The Changing Winds
Much had changed in Gorin since the great war with the Lengel. No longer were the Gorin people peaceful. They were ready for war, perhaps they even hungered for it. Most of this change was due to the shift of Masra as it moved to more radical doctrine. The people were tired of all the heathens and non-believers. They wanted justice for Dula, who had been ignored to long. The first sign of this was with the final destruction of the Lengel. Though this war left the Empire far to over stretched, the people were pleased. It was only fitting that the Gorinese people, who are naturally superior to the milk-skinned men of the lands. No longer would the Gorin people be denied their rightful place as rulers of all. The giant behemoth that is the Gorinese Empire had already begun to churn. The populace enlisted by the thousands and strove to better the empire. Infrastructure was already on its way over the great northern expanse while the Empire’s armies crushed every rebellion the Lengel put up. Their culture would be nothing but a memory, perhaps even less.
However the greatest shake to the Gorinese culture, but more so, religion, was the splitting of Masra. This began with a man named Schwarzt Koznovski. Koznovski was a priest of Masra, who headed one of the newly founded temples in Northern Gorin (the Northern most part of the form True Lengel territory). Koznovski had been one of the firm believers of the more radical and most importantly, violent, teachings of Dula. It is a mystery why he chose to teach in such a rugged, uncivilized area, one that was, for the most part, completely devoid of any Gorinese people. However this changed as yet again, the Lord Kaiser decreed that the Gorinese people must spread themselves into the North in order to completely dismantle the heathen culture of the Lengel. Koznovski could not have been more pleased.
As soon as Gorin settlers began to arrive he set to work preaching his doctrine of intolerance. Almost immediately incidents of violence against the Lengel population in his settlement increased. However the balance was between the Lengel population and the new Gorin settlers was maintained, for the while. It was on the day of the birth of a still born Gorin baby that everything changed. With this death Koznovski saw his opportunity. He rallied the Gorin settlers at his temple that night in 16 42, that the first slaughter of the Lengel people began. Koznovski whipped his people into a frenzy, saying that the it was because of the Lengel that the baby died. It was because of their heathen ways that Dula had not given the baby life. He said it was a sign, that Dula himself had come down to him and told him to wipe the Lengel and all heathens from the world.
The settlers armed themselves and marched on the Lengel hovels and ghettos. They demanded they leave. Koznovski, leading the group, gave the Lengel one more chance to repent and to assume their rightful place at the feet of the Gorin and Dula. The Lengel refused. The settlers then began the slaughter. They pillaged the entire Lengel village. The women were raped by the men, the men were tortured and castrated by the women. The children were killed, seen as spawns of evil itself. The entire Lengel population in that settlement was destroyed, none were left alive as slaves or captives.
The next day Koznovski told the Gorin settlers of another vision he had in which Dula told him to spread the word to other villages, that the Lengel were no longer fit to be alive. That very day, the entire settlement packed up and marched to the next village. Months later Koznovski sent word to the Lord Kaiser himself, and the High Priest of Dula that a new sect had now emerged from the once united faith of Masra. The faith of the Zealots. In the letter he wrote “We are the Zealots of Dula, were are his messengers, were are his sons, we are Blue Face, and we will rid our Empire of the heathens once and for all.
Note: The settlers have formed into a small (1000 maybe) army of soldiers, they were blue armor, which represents them being the physical manifestation of Blue Face, Dula's son and messenger. The Lord Kaiser neither supports or denies them. They are, in essence, a semi-autonomous army of Gorin that is completely against all other religions except Masra. I guess it is more of an organization like the KKK or the Black Panthers than a new religion, since it doesn't have much standing in Gorin (and makes up a total population even less than the New Eldist part of Gorin) but they are highly militarized.
ooc Iggy, is this ok?