Elsanne the Crimson
Saint of Anarchy, Uprisings, Independence, and Liberation
Titles: The Crimson, Our Bloody Lady, Madame Warender, The Moonlit Mistress, Revolution's Light, Maiden Whitemantle, The Answerer
Favored Weapon: Glaive
Alignment: Air
Elemental Lord: Zaltath, Lord of the Zephyr
Obedience: Spend an hour daubing your skin and cheeks with blood in ritualistic lines to evoke the liberating wrath of the Moonlit Mistress - drip a single drop of blood into each of your eyes to turn them deepest crimson once you are done, and offer up a prayer to the Moonlit Mistress reaffirming your vows to save those who fight and die without knowing why.
Effect: You may reroll a save made against an effect that would restrain you or restrict your movement(Grapples, Hold Person, etc) once a day, made after the roll is made but before results are revealed. Your threshold for death is increased by an amount equal to 1/2 your HD(Minimum 1), and while you are unconscious and below 0HP an enemy taking bleed damage within 15ft of you will heal you for the same damage.
Divine Domains
Air, Chaos, Liberation, War(Blood Subdomain only), Strength(Self-Actualization Subdomain Only)
Artifacts
All but one of the artifacts of Elsanne the Crimson have been lost to time and the chaotic nature of her own life, save one - a rusted, blood-soaked dagger of legendary power known as Skytoppler. While utterly useless in actual combat, Skytoppler's world-quaking power takes hold whenever the dagger is plunged into the flesh of it wielder, invoking its awful blood rite over a massive scale measured in miles proportional to the strength of its wielder - within this massive radius, chains and bindings are shattered, mental dominations are broken, and most terrifyingly the loyalties and allegiences of those caught within its radius are wiped and reset, rendering the entire area into a lawless, anarchic wasteland.
Long lauded by freedom fighters and revolutionists the world over, Skytoppler is a tool feared by all organized societies - for its invocation brings nothing but chaos and death.
Holy Books & Codes
The Liberator's Apocrypha
Divine Symbols & Sigils
A sigil widely known as "The Anarchist's Crucifix" - an upward-curving T with bloody wings coming out of either side
Tenets of Faith
Cry out, ye Howling Liberators! Topple the tyrant and warmonger. Bring death to he who hides behind laws. Rebel and Roar against the oppressors.
Adherence to systems of order abide only death. The systems of law exist only to oppress and destroy those who ascribe themselves to them.
Down with the industries of death. Let none die for a cause or law beyond their control, for reasons they do not or cannot understand.
Freedom to the everyman. Every creature must be empowered to steer the reigns of their life, to live and die at their own will.
Holidays
The holidays of Elsanne are kept secret by her faithful - as they typically coincide with planned days of attack against the systems of law and order they seek to destroy.
Divine Goals & Aspirations
To tear down governmental systems and the systems of law that support them.
To empower every being to live their own anarchic lives according to strength and their own power.
To destroy the war machines that grind ever onwards, consuming untold lives in the process.
Followers & Priesthood
The followers of Elsanne vary wildly in origin, racial heritage, appearance, and more - as a faith that has spread across the continent of Zheng-Kitar, Elsanne's followers are an incredibly diverse bunch who vary wildly even for the most basic of reasons for which they joined the faith of The Moonlit Mistress and ascribed to her creed. Because of how spread out and chaotic Elsanne's faith is, her followers seldom organize into churches as other more organized religions do in favor of forming into groups where they are needed, like quicksilver; forming where tyranny strikes and their services are needed and scattering when they have accomplished their objective, or failed to do so and been crushed. Their priesthood as a result does not hold many formal ranks, instead placing more emphasis on one's successful operations as opposed to ranks due to length of time served - consequently, members of the faith typically bear insignias on their person for gatherings of the faith displaying their previous "liberation campaigns" to represent their veterancy. These more veteran members of the faith who have organized previous liberation campaigns, freedom fights, insurrections, and the like are the ones typically called upon to provide direction and leadership to gatherings of the faith when they are required, and are given autonomy to direct and command the faithful who come together for the cause in question. Typically, members of the faith are identified by their blood-red eyes or ritualistic blood-red lines marked upon their skin(For more devoted members of the faith), or otherwise by a swatch of crimson somewhere notable but subtle on their person - such as a streak of red dyed in the hair, a red paint mark behind the ear, a red badge on clothing, and so on. When a situation in the world requires their services, followers of the faith typically organize when the holy symbol of Elsanne, The Anarchist's Crucifix, is inscribed prominently in and around a given area - typically accompanished by passphrases created and kept secret by the faith hinting as to the reasons behind why the faith might be needed. When The Anarchist's Crucifix hangs high and begins to appear in a given area with alarming frequency, it often is referred to as a Tyrant's Moon, or Blood Moon - a sign of the revolution that is to come.Ethics
The followers of Elsanne having a unique code of ethics born of a more unique worldview - while they share much in common with Elemental Saints such as Asad the Patient or Yasuyo the Kaiju-Caller who seek to free others from the shackles that weigh down their lives, the followers of Elsanne do so from wholly different standpoints. Whereas followers of others Saints seek to free others and liberate them based purely on the unjust act of slavery or imprisonment, followers of Elsanne do so out of rage and hatred towards the systems of power such as political or governmental entities that operate as cold, uncaring monoliths whose day to day operations cause the death of thousands or tens of thousands of its own citizens, who fight and die for causes they do not truly understand. The followers of Elsanne despise this with all their hearts - seeing law and systems of order as tools which ensnare innocent lives and grind them up in the endless advance of political intrigue and governmental machinations, causing soldiers, warriors, and all manner of its citizens to die for reasons and laws they ascribe to, but do not truly understand, whose sacrifices are forgotten and expended for no other reason aside from a figure on high willed it so. To the followers of Elsanne, this constant tragedy is the reason for which they rage and howl, against warmonger, tyrant, and dictator alike - to free others from those insidious systems they despise, so that they may one day create a world where each and every man, woman, and child is free to decide the direction of their own destinies; where crowns are warranted with strength and merit alone, and no being need die for reasons they do not fathom or understand. Though idealistic, that is the reason for which they fight, and the reason they throw bloody coup's and revolts, bring about rebellions and revolutions - bloodying their hands and staining their souls for the sake of the ideals they believe in.History
The history of Elsanne is one penned in slaughter - though it is not well documented due to the chaos of the times she grew up in, Elsanne the Crimson grew up as a young girl during the awful, hideously bloody War of the Boiling Skies, which saw Thorgrom Blackgranite and his armies of the Ezdhûl and their mechanized legions bring unsurpassed death and slaughter into the world: industrialized genocide made manifest. In this most hideous and awful of times when explosive mortar shells rained constantly upon villages, poison gas clouds covered entire countrysides, and innocents were smashed, broken, and burst apart in the crossfires of a most hideous war between Thorgrom Blackgranite and Kyra Aenai and the united armies of the world. During this hideous war, when bodies melted in poison gas clouds and families were blasted apart by brutal shelling campaigns, did Elsanne the Crimson earn her name - fighting on the frontlines against the armies of both sides for the sake of those caught in the crossfires, throwing herself into conflicts as a "firestarter of freedom", desperately igniting fires of liberation and freedom during a time in which the crushing bureaucracy of both sides of the war began to trample and crush the soldiers and citizens who supported them. Eager to bring salvation to those "at the ground level" after witnessing countless innocent families blown apart because of a war they had no part in and wanted nothing about as well as countless soldiers dying in the mechanizes trenches for governments who saw them alone as nothing but statistics and numbers, Elsanne fought like her soul was ablaze for years - overthrowing countless dictators, tyrants, warmongers, and the like. In the end, after starting countless fires of revolution, rebellion, and insurrection all across the thickest warzones of Zheng-Kitar, Elsanne met her end in the same way she gained her fame - dying alone on a forgotten battlefield in the waning days of the war, starting the fires of revolution in the capital of Thorgrom Blackgranite's Ezdhûlian Empire that would, in time, go on to prove critical in destabilizing the city to allow Kyra Aenai and her armies to invade and put an end to the mechanized slaughter of The War of Boiling Skies once and for all. However, her legacy was not doomed to end there - for her tireless but brief life lived in pursuit of freedom and chaos, her creed lived on in the zealous followers who followed her from battlefield to battlefield as Zaltath, Lord of the Zephyr uplifted her into Sainthood as reward for her bloody, chaotic life.
Divine Classification
Elemental Saint
Children
Example Divine Oaths
Oath of the Anarchist: In places where power rests in the hands of the few, return it to the hands of the many. Empower the individual and foster chaos where law exists.
Oath of the Headtaker: Seek the death of those who stand in the way of personal freedoms or independence, either doing so yourself or orchestrating their downfall to ensure others kill them in your place. In either case, claim their heads and make it into a warning.
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