Your Order's Name Here

Enter a brief description of the order you have created and its location or other data you feel is relevant.

Function: The Oaths

Function is that aspect of the religious order which defines its purpose, its goals, and its guilding principles. It is embodied by a series of oaths. Delete any oaths from the following list:

  • Oath of Visitation
  • Friend's Oath
  • Oath of Initiation
  • Membership Oath
  • Oath of Envoy
  • The Intimate Oath

Order: Structure and Governance

Order is the aspect of a religious order which defines the roles of its members, its organizational structure, its leadership and how that leadership is chose, as well as its rules of conduct. Next pick the form of governance:

  • Anarchy
  • Ad Hoc Rule
  • Pure Autocracy
  • True Hierarchy
  • Institutional Democracy
  • Free Counsel Democracy

Form: Liturgy and Monasteries

Form is the aspect of a religious order which defines its outward identity. It can also be thought of as the physical aspect of the order, especially as its liturgical requirements are manifest in various kinds of physical plant. Pick the highest form you want your order to have:

  • Individual
  • A Single Anchor
  • A Church and Chapels
  • Scattered Cathedrals
  • Widespread Monasteries
  • Universal Basilicae

Statistics

Function Statistics

The primary part of the statistic of the covenant's Function is its Creed?. The secondary part is its Agenda?, which is a measure of the current activities and plans of the religious order as expressed by the upholding of members' oaths.

  • creed: enter number from 1-118 here
  • agenda: enter number from 1-118 here

see function statistics creation

Form Statistics

The primary part of the Form's statistic is its Identity. The secondary part of the statistic is its Assets? which represents the distinguishing physical assets which are considered owned or controlled by the religious order (buildings, areas, shrines, artifacts).

  • identity: enter number from 1-118 here
  • assets: enter number from 1-118 here

see form statistics creation

Order Statistic

The primary part of the Order's statistic of the Order is its Governance?. The secondary part is its Authority? which represents the degree to which the leadership structure is heeded by the entire membership, accepting the roles specified by the leaders and following rules established by the leaders.

  • governance: enter number from 1-118 here
  • authority: enter number from 1-118 here

see order statistics creation

Traits

traits for Religious Order objects are:

  • Unary traits:
    • informedness (Order)
      • defined as degree to which the order's history functionally informs its decision-making process
      • enter value from 1-118 here
    • substance (Form)
      • defined as the power of the connection between the order's relics and its stories
      • enter value from 1-118 here
    • incentive (Function)
      • defined as the capacity of the stories to impart the values of the order to its members
      • enter value from 1-118 here
  • Binary traits:
    • iconology (Order over Form)
      • defined as the ability of the order to create and define its own relics and their meaning
      • enter value from 1-118 here
    • aesthetics (Form over Function)
      • defined as the ability of the covenant to inspire quality as well as quantity of art and music
      • enter value from 1-118 here
    • relevance (Function over Order)
      • defined as the order's ability to meet the needs and concerns of its ordinary members
      • enter value from 1-118 here
    • insight (Order over Function)
      • defined as the order's ability to add stories
      • enter value from 1-118 here
    • acquisitiveness (Form over Order)
      • defined as the ability to acquire wealth and physical objects
      • enter value from 1-118 here
    • idealism (Function over Form)
      • defined as the degree to which the ideals of the order try to rule its form
      • enter value from 1-118 here
  • Trinary traits:
    • orthodoxy (Order over Form over Function)
      • defined as resistance to change
      • enter value from 1-118 here
    • affluence (Form over Function over Order)
      • defined as resistance to damage to the order due to the assets available in hard times
      • enter value from 1-118 here
    • fidelity (Function over Order over Form)
      • defined as the resistance to the mundane which derives from members' faithfulness to the oaths of the order
      • enter value from 1-118 here

Stories

How the "Mind" of the Order Thinks About Itself

The stories of the religious order influence how its members perceive the world. The same stories are also important for the AIs which control the NPCs who are members. Those same NPCs may react in some conversations by telling the stories if they think they are appropriate to the discussion.

See also Covenants, Oaths.

— Ennaja? - 23 Dec 2003