| Image from The Last Judgement. There has been evidence that Michelangelo painted the flayed skin in St. Bartholomew's hand to represent the soulless body of a Lochkray victim - This scene is displayed prominently within the Sistine Chapel. |
| In response to a disturbing increase in the number of deaths in Western Europe, in the year 897 Pope Stephen VII created a new order of brothers to investigate the stories of the night demons that had been feeding on his people. A short time after the Order's creation, the Pope was incarcerated and eventually assassinated. Because of this, very few knew of the Order's establishment. Rather than disband upon the news of their sponsor's death, the brother's went forth with their assigned task. By early 900, the Order of the Cimmerian Quest began to find evidence of the Lochkray. They began to create a cohesive record of all the stories and mythologies that they came across - eventually cataloguing the only accurate record of what Lochkray are. In the early years of their work, during their investigations into the Lochkray, six of the brothers were identified and taken captive by Lochkray. Wanting to discover what they could about the Order, the Lochkray took the brothers to an underground settlement, where they were held and interrogated, and then awaited termination. One of the brothers, a Kiever Lestavois, managed to escape, and much of the first hand understanding of what the Lochkray are, and what they are capable of, comes from his accounts. It was shortly after Lestavois' escape that the Order set forth on the annihilation of the Lochkray - an effort that, although it went on for centuries, had a great deal of success. The Order managed to locate and destroy most of the Lochkray's underground strongholds throughout Europe, Africa and Asia. Their success resulted in the scattering of the Lochkray population around the world - a righteous genocide that was effective in crippling the Lochrkay society, even to this day. What remains of the Order of the Cimmerian Quest exists at the Dugova Monestary in Belarus, in Eastern Europe. It is unknown how many of the secretive brothers still belong to this order at this time. Very little is known of their existence, even at the Vatican, and the order generally operates autonomously from the Holy See. |
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| Image from The Last Judgement. There has been evidence that Michelangelo painted the flayed skin in St. Bartholomew's hand to represent the soulless body of a Lochkray victim - This scene is displayed prominently within the Sistine Chapel. |
| To the attentive, much of the Catholic Church's commissioned work, like the 1478 painting Baptism of Christ, have an allusion to the tantamount of goodness, retreating into darkness. Those close to the Church in the past were well versed in the truth of God's "other" children, and hints of their existence have been intentionally placed within their work. Clues can be even be traced through many of the bible's writings, going back to the original Old Testament, where it is written in Genesis that God "made two great lights. A greater light to rule the day, and a lesser light to rule the night." Traditional thinking on the meaning of those words may be quite wrong - an illusion to those that gave rise to the hebrew mythology of the Alukah, rather than simply the sun and moon. |