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| [[Image:House Fanel crest.gif|left|thumb|House Fanel coat of arms'']]
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| == '''History''' == | | == '''History''' == |
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| -House Fanel, the name Fanel, and the planet Gaia is loosely based on the Japanese Anime [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escaflowne Escaflowne] | | -House Fanel, the name Fanel, and the planet Gaia is loosely based on the Japanese Anime [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escaflowne Escaflowne] |
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| == '''Religion - Entil'Zha - "The One Who Creates The Future"''' ==
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| Unlike many other religions where one would believe in one God or many gods, House Fanel believes in something they all called Entil'zha, or widely spoken as simply "The One". Not an actual person in reality like a god, but more as an ideal. They believe that there is a higher power, a higher level of understanding that every race currently has no means to attain at the moment because we have not yet ready to reach such a peak of existence. Since we do not understand The One who creates the future, we simply live in it. The One isn't one particular thing, or object or person. It is all around us, shaping us, influencing us. To compare, the closest thing would be to compare this to The Force. It binds us, it is all around us and it shaped the past, it shapes the present, and it will shape the future. They respect all other religions from other races, but this is the ideal religion they believe as to have faith in. Essentially, you have faith in literally yourself because The One is within you, and you have faith in who you are, what you do, and that it creates the future. This also means you believe in the others around you because they shape the present and the create the future as well. It allows you to have a natural respect for everything and everyone in your life. That in reality there is a natural balance that must be upheld and an order of things that comes to life.
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| To this end, the Fanels have a mantra:
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| '''''We are Holy Warriors.<br />We tread in the darkness no others dare enter.<br />We do not break away from combat.<br />We stand on the bridges, and no one may pass us.<br />We do not retreat, we do not faulter.<br />We fight in the name of honor.<br />We live for the One, we die for the One.'''''
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| But this mantra is reserve only for those who are either House Fanel born or dedicated loyalist to House Fanel. This includes the distaff cousins relations to House Fanel that doesn't bear the Fanel name, but remain loyal and within the House.
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| House Fanel as influenced by the religion they believe in are all raised, but not necessarily believe in it. One consistency is that they believe they are, as a whole, a symbol of balance. That they take a path that knows there is no true evil or good in the universe. That good and evil are grey and to live a well off life, it is best to stay in between the good and evil, to live beyond good and evil.
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| Hence they have another mantra:
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| '''I am grey.<br />I stand between the candle and the star.<br />I see balance in chaos.<br />We are grey.<br />We stand between the darkness and the light.<br />We are here.<br />Where are there.<br />We are everywhere.<br /> We are nothing.<br />And We are everything'''
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| '''-Inspirations from''' [[wp:Babylon 5|Babylon 5]]
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| == '''Fanelian High Guard''' == | | == '''Fanelian High Guard''' == |
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| Unlike the Gaian military which is also in the control of House Fanel, there is the High Guard which the sole purpose is the protection of House Fanel, employing honored men and women who have earned to be named a Fanel. This would increase the genepool of House Fanel and ensure that anyone named Fanel has proven sole loyalty to House Fanel no matter what. They will fight and die in the name of the House no matter what. | | Unlike the Gaian military which is also in the control of House Fanel, there is the High Guard which the sole purpose is the protection of House Fanel, employing honored men and women who have earned to be named a Fanel. This would increase the genepool of House Fanel and ensure that anyone named Fanel has proven sole loyalty to House Fanel no matter what. They will fight and die in the name of the House no matter what. |
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| These High Guard are currently armed with an innovation thanks for Jacen, the Force Lance, which all carry as a weapon of symbolism than a weapon of practicality.
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| The High Guard also has a higher jurisdicition since the situation they are usually thrusted in might break a few laws or regulations. They are sometimes a shadow that protects the House's intersts as well as a very seen guardian force everyone can see. | | The High Guard also has a higher jurisdicition since the situation they are usually thrusted in might break a few laws or regulations. They are sometimes a shadow that protects the House's intersts as well as a very seen guardian force everyone can see. |
| [[Image:House Fanel crest2.gif|right|thumb|This is the crest for the House Fanel High Guard, Fanel's personal military directly under it's control'']]
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| == '''The Pledge of Valor"''' == | | == '''The Pledge of Valor"''' == |