Consecrated Legions

The Consecrated Legions are specialized units within the Imperial Legion of the Atarlie Empire, fulfilling social, political, and martial roles similar to the Chivalric Orders of Bastonia. Service in a consecrated legion comes with heavier strictures in terms of required codes of conduct and terms of service (often for life), but is a commensurately more rewarded career path than the common legion, both in terms of rise of political station and in terms of material wealth. Many members of consecrated legions earn veteran discharges and become travelling adventurers. The ranks of these legions swell with warrior-clerics, knights, and when appropriate, Paladins.

Each of the gods of the High Elven Pantheon have patronage of a consecrated legion, with the exceptions of Shalaevar Shamaris and Hycis Uriris, whose best patronage in the view of mainstream Atarlie culture would be their continued disinterest in elven affairs.

• The Legio Rophalin in service to Rophalin Imperitor are considered the most elite unit of the entire imperial legion. Occasionally fielded in battle, it is far more common to find units of the Legio Rophalin stationed in the Imperial City as elite guards to both the Emperor of the Elves and the Imperial Senate.
• The Legio Valeptor often serve as supplementary city guard units or temple wardens. This unit, dedicated to Pyria Valeptor, usually masses as a full legion to come to the aid of distressed frontier cities or other areas where Elves are under threat.
• The Legio Feno, servants of Feno Illirel, are best known for their skills in the medicinal arts. Companies of the Legio Feno are often attached to other legion (even common legion) units on deployment or dispatched to areas suffering from outbreaks of plague or famine.
• The Legio Navarre are a scattered legion in the service of Navarre Yesbella. They patrol the roads of the empire seeking to discourage or capture thieves, bandits, and other such ne'er-do-wells. Alone among all legion units, the Legio Navarre only accepts individuals of common station - people from elevated families need not apply. As a result they are one of the most racially integrated legions in the whole Atarlie military.
• The Legio Chaelabar is largely divided into two camps in keeping with the general missions and portfolio of Merellien Chaebalar, their patron. The first camp occupies a position similar to Bastonian Sherriffs, responsible for the maintainence of prisons, security of courts, and the transportation of prisoners. The other camp serves a role more martial, pursuing escaped convicts or fugitives within and without the Empire's territory.
• The Legio Camus are a legion with a disproportionate number of Magus in their ranks, owing to their patronage of Camus Inakas. Camus' follower-legion, like many of the others, serves twin roles: the first as guardians of the often-wealthy temples to Camus, and the second as travelling companies, dispatched to guard excavations put on by the church or attached to other legions to supplement their fighting capabilities with their potent mastery of the arcane.
• The Legio Lugolor are particularly feared on the battlefield, though their sometimes-distasteful association with Lysanthir Lugalor means their soldiers' stars do not rise perhaps as quickly as the rest. Lugalor's legion is one of battlefield chaplains; under most commands, more a comfort to their side than a menace to the enemy. Their specialty is in the dispatch of the undead and those who work best with the undead - Necromancers. All this being said, in desperate conditions, the elite core of the Legio Lugalor can channel their master's mastery over death into truly dire arts of war.
• Finally, the Legio Immarra are servants of the elven god of beauty, Immarra Hyacinth, and mostly serve as wardens to her temple or guardians of artworks under transportation. A few fill a role closer to that of ranger, and protect parklands and reserves renowned for their natural beauty. On rare occasions, members of the Legio Immarra are peeled off of their ordinary duties to attend to the collection of some art or artist of great value.