Free City had no Guardian Church. In fact, it had no churches at all.
The reason was... Annan's flash of inspiration, the "Pantheon," was a little too shocking.
The Order Alignment thought putting every deity in one Divine Temple was too chaotic. The Chaos Alignment thought putting every deity in one Divine Temple was too orderly. They had never been so united as they were in opposing it.
If Annan hadn't been popular in Middle Earth, if the Believers hadn't been desperate to reach their missing gods, if he hadn't been fighting on the front lines against the Foreign Races, those Fanatic lunatics would have launched a Holy War long ago.
Even the Empire thought Annan was being too reckless. It sent people to persuade him: the gods were only temporarily out of contact. They might return. Surely he could wait a few years...
Unlike the Chaos Alignment, whose solution to a problem was to create more chaos, the Order Alignment saw Annan as someone it could win over and bring into order. So the Guardian Church in Siltovis answered Olmedo's questions without withholding its goodwill.
The person held in the Church's Dungeon was a priestess of the Maiden of Misfortune. Iron Maiden had not lied about that.
In the year 999 of the Saint Laurent Calendar, when contact with the gods was completely lost, countless churches across the Allen Continent fell into turmoil. Desperate to reach their gods again, believers tried everything, including war.
The Order Alignment still cared about the upheaval its actions might cause, but the Chaos Alignment had no such scruples. Its followers tried countless methods, including sacrificing an entire city to please a god, slaughtering a race, plunging a whole Duchy into hedonistic revelry, and hunting down rival churches.
The Maiden of Misfortune's believers were