Hardliners

From LanceaSanctum

Conservatives in a largely conservative Covenant, religious zealots amongst the most pious of Kindred, the Hardliners represent some of the most dangerous aspects of the Sanctified philosophy. These Kindred fully believe in the Covenants dogma that they are the true inheritors of the power and responsibilities of Longinus, the true holders of the Dark Prophets laws and the only ones amongst the Sanctified to get it entirely right. They are the true walkers of the path of the Damned and they are willing to show all other Kindred the true path. Where other Sanctified might see their own beliefs as something apart from the Covenants dogma, Hardliners at their most extreme take the evangel of Longinus literally.

As long as there has been the Lancea Sanctum, there have been hardliners. The earliest followers of the Monachus, who saw the Testament not only to be true, but factual, could be considered the first Hardliners. To this night, Hardliner factions are usually the oldest in a domain.

At its lowest level, Hardliners are any member of a strictly traditionalist (often also literal or fundamentalist) faction of philosophically rigid Sanctified.

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“God imparted Longinus with a vision of His intent, and that deviance from this not only poses a threat to Kindred morality, but to the eternal souls of the Damned.”