Worshipful Guild of the Sacred Carnifices

The Worshipful Guild of the Sacred Carnifices is a civic and religious fraternity of magistrates and executioners, with the typical carnifex-magister being trained and empowered to perform both roles, established under the terms of the Edict for the Restoration of Justice and Order promulgated by the Congress of Chryse in 10.XIII.1698 AN.

Background

The Second Elwynnese Civil War of 1692 AN to 1696 AN, which culminated in the Scouring, a limited nuclear exchange which had destroyed a heretical liberal rebellion in Amokolia and Upper Elwynn at the cost of seven cities, had fundamentally interrupted the operation of the economy and civil society throughout central, northern, and eastern Benacia. Outrage at the use of orbital bombardments, anti-matter devices, and thermonuclear warheads, had triggered a rash of insurgencies, rural uprisings and urban protests, which were quashed by the Black Legions and the Elwynnese Landstorm only with great difficulty. More insidiously, the despair engendered by the use of weapons of mass destruction, combined with the near universal disruption of agriculture, trade, and tenuous supply chains, to say nothing of the abrupt demobilisation of millions of former UDF and rebel servicemen, produced a malaise that hung over the lands of the future Benacian Union. Corruption, depravity, and lawlessness, had seemingly taken root in almost every bailiwick. Even in victorious Alalehzamin and the Unified Governorates there were to be found knots of individuals drawn to the heretical conclusion that the price paid for victory had been one not worth the paying.

To combat this societal decay, the Congress of Chryse concluded that a severe and exemplary punishment must be laid upon the populace - to either restore them to obedience or to more swiftly bring about their lasting extermination and replacement by a more godly and humble body of subjects, versed in Holodomatic Cedrozurvanism and the principles of Humanism.

Remit

A magister is to take his seat in the Bailiwick to which he has been assigned. There to exercise the power of life and death in judgement over every living soul resident there.

Duties

The Magister undertakes:

• To ensure that all lawful residents of the bailiwick in their charge has signed the Covenant and performed the associated rites. The Magister is also obligated to perform the duties associated with the punishment of recusants.
• To enforce upon the residents of the bailiwick the commandments proposed by the learned of Siyacha as a penance for the sinful nations of Benacia.
• To expel from his jurisdiction any alien or other sapient being who deviates at a fundamental genetic level from that of baseline humanity. Exemptions being granted only to those who can provide dockets endorsed by Benacia Command or the Guild of the Lotus specifying their permission to reside and work in a clearly delineated and closed location - a Paradise District, such as that found in Merensk is a perfect example of this.
• To purge any individual in public office suspected of corruption, decadence, heresy, subversion, or treason.