| Category | Groups | ||||||||||||
| Type | arcanists, monks, mentalists, zealots | ||||||||||||
| Location | Jolmgar | ||||||||||||
| Alias | Cube Zealots | ||||||||||||
| Headquarters | Belras Foroderch | ||||||||||||
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| Alignment | any | ||||||||||||
| Deities | any | ||||||||||||
| Symbol | cube | ||||||||||||
| Established | 1 Temporal 417 HE |
Tazu Hidyal is an ancient order of psionic monks and arcanists. The group began in the Horgon Era with Shou researchers studying the world's Cube of Arcane, or more specifically the COA 411. They spread the message of the Cube being linked to the Web of Magic, a battery for all the world's arcane energy. Near enough on the isles Jolmgar to feel the Cube's tingle, they researched, some prayed, and others took up a self-imposed guardianship of the Cube. Because of a history of acting like guardians and sometimes fanatics, they are sometimes referred to as Cube Zealots.
Like other very old organizations, the Tazu Hidyal has had its share of internal conflict and cleansing. This has usually come about from those who have taken their guardianship role too far or sought to abuse the Cube's seemingly endless store of arcane energy. When the Khazarkar Empire settled on the eastern coasts of Cinazan, the Cube Zealots nearly met their end. When Commander Âlo Ginîmar and a squadron of warships surrounded Belras Foroderch, she sent the besieged a message:
I expect you can clean up your house as good as we can. When that is done, we can negotiate terms.
- Âlo Ginîmar, ship log entry - "Message to Belras Foroderch"
What followed was a internal battle which pitted the fanatics versus the moderates. After a couple days, the problem-makers were all killed or captured. The captured underway a bit of psychic surgery, removing their link to the arcane.
The psionic side of the order came about from two groups. One devoted to the Cube spiritually - for just being near it makes the mind clear and mental potential a bit higher, and others escaping Shounejo persecution of those taking the martial purity of the monk, and blending it with the way of the Mentalists.