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The Acolytes are a large religious order numbering close to ten thousand members who believe that to serve God is the highest order of living. To this end they believe they can best demonstrate their servitude to God in the physical realm through their complete obedience and total submission to his incarnate, earthly representative, theAcolyte spiritual leader, the ordained Fairo – the Hegemonic. Some in the Acolytian community believe that Fairo – the Hegemonic is God’s supreme vassal and that all of God’s commands and blessings pass physically through him and unto them. Others believe that Fairo – the Hegemonic isGod in the flesh and that their devotion to him is merely an outward expression of their internal spiritual devotion. The Acolytes have a strict lifestyle of prayer, education, spiritualstudy, community service, nation building, and the raising of families. They attend Sabbatical three times a week, tithe regularly and have all taken the Vow of Minimalism.
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Fairo the Hegemonic is the Spiritual leader of The Acolyte Nation. He wants to spread the Acolytian doctrine of complete submission to God, through him, to the rest of New Front.
He begins by buying up or taking over by force several churches in New Front and converting them into Acolyte Apostle Centers. Fairo believes that peace on earth is achieved through hegemony and that becoming an Acolyte is the only way to best achieve this.
Secretly however, Fairo – the Hegemonic is a charlatan. He doesn’t really believe in any of this, he merely enjoys capitalizing off the power he holds over the thousands of parishioners who serve him. To this end he has trained bodyguards who have devoted their lives to his protection.
He has a concubine of hundreds of women, usually teen-aged girls, and he has an elite team of assassins. His ultimate goal is to convert every church in New Front into an Acolyte Apostle Center or Acolyte place of worship.
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Queen Starsha the Untouchable, is the virgin wife of Fairo - the Hegemonic. To Acolyte women she represents chastity, piety, submission and honor. She is the incarnate representation of what every Acolyte woman should aspire to be and maintain until marriage.
To Acolyte men she is the example of the traits they should all desire and look for in a wife. However, in reality she’s not a virgin at all, Fairo has her at his whim. But inpublic she is believed to be a virgin and the representative of what Acolytian women should aspire to be and maintain until marriage.
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Apostles are Acolytes who act as missionaries and recruits for their religious order.
They usually work out of an Apostle Center doing charity work and reciting Acolytian scripture on street corners. They also recruit new members on street corners and sidewalks.
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Hierodules are Acolytian women who serve Fairo – the Hegemonic, either as concubine, poison tasters, personal bathers, or in any number of other ways.
A.) Concubine – young women who tend to the sexual needs of Fairo – the Hegemonic.
B.) Poison Tasters – a young woman who tastes a portion of Fairo the Hegemonic’s every meal before he eats it toensure it hasn’t been poisoned.
C.) Bath girls – young women, usually teenaged girls, who bath Fairo the Hegemonic twice a day.
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Royal Guardsmen are Acolyte men who serve as personal bodyguards and have sworn their lives to the protection and defense of Fairo the Hegemonic.
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The Capitulary is the judicial council of the Acolytian religious order. It proscribes or corrects behavior to Acolytes who have acted contrary to Acolytian law. It hands down punishment and remands serious offenders to the Holy Triumvirate.
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The Holy Triumvirate is the Supreme Court of the Acolytes. It hands down final verdicts, edicts, severe punishment or makes unconditional acquittals or exonerations. It is run by the three Wise Men.
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The Sabbatical is the Acolyte religious temple. It is a huge ornate dome made of white gold and decorated or trimmed in gemstone. The Sabbatical can hold up to fifteen thousand parishioners. Fairo – the Hegemonic speaks there 4 times a week. The Sabbatical also refers to the entire Acolyte community that surrounds the domed temple.
The Acolyte community has its own neighborhoods, its own school district, its own stores, shops and restaurants all surrounded by a great circuitous wall with black spiked wrought iron poles a top. One can really only see the domed temple from a street level. What else lies behind those walls is a mystery to most of New Front.
The Acolytes have long standing rifts with W.I.D.O.W. and with Witch Society. They have denounced all witches as demons and Fairo – the Hegemonic’s bodyguards have traded gunfire and fisticuffs with a few of the warriors in W.I.D.O.W.
