Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170722022959

For anyone that cares, needs to know, or is interested in what the Rin consider heresy you have found the right place!

Heresy is a 'lose' collection of six crimes all punishable by death normally by the mod or burning at the stake fashion. While others crimes have varying levels of severity heresy is deemed in any shape, form, or capacity a immediate death sentence in what ever way the world in question deems worthy. This can be immediate execution, torture, or the individual sent to a suicide squad generally the later is used due to the need of man power and the belief in redemption of the damned's souls through service and sacrifice.

Here are the six unholy/unforgivable acts of heresy:

1. Worship of non-sanctioned gods and the defying of the sanction gods

- Anything from simply praying to a non-sanctioned god, joined a secret cult, or denying the existence of sanctioned gods/ not properly honoring them. This tends to be within the realm of the church's authority and jurisdiction.

2. Practicing of witchcraft, sorcery, and other banned practices

- Witchcraft and the like are defined as unsanctioned uses of psychic powers with those that commit such acts to be either detained or if they are rouge silenced.

3. Treason or rebellion against the State

- rather self explanatory. This is rather vague due to the nature of treason and rebellion also being vast and vague. Generally immediate execution for this specific crime is discouraged.

4. Usurpation of power from the rightful rulers invested with the power of the State

- Inciting rebellion and so on. Although this crime can be forgivable if the people revolted due to overly cruel or unjust rule (deemed so by the state as the inefficiency of tithe collection/production) although rebellions that try to uproot leaders the state deems 'good' or over tents of the state or culture (Slavery and so on) are unforgivable and will be dealt with brutal force

5. The use of forbidden technology and other unholy arts and machines

- All the tech placed on the State's 'No No list'. Any such tech will be immediately confiscated by the state and the user put to death. Certain worlds have different lists of banned tech while the Empire has it's own list of tech banned every where.

6. Employing or answering to Psychic beings or weapons

- Big no no. Summoning demons and using the power of demons pretty much. Leads to a instant and bloody death once the state finds out, which it will.

Alongside these things certain institutions can be declared heretical (Ex: Heretical cults) heresy is dealt with (officially) with three edicts although all sorts of different punishments across the empire exist. The edicts are as follows:

Excommunicate Traitoris:

A form of 'banishment' in which the traitor's personal belongings are confiscated by the state the traitor is sent to a Imperial prison to be transferred to a suicide squad later on. Do note this is not banishment in the regular civil law sense (which exists) seeing as heresy is no regular situation or crime seeing as in the civil sense it is the banishment from a world, region, or the empire while in this sense it is the banishment from society itself.

Oblitoration Traitoris:

This punishment is used for traitorous individuals of high ranking. All records, statues, and anything else marking the individuals existence will be erased and the records expunged. While the individual themselves shall never be mentioned again and the thought that they 'never existed' is encouraged. The most common 'evidence' of this are plain face statues found throughout the Empire.

Exterminatus Traitoris:

This is a death order plain and simple in which the individual, technology, or even entire worlds shall be terminated by any means necessary or any means deemed worthy. 