*This piece compiled and organized the setting details for the important organization "Pilgrimage Church" and its subordinate institution, the "Ernst Foundation."
Pilgrimage Church:
A secret organization centered on two angels, with moderate overall strength and a lawful good alignment.
Its followers preached that only being alive was real, a belief that rejected the church system, so it was classified as a heretical cult. Its directly subordinate institution was the "Ernst Charity Foundation," personally established by one of its leaders, the Temperance Angel. Founded during Emperor Roselle's era, it focused on social welfare and charitable activities and enjoyed a good reputation among the public.
Faith and leaders:
"Abyss Angel" Edward Vaughn
"Temperance Angel" Richard Ernst
Since its leaders were two angels and its members included the Rose School's Temperance Faction, the major churches and organizations viewed their relationship as one of equals: partners rather than superior and subordinate, much less a god and his believer. Thus, the churches interpreted Edward's complete indifference toward the church as a rift arising from disagreement between the two leaders, a sign that the organization was coming apart. The churches led by the Earth Mother offered Richard assistance in the hope that the Temperance Angel could prevail over the devil and complete the organization's purge and restructuring as soon as possible.
Main sponsors:
Roselle Gustav, "deceased"
Viscount Traynor Sauron Vaughn, along with public assistance and regular donations of supplies from the nobility.
Partner: the Aurora Order
Organizational structure: its nominal headquarters was in Intis, but in reality, it was merely a central contact point. It was unwelcome in Intis and had a small number of establishments in Feysac, so it was mainly distributed across countries such as Loen, Feynapotter, and Lenburg. It was an international organization, but its personnel were too scattered, and most were at the middle and low sequences, so it posed little danger.
Some relatively unimportant information that the author hadn't fully worked out because it wouldn't appear in the main text:
Richard was 192 centimeters tall and of mixed Feysac ancestry.
The Pilgrimage Church had two saints; everyone else was at the middle and low sequences.
One was the person in charge permanently stationed in Lenburg, a Sequence 3 Clairvoyant of the Mystery Pryer pathway. He worked relatively closely with the Church of Knowledge and was respected locally. His advancement ritual involved analyzing Richard's blood.
The other was a Sequence 4 Cataclysmic Interrer of the Sailor pathway. She was permanently stationed in Feynapotter and served as the liaison between the Church of the Earth Mother and the Pilgrimage Church. She had a beautiful singing voice and was popular because she could control the weather and rainfall.
The church had once had a third saint, a Demoness of Despair who had been born female. She died after being hunted down by the Demoness Sect, and her characteristic could not be recovered.
Due to a lack of funding, the church had yet to nurture a new saint.
The church's internal pathways were numerous and varied, but there were no devils.
An odd aside:
When Traynor was little, Richard was still Sequence 3. Because he spent years acting as a Silent Disciple, Traynor thought he was mute. Later, Richard asked him for money to do charity work and lost over two hundred thousand in ten years. Traynor flipped through the accounts, and his humanity shot up like a rocket, advancing by leaps and bounds.
Traynor to everyone else: "Heh."
Traynor to Richard: "If only I could beat you in a fight."
Traynor to his dad: served tea, poured water, kneaded his shoulders, and massaged his legs.
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