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Despite both of Calémere's blocs and non-aligned countries striving for and keeping formal peace, relations between the Inquisition and the West have remained tense ever since the end of the last holy war carried out by the Inquisition, the War for Cleanliness (outside the Inquisition known as "East-West Global War" or simply "Global War") of 6323-6326, organized by then-Great Inquisitor Kælahīmāvi Nāɂahilūma ''Martayinām'', when the Chlouvānem forces invaded Evandor with the goal of physically cleansing it from heretics, setting up a network of extermination camps throughout the continent; the war, which saw nearly 120 million Evandorians killed, ended in a white peace when a near-implosion of the Inquisition due to a series of revolts in the annexed areas of Greater Skyrdagor forced the Chlouvānem forces to retreat from the economically collapsed and virtually already defeated countries of Evandor.

==Names==

The name of the Inquisition in Chlouvānem is '''Murkadhānāvi''', meaning "of the Inquisitors", where "Inquisitor", '''murkadhāna''', translates to "black hand". The Inquisitors originally were the first preachers of the Yunyalīlta after the '''''Chlamiṣvatrā'''''<ref>Often translated as "Great Prophet" or "Great Master"; literally "Golden Master".</ref> ''Lelāgṇyāviti'', and their hands, during rituals, were black due to the liturgical use of ''lunīla'' berries. These berries, commonly growing all throughout the wetter eastern half of the Nīmbaṇḍhāra plain (as a climatic/cultural region, thus including also the Jade Coast and its basins), are not edible but have a dense pitch-black juice that was used in many shamanic rituals - often reinterpreted and passed into early Yunyalīlti ones - and also as a common black dye.<br/>The Inquisition was founded by these preachers as a kind of guild in order to better guard and preserve liturgical texts and set up scientific orders studying the world - in fact, monasteries and temples were the centers of science for two millennia, and even today most of the largest libraries in the whole planet are those of Yunyalīlti temples. The Inquisition then gained political power and became a supranational organization that had influence on every forming Chlouvānem realm - not unlike the Church in European history - until the last century and a half when all Chlouvānem nations were united under a single government - the Inquisition.

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 Despite both of Calémere's blocs and non-aligned countries striving for and keeping formal peace, relations between the Inquisition and the West have remained tense ever since the end of the last holy war carried out by the Inquisition, the War for Cleanliness (outside the Inquisition known as "East-West Global War" or simply "Global War") of 6323-6326, organized by then-Great Inquisitor Kælahīmāvi Nāɂahilūma ''Martayinām'', when the Chlouvānem forces invaded Evandor with the goal of physically cleansing it from heretics, setting up a network of extermination camps throughout the continent; the war, which saw nearly 120 million Evandorians killed, ended in a white peace when a near-implosion of the Inquisition due to a series of revolts in the annexed areas of Greater Skyrdagor forced the Chlouvānem forces to retreat from the economically collapsed and virtually already defeated countries of Evandor.
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 ==Names==
 The name of the Inquisition in Chlouvānem is '''Murkadhānāvi''', meaning "of the Inquisitors", where "Inquisitor", '''murkadhāna''', translates to "black hand". The Inquisitors originally were the first preachers of the Yunyalīlta after the '''''Chlamiṣvatrā'''''<ref>Often translated as "Great Prophet" or "Great Master"; literally "Golden Master".</ref> ''Lelāgṇyāviti'', and their hands, during rituals, were black due to the liturgical use of ''lunīla'' berries. These berries, commonly growing all throughout the wetter eastern half of the Nīmbaṇḍhāra plain (as a climatic/cultural region, thus including also the Jade Coast and its basins), are not edible but have a dense pitch-black juice that was used in many shamanic rituals - often reinterpreted and passed into early Yunyalīlti ones - and also as a common black dye.<br/>The Inquisition was founded by these preachers as a kind of guild in order to better guard and preserve liturgical texts and set up scientific orders studying the world - in fact, monasteries and temples were the centers of science for two millennia, and even today most of the largest libraries in the whole planet are those of Yunyalīlti temples. The Inquisition then gained political power and became a supranational organization that had influence on every forming Chlouvānem realm - not unlike the Church in European history - until the last century and a half when all Chlouvānem nations were united under a single government - the Inquisition.