The Shield of Order is the largest and most powerful group of all of the factions. The leader is Kyle and the second in command is Tepesh. This is the group that most our adventurers have found their way into. The Shield of Order was founded during the First Great God war as a way to rally the army of Zaratros as well as seal his power upon the death of his wife Elia Martell. The thing that binds this group and makes it the most connected is the mark of Zaratros Kyle. The mark of Zaratros Kyle was first created by a God tier spell that was capable of attaching to and altering the souls of mortals and gods alike. This spell was developed and cast by the Order of Knowledge under the instruction of their leader the late Elia Martell. There is no creature or being that can not be affected by the mark once they have accepted it. This mark can be channeled and as a result release more power than any other known spell or ability from god or man. As a result those that channel the mark are left with eternal life unless killed. Another result is temporarily having a power unrivaled even amongst the gods.
The Shield of Order Lance of Purity is split into several sub-factions that can even be equivalent in size to an individual faction. Each sub-faction has specialized abilities and individual leadership. This makes the sub-factions very different and very unique.
Leader of minimum black five.
Being able as a whole to defeat an appointed person by Kyle.
Not have any outstanding charges.
Not be under the influence of any God or being.
1,000,000 Gold.
A castle and or fortress to act as the sub-faction headquarters.
Leader a God.
Being able to as a whole defeat Kyle.
One ounce of Primordial Iron.
A pocket dimension on the material plane capable of hosting ones sub-faction.
A fortress on another plane as well as domain there.
At least one Axis of power on the material plane at all times to help manage in their absence.
Possibly one of the oldest beings in all of known reality, Zaratros is the founder and undisputed leader of The Shield of Order. He is the founder of the Fourth Great God Council. Zaratros is also a close friend of Tepesh. He is a longtime ally and friend of the Gods Bahamut, Tiamat, and Kord. He is an ancient God of Heroes and Righteousness. This made him one of the most powerful Gods of Purity. Long ago he fell in love with the Goddess of Magic and broke the Covenant of the Gods by marrying and having children. The Goddess died in childbirth. The breaking of the God Covenant lead to the Great God War. During this war Zaratros channeled the power of his fallen love in the only known use of a God tier spell creating the Mark of Zaratros. This mark bound Gods and Men alike and led the Order through the war. As the war raged on Zaratros fell into a great depression over the loss of his wife and many say that without the mark binding him to the Shield of Order he would have consumed all of existence. It was at this point the Gods unanimously decided to seal the raging Zaratros away on a forgotten plane. It was here that after millions of years (due to time passing differently on his plane) Zaratros mastered cloning and eventually after a vast expanse of time Zaratros regained his sanity. He then began to use the power he consumed to cultivate this plane and create an Immortal Kingdom. As the power was used it slowly cycled back into the rest of existence. In recent history the resurgence of one of the twins of Zaratros allowed him to reconnect his plane with that of the Material Plane. It is then that the meeting of The Meeting of The Gods occurs, our campaign begins, and the other Gods realize that Zaratros has returned.
Kyle was a member of the original Order of Knowledge and served under the Goddess of magic herself throughout the war and for a long period of time after. It is a well-kept secret that Kyle was tasked by Zaratros to protect Elia at any cost be it even the destruction of the universe. It was even more a well-kept secret that Kyle was once the closest friend that Zaratros ever had. This changed with the passing of Elia. Although it is not Kyle's fault Zaratros cannot bring himself to even gaze upon Kyle and refuses to meet with him. When Elia died several gods burst into the room in an attempt to take the children. Enraged Kyle briefly channeled the power of the entire mark of Zaratros and all of Elia's power. He did this in attempts to fight back the gods and save the children. Even with this power there were to many gods for him to combat and he was defeated and greatly injured. The gods took the children and left him to die. It was Kord who finally found the scene and was baffled to see that Kyle had survived. Kord informed Zaratros of what had happened and took Kyle to an unknown place to heal him. Kyle remained there with Kord until around the time of the creation of the Axis of Kord, Nikolai Tempest was placed upon the material plane. It was at this exact point that Kyle was returned to the material plane in hopes that anyone noticing the sudden spike of magical power in the land would assume it to be the birth of an Axis and not the return of the only man to ever beat Zaratros in a fight of magic. It is important to note that Kyle has far from returned to his natural strength as Kord could not release it all into the material plane at once for fear of gods taking notice.
It is now known that Kyle also spawned a child with Elia. A child of great power. This is because at this instant of his birth both of his parents shared the power of the Deity of Magic. This child was sent back in time with a clone of his mother in order to be raised into the ultimate warrior and successor to not only the Mantle of the Deity of Magic but the Shield of Order.