Father Pais

Demagogue or visionary ? the answer depends on your point of view. Father Pais received a great vision on the day Fhiele ascended to the throne of a horned man with eyes of green fire atop a mighty black stallion. This vision ? the Huntsman - spoke to Pais of Erik?s will and warned him of the doom that would befall the Dhoesoneans if they remained ?slugs trapped behind stone walls at the beck and call of the sidhe?.
After the vision Father Pais found that folk listened to his words as never before and thousands swiftly came to follow him as the true voice of Erik in the land, leaving their former lives as villagers and townsfolk and following him to form nomadic clans known locally as the Sons of Hjalsone.
Unfortunately for Father Pais the evil of civilization yet taints much of Dhoesone sapping the people of moral strength and undermining his people?s resolve with its soft life. The last winters have been harsh and many of the Sons are beginning to doubt the Father?s wisdom for game grows scarcer each year.
Father Pais is considering two main options for the Sons; the first is that they expand their lands migrating into the empty Giantdowns or even into Stjordvik. The second is that they begin to raid villages of the settled folk, who are in the mind of Father Pais stealing the bounty of the land ? particularly those that follow the lies of Heathen gods (any gods aside from blessed Erik).
The more he considers these plans the more the latter plan sounds good ? Pais has been sent visions of Storm?s boatmen hauling nets full of fish from the Northbryn river and harvesting fields waving with ripe barley. The message seems clear to Pais, the Sons of Hjalsone hunger due to the heavy harvest of the guildsman and thus the guild should provide also the means for sating their hunger.