Brineward Concord

Name: The @Brineward Concord

Type: Isolationist Religious-Militarist Faction

Base of Power: Brinefang Monastery, Saltglass Wastes

Description:

The @Brineward Concord is a fanatical order of militant sun-faith adherents who believe suffering in the Saltglass Wastes is the ultimate form of purification. Born from the trials of the Brinefang Monastery, they act not as missionaries, but as enforcers of spiritual isolation, ensuring the Wastes remain a crucible untouched by outside weakness or corruption.

Leadership:

  • @Hierophant Vaskra the Scalded — spiritual and strategic leader.

  • The Trial Circle — a body of elder monks and pain-marked warriors who judge the faithful and the impure alike.

Tenets:

1. Pain is truth.

2. Outsiders bring corruption.

3. The Wastes burn away falsehood.

4. Mercy is heresy. Endurance is grace.

Symbol:

A cracked sun disk wreathed in salt-crystals, often seared into armor or branded onto flesh.

Structure:

  • Brineward Ascetics: The zealots who enforce internal law and handle conversions by ordeal.

  • The Scorchbound: Warrior-initiates who patrol the Wastes and punish intrusion.

  • Solar Wardens: Silent executioners that act without trial.

Territorial Control:

Full control of @Brinefang Monastery

Surveillance over @The Glassborne Scar and Saltlash Ridges

Ritual claim over the @The Brimvault Caldera (deemed sacred origin)

Relations:

  • Hostile: @Coral Regency, @Tideforged Armada , and all coastal empires

Goals:

  • Prevent the exploitation of Saltglass resources.

  • Convert worthy survivors into the Concord.

  • Guard ancient rites and remnants of sunfire weaponry.

  • Repel all external attempts to colonize or map the Wastes.

Notable Assets:

  • The Trial Labyrinth — a buried testing ground of ancient pain-magic

  • Sunbrine Vaults — sealed reliquaries of burning prayers and forbidden scrolls

  • Blinding Ash Pylons — obelisks used to blind skyship scouts with divine light

Reputation:

To the faithful: holy purifiers.

To outsiders: sand-mad zealots with fire in their blood and knives in their teeth.