Irminsul Urit: A (Anti-Divine)
The Infernal Tree of the Pagans
“How beautiful this tree looks against the morning sky,
And yet, I was warned that the devil would appear wonderful,
Today, the Irminsul burns,
Irminsul Urit!”
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-When I came upon their holy tree I could only feel wonder at its girth and beauty. Pure white bark with offerings left at the base of the trunk. There were no worshipers, they had all fled long before as the army approached, and for that I was thankful. I did not want to deal with civilian pagans, I feared what I would become. I dismounted and walked to the tree in awe of its size. So tall it seemed as if it held up the sky. And then I felt it, the rising anger, the zealot within me taking over. This tree was a shrine to whatever pagan god they so worshipped. This tree was a shrine to the devil and his ilk. No matter its beauty it can not persist. I will not allow it. This tree will become a symbol of Christ’s power on Earth. I turned to my retinue and spoke.
Burn it, this infernal tree. Burn it in its entirety. Leave only ashes.
Irminsul Urit, Karolus’ most powerful Noble Phantasm in his berserker form, is quite an oddity among other holy powers that servants are accustomed to seeing. The Irminsul was a Germanic pagan holy sight, one of the most revered and loved, and Karolus transformed it into a Christian icon. How? By burning it. His destruction of the tree was a turning point in Christian power in Germania, for it was not only a statement of power to the Saxons it was a sign of Christian religious dominance. As the embers took the wood, as the bark turned to ash and the branches fell down upon the floor it was Karolus alone who smiled, for he knew that the pagans could never, and would never recover. By burning the Irminsul Karolus had cleansed the earth of the paganism it had been dirtied with.
When Karolus activates this Noble Phantasm, he will speak his lines in a serene tone of voice that slowly shifts to one of zealous rage, and when the words are finished a bounded field will be created, and the great Irminsul will rise from the ground. However, it shall be far greater than before. Instead of standing around 15-20 feet tall the trunk will reach to the heavens, almost topping 100 feet. Quickly after its formation the tree will combust and an inferno will consume the tree. Burning and blackened, the branches will fall off towards the earth. When a branch hits the ground it will explode into a shower of large fiery splinters. Each splinter is itself a holy relic of Christianity, for when the Irminsul was burned by Karolus it became a holy object of Christ, for it represented the conversion of the Saxons, and the cleansing of the earth. And so the splinters will strike forth and cleanse those it touches with hallowed flames, burning away their mortal or immortal husks to release the spirit within them. This is the essence of the burning of the Irminsul, and this is the true power of Irminsul Urit. The splinters ignore all forms of heretic divinity and all forms of infidel magic resistance, for they are that which purifies heathen magic, and nullifies the sorcery of pagans.