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[The_Godslayer]

Out of curiosity, why are the Vagrants down in suspicious? Is La Orden fully aware of the nature of the schism, and taking a position on it? Wouldn't the Vagrants simply be another manifestation of the spirits?

They're just completely different and also coming from a completely different location. Outcasts are pretty present in Taus, therefore, while not knowing of the schism firsthand, we'd be fairly aware that a kind of spirit that acts different, comes from a different place, and does different things (teleporting instead of cloaking) just showed up in the Taus. Vagrants are a pretty small group, and they only showed up recently compared to how long Santa Verna has been around, so they're met with the kind of suspicion that you'd reserve for new things. Wendigos I kinda put there because I mentally grouped them with Vagrants, but realistically it'd be pretty hard to tell the difference between a Wendigo and a Wild unless they told you or you saw them fighting.

Similarly, it's interesting that the Wild are revered on the same level as the actual Nomads, when they act more like demons the spirits employ as terror weapons.

RMWild is a good shout, but also most Wild don't act like RMWild. Outcasts really wouldn't meet with the denizens of Omega 58 very often, though I imagine that the "chosen envoys" thing would have more of a backwards-compatibility thing, and RMWild's activities are a sort of proof that somewhere there is a spirit of hatred or vengeance that they are envoys of. Combine this with Rheinland having been constantly at war with RMWild, I think it checks out there.

> "The Order"
> Nomad worshippers

I feel attacked.

intentional

* El Orden Hospitalario de los Caballeros del Pacto de los Sitios Sagrados de Malta y la Sacra Santa Verna

Because Spanish is a Romance language and definite articles exist within Romance languages, "El" is used for singular male nouns (which "Orden" is), "La" for singular female ones, "Los" for plural male ones and "Las" for plural female ones. And, since "de el hospital" agrees with "Orden", it's "Hospitalario", not Hospitalaria.
"Verna" is implied to be a female given name (never heard of it, though ofc I'm familiar with the base ingame) so, by agreement of grammatical gender, it's "la Sacra Santa Verna".

My middle school-tier Spanish kicking in.

You're welcome.

Taurus beat me to it, all I remembered was that the fifth harry potter book was "la orden del fenix". I grew up in a neighborhood with a bunch of immigrants from Spain. Orden occupying two different grammatical genders depending on usage was something I didn't know, though, so that's neat.

Also, excellent writing as always, Godslayer!!

Thank you =)

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