How it all began

Vicars Trynair, Maigwair, Duchairn and Clyntahn - otherwise known as the Group of Four - sat around the table in Duchairn's chambers, discussing all the usual matters necessary to run the Church of God Awaiting. It seemed that the Church's influence in Charis have been steadily weakening, even more so since the incident of Church's manipulation of the succession dispute over one of the aristocratic titles of the realm.
"Those charisian mark-pinchers and inovators are courting Shan-wei with their inventions," Vicar Clyntahn stressed most emphatically. "I say we build a joint, unstoppable fleet and take care of them once and for all..."