Welcome to marara for an overdue video due to a lot of research involved compounded by the vaults of pandas being down for the latter part of January today we’re looking at the Brotherhood of the radians the Brotherhood of rad the most exclusive and Powerful secret society in Gantry if not the Known World
They control the fate of the magocracy behind the scenes and are unknown even to each other led by everybody’s favorite French Immortal they want to use the nucleus of the Spheres and the sphere of energy to increase their power I’m Mr Welch and prepare to get totally tubular the Brotherhood of the radio
Appears in the long list of societies in the Gantry gazeteer despite its small entry in that section it had the most significant impact of all of them despite its importance it’s also the smallest of all the societies with only seven members they’re so secretive that they never even meet in person only
Using magically projected images they don’t even know the identities of their fellow members going with madeup nicknames like brother rad brother gnarly and brother Bodacious their stated goal is to prevent the use of the radiance by those who can’t handle its powers as well as to keep the knowledge
Of the magic hidden from other Wizards they claim to support anyone worthy of wielding the secrets of their group but the number of people on that list is short who am I kidding that list is blank members of the group include three princes one future Prince one would be
Future Prince the grandson of a prince and a marquee who not only discovered the radiance but managed to stay alive and contact the others and convince them that they needed to join their little fraternity no small task they are all responsible for keeping track of those with even the remotest knowledge of the
Radiance if said person is considered a threat to them that person will be eliminated while this has to be done discreetly it’s usually not a problem considering the power level of the Brotherhood what with three princes and all being members thankfully for the shadow elves the Brotherhood no has no
Idea of their existence to qualify for membership the wouldbe member needs to learn at least one radiant spell and then build a magical receptacle to contain the nucleus of the sph’s powers once accomplished the Mage will then be contacted by the Brotherhood if deemed worthy being a member does have its
Benefits as Society will Fast Track members unaware of their true identity the source of the radiance is directly under Gantry City the closer your receptacle is physically the more power you can absorb with three of the seven members already princes they have their receptacles in the capital already
Moving closer than you are allowed by glant trean law is strictly forbidden and the Brotherhood will remove offending members not that this has ever happened it’s the benefits of a small membership if the wizard is accepted they will be given a time and a place to communicate with the others this is
Always done remotely officially no one knows the identity of the others but with one of members being an immortal that rule doesn’t apply evenly on the first meeting the new member will be able to choose their name and be allowed to ask any questions about the true
Power of the radiance the more the wizard already knows about the radiance the more likely they’re going to be approved the most essential part of studying the radiance before you remember is discretion the first rule of the Brotherhood of the radiance is you do not talk about the Brotherhood of the
Radiance the 17th rule of the Brotherhood of the radiance is you do not talk about the Brotherhood of the radiance you aren’t long for the world if you are particularly vocal in your research it is best if the applicant discovers the Brotherhood rather than they notice him researching the energy
The other reason to be discreet is there are several other Wizards also researching the radians and they would be thrilled to pick your brain for what you know with dissecting tools if necessary this isn’t Hogwart this is Gantry Wizards do not share information no one will correct your pronunciation
Of summon Radiance they will gag you with a Bohemian earspoon and steal your noes unless they’re good aligned in which case they will just use memory modifying spells and leave you physically unharmed as they steal your nodes searching the magical energy that can fast track your path to immortality
Is a full contact sport and Gantry what does it take to be a member of this esteemed yet rather murdery fraternity first you have to be glanton that should go without saying but a few people from other nations particular Alasia have studied the radiance if their research was discovered the Brotherhood would
Ensure that the upstarts death would serve as both an example and a test subject the secret of the radian is not to be shared with Outsiders the second requirement is the wizard has to be at least named level this isn’t out of respect or anything similar but you have
To be able to cast radiant spells to join and the lowest level spells are all available at fifth level so you have to be a ninth level wizard to cast them then you have to build the receptacle which isn’t cheap there’s a reason why all the members are nobility because all
Wizards are Nobles in glaner of course if a filthy commoner tried to learn about the radiance they would be rightly vaporized for their insulins once you’ve done all that you have to start researching more spells the information on the radiance naturally is almost impossible to find and the Brotherhood
Does its best to keep it that way to showcase the kind of person that they are looking for if you want to use the radiance to improve the lives of those around you you get targeted for removal if you want to use it to gain a mortality and increase your power
Welcome to the club even the one guy in the Brotherhood who is lawful good follows those rules the radian is for the few never for the many they don’t know the nucleus of the Spheres as a finite commodity they just don’t like to share unless necessary the seven members
Of the Brotherhood are the princess etan de amberville brard McGregor vaner ardwin the future Prince Herald of Haskins McGregor’s grandson Angus and his son-in-law alider mallister and the bades noble Don Fernando de casanegra casanegra is an elf the only non-human to join the Brotherhood well brard isn’t
Exactly human anymore but he was at some point in his dark life of the members Harold and mallister have suffered greatly from the nucleuses withering effect and several parts of their body have rot it away because of the radiance use branard has used so much that his
Entire body has withered to the point of turning him into a Radiance Lich the only of his type etan is secretly an immortal but he maintains membership to try and understand the nucleus and its powers he is proof that the radiance can be used to gain immortality but he never
Explains the cost and the fact that other Immortals will look at you as a cheater if you succeed the member that stands out more than any other is Angus McGregor while other members are all Elders Angus is just 10 still a child he’s just as capable as the others
Though at a much lower level being only level 12 compared to the princes being level 28 and higher oddly enough enough despite his vast age differences he’s only a level below his uncle Alistair the others don’t care that Angus is a child even his family members don’t comprehend just how fast-tracked this
Kid is when it comes to magical powers granted the other members of the Brotherhood also don’t realize that one of their members can walk into the arcade part of Chuck-E-Cheese without raising an eyebrow Angus is still a ways from Gaining the more powerful radiant spells but it’s only a matter of time
Plus he can always rate his grandfather’s Library if necessary it’s unknown how brard would react if he knew his grandson was a member of the Brotherhood the prince is grooming Angus to replace him once he achieves immortality then again Brett’s a rather evil guy and might think Angus is
Angling to replace him early so he needs to go Harold is the friendliest member of the group and the only good aligned one on top of it he’s probably the friendliest Wizard and Gantry which makes you wonder how he stayed alive for so long the fact that he’s much more
Powerful than his sponsor Prince deal Pietra has something to do with it but he’s also relatively isolated in his duy and has no enemies this gives him plenty of time to research the radians while he’s not one to automatically call for the death of anybody who hears a rumor
About the nucleus he understands the dangers the radiance possesses especially in the hands of people who don’t comprehend its properties he hasn’t participated in assassinating people nosing around looking for radiance lore but he has voted to approve it there’s not much lore on casanegra he’s not mentioned in any
Detail in the gazit here and he gets two lines of passing mentioned in the Gantry box set he’s a level 9 elf who studies the radiance for purely scholarly reasons he’s one of the more adamant about controlling who has access to the information behind the magic as he
Understands better than most of the others what happens if the magic is overused past that he’s a blank slate he’s loyal to his princess and spends all of his time looking at the true nature of the magical energy that they’re trying to harness he’s one of the more reasonable members but won’t
Hesitate to eliminate any threat to the Brotherhood there’s even less to know about mallister he’s married to the daughter of Prince McGregor he suffers badly from Radiance Burns and he’s redoubling his effort to try to learn the higher spells if any of them were to try to cast the spell for imort morality
And fail it would probably be mallister if you’re looking for information in print on the Brotherhood don’t bother with the box set it remove vast chunks of lore to make room for all the magic spells it was made by Monty cook after all it says that in the future the
Brotherhood is reduced to four members with etan missing and vardu and dead it drops mallister from the membership list without any explanation and he’s still alive in glaner at this point it does mention that the Brotherhood always meets through magical conference calls at every Equinox and Solstice if nothing
Else to prove that they’re not dead however the information in that book is primarily cut and pasted from the original it’s not fully updated from the time skip as it mentions etan knows the identities of all the members and he’s supposed to be dead at this point in the
Timeline five people are currently aware of the radiance and are looking for more information on it with varying degrees of success the first is Prince andir vaspen who knows the radiance but hasn’t discovered any relevant spells he will stop at nothing to acquire the information and once he has that nothing
Will keep him from joining the Brotherhood there’s three princes on it already nobody will notice a fourth Don hippolito deel kadiz has almost all the Spells needed to start channeling the radiance though he will probably not survive long enough to join casanegra knows of hippo’s attempts and finds the
Elf loathsome and corrupt the dawn will likely find himself on the wrong end of a glowing green death spell radon virana is the youngest son of Prince jerik and discovered a single spell regarding the radiance before he could continuous research an alfian wizard magically imprisoned him wanting that spell for
Himself now he’s trapped in a 5m long plane being hunted by an AAC until he gives up what she wants lady Saria veran is the woman who is responsible for the torture of reiden she is a Flemish mage of some power who has been looking for
Radiance lore for a good chunk of her life only for some young wizard to stumble across the spell almost on accident she doesn’t consider this fair so she will force the man to give him what she wants and then dispose of him if any of the Brotherhood discovers this
She will find herself disappearing instead unfortunately for reiden his fate is no concern to them arbana jbot knows of the radiance but has to tread carefully as she’s an alfian spy tasked with discovering secret Gantry and Magic if she gets discovered all of the Brotherhood will stop at nothing to end
Her before she can report back to the empress that’s the Brotherhood of the radiance I had to scour the vaults for much of the knowledge which took over a week because of the online issues they aren’t numerous they aren’t nice they will end you to protect their knowledge
Be warned next up are the clan leaders of alvheim both the clan Masters and the treekeepers until then be excellent to everyone
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