![]() ![]() Leader also of another, earthly power, the revolutionary political force he leads and religious revival he has inspired, all in the name of the ancient religion that Iocus once exterminated, called after its hundred years dead high priestess Müllenkamp. Sydney Losstarot: Slight and graceful of build and features, the enigmatic wielder of the power of Leá Monde. The pattern is repeated in the ornamental sword of Iocus mounted at the top of the Great Cathedral and the Holy Win. Those who bore this tattoo called it the Blood-Sin." Years past, during the Inquisition of the heretics, the "Rood Inverse" was carved on them, an abjuration of the flesh. Guildenstern: "The Blood-Sin, you say? It has a familiar ring. ![]() Before their bloody, sinful deeds, the symbol itself and even its uncorrupted power seems to have had its roots, as does the magic corrupted into The Dark, in the Kiltean religion The Iocans used the Rood Inverse as a means of debasing and demeaning their captives. ![]() The Blood Sin is named as a badge of pride by Iocans. The Crimson Blades are the knightly order of the Iocus priesthood, and Romeo Guildenstern their Commander in Leá Monde. Whether Iocus had warped the Müllenkamp and Kildean magic in the city with his massacres of their followers, or entropy had decayed it, or Müllenkamp had awakened something truly evil in their search for all things, or, what seems most likely of all, there was evil within the hearts of those who sought the city's power, it was decided that the way to reap the greatest power from the city was to sow it with the souls of the dead. The power of the city was clear to those with the Sight to see it, but what was less clear was their vision of how to access it. What the residents of Leá Monde also did not know was that the leaders of the state religion that followed Iocus had learned of Kildean and Müllenkamp's magical powers and wanted them for themselves. In truth it was a thriving community, whose occupants gave no thought to what had occurred beneath their feet, until an earthquake struck the town 25 years before the present age, destroying the city and leaving the ground unstable. ![]() What followed was what the present age of Ivalice knows as the golden years of Leá Monde, the history of Müllenkamp having been supressed. The deeds done there by the Iocus religion had tainted it with the dark spirit of death and vengeance, but it lay dormant. The followers of Iocus crushed every last trace of Müllenkamp and Kiltian magic beneath their feet, and buried the Leá Monde of old beneath their towering Cathedral.īut the city was still filled with the magic deemed evil and heretical by the heritage of Iocus. The priest Iocus later led yet another religious movement, but this one was not a movement in a different direction than or an alternative to the old, but against the old, with no alternatives given. The new religion, with its rites of music and dance, gave a more Bacchanalian spirit to the religion of hope and light. Leá Monde was first the center of a new religion, one that split off from the Kiltian Light of Ivalice's Age of Magic that had brought hope to the people. The Temple of Kiltia is at the center of the city whether any part of the city of the Müllenkamp religion other than the Temple of Kiltia and some rune-covered walls still exist, or whether Iocus' followers razed it all, the Great Cathedral is same ground Mullenkamp's followers worshipped on. ![]()
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