Imperial Tribunal to adopt Imperial Cult

News from the Imperial Tribunal in Light's Reach states that the "Imperial Cult" - the name given to the loose collective of priests, clerics, and former Scourges of the Church who have taken it upon themselves to travel the Empire alongside Imperial Watch patrols, preaching the Light - will be formally adopted into - and supervised by - the Tribunal itself, following the suggestions and advice drawn up by the Prince of the Blood.

The Imperial Tribunal aims to give structure, direction, and authority to these existing priests while building upon the foundation of the revised tenets of the suspended Order of the White Dragon in an effort to fill the spiritual void left by the collapse and subsequent dissolution of the Church of True Light.

State-funded and regulated by the Imperial Law, it is hoped that the result of an official "Imperial Cult" will see a united and pragmatic teaching of the virtues of the Light and the dangers of the Shadow without dictating faith in a personal level, as the Church of True Light did.

It is hoped that such a unity will also weed out the varied and often unconventional dogmatic interpretations that priests working as individuals with no central point of references beyond that of an abandoned zeal have developed over recent months, while permitting the Tribunal to eliminate teachings that verge on - or even go beyond - heresy.

Equally, the restoration of the various shrines, chapels, churches, and temples, that have been mostly abandoned in the wake of the Church of True Light will also be restored and inhabited, while greater efforts will be made to promote the spirit of those Shadow Touched citizens who have taken the Mark, encourage others to do the same, sooth local tensions and apprehensions against such people, and offer direction to those who have recently found themselves to be Sunkissed.

The Imperial Tribunal expects to begin structuring the Imperial Cult in the coming month, and fully predicts that it will be recruiting from both the population and the Imperial Watch for potential candidates. Conjecture also claims that the Imperial Tribunal will be recruiting a non-enlisted "Arbiter" to assume the role as watchdog and liaison between the Tribunal and the Imperial Cult, which - it is rumored - will be a reinterpretation of the Emperor's Hawk role, though replacing the militant zeal with diplomatic judiciousness.