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This is going to be a little different from the normal Mormon/ExMormon debates.

Some of you know that one of my pastimes is a certain collectible card game. To make a long story short, there's a backstory or "theme" behind all the cards published during any given year to give each of them a little extra "flavor" and pizzazz [sp?].

Last year's storyline was about a group of 10 guilds that constantly fought for supremacy over an enormous planetwide city. The culture loosely resembled Eastern Europe during the Renaissance.

One of the guilds was called "The Orzhov Syndicate." Read the description of this particular guild and tell me if it resembles a certain religion with which we're all familiar.

(Important: Scroll all the way down before hitting your "Back" button, since the text is interspersed with quite a few pictures, to make sure you don't miss anything)

THE ORZHOV SYNDICATE

The Orzhov are the wealthiest and most ostentatious of the guilds. Their halls (which look and feel like a cross between a cathedral and a bank) are robed in black marble and gold. Flying buttresses and tall gothic arches abound. The guild is led by a group of patriarchs – some alive, most undead. The richest and most powerful of the living patriarchs arrange for master necromancers to ensure that their spirits will linger after death so they can continue to control the “family business.”

no clue shades. Sounds like the Buddhists to me.

Bond

I'm totally clueless too

Sounds like..well nothing I hope to ever run into....wait I think it's to late...

I got it, Shades. The "partiarchs", people ruling from the grave (hello, BY?), the upper tiers being filthy rich, but the lower tiers being seriously oppressed and in debt...

"bags of gray flesh" LOL!

Many of these people live close to me.

Exmormons describing their previous leaders wrote:The guild is led by a group of patriarchs – some alive, most undead."

What Hasbro wrought?

Sorry, that was a pun slippage. How about something from Id software?