A Sacred Day For Young Balamir

Brothers & Sisters..

Please..... Is it I who stand alone.......

Was our Order not founded on morals and principles?
Was our Order not built on a most sacred structure of the Light?

Do we hold nothing Sacred Brothers & Sisters?

I cannot stand idly by and watch our Order become tainted by xenos and fall so far..

You have not heard the last of this Balamir..

A reckoning is coming Brother & The Light will decide the righteous or by Uther I break your tainted walls down around you.

Fire & Steel

Azeem

Brother, I and my blade stand with you. For too long have we watched this holy Order suffer. There shall be a reckoning, and there shall be blood......

I stand ready to be judged, by Torm my mind is bright.

I haven't betrayed my oath nor have i strayed from the path of a Templar
I feel no shame for my love and am proud to stand for it

Still I agree that reckoning is in Order

We shall see who is touched by the wicked
And who it is that bears the essence of corruption

In Torm's name!

THERE WILL BE BLOOD

You would accuse us of heresy boy? We who stood against the Dark since this Order was born? The Light knows only one truth, only one purity and by our deeds we have proved ourselves beyond your judgement.

Watch your words boy....and pray that the Lord Militants leniency remains...

I find the fact that you have taken direct offence from my neutral words, rather suspicious

As far as I have seen you have found it acceptable to boast of your past experiences
However I am yet to see an examplicifation of righteousness from your actions

We who walk in the light do not give in to threat and do not fear the tainted

If it shall result in purity
Let blood be spilt!

Child, if it is war you want, it is war you will get. I have yet to see you hold the line with our Brothers in the Valley where so many have laid down their lives, I have yet to see to see you bring the purity of the light to the bastard whore-son who would bring this land under the rule of Kil'jaeden.

I have yet to se you prove yourself.

Step carefully boy, lest the Light find you wanting.

It is you who want bloodshed not me, do not confuse my motivations with that of yours
Answering my wedding anouncement in warcries, do not speak in the fashion of a father to me

I do not run around in rage and blood hunger, i am not driven by hate my devotion and contribution to my Order is seen and known by every Templar on duty, i have labored to construct, not to destruct - unlike yourself.

And it does not take the sight of a prophet to see the ones that seek salvation in bloodshed will ultimately drown in the bloodpool they have so eagerly created, sooner or later...

If you were the fruit of my line, my flesh...I would cut you from me, as a surgeon cuts a canker from a patient.

My hatred is cold and pure, no blood hunger lies within me, only clarity of purpose. And you fail to see the path I tread. Forgiveness is not mine to receive, nor do I seek it. I will drown in blood aye, and the blood will be my own but you think I fear this? I know every step I have taken on my path and I accept my penance. You seek to unsettle me with words of warning about those who walk in hate? Hate has walked in my shadow longer than you have drawn breath and had been a truer companion than any mortal.

Pity me if you choose. I care not. Your innocence.....amuses me.

If I was related to you, I would put an end to your unaddressed anger and tainted crusade myself, before anyone else.

Feel pride for pure hatred rather than pure faith. Walk in shadows deliberately and advertise your self created outcast misery like a martyrdom. Paint your twisted mind with the colors of literature. And you still find it acceptable to call yourself...a Paladin?!
Your faith is weak as your mind is corrupt, heresy speaks as you exhale. You are a disgrace for a Templar of light

To be honest pity would be putting it mildly, I detest the joy you find in corruption

I would not have you speak of my brother thusly Balamir, for he is dear to me...

Cartheron, give the lad some slack... He is but young and had he seen all you had seen he would not pick his words so damningly.

Strength through unity brothers, not petty squabbling. He has married outside of our kind, it is not something we advise but it is not something that is forbidden. He has chosen his path and aslong as it doesn't hinder his duties as a brother then I see not why he shouldn't be with the one he loves..



**Sage in Shadow, Edge remain untempered**

There is a reckoning due between us boy. One I shall enjoy.

SAMARITAN WISHES EDGE - SANCTUM UNCOVERED - SAGE UNDERSTOOD - SAGE EDGE TO ATTEND

For Illumination my true brothers.

Azeem

I DEMAND AN INQUISTION! AND I DEMAND IT WITH URGENCY!

For too long have I watched your lurking in the shadows, for too long have I tolerated the rot you have vomited every single time you opened your mouth.

You two, who have walked into my wedding anouncement crying for my blood, demand even more blood
I, who have stood loyal to my oath demand justice!

And through the Inquistion, we both shall get what we have asked for
There will be justice, there will be blood

Let the rotting branch of my noble Order be exposed
Let it be cured in holy flames!

You... Balamir have married a xeno's who cannot be trusted..
You... Balamir have sought to up heave our Lord Macloren..
You... Balamir have taken everything that the Order holds dear and broken it into tiny pieces.
You... Balamir tread a fine line..

You point you finger with accusations of corruption and taint. You sicken me to my very core. I will not stand by and watch this.

The fact that the Order has come to this causes me to weep.

I do not believe I can abide your presence or fight by your side until the council intervenes and decides the fate of the Order.

But I warn you boy. I have been through to much for "MY" Order and I have fought for to long and proved myself countless times to be accused of Corruption.

So Balamir, I would not point the finger because I will happily show you your folly.

Carefull boy, this path you tread threatens the very foundations of this most Holy Order. Accusations of heresy and corruption do not sit well with my Brother or I when we have sacrificed more than any of you to keep the Darkness at bay.

Are you sure you wish to risk everything you claim to hold dear? Your innocence and naievity is your weakness, you would do well to shed it before it wounds you.

You go on raging when it is about a fight
But show hesitation when it comes to judgement?
I have been accused of treason, and i demand judgement!

You thought your tittles or past endeavours would stop me from judging your motives
Or instill fear in my soul?

And Brother Chaplain, I ask you;
What would happen if I had seen what he has seen, you think
Would I consider myself higher than divine law too?
Would I point the pile of corpses i created to excuse the darkness i walk in too?
Have you not known me the slightest bit up to this time

No single man can ever be higher than divine law
We shall walk in the holy flames in the confort that it burns the faithless, and the faithless alone!

I shall never hesitate to comply with the dictates of duty
Even if it means shaking the foundations of my noble cause, in the name of purifying it

Brothers Balamir has done a great many things for the order and has tried to fill the space left when we had lost you a task no young man should have to attempt,
but he has done so in good faith so I say to you this you code of conduct is in fact different to many of the brothers in the order and I understand that you seek out the darkness threw the shadows, there are few among us who can put ourselves in such places and remain free from the taint of darkness and yet it is where you excel.
Balamir is in fact a builder of relations ship and perhaps the closest thing we have to a politician.
your arena in the shadows is a battle ground we do not understand and you have done things beyond my comprehension but necessary.
and the diplomatic Arena is that of brother Balamir I do not understand his ways with words or the way he can spend long periods of time in the company of non humans but it is necessary
and with both comes a taint.



Brother Evangelist

If you had seen what he had boy..Your naive heart would be rent asunder.

You mistake compassion for hesitation Brother, there are some deeds that best remain unknown to the Order lest it be tainted by association. I have chosen my path knowing full well what I risk and that corruption lies at every turn. I ask that no other walk it and the consequences of my actions I alone shall bear.

If it is the Councils will I shall submit to their judgement and lay forth my deeds and actions for the consideration of the Order. But I warn you. Some things are best left to the Shadows.

My Order will no longer be infested by shadows
And compassion for who? Where was your compassion while you were yelling for my blood, because i loved an elf?!
Your turn into an elderly brother all of a sudden catches my amazement.

Brother Evangelist;

You have been like a father to me and I have taken every step of my new life in Azeroth, under your guidance and am proud i have not disappointed you up to now. Somehow I feel like you are trying to talk us through on the matter, praising up both sides. Knowing of my social skills so well I am presuming that you would know using diplomacy on a diplomat will be a fruitless attempt. And though I know you care for the ones I oppose here, I also know the good in your hearth is strong enough to value righteousness over personal feelings.

This can only end in Inquistion, and no other way.

Cartheron wrote:Some things are best left to the Shadows.

I agree Brother and I will willing submit to the wise will of our Council. I know my Brother Cartheron and I walk a fine line on the edge of our Order and some of the more Zealous new recruits will not understand our Old School methods and ways.

Balamir, I see that Brother Chaplain agrees with your marrying and I am sure he has his reasons. I may not understand or even wish to understand your reasons for marrying outside of our race or our Order, but I will tolerate this.

This however needs to be intervened by Our Lord and the Council as accusations have been made and need to be answered.

My Lord Macloren, Champion Evangelist and Chaplain Vaknor,

Let Cartheron and I be judged for we hold no fear of the Darkness and we are free from taint and corruption. Let it be known that evil does not flow in our veins. But I pledge to you my Brothers, if our word is questioned in this fashion again then I will not be so quick to calm and retribution will be dealt without mercy.

For The Light and For Illumination my Brothers and Sisters

Knight Templar Azeem, The Holy Order Of Illumination

- SAMARITAN WISHES EDGE - EDGE ATTEND -

My compassion is for this Order that I have been a part of since it was created. Make no mistakes boy, I hold no tender feelings for any of the Brothers or Sisters save Azeem.

Elderly brother? not I child, not I. Knew you anything of my past you would not wish a family upon me.

The time for diplomacy is past. If the Council wills it Azeem and I will submit to the Inquistion. Let the Light judge us and strike blind any who say we are without purity and faith.

You shall live with the consequences of this day Balamir. Blind faith and piety shall be your undoing.


[i]Edge attends in fullest, the grasp of fools revealled. Crucible ill-fitting, sanctum prepared.[i]

I cannot stand this anymore! I cannot stand to see the Knights of the Light, The Sons of Uther brawl and ask for blood every time they open their mouths! No... I cannot stand to see this and do nothing! We are the chosen of the Light! We cannot spent our last breaths stabing us with all our power and hatred! If we let vengence and bloodlust to enter our lifes we are no better than the savage orcs or foul Scourge! Is'nt indulgence and compasion the first things Light teach us? How can we even dream of defeating the Scourge if we become no better than them! And as for Balamir he was always there to sacrifice himself for the good of all of us! I know him for a very long time and I dont know a crime that big that he can do to diserve such hatred from the brothers he fought for soo long time. I am asking all of you, if you somehow hurt your pride, to leave it behind and embrace the Light in peace and friendship.

I appreciate your goodwill sister, however in order to stand strong against the forces of chaos, we need to be perfectly intact
And this cannot happen while I am accused of treason and I accuse my aggressors with corruption

The intervention of inquistion is vital on this case.
Now all is said and done, our fates will be decided through divine laws
For better or worse, my only hope is purity comes out of the trial