The Truth Unyielding

 ''Unyielding is what they call it. But I've found the Truth is remarkably flexible if you know how to coax it.''

 - Kestrel Adain

A strange and uncompromising set of principles, the Truth Unyielding is the core philosophy behind both the Mor'kar way of life and the Vindicators, the Spire's magical law enforcement branch.

Though many who ascribe to the tenets of this pseudo-religion claim that the Truth Unyielding is itself a entity, capable of godlike boons and protection, there is little evidence of such beside the Mor'kar's Brightening and the Vindicator's Penance. However, both these two phenomena can be explained by common magical principles and are therefore, unlikely to be due to any divine intervention.

Beginnings
The start of worship and the following of the Truth Unyielding can be directly traced back to the Schism. When Rathilon shed his godly skin in anguish and fury, the resulting explosion tore the world of Canthia to pieces, leaving it in its present form. However, in the far southern province of Mor'wen, the disciples of a young Archon named Aei'klatharius had researched ways of surviving the coming cataclysm. The Mor'kar themselves believe that their survival and their ensuing immortality and vast magical power come from being entrusted by Truth with the guardianship of the world. There are others, many of them human scholars, who are convinced that the Mor'kar merely discovered incredibly powerful leylines in Mor'wen which allowed them to craft a grand spell that protected them from the greater dangers of the Schism. Regardless of which version one ascribes to, the Schism marks the beginning of the Truth Unyielding as a recognised entity amongst the Mor'kar.

Tenets and basic philosophies of the religion were not codified until a full fifteen years after the apocalyptic event. The Mo'hein, the ruling council of elders that preside over the Mor'kar population, wrote the Ela'Var, the Pillars of Truth, the book which contains all law and rules pertaining to the Truth Unyielding and the proper adherence accepted of followers.

The Ela'Var - the Pillars of Truth
Written around 15 AS, the Ela'Var was a collaborative effort headed by the Mo'hein, the council that survived the Schism and still rules over the Mor'kar. The Ela'Var form the basis of the Mor'kar religion as well as the tenets by which the Academ Vindicarii are required to follow. Violations of the Ela'Var are met with varying degrees of severity, the final being exile and expulsion from the fold.

The First Manifestation
In the years before the Schism, the Truth came to a few of the First People who were not so blind to their kin's arrogance. It spoke in dreams and whispers, it's words were wind and rain but they were heard. Those whose hearts bent to the Truth came together and became the Mo'hein, the Table of Suns.