Posted - 2009.09.09 04:04:00 - [1]

 

As a recent convert to the Faith, I feel that it is my duty to educate you, the infidel, on the beliefs and practices of the Goon. My goal is to educate the ignorant, to enlighten the misguided and to convert the willing. May God bless you and grant you the ability to comprehend the meaning behind my meager efforts.

History

Our faith, like many other marginalized religions, has its roots in a once-large sect of the Amarrian faith. At one time, its followers lived in relative harmony with the adherents to what is now Amarrian Orthodox. They also preached that human kind must live in harmony with the cosmos itself. Unlike the Orthodox Amarrian religion, it was a religion of peace and tolerance; a religion in which all beings were equal in the eyes of God. However, as the influence of the religion that became Amarrian Orthodox grew, its leaders came to see all other faiths as a threat to its supremacy. The Crusade was as inevitable as it was brutal.

The Amarrian Orthodoxy crushed its rival to the point where virtually no one even remembers its name. (For the sake of simplicity, I will refer to it as the Old Faith.) However, they did not eradicate it entirely. Like faintly glowing embers, the Old Faith needed only a breath of fresh air to explode into a raging inferno. That breath was provided by the Prophet Karttoon, now Grand Sheikh of Goonswarm, Sword of Divine Fury, Scourge of the Infidel.

The biography of the man now known as Karttoon is shrouded in mystery. What is known is that he was spent nearly two years as a religious scholar in the Royal Amarr Institute. While outwardly, he appeared to be every inch the Orthodox Amarrian, in his soul, he knew that his allegiance lay elsewhere. One fateful day, God Himself spoke to him. The Almighty's message was both simple and powerful: "That which cannot be tolerated must not be tolerated."

This simple revelation let the Prophet Karttoon to the inevitable conclusion that the Old Faith was flawed in that it attempted to tolerate the intolerable. It was this contradiction that left it open to near-destruction at the hands of the Amarrian Orthodoxy and it was this weakness that the Prophet Karttoon resolved to eradicate. No more would the Old Faith (henceforward known only as the Faith) bend to the will of the monstrous. Instead, the Faith would bend the monstrous to its will by any means necessary.