The Eastern Orthodox Church of Tarim (generally known as the "Eastern Church") was a religious denomination devoted to the worship of Tarim. It was based in the Upper City of Iest.
History[]
- Suenteus Po II began the first siege of Iest, then controlled by Pope Clovis IX.[1]
- In 1414, Pope Harmony II was executed by Pope Harmony III. A month later Harmony III was executed by Pope Harmony IV.[2]
- Later in 1414, Pope Harmony IV was executed by the authority of the Lion of Serrea for being a Cirinist. Cerebus was a witness to this event while visiting the Papal Throne Room.[3]
- Cerebus, after being nominated by Adam Weisshaupt, was named the new pope following the execution of Pope Harmony IV.
Dave Sim on the Church of Tarim[]
- Q1. What caused the split of the Church of Tarim into Western and Eastern divisions?
- 'DAVE: I’m afraid I never got very far with that. As I recall, it centered on whether or not Tarim had incarnated on earth in the form of the coin-maker—the coin that drew other coins to it and began to form a sphere when Cerebus picked it up. One of the churches believed that Tarim was a deity and the other church believed Tarim was a deity and an earthly incarnation. The Illusionist innovation was to decide that there was Tarim as deity and when Tarim incarnated as a human being he called himself Suenteus Po and wanted everyone who followed him to call themselves Seuenteus Po. That’s my rough recollection of the high-altitude mapping. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I really thought that I could fit the history of several worlds into 6,000 pages and, over the course of High Society and Church & State found out exactly how little you could get into 500 and 1200 pages respectively. My initial ambition was to tell the story of Iest pretty thoroughly over the course of High Society and then do a companion volume that would tell the history of Serrea and the Sepran Empire (this might be a good place to point out that Serrea was a typo/misreading on my part of Michael Loubert’s microscopic pencil lettering. The first “r” was supposed to be a “p” and was intended to be the more natural-sounding “Seprea” as the capital of the Sepran Empire) for which Astoria’s assassination of the Lion of Serrea would serve as a spiritual/thematic link. As you can see the assassination itself became about the deepest I was able to delve into the Sepran Empire. The entire Cerebus storyline became Iest-centered because of the space constraints. Michael Loubert was (and I assume still is) a great enthusiast of history and had excited my interest with his knowledge of the various schisms which had taken place in Christianity in general and the Catholic church in particular and the varying reasons behind them. So way, way back I had envisioned Cerebus as a kind of religio-political Tale of Two Cities. There’s a residue of this to the story, but just a residue.[4]
References[]
- ↑ Cerebus No. 105, page 10
- ↑ Cerebus No. 58, page 139
- ↑ Cerebus No. 58, page 147
- ↑ Dave answers questions about High Society