Consanguinity of the Truthful

The Consanguinity of the Truthful, known to most as the Truthful, is a high elven holy order dedicated to the goddess Silvania. The Truthful have a long and dubious history of teetering between tolerance and outright excommunication from the official body of the Pantheon.

The Truthful spirit is charismatic in aspect, but the ideals behind the mass healings, large sermons, and intricate involvement in elven society is something that has drawn much criticism, particularly from wood elf revolutionaries and the gnomes, dedicated to Oghma.

The Consanguinity can be considered one of the oldest extant religious organizations in the world, outdating the priesthood of the Pantheon by some 10,000 years.

Ideologies
The ideologies of the Truthful can be summed up as thus:
 * There is no power but Silvania, who rules the earth with her demi-god consort, Leander.
 * Leander is a symbol of manly fecundity and the sun, but he is not to be worshiped.
 * The Elves are Silvania's chosen people.
 * High Elves are destined to rule by right of bloodline to the first emperors of the world, predating Ord and his kingdoms.
 * Right society bends before the power of Silvania (and Silvania alone), the elves' state as the chosen people of the only true goddess worthy of rightful worship, and the high elven dominion over the nations.

History
Tens of thousands of years ago, the elven empires ruled the lands. The Emperors were exclusively high elven after the War of the Wodes that raged between Wood Elves and High Elves. Each emperor acted as priest and king, but often that priesthood was a state religion dedicated to an elemental, a family, or the emperor himself. This all changed when an ancient elf-king established the high elves as the priestly caste of the new elven race.

The priesthood elected to venerate Silvania exclusively as a monotheistic religion, with other "gods" subservient to her. Historians note that this was politically expedient, as most elf worship was linked to the earth. Silvania's origins as a Wood Elven goddess allowed the elf-kings for many centuries to appropriate Wood Elven religious culture.

When the last elven empire fell, the priesthood split up into many various sects and orders, the Consanguinity being among the oldest and last remaining. The Truthful have survived in part by a driven purism, tales of the glory days of elven society, and a sort of parasitic relationship on many Wood Elven settlements. High Elf Truthful tend to rule Wood Elven lands just as in days of old, forbidding many of the elven race to access to foreign religious rites.