There was one last powerful faction that had gone unmentioned for a while. A group that should have been more well known in a holy empire. That group was the church.
In a world where gods and goddesses were actually seen, the church had a surprisingly low amount of members. In fact, there were only two church sanctioned temples in all of the human empire. One in the capital and another one that only high ranking church members knew about.
A logical question would be to wonder how the church could be considered a powerful faction with so few people. It was because the church had powerful backers who had poured countless riches into the religion and the fact that gods sometimes visited the mortal world.
Then the next question would be to wonder why the church had such few official members. Well that was because of the heavy restrictions and fanatical duties of the church.
