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The Legions' Dictionary
« on: January 23, 2013, 02:17:31 PM »
Ambassador: (noun)

A pity title, usually given to Pure Hearts and other Ezrite Wardens with more integrity than political aptitude.
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« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2013, 03:12:55 AM »
Inquisition: (noun)

An ecclesiastical body whose main purpose is to cause as much mischief and damage to a local congregation as possible in the least amount of time, before leaving to let others clean up their mess.
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« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2013, 03:20:43 AM »
Sentire: (noun)

The local leader of an Ezrite congregation, and therefore either the most politically capable, or a sucker set up for a fall.

Toret: (noun)

Senior Ezrite Wardens under the local Sentire. See also CRONIES and BACKSTABBERS.
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« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2013, 11:03:59 AM »
Baptise: (verb)

The holy act of creating and consecrating a new tithe-payer.
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« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2013, 11:20:04 AM »
Faith: (noun)

That desperate and sparse resource that the Church (amongst others) contrives to test in its followers through diverse ingenuous, cruel, hypocritical and devious means, by nature rather than by design.
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« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2013, 02:00:20 PM »
Home Faith: noun

That original part of the Church that germinated in Borca, therefore earning the entirely justified reputation of being as poisonous and insidious as all other things that grow there. They espouse the virtue of Duty while transpiring to do as little as possible that does not benefit themselves.

Pure Hearts: noun

Useful naïves, to be expended whenever the Church must masquerade some grotesque pantomime of nobility, and then dispensed with. Mostly beneath notice, they find solace from their insignificance in the virtue of Compassion. (Yes, even Inquisitors publicly sneer at this hapless attempt at pathos.)

Erudites: noun

Perennial navel-gazers whose aloof detachment in the pursuit of Knowledge conceals a putrescent apathy and necrosis. Also mostly beneath notice.

Zealots: noun

A rapacious instrument of Zeal and fury wielded by hate-consumed mad men; a paradox of cynicism and faith; those who would burn the world to save it. Never turn your back on a Zealot.
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« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2013, 09:57:23 PM »
Free Will:

The peculiar philosophy that concludes that all monsters are so by choice; a persistent Pure Heart fallacy.
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« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2013, 10:03:23 PM »
Pre-destination:

The notion that salvation can be earned by immolating heathens; a common Zealot insanity.
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