Editing Protectorate of Menoth (section)

==History of the Protectorate (and also the Church)==
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Menoth, also known as the Lawbringer or the Creator, is the original patron god of humanity. Thousands of years ago he created mankind as servants. A man's sole purpose is to serve the Creator and his reward is a peaceful death and passage into the City of Man in Urcaen (The menite equivalent of heaven, and generally a good place in the generally really awful place that is Urcaen). After creating humanity he granted them the gifts of fire, walls, and laws, to help keep out the darkness and creatures that covered Caen. At this time, Caen was also a pretty bad place, covered in monster-infested forests and jungles where cannibals and other savages lived. It was the domain of the Devourer Wurm, Menoth's ancient enemy and opposite. Menoth's gifts gave humanity a fighting chance to stay alive and perform their purpose, to strengthen their creator. Where Menoth embodies and is strengthened by civilization, order, and servitude, the Devourer Wurm embodies the wilds and feeds on chaos and savagery. Menoth then left mankind to continue his eternal battle.

Menoth's a very strict god, and kind of an asshole. There's all kinds of laws that must be followed to the letter to get into the City of Man in Urcaen (Urcaen being where souls go when they die, and the City of Man being a pretty good place in a dimension that's otherwise pretty awful). the Church of Menoth began to falter with the rise of the Twins, Morrow and Thamar, two humans who believed anyone can rise above their stature, even to the point of ascending into Godhood (which they did).

The Church didn't really start to fall until the Orgoth invaded. The Orgoth are essentially black magic vikings from across the ocean who will both kill you and enslave your soul, or use the latter to fuel their magic. The Orgoth killed priests and burned temples, yet Menoth did nothing (This could be because he was too busy fighting the Devourer Wurm, which would've been more difficult as his strength waned when those who believed in him died or wavered in their faith. It could also have been a test to see if mankind would stray from the True Law.) Seemingly left to their fate, many humans felt Menoth's lessons felt hollow, while the Twins, the upstart gods Morrow and Thamar's message of hope started sounding more and more appealing. This, combined with Thamar's gift of arcane magic, allowed Immoren to drive out the Orgoth, resulting in the Menite church being a shadow of its former self.

However, a few faithful remained and started growing more and more resentful living under the new kingdom of Cygnar's rule (Namely because its capital, Caspia, was founded by the Twins). In 482 AR (Almost 300 years after the Orgoth were forced from Immoren) the faithful started an ultimately failed rebellion, which ended in a treaty. The Menites would still be a part of Cygnar, but have control of half the capital city (which they renamed Sul) as well as a fairly large area, mostly resource-poor desert to the south. But since it was Menite holy land, they didn't really mind. The other clause of the treaty was that they weren't allowed to have any warjacks or a standing army. They were however allowed to have a defensive militia (Which they exploited as a loophole). After converting the desert locals and re-founding the proper Menite capital city of Imer, things started to look up. They found rare jewels, which they used to bribe Cygnar officials from looking the other way of their more and more obvious attempts at disregarding the treaty. They also found oil, which they could refine into Menoth's Fury (think napalm or promethium) to fuel all kinds of fire-based weapons, from spears to flamethrowers. This combined with internal problems within Cygnar, namely their king being a dick with a younger, nicer brother who overthrew him, allowed the Protectorate to ignore the treaty entirely and build a massive army.

Their first goal was to fully conquer Caspia, but that didn't work out so well.

Now they're fighting Khador over Llael, and some of the locals are starting to find they prefer the frozen Iron Fist of the non-Russians over the burning Iron Fist of the Protectorate.