Herders

The Herder faction is a religious order who are closely connected to the Council. A main belief of the Herders is that the Great White was the resulting punishment from Lud on a materialistic society. Their resulting responsibilities is thus to oversee the ritual burning of deformed humans and animals, destroying remnants and artifacts of the beforetime. As such, they condemn misfits for their born talents.

In Ashling, they also punish those those continue practices from the BeforeTime, such as Herb Lore.

Those who oppose the Herder faction or their goals are considered Seditioners and are burned or sent to councilfarms.

Ashling
In Ashling, The Herders regain some influence among the people as the result of a horrible plague. The plague came out of Aborium or Morganna and killed 1 in 3 of those it infected, leaving survivors scarred. This had resulted in very few to work on farms and large food shortages in the lowlands. The Herders claimed the plague was a result of the ill-treatment they had been met with and that it would return if the people did not obey them.

Significant locations: Herder Isle, Aborium

Popular Herders: Ariel, Mendi, Juri, Jik, Eril, Henry Druid

For a full list of known herders see: Herder