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Order of the Dawn |  |
The Order of the Dawn was founded somewhere around thirty years or so after the War of Attrition ended. For a long, long time, we'd been united in our common enmity toward the Folk, our common goal of expansion, and we'd forgotten the petty crimes and little cruelties that had filled our day-to-day lives before. They returned, and it became clear that we needed some way to keep the peace, some way to administer law. We founded the Order of the Dawn to achieve that end.
The Order was divided into two distinct halves: the Justicars, who presided over hearings, decided the truth of things, and sentenced the guilty to their penance; and the Wardens, whose job it was to find the guilty and either punish them or bring them in so that justice could be administered. Back then, every member of the Order of the Dawn was also a lay priest of the Fane of the High Sun, and it was said that their authority came directly from the High Sun, itself.
Over the years, the two halves of the Order drifted apart until they truly were separate organizations, and it became less and less important for members to be lay priests. A few of us still adhere to that old standard, though. That's why I went to Ressen. I spent two years studying the scripture and learning the doctrines, and I went to Ressen for a month, to the Wardens' Chapel, to complete my final initiation into the Fane and become a lay priest of the faith. I don't advertise the fact, but I have been ordained.
