Akoimetai, later known as Gesudians, was an order of iconoclast monks that served the powerful Tzimisce Dracon and the Trinity of Constantinople. One of the oldest religious orders in the city, they teach philosophy of purity through an understanding of cruelty and suffering.
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Akoimetai was an Orthodox order of monks that serve the Tzimisce methuselah Dracon and the Obertus Tzimisce in Constantinople. They promoted icon worship in the city, claiming the mystical images of Jesus and the saints were images of Dracon's many forms. In the first decades of the seventh century, the order began to systematically transcribe and guard numerous tomes of ancient lore. The iconoclast movement initiated by the Antonian Ventrue and the hatred the Carpathian Tzimisce felt for the Obertus led to public mocking of the Akoimetai, leading to torture, murder and destruction of their monasteries.
The knowledge that the order had accumulated founds its way into the Library of the Forgotten and the mortal monks that survived the purge called themselves Gesudians after their Cainite saint--Gesu.