The Sercret Guard...
The Secret Guard...
The Secret Order, or The Red Guard as it is known to all, is a religious / military organization made up of no more than thirty men and women who have decided not to renounce their Guardian beliefs, in the face of the never thought betrayal of the impure and selfish heart of the Rebel Guardian Lothar. But in the eyes of the outside world its mission is to safeguard and protect those who pay for it.
The Secret Guard, or The Red Guard as it is known to all, is a religious / military organization made up of no more than thirty men and women who have decided not to renounce their Guardian beliefs, in the face of the never thought betrayal of the impure and selfish heart of the Rebel Guardian Lothar. But in the eyes of the outside world its mission is to safeguard and protect those who pay for it.
...Only those who believe can see.
These brave and faithful men and women, fought hard as never before, before the unscrupulous and savage attacks of King Harald, who, supported by the Rebel Guardian, tries to take away not only their lands and treasures hidden in it, but also their beliefs and forces. However, the attack was so disproportionate in response capacity, that their courage and strength were not enough to win them in battle, who with their spirit wounded and their forces almost dead, prefer to flee to organize and avoid martyrdom. During the years that the purge lasted, they were persecuted, enslaved, sold until they were almost exterminated; leaving only a handful of weakened men and women in exile, generally on the fringes of the law, and although their body and mind had been, in most cases, traumatized, their soul and spirit, in a silence of exile , remained steadfast and faithful. Those who managed to escape, and along with them their beliefs, were conducting activities in a hidden way to keep their cult alive, hiding their belonging to it. This was its existence during the first long five years of that period of diaspora and persecution, however in that elapse, after the conquest of King Harald and concentrating his mandate in this new area, and establishing how a new capital; the political, economic and administrative connection was declining, emerging new local leaders who would respond and solve the internal affairs of these localities. Soon the shortage of goods and food would come, and soulless groups and gangs would emerge that looted and abused the population.
The kingdoms under his Mercy gradually became mere decadent and poor areas where injustice, hunger, poverty and the worst that can kill even the richest of men, despair, reigned. It was in the town of Byblos, where the embryo of the Red Order was reborn, in the midst of a civil strife, to which there was no end in sight.
The guerrillas, outlaws and thugs, fought for control of areas and trade routes. Villages were frequently looted, without even respecting the holy places. Although the inhabitants of small towns suffered the most, businesses, farms and sawmills were no exception. So well three local leaders decided to unite and face the abuses that their people lived, they began to organize a small group of volunteers to defend their villages.
At the beginning there were about forty men armed with a handful of swords, spears and little else. That tiny group of volunteers, sparsely armed, was an incipient protection for those places that were hit every so often, protection that soon extended to the property of other neighboring dependencies.
These brave and faithful men and women, fought hard as never before, before the unscrupulous and savage attacks of King Harald, who, supported by the Rebel Guardian, tries to take away not only their lands and treasures hidden in it, but also their beliefs and forces. However, the attack was so disproportionate in response capacity, that their courage and strength were not enough to win them in battle, who with their spirit wounded and their forces almost dead, prefer to flee to organize and avoid martyrdom. During the years that the purge lasted, they were persecuted, enslaved, sold until they were almost exterminated; leaving only a handful of weakened men and women in exile, generally on the fringes of the law, and although their body and mind had been, in most cases, traumatized, their soul and spirit, in a silence of exile , remained steadfast and faithful. Those who managed to escape, and along with them their beliefs, were conducting activities in a hidden way to keep their cult alive, hiding their belonging to it. This was its existence during the first long five years of that period of diaspora and persecution, however in that elapse, after the conquest of King Harald and concentrating his mandate in this new area, and establishing how a new capital; the political, economic and administrative connection was declining, emerging new local leaders who would respond and solve the internal affairs of these localities. Soon the shortage of goods and food would come, and soulless groups and gangs would emerge that looted and abused the population.
The kingdoms under his Mercy gradually became mere decadent and poor areas where injustice, hunger, poverty and the worst that can kill even the richest of men, despair, reigned. It was in the town of Byblos, where the embryo of the Red Order was reborn, in the midst of a civil strife, to which there was no end in sight.
The guerrillas, outlaws and thugs, fought for control of areas and trade routes. Villages were frequently looted, without even respecting the holy places. Although the inhabitants of small towns suffered the most, businesses, farms and sawmills were no exception. So well three local leaders decided to unite and face the abuses that their people lived, they began to organize a small group of volunteers to defend their villages.
At the beginning there were about forty men armed with a handful of swords, spears and little else. That tiny group of volunteers, sparsely armed, was an incipient protection for those places that were hit every so often, protection that soon extended to the property of other neighboring dependencies.
These men were also known as Los Mauszetanos. According to some accounts of the settlers these men were called the Mauszetanos due to a man called Mauszet, according to the stories of the townspeople, Mauszet was a man who defended his family with his own being, from bandits who wanted to seize their property According to what they say, this terrible event occurred during a very dark night, while Mauszet's family rested, he stood guard to see that everything was alright, but the attacker surprised him and to his regret the criminals outnumbered him, he fought, But he did not have to stop the attack, he saw how they finished off his wife, this infuriated him, and when he saw how they later went against their children, the legend says that it was both his strength and his will to stop the evildoers, that he was transformed in a beast like a kind of wolf but much bigger and stronger and in the middle of the darkness with a loud howl he destroyed in just seconds the evildoers who attacked him and his family, but pitifully it was too late for his family. It is believed that Mauszet was left alone and wandering in the village, protecting the families that were left homeless, as a penance because he could not save his own, and from time to time a wolf howl was heard that coincided many times with attacks on the villages, people believed that this was Mauszet. It was common to see these brave, brave men, Mauszetanos making their surveillance tours, accompanied by a large ferocious wolfdog, which just by looking caused great fear. Many believed that this was Mauszet.
Thus, time went by and between facts and legends that were already forming around this Guard, three years later, they were already protecting more towns from bandit attacks, there were more and more towns that in the middle of that collapse and neglect and forgetfulness of the state, requested some type of those men. What the contractors and villagers under their care did not know was that large numbers of these men were secretly faithful exiled guardians. But since they were so pending of hiring them and ensuring urgent protection, it did not matter what they believed in, the important thing was to survive. This situation was favorable to these exiled members, thus gradually giving it a structure more typical of a religious congregation than of an army with a freedom and dynamism without equal until then, based on a noble and greater purpose "The Guard".
Although the original members had been devout guardians at the beginning, then people of all classes, creeds and social position were accepted in the midst of that time when more warriors were needed to meet the many requests for protection in different areas and even foreign to their own territory, it only mattered to defend and attack if possible and for this they needed to add members.
For this reason they saw the need to organize themselves, and adapt to that environment, establishing the appointment of Priors, who would be faithful Guardian believers, who would lead these congregations and in turn had the power to maintain the group in permanent growth, faithful to their Moral and original principles, for which they were created: Save Human Life at all costs. But then that principle of acceptance changed. As time passed, as the order gained strength and grew, the Priors, who had a high degree of commitment, experience, knowledge and leadership within the Order, knew the risks involved in managing an armed institution, and therefore maintain it. faithful to its precepts and seeking no other ends than to protect the people, it was always his highest priority. The Priors foresaw future dangers, for this reason they established a kind of austere rules that kept those who entered it motivated only by noble ideals away from that militia. Although there were married men among them, the new officers were to be men with vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, living in common houses where the cultivation of prayer and virtue was their first concern.
The reestablishment of a new state did not come and the Order increasingly saw itself in the obligation of charity to protect an increasing number of towns that, although small, were already beginning to form a quite remarkable number. The instinct of the people, the simple population, began to see in that Order of Warriors, just men, who could be trusted. Those men neither extorted, nor raped, nor were they cruel, despite their intimidating facade that denoted a long path of sacrifice and courage.
The Order was spreading its influence more and more throughout the territory, whose borders were quite blurred, since the collapse of the central powers was absolute in the center of the continent.
Thus in this way the people were trusting more and more in this Order of brave men, the Mauszetans as some called them, The Men of the Guard as they were also known. Many feared them, and others admired them. They did not care about any of this, for them their mission was simple: The Guard.
SHIELD AND SYMBOLS...
However, for some members this mission was not so easy and simple. It is said that the Red Guard guarded more than the people. She had the safeguard of the truth, of the secret.
