Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition: Difference between revisions

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 were black due to the liturgical use of ''lunīla'' berries. These berries, commonly growing all throughout the wetter eastern half of the Lāmiejāya 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 sovranational organization that had influence on every forming Chlouvānem realm - not unlike the Church in European history - until the beginning of the Fourth Era when all Chlouvānem nations were united under a single government - the Inquisition.