| Category | Orders | ||||||||||
| Region | Ma'Ohari | ||||||||||
| Headquarters | Leza-Sîk | ||||||||||
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| Alignments | good | ||||||||||
| Deity | Phalgas | ||||||||||
| Symbol | gleaming silver crossed halberd and staff | ||||||||||
| Enemies | Blood Cults of Kezgihr | ||||||||||
| Established | 7 Bloom 618 LE |
Formed in the Lith-Crillion Era, Radiant Cross was established by Tragaran citizens of the Tilnangau Empire (446 LE - 2615 LE). They were holy fighters, devout worshipers of Phalgas. When the demons of Varelay forced them underground, nearly four hundred members of the Radiant Cross took to guerrilla warfare. They created a branch of holy assassins tasked with taking out enemy leaders. On one mission, they took out the top brass and thinkers of Drachlaz; and at the same time accidentally releasing a couple dozen vampires from the city's prison.
In 911 HE, Radiant Cross convinced the Kingdom of Smizerak in taking the fight to the vampires home to a rugged region known as the Blood Triangle. The vampires of this area had preyed on the people of Smizerak for three centuries. They were now staging raids so large that villages were being wiped out and entire patrols lost. Smizerak sent 15,000 soldiers, joining the First Merioss Crusade (911 HE - 920 HE). The soldiers of Smizerak and those of the Radiant Cross were split into detachments with the largest under the command of Radiant Master Licuiluin. Initially skeptical of being led by a satyr general, it was an attitude that soon changed when they saw Licuiluin take down vampires and other powerful foes with ease.
In 920 HE, the First Merioss Crusade ended in victory for the side of good. One of the trophies of this war was the Pyre Mug; a powerful healing relic since passed down to each new Radiant Master.
Accumulated over thousands of years, the vast wealth of the order has allowed them to buy land from Ren-Jorusk and others, and the construction of great fortifications and citadel-like harbors. As part of the land deals, Radiant Cross and the Pirate Lords have treaties limiting the pirating of each other's mercantile fleets.
In the Third Epoch, the fall of the Torgilm Confederacy (1475 - 1719) brought several hundred minotaurs into the order's ranks.