http://infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Golden_GuardGolden Guard - Revision history2026-09-03T18:57:31ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.41.1http://infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Golden_Guard&diff=21916&oldid=prevNoctifer at 12:02, 26 August 20262026-08-26T12:02:22Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Guard survived those fifty powerless years, but not cleanly. In {{<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ICYEar</del>|1294}}, deep in the Dark Times and long before the gods returned, Potentate [[Aurelian]] was found to have been selling forge-wrought arms, including a shipment to Koramian buyers during a lull in hostilities nobody in Zelosia City had been told about, and pocketing the difference between what the Church declared and what the merchants actually paid. The scandal never reached the ordinary faithful, who were told only that the Potentate had died of a wasting illness, but within the Guard it produced the [[Convocation of 1294]], which stripped the Potentate's office of direct authority over the [[Gilt Forge]] and its sister holdings and vested that authority permanently in the High Protector instead. It was meant as a check on clerical corruption. In practice it has meant that whoever wears the office of Warden answers to the High Protector alone, and a Potentate inclined toward mercy has no formal means to grant it if his own Guard disagrees.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Guard survived those fifty powerless years, but not cleanly. In {{<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ICYear</ins>|1294}}, deep in the Dark Times and long before the gods returned, Potentate [[Aurelian]] was found to have been selling forge-wrought arms, including a shipment to Koramian buyers during a lull in hostilities nobody in Zelosia City had been told about, and pocketing the difference between what the Church declared and what the merchants actually paid. The scandal never reached the ordinary faithful, who were told only that the Potentate had died of a wasting illness, but within the Guard it produced the [[Convocation of 1294]], which stripped the Potentate's office of direct authority over the [[Gilt Forge]] and its sister holdings and vested that authority permanently in the High Protector instead. It was meant as a check on clerical corruption. In practice it has meant that whoever wears the office of Warden answers to the High Protector alone, and a Potentate inclined toward mercy has no formal means to grant it if his own Guard disagrees.</div></td></tr>
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