Law (ideoligion)

The Eternal Scrutiny, Chaos' Scourge, Order Ascendant

COME, WORM OF MAN, AND LISTEN TO THE GOD THAT DOES NOT SPEAK. THROUGH HIM WE SHALL STRANGLE THE CHAOS INHERENT. THROUGH HIM ORDER SHALL BE BORNE OUT WHERE THERE WAS ONCE TREACHERY, ONCE ANARCHY, UNTIL THERE IS NAUGHT LEFT BUT HIS WORD WITHOUT WORDS.

HE IS LAW. HE IS ALL.

MAY WE DIE IN HIS SCRUTINY.

—Lexator Janus, Codex of a Convert

Alignment: LE (LE, LN or NE)
Divine Domains: Artifice, Evil, Law, Scrutiny, Strength, War
Anathema: Chaos, Good, Healing, Magic
Favored Weapon: Whip, heavy or light flail
Symbol: Blue and white eye suspended in gold
Demonym: Lexator, lit. Law[wo]man in High Cordovan

New as His followership may be to the Realms of Terror, lexators portend that Law has existed since Chaos first gave way to the material world upon which all men now dwell. Law, then, is the guardian of the spiritual ether some call Astral, who will only admit to rejoin Him in death those who cast aside their chaotic nature in life. In this way Law is infinite, for Chaos is infinite; there can be no order without Him, no salvation without His Scrutiny.

The Word portends every man is born with Chaos in his soul, as the material world was altogether wrought from it. At times this Chaos Inherent may even manifest as sorcerous abilities—miracles and magics not of Law are derived from this chaotic sorcery, therefore anathema to Holy Order. Those who die in Chaos are likewise doomed to return to it, reincarnating into this accursed material forever until repentance. For this reason followers are encouraged to spread the Word of Law to as many as will hear, even should they encounter social or armed resistance.

Origin Myth and History

Law originates on Primus, the Cordovan word for their world prior to its wrenching into the Core. He is as old as time itself, requiring no great enlightenment or revelation. For as long as Primus has existed, so has Law; ever silent and ever watchful.

It is said that the annals written by those who received the Original Transmission were suppressed by the Cordan Republic, only to be rediscovered centuries later by Nona Velius, a young Cordan born during the Black Reign of the ten immortal, Tirimisce sorcerer-kings called the Dziesieciu in Skyalis, Cordan's oldest city. Velius instructed her followers that the material world as they understood it was born from primordial Chaos, their spirits being anchored to this plane in physical bodies from which there would be no escape unless they pursued Holy Order—the Astral and intangible—and brought it forth into the material plane.

The Dziesieciu, she taught, were embodiments of this primordial Chaos, able to warp reality with their sorcery only because there were none before them to speak the Word of Law and to do so ferociously, so absolutely that He would, without speaking, grant them the miracles necessary to speak for Him and in His name as divine edicts. Velius would take up arms with her followers for the war that would become known as the Refutation, where she would be immortalized as an epithet of Law as the Liberator and the Teacher.