Excommunication in the Catholic Church isn’t the same thing as being lacized - a loss of status as a member of the clergy - instead it’s a form of institutional shunning that invites the censured party to reconsider and repent for their actions so they may return to the fold. Lonne craves nothing more. He just has to do something first.
Lonne habitually stepped over the line as a priest. His willingness to question doctrine and go beyond the accepted boundaries of the church made otherwise marginalised people trust him. In combination with a particularly active local occult underground it exposed him to exactly the sort of things that the Order of St. Cecil deals with on a regular basis: possession, hauntings, sorcery. Despite his reputation, kicking requests that were substantiated up the chain enough times earned him the attention of the order. Delays in their response meant he went it alone against the forces of darkness more than once.
This combination earned him a pass on his questionable conduct and his eagerness to impress brought him into the order proper, despite the reservations of some senior membership. He performed admirably but his reliability and methods are shaky. It took an instance of him negotiating with one demon to displace another possessing a young girl for the order to put him on notice.
For the time being Lonne has moved out of the church and his regular parishioners aren’t exactly happy with his “temporary” replacement. Instead he runs his own off-the-books ministry, catering specifically to the occult underground following he developed for his accommodating views. Among them are two adepts and an avatar who he believes he can rehabilitate and use to prove to the order that a change of policy is in order. His current magickal version of conversion therapy is highly questionable but well-intentioned.
The order is keeping an eye on him and finds this behaviour alarming. They haven’t moved yet but are divided between issuing an ultimatum, allowing him to see the error of his ways naturally and cutting off the risk he poses to them as soon as possible. None of them want to move against the others and spur overt factionalism so for the time being he gets away with it. Much like he always has.
STATS
Personality: Pompous and self-aggrandizing on the outside, harrowed and spiritually suicidal on the inside. Lonne is raucous in manner but secretly believes the sacrifice of his own soul for the salvation of others would be an acceptable trade. Having spent so long away from the fold he’s going native in the occult underground.
Rage: Being judged by holier-than-thous, they haven’t faced what he has.
Noble: If not me, then who?
Fear: He can’t save them all (Self).
Obsession: Saving those furthest from God.
Wound Threshold: 50.
Ousted Cecilite 65%* (Substitutes for Knowledge, Protects Helplessness, Protects Unnatural.)
Shepherd To The Forsaken 55% (Substitutes for Connect, Substitutes for Status, Use Gutter Magick.)
Shock Gauges
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