383YE Autumn Equinox Synod judgements

The sword scholars judge each mandate in turn.

Overview

During the Autumn Equinox 383YE Summit, the Imperial Synod raised 140 judgements.

Change of doctrine

No change of doctrine was proposed during the Autumn Equinox summit.

Veto

The veto was not sought during the Autumn Equinox 383YE.

Statement of principle

The following statements of principle were presented to the assemblies of the Imperial Synod. X of these statements achieved a Greater Majority, meaning they will be distributed to appropriate assemblies.

Mandate

This is a placeholder page for content that PD are actively working on.

The following mandates were passed during the Autumn Equinox. Where there are competing mandates, the one that passes with the largest margin is successful and all other competing mandates are considered to have failed.

Judgement 3

• Assembly: General Assembly
• Raised By: Genoveva Barossa di Tassato
• Judgement: The Imperatrix called on all her subjects to consider undertaking a pilgrimage - either physical, mental, or spiritual. We send Genoveva Barossa di Tassato with 50 liao to urge every citizen who is able to commit themselves to a pilgrimage of devotion and revelation found in the mandates endorsed by the Synod.
• Outcome: Upheld with a Greater Majority (1624 - 310). Enacted. It will be easier for the Synod to pass mandates following the Winter Solstice.
• Notes: The opportunity is detailed here.

Judgement 7

• Assembly: General Assembly
• Raised By: Galene Netherwatch
• Judgement: We must not subsume our will to inhuman forces, but nor should we fear to act where cooperation with an eternal can support a virtuous endeavour. We send Galene Netherwatch with 100 doses of liao to reassure the people of the Empire that working with an eternal to achieve virtuous end is not idolatry.
• Outcome: Upheld (1367 - 151). Not Enacted. No liao was provided to enact this mandate. It would have encouraged citizens across the Empire to seek out opportunities to cooperate with eternals toward virtuous ends. Even if the liao had been provided, however, as the mandate did not achieve a greater majority, the Wisdom assembly and the sword scholars would have prevented it being enacted.
• Notes: The opportunity is detailed here.

Judgement 10

• Assembly: Navarr Assembly
• Raised By: Corey Wayfarer
• Judgement: The people of Brocéliande stand guard against the vallorn, but they should not sacrifice their future to do so. The curse can be removed, but it will require a great working of magic to do so. We send Corey Wayfarer with 50 liao to urge all the people of the nation to identify ways that we might raise the magical might we need.
• Outcome: Upheld with a Greater Majority (190 - 0). Enacted. This mandate encourages Navarr citizens to seek out ways to help remove Wither the Seed from Brocéliande.
• Notes: The opportunity is detailed here.

Judgement 12

• Assembly: Prosperity Assembly
• Raised By: Bartimaeus of the Shattered Tower
• Judgement: The Prosperity assembly believes that it is vital that not only the Sand Fishers but all who deal with them respect the first tenet of Prosperity. We send Bartimaeus with 50 doses of liao to urge both foreign orc and Imperial citizen to set prosperous prices and trade fairly so that all may claim the just rewards of their labours
• Outcome: Upheld with a Greater Majority (271 - 0). Enacted. This mandate encourages not only the Sand Fishers but those Imperial citizens dealing with them to engage in "fair" trading practices.
• Notes: The opportunity is detailed here.

Judgement 13

• Assembly: Highguard Assembly
• Raised By: Lina of Felix's Watch
• Judgement: We the League National Assembly will not allow this stain to mar the beauty of Holberg, as such we send Lina of Felix's Watch with 25 doses of liao to convince business owners of Holberg to support the efforts to clean the waters of Holmauer
• Outcome: Upheld with a Greater Majority (748 - 32). Enacted. Every business in each territory of Highguard will see a penalty equivalent to one rank in the following season, but the fouled waters of Holberg will be purified.
• Notes: The opportunity is detailed here.

Judgement 15

• Assembly: General Assembly
• Raised By: Severin Teyhard von Holberg
• Judgement: The Imperatrix called on all her subjects to consider undertaking a pilgrimage - either physical, mental, or spiritual. We send Severin von Holberg with 50 liao to urge every citizen who is able to devote themselves to a pilgrimage of investigation and study to discover what we can about the Howling Abyss.
• Outcome: Upheld (981-676). TBC. This mandate encouraged people to pursue insight into the Howling Abyss. It achieved a margin of 305.
• Notes: The opportunity is detailed here.

Judgement 16

• Assembly: Highguard Assembly
• Raised By: Hazelponi of the Shattered Tower
• Judgement: The vallorn of Brocéliande remains a threat, as do the Vallorn that lay throughout the Empire. The Highborn National assembly applauds the Courage of our Pilgrims and calls upon all the faithful to redouble our efforts to destroy the greatest spiritual threat faced by the Empire. We send Hazel of the Shattered Tower with 50 doses of liao to encourage the priests of Highguard to continue aiding in the fight against the vallorn..
• Outcome: Upheld with a Greater Majority (752 - 0). TBC. This mandate encourages Highborn congregations to continue supporting the efforts against the vallorn.
• Notes: The opportunity is detailed here.

Judgement 17

• Assembly: General Assembly
• Raised By: Cimeies of Felix's Watch
• Judgement: The Imperatrix called on all her subjects to consider undertaking a pilgrimage - either physical, mental, or spiritual. We send Cimeies of Felix's Watch with 50 liao to urge every citizen who is able to devote themselves to a pilgrimage of travel and exploration following the trods to Zenith.
• Outcome: Upheld (813 - 442). Margin 371. TBC. This mandate would have encourged Imperial citizens to make pilgrimage to Zenith. While it was enacted, the intervention of the Wisdom assembly and the sword scholars would have prevented it having effect.
• Notes: The opportunity is detailed here.

Judgement 24

• Assembly: Urizen Assembly
• Raised By: Maximillian
• Judgement: We must not subsume our will to inhuman forces, but nor should we fear to act where cooperation with an eternal can support a virtuous endeavour. We send Maximillian with 50 doses of liao to reassure all the people of Urizen that working with an eternal to achieve a virtuous end is not idolatry..
• Outcome: Upheld with a Greater Majority (122 - 20). Margin 371. TBC. This mandate encourages citizens of Urizen to seek out opportunities for virtuous cooperation with eternals.
• Notes: The opportunity is detailed here.

Judgement 40

• Assembly: Vigilance Assembly
• Raised By: Anierei Exiles End
• Judgement: Vigilance teaches us to seek out the poison in our neighbour’s fields, lest your own crops be blighted. We send Anierei Exiles End with 50 liao to urge every vigilant citizen to remain alert for signs of idolatrous worship of Yaw'nagrah, or reverence of the monstrous vallorn and bring their suspicions to the attention of their priests.
• Outcome: Upheld with a Greater Majority (241- 0). TBC. This mandate encourages virtuous citizens to actively seek out followers of Yaw'nagrah or those they suspect might have connections to the Heirs of Terunael.
• Notes: The opportunity is detailed here.

Judgement 41

• Assembly: Highguard Assembly
• Raised By: Able the Taller
• Judgement: The empire is our manifest destiny. We send Able of the Shattered Tower with 75 doses of liao to urge every citizen serving in the Highborn armies to be filled with the zeal to virtuously drive the enemy before them
• Outcome: Upheld with a Greater Majority (610- 14). Margin 596, in competition to Judgement 43. TBC. This mandate gives the Highborn armies the Crusading Storm special order.
• Notes: The opportunity is detailed here.

Judgement 43

• Assembly: Highguard Assembly
• Raised By: Jada
• Judgement: The Druj are motivated only by their own vile wickedness. We send Jada with 75 doses of liao to urge every citizen serving in the Highborn armies to be filled with the zeal to put these barbarians to the sword
• Outcome: Upheld with a Greater Majority (391- 217). Margin 174, in competition to Judgement 41. Not enacted. This mandate would have given the Highborn armies the Put them to the sword special order.
• Notes: The opportunity is detailed here.

Judgement 43

• Assembly: Marches Assembly
• Raised By: Landon of Longridge
• Judgement: The miraculous preservation of the Memorial Garden and the Apple Grove are a testament to the {virtue} of General Flowers. We send Landon with 25 doses of liao to encourage Marchers to undertake a pilgrimage to Holberg to view this wonder for themselves.
• Outcome: Upheld (94 - 74). TBC. This mandate would have encouraged a Marcher pilgrimage to Holberg, but it was rendered ineffective by the intervention of the Wisdom assembly and the sword scholars.
• Notes: The opportunity is detailed here.

Judgement 61

• Assembly: Highguard Assembly
• Raised By: Yarona of the Chantry
• Judgement: All laudable human qualities have their roots in the seven Virtues. We send Yarona of the Chantry with 50 doses of liao to show people that love and glory are to be celebrated for the ways in which they drive the faithful to greater acts of Virtue.
• Outcome: Upheld with a Greater Majority (522 - 42). TBC. This mandate immediately removes the penalty affecting Dawnish congregations; Grants one additional liao and two additional votes to Highborn and Dawnish congregations for the next two seasons; for the next year the priests of both nations may gain the chance to support, oppose, or otherwise react to statements and mandates of importance to the other nation.
• Notes: The opportunity is detailed here.

Judgement 69

• Assembly: League Assembly
• Raised By: Ophelia Sanguineo Rezia di Tassato
• Judgement: The people of Whittle are not evil, they are misguided. Their hatred of orcs is founded on decades of fighting the Jotun and not just their faith. Their embrace of hatred is no more problematic for civilised folk than the false idols of the Asaveans. As such the League assembly sends Ophelia Sanguineao Rezia di Tassato with 50 doses of liao to offer the Whittle folk sanctuary in Tassato, in the Little Mournwold district that they helped to found. While the people of Tassato accept orcs as citizens of the Empire, there are no orcs vying to become citizens of the League and so the Whittle folk may live peacefully in Tassato Mestra without compromising their beliefs - as long as they accept that preaching the false virtue of Hatred will not be tolerated.
• Outcome: Not upheld (114 - 142). Not Upheld.
• Notes: The opportunity is detailed here.

Judgement 82

• Assembly: General Assembly
• Raised By: Veikko Bondforger
• Judgement: The Imperatrix called on all her subjects to consider undertaking a pilgrimage - either physical, mental, or spiritual. We send Veikko Bondforger with 50 liao to urge every citizen who is able to commit themselves to a pilgrimage of dreaming, to reveal the truths found in their own soul and beyond.
• Outcome: Upheld (719 - 342). Margin 377. TBC. This is a pilgrimage of the mind ...
• Notes: The opportunity is detailed here.

Judgement 100

• Assembly: Urizen National
• Raised By: Aurum of the Nightingale Temple
• Judgement: The Paragon of Blades is the perfect epitome of the Urizeni spirit - pure calculating reason unhindered by emotion or pity. We send Aurum of the Nightingale Temple with 50 doses of liao to encourage every Urizeni to embrace her teachings. Let us bring strength against weakness and victory will be ours.
• Outcome: Upheld with a Greater Majority (154 - 65). TBC. This mandate further solidifies support for the sword scholars. It will create the opportunity for the Empire to fund the creation of more sword scholar temples across Morrow. In addition their implacable opposition to the influence of the Imperial Synod would make it harder for statements of principle passed by the Assembly of the Nine or the General Assembly to affect Urizen. It would not be impossible - but the impact of any statements would be attenuated.
• Notes: The opportunity is detailed here.

Judgement 124

• Assembly: Assembly of Nine
• Raised By: Sariel
• Judgement: In Wisdom the Synod judges liao trade with the Axos to be an acceptable activity that is neither virtuous nor unvirtuous. We send Sariel of the Shattered Tower with 25 liao to reassure the citizens of the Empire that selling or trading liao with the people of Axos is as virtuous and Prosperous as any other trade.
• Outcome: Upheld with a Greater Majority (8 - 0). Primacy. TBC. This mandate makes it clear it is acceptable to sell liao to the Axou. * Notes: The opportunity is detailed here.

Judgement 125

• Assembly: Assembly of Nine
• Raised By: Ser Ancél Watcher
• Judgement: The practice of Hatred in the Mournwold cannot be tolerated any longer. We send Sister Meredith Stellamaris with 25 doses of liao to lead the Silent Bell in tracking down those whose heart has turned to Hate with the aid of the Grey Pilgrims.
• Outcome: Upheld with a Greater Majority (7 - 1). Primacy. TBC. This mandate sends the Silent Bell to look into the Whittle situation and report their findings.
• Notes: The opportunity is detailed here.

Evaluation

The Synod made the following judgements of excommunication, inquisition, revocation, and sanction.

Recognition

There were no judgements of recognition during the Autumn Equinox.

Appointment

At the Summit, the following appointments were proposed by the Assemblies of the Synod. You can find the names of citizens who currently hold Imperial titles in the Synod here.

Rewarding

The following judgements of rewarding were proposed during the Autumn Equinox.

The Virtue Fund

The following represents the Virtue Fund of the Synod:

Starting Value	Nil
Income	1 Ring	Donation by Lysimachus.
Income	1 Crown	Donation by John of Meade.
Income	70 Thrones	The price paid in the Bourse Auction for the dose of True Liao.
Rewarding	7 Thrones	Rewarding to Solas of the Spire of the Waxing Sun following Judgement 105 being automatically upheld.
Rewarding	5 Thrones	Rewarding to Livia Cascade following Judgement 107 being automatically upheld.
Rewarding	10 Thrones	Rewarding to Franco i Erigo following Judgement 33 being upheld.
Rewarding	4 Thrones	Rewarding to Meredith Nighthaven following Judgement 39 being upheld.
Income	1 Crown	Donation by Tarquinius Ankarien.
Rewarding	5 Thrones	Rewarding to Aureliana Perpetua Nicasia Saverio di Sarvos following Judgement 136 being automatically upheld.
Closing Value	39 Thrones, 2 Crowns, 1 Ring

Doses of True Liao

Four doses of True Liao were disbursed this summit:

• One dose to Nessetta Constanta by purchase in the Public Auction
• One dose to Viviane de Coeurdefer by decision of the Gatekeepers
• One dose to Tarquinius Ankarien by decision of the Gatekeepers
• One dose to Asher Holt by decision of the Gatekeepers