Religious Orders¶
Knightly, monastic and priestly bodies sworn to a god or to a pantheon's legacy. Each has its own leadership, ranks and purpose; the gods they serve, their doctrines and their ordinary priesthoods are described in Religion and are only linked from these pages.
Most of the orders below come from the 2014 to 2019 lore notes on single gods, which list a god's orders after the god's principles. They are written without an Age or a place, so where an order stood and when is usually unrecorded. The Brotherhood of the Sun is the exception: it belongs to the Fifth Age Broken Sea and recurs through the Sancturi campaign.
| Order | Sworn to | In brief |
|---|---|---|
| Brotherhood of the Sun | Kalar, Orandos and Anariel | Fifth Age keepers and hunters of Kalari relics, headquartered in Ozau, outlawed in the Imperium and riddled with infiltrators. |
| Knight Orders of Orandos | Orandos | Twelve knightly orders, nine led by Ascendants and three without, and the Dominion Knights drawn from the militant six. |
| Order of the Sanguine Dawn | Orandos | The most fully described of Orandos's orders: five tenets and a templar chain of command under Grand Master Izrail the Dawnfury. |
| Orders of Anariel | Anariel | Seven orders, each led by one of her Ascendants, among them knights, scholars, and three orders that police the colours of magic. |
| Orders of Arya | Arya | The Raven, Verdant and Sylvan Orders, the paladins of the Order of Thorns, and Inwe's Knights of the Dragon Lotus. |
| Orders of Moros | Moros | Four cooperative orders that tend the dead, aid stranded spirits and hunt those who defile the dead. |
| Orders of Tarus | Tarus | Five sects that barely acknowledge one another: arena-keepers, mercenaries, frontier wardens and two secret orders. |
Orders whose first purpose is fighting demons, witches or Hollows, such as the Light of Kalar and the Knights of Ex-Malefica, are grouped under Military Orders. The Kalari Order of the Crimson Sun of Miralt is a section of the Duchy of Miralt, and Brusau's knightly orders are sections of the Lorimer Dynasty.
Gap
The sources name orders for only six gods. No orders are recorded for the other Kalari, for the Rakkarim or for the Sancturi pantheon beyond the Sancturi bodies under Sancturi Imperium.