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|The church tried to seize control. The priests tried to conquer the world—for its own good, they claimed.
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|They were taught to follow the priests. Not the Almighty or the Heralds, but the priests.
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During the Hierocracy, the ardentia assumed near-absolute control of eastern Roshar.{{book ref|sa2|3}} The ultimate authority of the Hierocracy was the ardents themselves, rather than the Heralds or the Almighty, and the ardents used mysticism as one of their greatest tools.{{book ref|sa1|18}} Claiming their right to rule came from the Almighty,{{book ref|sa3|34}} ardents controlled what people learned, what religious paths they followed, and the overall doctrine, claiming that the common people could not understand theology. They justified this with visions and prophecies from the Almighty that they claimed to see. This flew in the face of traditional Vorin doctrine, which held that trying to divine the future was evil, and a part of the heart of [[Voidbinding]].
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