Order of the White Eagle

The great religious-military order of Prussland, organised like an army with chapters, rents, a roll of brothers, sergeants and servants, a chaplaincy, infirmary and school. It rides against pagan practice on the eastern borders, keeps burial discipline over a wide country and wages a standing war against 'dead things'; by its doctrine, corruption of ground follows from things done or left undone and can be undone.

Grave, martial Pruss knights devoted to burial discipline, anti-pagan campaigning and border warfare against dead things and apostate border powers; the Pruss face the Church knows best. The greatest of the religious orders that hire companies, whose chapters undertake work at graves, boundaries and shrines with brothers present and a sealed record kept.

Named with it

• Landkomtur Ulrike Sternberg

Ties

• keep an officium at the Holy Seat
• coolness rather than schism with the Church of Britannia
• answers to its own chapter, not to the Pruss ministries
• in 'coolness' with the British church
• petitions the Chart Office
• its view is resisted by the Northern Cities' clerks
• keeps an officium at the Sepulchrum of the Holy Seat
• disagrees in doctrine with British practice

At the table

They treat with fortified ports against raiders, corpse-traffic and suspect sea cults, keep a hard military presence at the Holy Seat, and regard much British bounded custom as apostasy. They have operated in British outer stations on Church rather than Crown authority. Harder British minds admire them; softer ones find them alarming. Pursues corpse-traffic without mercy and treats sea cults and harbour offerings as its business; petitions the British office to mark dangerous grounds plainly. Calls weather-callers' arrangements pacts. Has quiet standing in the arsenals and an interest in lightning-current apparatus. Hires foreign companies for deniable work at graves, boundaries and shrines; the most reliable ally in the north and the most dangerous. Eagle work requires a week of instruction the chapter will not shorten, a warpriest present and a return visit within the year; the register entry is the real payment and is honoured across the northern and eastern world. Its doctrine is in old, unresolved disagreement with British practice, and companies serving both sides are forced to choose. White Eagle visitors expect social severity from serious religion.