Editing Te Deum pour un massacre (section)

==The Setting==

Sacré Bleu, where do we even start?

===History===

Welcome to [[Bretonnia|France]]...! That is, [[Empire|XVIth Century France]]! We're in the middle of a renaissance and the current year is 1562. Musketeers aren't a thing yet, guns have just been introduced, but people still use their good ol' spears and swords. So we're in the middle of military overhauls and political instability too! Why? Because we don't have a proper king! No, we have a Lady Regent; Catherine de Médicis, who stays in charge until one of her kids gets the crown. And while this wonderful situation is going, the country and the nobility are having religious feuds! What a time to be alive!

See, somewhere in Germany, there was this monk called Martin Luther. He had a dream once, that the Church would stop being so bullshit and hypocritical. You see, at the time, the Church struggled to keep its relevancy going after years and years of failed attempts at taking back Jerusalem, and [[Ecclesiarchy|just being generally morally bankrupted]]. How so? Well, they started selling literal tickets to get to Heaven, which [[Greek Mythology|hasn't been done since the times of good ol' Charon]], and also presecutting anyone who thought slightly different that they do. So Luther published pamphlets detailling the many reasons why the Church sucked and deserved nothing from its followers. Turns out, a lot of people agreed with that. Especially a good chunk of the new nobility. Luther lead what was called at the time the Reformist movement, which would in turn generate chaos in Germany. What does this have to do with France? Well, you see, there's another monk, called Jean Calvin, who agreed with Luther, and he started Calvinism, another flavor of the Reformist movement tailor-suited for the french diaspora. He, too, would divide his country more than Luther did in all of Europe. 

In France, there were multiple parties involved in religious affairs. The loudest of the bunch, the Huguenots, french protestants. The Old royalty, of which Médicis was a part of, wasn't a fan of them and threatened to raze their cities and institutes if they were to spread their ideas too much because the French Kingdom, as it was, held on tight thanks to their catholic roots and values... At least according to the nobility in charge. Things turned to shit when Hugenots were getting more and more numbrous. How so? Well the vast majority of the nobility were basically protestants, including some of Catherine's entourage. She tried to calm things down with an edict of tolerance that spectacularly failed and led to multiple massacres all across France, which would kickstart a series of religious and civil wars.

Back to royal affairs, the heirs to the Throne and their families were very much divided on this religious question and had no particular solution to the dividing issues of royalty. This would turn the whole situation to shit when the Estates Generals (an assembly of the Clergy, the nobility and commoners) kept assembling themselves in response to the lackluster royalty that didn't advantage anyone anymore. Internationally speaking, France was also dealing with religious wars in Europe, as well as games of successions that most of the time led nowhere good for them. In other words; the situation is quite shit. France was slowly turning into a massive battlefield where multiple wars were bound to happen. You read that right; WARS. 

===The Atmosphere===