Editing Evangelism (section)

== An Alternate Perspective ==
[[Black Lamb's Blood]] touches on the idea that some believe Evangelists are "charlatans" who actually call forth beings based on "the power of ideas... and iconography".<ref name=":1">Practitioners called him an evangelist, a summoner, a man powerful enough to sway the world with words. He called angels forth, cherubim, Madonnas carved of ivory to give others shelter.<br>[...]<br>My sister called my father a charlatan. My brother, set to be a templar after my father’s footsteps, did not disagree, but argued for the benefit of symbolism.<br><br>The idea of angels with wings was not situated in record or text, my sister argued. Take away the invented things, the cultural aspects and art, stick to the written word alone, and the world was left with a deity who focused all efforts recorded in texts on a relatively small section of the Middle East.<br><br>My brother argued for the benefit of symbolism, for the power of ideas. In the heat of battle, ideas and iconography could lend strength to those who needed it. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/04/05 Excerpt] from [[Gathered Pages: 4]]</ref> Whether this view is widespread, or even real, is uncertain given the unreliable nature of the text.

This may be borne out by the fact that a Summoner of [[Faerie Magic|Winter Fae]] would tap into [[structural]] practice as well.<ref>'''The Evangelist''' tackles these ground-level forces by focusing on the most structured elements possible. They use vows to protect themselves, restraining their own actions, words, or shoring themselves up, and summon things with explicit rules and patterns of behavior. The stock evangelist summons cherubs and can tap the power of angels, but you could slap a different name on a Winter Fae conjurer and get a very similar effect.<br><br>Think: building your own spacesuit/rocketship before venturing out into vacuum, except you're really bringing the vacuum to the battlefield, and it could be anything from rewriting of the landscape to creating life. - [https:redd.it/j3xqzm Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>