Heterodox Reformation (Sacred Accord)

The Heterodox Reformation was a major religious schism in the early 16th Century that saw the emergence of multiple offshoot denominations of Christianity that were critical of Catholicism. The most prominent reformists were Guido Bäcker, Lars Holt, Dobromil Bláha, Loís Soler, Per Frañsez and Fearchar Michael Grier. Each founded a distinct denomination of Christianity, but they are traditionally separated into two groups: Vernalism (from 'vernal') which includes Bäckerianism, Holtism and Bláhism, and Remaearianism (a corruption of the Latin remeare meaning 'to return') which includes Solerism, Frañsezism and Grierism.

Vernalism emerged from a liberal, progressive school of Christian thought that developed in the heart of the Holy Roman Empire in the midst of seemingly incessant conflict. Early Vernalist theologians concerned themselves with challenging the traditional Catholic doctrine of papal supremacy and criticising thousand year-old traditions as frivolous and distracting from the message of Christ. Their ranks quickly swelled as forward-thinking clergymen published criticisms of the old religious order.

Remaearianism was established as a fundamentalist backlash to Vernalist ideology a few years after the Stettin Declaration. The birth of the Remaearian church came not from thought but from action. The earliest Remaearian action came from areas of great resentment, namely the Scottish border region and the French coastlines. After the centuries of hardship and suffering brought by the Two Hundred Years' War, religious leaders in these areas began adopting an apocalyptic and eschatological tone, describing the events of the war as the beginning of the End Time. As a result, they demanded absolute loyalty to scripture, admonishing any attempts at interpreting the Holy Bible non-literally. When Vernalist missionaries, typically merchant in background, began preaching in urban centres in these war-torn regions, fundamentalist militias formed and publicly tortured and murdered many of them. These militias radicalised further until they rebuked the papacy as unscriptural and eventually rejected the entire Catholic Church. The intellectuals among them, such as Soler, Frañsez and Grier, formalised their beliefs under the term 'Remaearian'.