Editing Church of the Silver Flame (section)

==History of the Church==
The Church of the Silver Flame was founded in the year 299 YK, when a female [[human]] [[paladin]] named Tira Miron gave her life to merge with the Silver Flame and, by doing so, seal away one of those Overlords named Bel Shalor, who still tries to subvert his prison as "The Shadow in the Flame". After this act, Tira became able to communicate with mortals as "The Voice of the Silver Flame", and mortals began worshiping the Silver Flame.

They famously purged just about all the lycanthropes on Eberron, on the grounds that ''something'' was causing them all to turn evil, even the ones that're traditionally okay like werebears, and there are like twelve moons orbiting the planet so there’s a full one every few days.  Also, the spells that cure lycanthropy all require the subject to ''pass'' a save, which the lycanthrope can always choose to fail.  This led to the Church not realizing there ''were'' ways to cure lycanthropy for much of the Purge, to say nothing of the many [[shifter]]s that got accidentally killed in the process.  And, lest you feel too sorry for them, let there be no bones about the fact that these were ''lycanthropes'', very few of them were helpless victims unable to defend themselves, and lycanthropy is legitimately a disease that destroys the morals and personality of the infected (the situation was, officially if out of universe, likened to a [[zombie]] apocalypse). The lycanthropes were a major threat to civilization, and devastated Aundair. The purge was a very close run thing - the Templars had the numbers, but each were creature was more than a match for several Templars and could sow division throughout communities. It was the lycanthropes that tricked the Templars into attacking shifters, because they recognized the shifters could help the Templars recognize who was a lycanthrope and who wasn't. As the purge went on, the Templars got the upper hand and managed to break the lycanthropes' power. This is where things really got nasty. Seeing that the rest of the purge would just be mop up crews, the Templars from other nations let the converts from Aundair handle mopping up the remaining lycanthropes and went home. These converts were fanatical, and hellbent on revenge. They viewed their faith as a weapon, not a defense, and set to work killing every single lycanthrope and everything that looked like one. Cue shifters dying in droves. To this day, the Aundair branch of the faith is infamous for its zeal and penchant for burning people alive.

It definitely did more good than harm, especially since at the tail end they ''did'' start curing the remorseful instead of killing them, but it's still seen as a big black mark on the church's history.  The festival celebrating their win is traditionally tempered with sermons about the ways in which they went too far and did things they shouldn't.

Their current leader is Jaela Daran, the Keeper of the Flame, a.k.a. the [[Lolipope]].  She is basically a mixture of the Pope and the Dalai Llama, and she is a genuinely kind-but-forceful and talented ruler, despite also being eleven years old.  She is the highest-level person in the world at the start of any given campaign (Vol ''technically'' beats her for pure CR and there's Oalian the tree-druid, but Vol has templates and Oalian is literally a tree) so long as she is actually within the confines of her seat of power.  She is also defended by the lovably-ugly dragonhound Skarajoven, who is basically her cuddly family dog right down to suddenly turning murderously protective if someone threatens her safety.  

While many of her counselors are not the same kind of saintly heroine she is, Jaela is presently leading her church in the right direction, barring any adventure paths or party shenanigans.