# Trope-a-Day: Church Militant **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [November 2, 2024, 7:33am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/trope-a-day-church-militant/1322 "2024-11-02T07:33:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
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**_[Church Militant](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChurchMilitant?ref=eldraeverse.com):_** The _eikones_ revered by the _Church of the Flame_ include two war gods, arguably so described: _D __ú__ r __é__ n __íä__ n_, eikone of righteous war, battle, conquest, strategy and tactics, and patron of the sentinels; and _Kalasan __é_, eikone of battle, courage, valor, victory through strength, and personal combat.  Their combined religious order, logically enough, is made up entirely of heavily armed and appropriately deadly _t__ emplars_ – and when I say appropriately deadly, I _do_ mean that in the modern age, they’re stomping around in much the same power armor as the actual Imperial Military Service uses.  (No bludgeoning weapons here out of a “commitment to peace”; they are very clear about Coming In War, and Gods Being On The Side Of The Big Weapons.  Also, not terribly keen on converting _by_ the sword – they’re religiously militant, not militantly religious, if you see what I mean.) They also supply all the military chaplains, which in the _Imperial Legions_ is _not_ a noncombatant position.  If anything, it’s a more combatant position than “legionary”… if one considers enthusiasm anything to go by. * * * This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://eldraeverse.com/2012/07/13/trope-a-day-church-militant](https://eldraeverse.com/2012/07/13/trope-a-day-church-militant) ---
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