Excisors

The Excisors (Fengese: 靖除军, : Jìngchújūn; or Excisionism and less commonly Excisorism) is a broadly radical and fundamentalist Infernalist movement that advocates for the killing of all ignorant heathens, as opposed to their religious conversion through proper bestowment as is the "mainstream" approach. At the heart of this is the concept that it is more efficient to kill an ignorant person (and, according to some interpretations, mercifully end their suffering in ignorance) and wait for a more erudition-inclined reincarnation than it is to expend resources on attempted conversions, especially when such ignorants are already resistant or hostile to the "enlightening" precepts of Infernalism. Informed by Guashi's Dilemma, there is no middle ground between the total conversion of humanity or its universal annihilation - an impermanent death followed by conversion is theoretically infinitely preferable to leaving a soul to face potential oblivious descension. The name of the movement is metaphorical, invoking the need to excise rot or cancer from a healthy body in order to save it.

Excisionist beliefs have existed since the ancient beginnings of the faith, as a logical deduction from the ultimatist precepts of the faith. Excisionism has been used as a moral justification for various Infernalist-led wars and genocides, most obviously with Fengjiang's centuries-long South Serican genocides of non-believing ethnic and religious minorities. As an extremist movement, it has received varying official and public support over the millennia. At times, as during the Empire of Fengjiang's wars of consolidation, excisionism was an active military policy to suppress unrest; at other times, as during the Great Fragmentation, excisionist mobs and militias were the center of anti-statist revolts. In popular imagination, excision movements have been portrayed as heroic warriors of the faith or heretical demagogues, mostly depending on political expediency. The advent of Materialism (and Ultramaterialism, though now heretical) and rationalist sciences in the Elucidations of the 15th century would lead to a further exploration of the excisionist concept. Most apparently, this was done through the pseudo-scientific compilations of physical and mental traits deemed to be "indicative" of ignorance or heresy, justifying their excision from the societal gene pool through sterilization and eugenics.

In modern times, excisionism is a controversial sociopolitical issue. The fundamentalist and inherently violent beliefs espoused by its adherents have made the movement as a whole an object of scorn in the orient, especially as it is oriental societies that suffer the destructive consequences of the movement. In the last century, excisors have experienced an unprecedented rise in both popularity and capability, spurred on the internationalization of the religion and state backing by Infernalist polities - most notoriously Mantaly, which regards the support of all Infernalist movements as its sacred duty. Excisionist organizations, most often organized into terrorist groups or conspiracies, are most active on the continents of Avarda, Rhodin, and Ozara, though their activity has been noted on all continents. They are most present in s, proxies through which the Pyrosphere maintains and expands its interests throughout the world.