walls once surrounded it, holding back the eladrin armies, and while the city has long
+since expanded beyond their boundaries, their magic still defends
+the heart of the city. Since the Clergy views the godless tieflings of
+Danor as apostates, industry and technology are forbidden in Alais
+Primos. Confiscated items are ritually disposed of in a fiery rift of
+Enzyo Mons in the nearby mountains, symbolically casting back
+the tools of evil.\\
+The island city of Sid Minos is site of the nation’s greatest naval yards and its military academies, which train paladins and
+warpriests to hunt unnatural beasts, as well as fight foreign armies.
+Tunnels and dungeons riddle the rocky island beneath the city, and
+undead horrors occasionally emerge from these dark lands, but
+their source is unknown. Because the hierarchs view Sid Minos as
+already somewhat tainted, they allow technology onto the island.
+Off the shore lies the Isle of Odiem, home to the Crypta Hereticarum, where the Clergy stores the most vile cursed beasts and
+objects that they cannot simply destroy.\\
+An isthmus connects Crisillyir and Elfaivar, and the city of Vendricce has grown fat from taxing trade through its gates, including
+the Avery Coast Railroad that terminates here. A grand arched
+bridge that once spanned the channel between the two nations was
+destroyed during the Second Victory, but Danor is funding its repair, hoping to extend the railroad so it can feed through the city
+and into Elfaivar.
+===== Colonies to the East =====
+After the eladrin empire fell in the Second Victory, Crisillyir and
+the other conquering nations established garrisons within the collapsing eladrin nation, and divided the land into several colonies.
+Despite the great wealth these colonies provide, they are a thorn in
+Crisillyir’s side; intermittent rebellions and acts of terrorism target
+the colonial governors and their allies in the homeland. At least
+once a decade, a spree of assassinations strikes, shaking the complacency of the nobility, and frightening the common folk.\\
+The largest colonial city is Santi Simone, over the ruins of
+Elfaivar’s original capital Bharata. In an uncharacteristically sym-
+pathetic move, the Clergy built a giant memorial to the countless
+dead eladrin women, interring their bodies in tombs carved into a
+massive rock that sits along the city’s river.
+===== Devas, Angels, and the Dead. =====
+<WRAP relinfobox>
+<WRAP relinfoboxtitle>The Humble Hook</WRAP>
+When Triegenes passed on from his mortal\\
+shell, the prelates of the Clergy cremated\\
+his remains in a grand state funeral. As\\
+they gathered his ashes to spread across\\
+the nation’s soil, they found a small harpoon\\
+hook—the kind used by some fishers— which\\
+somehow had been caught in the living god’s\\
+body since before he achieved divinity.\\
+The priests crafted the hook into a pendant,\\
+and for over a thousand years it has been\\
+worn by the hierarchs of the faith, as\\
+a reminder that we all have humble origins.\\
+Doctrine claimed that it let its wearer\\
+learn the history and background of anyone\\
+he met, allowing the leader of the faith\\
+to deal with overly prideful enemies and\\
+heads of state.\\
+In 260 a.o.v., however, it was lost when\\
+an eladrin assassin slew that era’s\\
+hierarch and stole the pendant. Critics of\\
+the faith claim that its loss was part of\\
+a plan to steer the Clergy away from its\\
+original humble core, so that high priests\\
+could better profit from their stations.
+</WRAP>
+The Second Victory ended with a legendary battle just outside the
+walls of Alais Primos, where legions of Clergy-blessed warriors
+faced an army led by the goddess Srasama herself. After hours of
+battle, Srasama was felled by a thousand cuts, and fire exploded
+from her body. The warriors nearest to her were annihilated, but
+those who survived and were close enough to see the death of a god
+were marked by the experience.\\
+Many of these veterans settled in the lands liberated by the
+eladrin army’s retreat. In the years that followed, whenever one of
+them died, open flames would flicker for miles around, and some-
+where within three days’ travel the man or woman would be reborn
+in the wilderness. No longer quite human, these reincarnated souls
+took the name deva, from an eladrin word for deity.\\
+When a deva reincarnates, he recalls language, culture, and
+enough knowledge to make his way in the world, but usually pos-
+sesses only vague recollections of his previous life. Acquaintances
+are unfamiliar, and expert skills like magic, craftsmanship, or
+swordplay fade, but usually the deva quickly slips into the same ba-
+sic role he held before death.\\
+Where devas are rare, one that dies is usually found quickly after
+reincarnation, and after a period of acclimation he will manage to
+continue as if nothing had happened at all. In Crisillyir, though,
+devas are common enough that they seldom manage to return to
+their previous lives. In either case, devas still fear death because it
+means an end to all they are. While a reincarnated deva might be
+able to continue the same mission, he’ll never recreate the emotions
+and memories that made him unique.\\
+Many devas find a place in the Clergy, where through special
+training they can act as vessels for invoked celestial beings. Such
+angelic visitations never last long, and occasionally result in the
+death of the vessel, so they are only used in situations where the
+priesthood feels inadequate to answer questions of guilt or opine on
+matters of morality.\\
+In a similar way, on certain bleak holy days the priests of the
+Clergy will reach through the veil into the Bleak Gate and capture
+uneasy spirits, which they parade in front of crowds of worshippers.
+Compelled by magic, these undead specters wail about the sins they
+committed in life that left their souls trapped in ‘Purgatory.’ The
+priests then offer absolution, and destroy the unholy beings.
+===== The Family =====
+One of the few chinks in the strong face the Clergy presents is a
+criminal organization known as the Family. Most people only know
+of them in rumors and hearsay, but it is said that they are behind
+most of the crime on both sides of the Avery Sea.\\
+Where they have taken root, crime becomes civilized. The Family seems to respect loyalty and avoids doing violence to innocents,
+though when they move into a new city they viciously cut out the
+current criminal element and institute a more refined form of corruption and lawlessness.