![[12SaintsC2.png | 350]] *Twelve Saints #2 cover by UndercoverUwu.* ***Exam Day*** is the second issue of the *Twelve Saints* comic series. ## Quick Facts --- | Credits | ![[12SaintsN2P0.jpg \| 400]] | | -------- | ---------------------------- | | Title | Exam Day | | Pages | 20 | | Arc | Apostle Exams | | Next | [[Twelve Saints No. 3]] | | Previous | [[Twelve Saints No. 1]] | ## Summary --- [[Tini Charre]] wakes up in her Sylens apartment, on the day of the [[Apostle Exams]]. Hanging on her wall is a newspaper clipping of the day [[Damian Charre]] was killed. We flash back to that day six years ago, with Charre visiting Qaddar in the [[Velsh Union]]. He gives a speech to a room full of diplomats urging for greater co-operation between their countries against the [[Crown Restoration Movement]]. Right at that moment, the CRM attacks the event, and their [[Crown Restoration Movement Leader|leader]] kills Charre after a fierce battle. Back in the present day, Tini flies to the Apostle Exams auditorium to register, where she meets [[Zeila Newton]]. Smitten, Newton tries to strike up a conversation with Tini but is coldly rebuffed. They proceed to the exam rooms to begin the written test. ## Datapage --- ![[12SaintsN2P10d.jpg | 350]] ### DECLASSIFIED INFORMATION: ENTRY 147: KINGDOM OF ELMANY `ONCE ONE NATION RULED BY A MONARCH WHO WAS ALSO THE LEADER OF THE` `ELMAN CHURCH OF SAINTS, IN THE YEAR DCLXXVII INTERNAL DISAGREEMENTS` `IN THE ELMAN CHURCH OF SAINTS OVER WHETHER MONARCHY COULD BE` `RECONCILED WITH THE COMMUNITARIAN HAGIOIST IDEOLOGY THAT THE` `CHURCH WAS FOUNDED ON REACHED A TIPPING POINT. IN THE INTEREST OF` `AVOIDING WAR, QUEEN SOFIE AGREED TO ALLOW THE COUNTRY BE SPLIT IN` `HALF, WITH ANTI-MONARCHISTS RENOUNCING THEIR CITIZENSHIP AND MOVING` `TO THE NEW COUNTRY IN THE SOUTH.` `IN THE YEARS THAT FOLLOWED THE BISECTION, THAT ANTI-MONARCHIST` `COALITION DIVIDED INTO THREE MAJOR FACTIONS WHO DISAGREED OVER HOW` `THE NEW NATION SHOULD BE ORGANIZED:` - `THE SOFIARAKA, LED BY VICTORIA WINDSOR: WANTED A MODE OF` `DECENTRALIZED FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SIMILAR TO WHAT WAS IN` `ANKYLOSANTE.` - `THE VOROMIRAKA, LED BY YEMISI FAYOWA: PREFERRED A UNITARY SYSTEM` `THAT CONCENTRATED AUTHORITY IN A SINGLE BODY.` - `THE LUMENISTS, LED BY LEONA LUMENOSA: DID NOT BELIEVE ORGANIZED` `GOVERNMENT WAS COMPATIBLE WITH LUMENS' TEACHINGS.` `THIS DISAGREEMENT EVENTUALLY LED TO THE TRANSELMAN CIVIL WAR,` `WHICH LASTED FOR THREE YEARS AFTER THE TREATY OF HAAL WAS SIGNED.` `THE WAR RESULTED IN A VOROMIRAKA VICTORY, AND THE DIVISION OF` `TRANSELMANY INTO XI CHURCHES, AS YEMISI ORIGINALLY INTENDED. THESE XI` `CHURCHES WOULD BE THE DIOCESES OF THE NEW TRANSELMAN CHURCH OF` `SAINTS, EACH REPRESENTED BY ITS HIGHEST RANKING APOSTLE: THE SAINT` `OF THAT CHURCH. THESE SAINTS WOULD SERVE ON A RULING COUNCIL [SEE` `ENTRY CCLXXVIJ. XI CHURCHES WOULD LATER BECOME XII WHEN GORDON` `ALASTAIR PROPOSED THE CREATION OF A NEW DIOCESE TO REPRESENT THE` `OBSCURE ALTERATION DARK ART KNOWN AS ISOLATION. THE VOTE NARROWLY` `PASSED, WITH ALL FOUR NORTHERN DIOCESES, THE GREEN AND THE CHURCH` `OF LIGHT VOTING IN FAVOR.` `TRANSELMANY TODAY IS A MODERATELY-SIZED COUNTRY `THAT MAKES UP THE` `SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE CONTINENT,` `SITUATED SOUTH OF ITS SISTER NATION` `CISELMANY, WEST OF THE VELSH REPUBLIC` `AND SOUTHEAST OF ANKYLOSANTE.` `SYLENS IS THE LARGEST CITY AND CAPITAL;` `OTHER MAJOR CITIES INCLUDE PORT MERA` `AND YOLA.` `IT HAS AN AREA OF ROUGHLY 80,000 SQUARE` `MILES AND A POPULATION OF ABOUT 7,000,000 PEOPLE.` ## Characters (in order of appearance) --- - [[Tini Charre]] - [[Damian Charre]] (debut) - [[Crown Restoration Movement Leader]] (debut) - [[René Adelaide]] (debut) - [[Jara Dumfries]] (debut) - [[Yvette Bissouma]] (debut)