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Public News Post #122

The Story of Veritus

Written by: Headmistress Servelan de Vermiis
Date: Thursday, December 4th, 1997
Addressed to: Sir Gawain, Blade of Faith


Sarapis was validating my previous post in that the Templar Guild
document meant that you founded the modern Templars and not
that the Templars began existence when you founded it.

The only other points Sarapis mentioned are that the Templars began
soon after the Church (which corresponds with my previous posts)
and that there were no Templars around when Pasiphae was around.
To clarify for others (since you know this already), as mentioned
in my introduction, Veritus wrote this, presumably, for other Templars
who already knew that the legend of St. Gregor. Veritus stated that
"Gregor Templar" is that "whom all Templars are named." We note
that the "Templar" used in the context of "Gregor Templar" is a
sirname and not meant to imply that he was a member of any
Templar Guild as we know it today. In other words, Gregor Templar
was no more a "Templar" than Pasiphae was a "Priestess." We see
this confirmed in Veritus' text when he later states that the Templars
were founded "years later".

There is a question, however, of whether St. Gregor ever existed or
was a myth propigated by the founding Templars to give some meaning
to their Rite of Humiliation. The only thing amazing about all this, of
course, is Gawain's denial in the face of Frederick (an ex-Templar's)
validation that this practice is still in use today.





Penned by my hand on the 1st of Mayan, in the year 178 AF.


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Public News Post #122

The Story of Veritus

Written by: Headmistress Servelan de Vermiis
Date: Thursday, December 4th, 1997
Addressed to: Sir Gawain, Blade of Faith


Sarapis was validating my previous post in that the Templar Guild
document meant that you founded the modern Templars and not
that the Templars began existence when you founded it.

The only other points Sarapis mentioned are that the Templars began
soon after the Church (which corresponds with my previous posts)
and that there were no Templars around when Pasiphae was around.
To clarify for others (since you know this already), as mentioned
in my introduction, Veritus wrote this, presumably, for other Templars
who already knew that the legend of St. Gregor. Veritus stated that
"Gregor Templar" is that "whom all Templars are named." We note
that the "Templar" used in the context of "Gregor Templar" is a
sirname and not meant to imply that he was a member of any
Templar Guild as we know it today. In other words, Gregor Templar
was no more a "Templar" than Pasiphae was a "Priestess." We see
this confirmed in Veritus' text when he later states that the Templars
were founded "years later".

There is a question, however, of whether St. Gregor ever existed or
was a myth propigated by the founding Templars to give some meaning
to their Rite of Humiliation. The only thing amazing about all this, of
course, is Gawain's denial in the face of Frederick (an ex-Templar's)
validation that this practice is still in use today.





Penned by my hand on the 1st of Mayan, in the year 178 AF.


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