Editing (section) House Liam 0 You are not logged in. The rich text editor does not work with JavaScript switched off. Please either enable it in your browser options, or visit your preferences to switch to the old MediaWiki editor <h3 data-rte-spaces-before="1" data-rte-spaces-after="2"> The Shattering & Interregnum </h3> <p data-rte-fromparser="true"><img data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22image%22%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BFile%3ALiam03.png%7Cthumb%7C326x326px%5D%5D%22%2C%22title%22%3A%22Liam03.png%22%2C%22params%22%3A%7B%22alt%22%3A%22Liam03%22%2C%22thumbnail%22%3Atrue%2C%22caption%22%3A%22%22%2C%22width%22%3A326%2C%22height%22%3A326%7D%7D" data-rte-instance="381-1079703715df2fe7e880da" alt="" src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/whitewolf/images/c/c6/Liam03.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/326?cb=20181023005656" width="326" height="232" class="image thumb" data-image-name="Liam03.png" data-image-key="Liam03.png" type="image" /> <!-- RTE::{"spaces":0,"type":"LINE_BREAK"} -->A good number of Liam nobles chose to remain on <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Earth%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Earth%20%28WOD%29%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Afalse%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BEarth%20%28WOD%29%7CEarth%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="381-1079703715df2fe7e880da" href="/wiki/Earth_(WOD)" title="Earth (WOD)">Earth</a> after the <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Shattering%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Shattering%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BShattering%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="381-1079703715df2fe7e880da" href="/wiki/Shattering" title="Shattering">Shattering</a>; with life among those who had exiled them the only other choice, the thought of abandoning <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Arcadia%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Arcadia%20%28WOD%29%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Afalse%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BArcadia%20%28WOD%29%7CArcadia%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="381-1079703715df2fe7e880da" href="/wiki/Arcadia_(WOD)" title="Arcadia (WOD)">Arcadia</a> was almost pleasant. Furthermore, it was difficult for any of the house to fight their way into Arcadia against the forces of those houses each considering themselves more deserving. Those who took the mortal's road split in nearly even numbers. Half of them holed themselves up in a few freeholds still held by the house and in the <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22freeholds%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Freehold%20%28CTD%29%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Afalse%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BFreehold%20%28CTD%29%7Cfreeholds%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="381-1079703715df2fe7e880da" href="/wiki/Freehold_(CTD)" title="Freehold (CTD)">freeholds</a> abandoned by the other houses. There are more <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Lost%20Ones%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Lost%20Ones%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BLost%20Ones%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="381-1079703715df2fe7e880da" href="/wiki/Lost_Ones" title="Lost Ones">Lost Ones</a> of House Liam than any other house. A startlingly high percentage took on the shroud of <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Banality%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Banality%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BBanality%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="381-1079703715df2fe7e880da" href="/wiki/Banality" title="Banality">Banality</a> and remained voluntarily among the mortals. </p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">This was not as cruel a decision as it might seem. The best minds of the house had pursued the hints provided by King Liam's obsession with <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Melisande%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Sister%20Melisande%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Afalse%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BSister%20Melisande%7CMelisande%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="381-1079703715df2fe7e880da" href="/wiki/Sister_Melisande" title="Sister Melisande" class="mw-redirect">Melisande</a>, trying to learn ways in which they might draw from the faith of the Church. While there was little success in this endeavor, the difficulty and danger of the research yielded much knowledge as to how to hide under the very noses of the <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Inquisition%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Inquisition%20%28WOD%29%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Afalse%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BInquisition%20%28WOD%29%7CInquisition%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="381-1079703715df2fe7e880da" href="/wiki/Inquisition_(WOD)" title="Inquisition (WOD)">Inquisition</a>. Coaxing inspiration from the hearts of those who served God became key to Liam's survival, and those skills kept the faeries who remained on Earth in good stead. </p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">Still living in monasteries and cathedrals while Jesuits and Dominicans searched ceaselessly for traces of evil was more difficult than the wounded, sundered fae had hoped. One by one, the stranded <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Kithain%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Kithain%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BKithain%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="381-1079703715df2fe7e880da" href="/wiki/Kithain" title="Kithain">Kithain</a> fell prey to the relentless Hounds of God. Those remaining wrapped Banality closer and closer around them, forgetting that they had once been lords of the Dreaming, for getting the Dreaming itself. in the end, a cathedral with inspired gargoyles or magnificent stained glass was the only sign that a faerie had once lived nearby; certainly the aged laborer stumbling back to his hut would never be suspected of supernatural origins. </p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">Betrayed by the Church they had hoped would prove to be their refuge, very few escaped the crushing weight of the Inquisition. Those few joined the rest of the Kithain scattered across the hostile world. Some <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22commoners%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22commoners%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5Bcommoners%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="381-1079703715df2fe7e880da" href="/wiki/Commoners" title="Commoners" class="mw-redirect">commoners</a> pitied the exiled nobles, and some took their sad state as another chance to revenge themselves on the haughty nobles of the past. House Liam historians have no records of any line of their house surviving to the <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Resurgence%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Resurgence%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BResurgence%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="381-1079703715df2fe7e880da" href="/wiki/Resurgence" title="Resurgence">Resurgence</a>, although it is rumored that in the dark corners of the monasteries of Europe there are very old monk who await the touch of <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Glamour%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Glamour%20%28CTD%29%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Afalse%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BGlamour%20%28CTD%29%7CGlamour%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="381-1079703715df2fe7e880da" href="/wiki/Glamour_(CTD)" title="Glamour (CTD)">Glamour</a> once more. </p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">There is no memory of the lot of those of the house who fled back to the Dreaming along with their former peers. Those who care to think about their fate assume that House Liam shouldered more than their weight of the blame for the Inquisition and the Banality that shattered so much of the Dreaming, and those of other houses who will speak of the matter offer no counter-opinion. </p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">However, there is a persistent dream that has come to many members of the house: a number of Liam knights led by King Liam battle their way through opposing forces to bring a group of mortals into Arcadia with them. The small band, under the cover of night and concealing magics, journeys to a distant corner of Arcadia where they establish a city away from prying eyes. In the dream, this city is a shining monument to the ideals of House Liam. King Liam and his mortals find joy in companionship and in living cooperation. This union demonstrates the value of truth between faeries and mortal-kind. He rules there, or so the dreams have it, even to this day. </p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">The dream is not often told, as it is ridiculous from the first word to the last. One can hardly imagine what effect a community of mortal worshippers would have on the purity of Arcadia. And, even if by some miracle such a city could exist, all in Arcadia would surely feel the strangeness of it. It is nearly impossible to believe that no mortals from that city would have returned to earth upon the Resurgence. The tale cannot be true. </p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">Regardless, the dream continues to come. </p><p /> <!-- Saved in parser cache with key whitewolf:rte-parser-cache:34471 --> Loading editor Insert: – — … ° ≈ ≠ ± − × ÷ ← → · § • Sign your name: --~~~~ Wiki markup: {{}} | [] [[]] [[Category:]] #REDIRECT [[]] <s></s> <sup></sup> <sub></sub> <code></code> <blockquote></blockquote> <ref></ref> <div class="references-small"></div> <references/> <includeonly></includeonly> <noinclude></noinclude> <nowiki></nowiki> • (templates) Symbols: ~ | ¡ ¿ † ‡ ↔ ↑ ↓ • ¶ # ¹ ² ³ ½ ⅓ ⅔ ¼ ¾ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞ ‘ “ ’ ” ¢ $ € ₦ £ ¥ Characters: Á á Ć ć É é Í í Ĺ ĺ Ń ń Ó ó Ŕ ŕ Ś ś Ú ú Ý ý Ź ź À à È è Ì ì Ò ò Ù ù  â Ĉ ĉ Ê ê Ĝ ĝ Ĥ ĥ Î î Ĵ ĵ Ô ô Ŝ ŝ Û û Ŵ ŵ Ŷ ŷ Ä ä Ë ë Ï ï Ö ö Ü ü Ÿ ÿ ß Ã ã Ẽ ẽ Ĩ ĩ Ñ ñ Õ õ Ũ ũ Ỹ ỹ Ç ç Ģ ģ Ķ ķ Ļ ļ Ņ ņ Ŗ ŗ Ş ş Ţ ţ Đ đ Ů ů Ǎ ǎ Č č Ď ď Ě ě Ǐ ǐ Ľ ľ Ň ň Ǒ ǒ Ř ř Š š Ť ť Ǔ ǔ Ž ž Ā ā Ē ē Ī ī Ō ō Ū ū Ȳ ȳ Ǣ ǣ ǖ ǘ ǚ ǜ Ă ă Ĕ ĕ Ğ ğ Ĭ ĭ Ŏ ŏ Ŭ ŭ Ċ ċ Ė ė Ġ ġ İ ı Ż ż Ą ą Ę ę Į į Ǫ ǫ Ų ų Ḍ ḍ Ḥ ḥ Ḷ ḷ Ḹ ḹ Ṃ ṃ Ṇ ṇ Ṛ ṛ Ṝ ṝ Ṣ ṣ Ṭ ṭ Ł ł Ő ő Ű ű Ŀ ŀ Ħ ħ Ð ð Þ þ Œ œ Æ æ Ø ø Å å Ə ə • {{Unicode|}} Greek: Ά ά Έ έ Ή ή Ί ί Ό ό Ύ ύ Ώ ώ Α α Β β Γ γ Δ δ Ε ε Ζ ζ Η η Θ θ Ι ι Κ κ Λ λ Μ μ Ν ν Ξ ξ Ο ο Π π Ρ ρ Σ σ ς Τ τ Υ υ Φ φ Χ χ Ψ ψ Ω ω • {{Polytonic|}} • (polytonic list) Cyrillic: А а Б б В в Г г Ґ ґ Ѓ ѓ Д д Ђ ђ Е е Ё ё Є є Ж ж З з Ѕ ѕ И и І і Ї ї Й й Ј ј К к Ќ ќ Л л Љ љ М м Н н Њ њ О о П п Р р С с Т т Ћ ћ У у Ў ў Ф ф Х х Ц ц Ч ч Џ џ Ш ш Щ щ Ъ ъ Ы ы Ь ь Э э Ю ю Я я IPA: t̪ d̪ ʈ ɖ ɟ ɡ ɢ ʡ ʔ ɸ ʃ ʒ ɕ ʑ ʂ ʐ ʝ ɣ ʁ ʕ ʜ ʢ ɦ ɱ ɳ ɲ ŋ ɴ ʋ ɹ ɻ ɰ ʙ ʀ ɾ ɽ ɫ ɬ ɮ ɺ ɭ ʎ ʟ ɥ ʍ ɧ ɓ ɗ ʄ ɠ ʛ ʘ ǀ ǃ ǂ ǁ ɨ ʉ ɯ ɪ ʏ ʊ ɘ ɵ ɤ ə ɚ ɛ ɜ ɝ ɞ ʌ ɔ ɐ ɶ ɑ ɒ ʰ ʷ ʲ ˠ ˤ ⁿ ˡ ˈ ˌ ː ˑ ̪ • {{IPA|}} This field is a spam trap. 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