Filian Chantry

The Chantry of the Children, also referred to as the Filian Chantry or simply the Chantry, preaches a more radical, reformed version of the Faith of the Children of God. Splitting off from the Filian Church a few decades ago, the Chantry protested against the abuses of the hierarchy by abjuring the faith in saints and Sacred Tradition, accepting only the Fatherly Precepts and the Chant of the Children as its foundations of faith. It has little in the way of a formal hierarchy. The Chantry owns only the property necessary for worship, directing that all else be given to the poor.

The Filian Chantry abhors the use of the sword which killed the Prophet Filius as a symbol. Instead, Chanters use the symbol of a sunburst and a crescent moon to represent their faith, sometimes accompanied by twelve stars arranged in a circle around them. The sunburst and crescent moon represent the Chant of the Children, particularly the teaching of Sun and Moon with which Filius symbolised the Fatherly Precepts, which are themselves symbolised by the twelve stars.

The Chantry has gathered followers across the continent, but they are persecuted in most places. Only in some cities of the League of Lake Lamorael can Chanters (as the faithful are known) freely practice their faith, though in others, hedge preachers direct clandestine worship meetings.