Challenge #04873-M124: Fishing For Converts
A new faith in a single God has captured a polity, raising or replacing the old temples and extinguishing the old gods. All except one, a "Tree Mother" whose grove Deep in the wilderness has been out of reach, for all who have tried to burn her put have returned shaken, wounded, or not at all.
Yet one priest is insistent, and takes the task of eradicating this last bastion of paganism to heart. -- Deathshead419
The story is told of a wise teacher who worked miracles like a divinity. He explained the laws of the faith he followed and gave simpler rules for the people to follow. Chief among those were: don't hoard wealth, and be kind to each other.
Naturally, those who were cruel and had a lot of wealth objected to this, and killed him about it. Too late, of course. His followers were both underground and widespread.
His name was Ieshu, and his symbol - for reasons unknown to the authorities at the time - was a fish. The authorities, the kingdom, the soldiers, and even the city in which it happened were all gone by the time Baernadina, minor priestess of a fringe Ieshite cult took up devotion to the faith. She had read the Holy Words and Speeches. Read the stories and scriptures of all Ieshu's apostles. And like many before her, decided that the heretics must be expunged from the known world.
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