The White Sisters (Order of Aerna)

Steel Realms
White Sisters of Aerna are an elite group of healers and a lightbringer sect of Aerna. The order participates in the project of Reclaiming the Wyld. The White Sisters are neutral in all things, and are not to be touched by any combatant. Their grounds are considered neutral, and any inside are compelled to be violence free. To violate this is to cast of the White Sisters from the land – they will have nothing to do with it for a century. As such, their holy places are often used as a political tool in which to ensure opposing factions can meet without fear of ambush. The ban also includes an ambush on a arranged “pilgrimage” to a Preceptory of the White Hem in order to settle conflict. The White Sisters are exempt from the oversight of the Primarch of Light.

Sacred Places of the Order

Preceptory of the White Hem: When a particular church, temple, or cathedral is important, a side structure (preceptory) just for use by The White Sisters is made. It can house a dozen in modest keepings with a single common hall, to be used as a hospital when needed, as well as a safe [neutral]space for resolving conflicts. It is to these places most often, that recently rehabilitated sisters of the order are sent on their first mission.

Dunstrand Rising Living World Set in Grand Duchy of Dunstrand in the Steel Realms of the [Fantasy] Steel Realms, as a Living World storyline.

The order has representation at the reclaimed Temple of Aerna of the Golden Hem.

Seven Spire Region: The White Sisters of Aerna have a chapter house here name The White Mother’s “House of Sauvegarde”. They combine it with the local sacred foodstuffs of The Amarata to make it, possibly, the greatest place of healing and succor in all of Umbak (when it is finished).

Chronicle of the Order

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[CY 9140] Corrigans Bane: A curse that spread a drying, parched disease in The Grand Duchy of Fhayl. It is believed some necromantic experiment from the Houses of the Hanging Dead in the city of Ados got loose, and the masters there care little for those outside the city. There was a great deal of animosity towards them and the city, and supplies began to run low in the city of certain items, as merchants and travelers stayed away. The House Narcosa sent in members to try and figure out how to keep it contained, along with the White Sisters of Aerna. It was only after a Darkling plot was revealed as its source that the region’s civil unrest was averted. Orban Bonesetter was one of the two senior members of that delegation from House Narcosa, and the one who finally slew the Darkling after tracing it to Corrigans Inn (at a major crossroads) – where it had poisoned/cursed the well and that was spreading the disease.

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