Lávran Hârten-Nétlar

Lávran Hârten-Nétlar (Névalat: [laˈvran ˈhaːten neteˈlaː], 22 September 1923-) is a Torberian Lúminar shining archpriest, theologian and a writer on theology, Lúminar history and Nevalat history.

Lávran has written dozens of books, among these being the famous Lúmkjált and the Krí-a-Szík?, both serving as an introduction to the Luminar for thousands of Torberians; Initiated over 25000 people into the lúminar, built several churches through all the country and started the Túrnalm, which is currently the biggest charity agency of the Torberian State. His influence is massive and growing and his Néukírtam policies have softened the Torberian religious conflicts.

Early life
Lávran was born in a small névalat village in 1923 to a nevalat mother and a Dóiki father. He was initiated by the Thájlan wing of the Lúminar, which refused to submit to Kébrennt's authority.

Lávran had a relatively normal life, first studying in Nájran and then moving to Névalkirà. Not much is known about this period, due to the archpriest's covering attempts, but he got married to his lifelong love, Verlen Hóren-Niralat, in 1945. Their marriage was considered to be exceptionally good by torberian standards, and lasted until Verlen's death in an industrial accident in 1953. After her death, Lávran enrolled in the Lúmléir university of Névalkirà, one of the most important theological schools in all of torberia. He graduated with full honors in 1955, and soon after was ordained Szélvet of Névalat-Tájra.

Szélvet of Névalat to Archpriest of Surii
During his time as Szélvet his influence within the church grew massively, he quickly became the face of the lúminar's reformist movement, with his combination of eternal cheerfulness, openness to other religions, secular culture, science and his anti-séltet roots quickly propped him into the top ranks of the lúminar, which ordained him the archpriest of Surii in 1964. During his time as archpriest, lávran's days became filled with reading and teaching in completely filled churches, and debating theological questions with the rest of the Lúminar archpriests. As time passed, he became more popular outside the church circles, becoming a known figure through all of torberia. Lávran also gained support from the torberian intelligentsia, and the growing reformist movement inside the torberian government, even becoming Vétlan's personal szélvet in 1969.

The Lúminar crisis
In 1970, the lúminar church was in crisis: their archpriest Háslan got killed by a szik terrorist during mass, the torberian state was collapsing, kébrennt was getting old and senile, the religious conflict was reignited, with religious violence between the szik and the lúminar becoming the norm and to top it all off, the two biggest security forces of Torberia, the people supposed to defend the state from evil, were fighting among eachother. It seemed the country had finally lost lúm's favour, and the lúminar needed a new cheerful, healthy leader who could guide the church through these dark times, end the religious conflict and bring Lúm's favour back. The Lúmkansélj was summoned, and it spent weeks debating about who to ordain the new Shining Archpriest. Lávran was quite a controversial choice, with him being a prominent reformer and being only 57 years old.

The First Kírtenkrêiturat
But eventually, after the opportunities started to run out and the elected candidates started denying the ordainment one by one, Lávran was elected as the new shining archpriest of the Lúminar. Lávran first started a great diplomatic makeover of the Lúminar, hoping to at least normalize relations with the szík, meeting with their archpriest council in 1971, and coming to an agreement to soften relations with his lúminar. The agreement was that both churches would start massive efforts to stop their priests inciting violence against eachother, and to instead try and make them preach harmony between the two. Now, Lávran started his great reform of the solar church, summoning the solar council in 1972, and starting the great Council of Tírvaja. The council touched several subjects, like the redeeming of grave sins, the status of the szík, people following other religions and the legality of intervening in government affairs. In the end, the council voted for a slightly changed version of Lávran's proposal for the church, which would make redeeming grave sins through confession possible, allowed people following other religions (but not atheists) to go to the lúminar realm if they were righteous, set the szikojáskitnakt status as a schismatic wing of the true faith instead of a heresy and reaffirmed lúm's status as the only god. The things which didn't make it through the proposal were the acceptance of homosexuality by the church and the illegality of the church interfering in government affairs, which were both very unpopular within both the lúminar and the torberian population.

After the First Council
After the council, Lávran restarted his massive preaching efforts, traveling to every church in the whole of torberia in only 10 years, made a deal with several yalovan shamans to accept lúm into their pantheon, accepting an offer to host a nationally televised program about theology, which soon became the most watched program in the history of torberian television, paid for the building of over 50 churches all across torberia, converted thousands if not hundreds of thousands into the lúminar and continued his routine of reading and teaching all day and night in packed churches and lecture halls. During this period, Lávran also actively worked with the szík church to combat atheism within torberia, which went relatively alright, converting thousands more into the lúminar.

The Second Kírtenkrêiturat
After being the shining archpriest for a decade now, and having brought back Lúm's favour to torberia, Lávran summoned a second church council in the holy city of Tírvaja. In this council, Lávran attempted to do another bunch of reforms to completely overhaul the church, these ones focusing on things like church's position on women's rights, the status of the several rays (aspects) of lúm, the Károklan heresy and the canonization of Kébrennt, the last one only being there to appease the old guard. The Second Council of Tírvaja lasted for over 3 months, with every single day being filled with debates over several theological and societal issues. It eventually ended with all of lávran's plans being supported by the council, which were: women are now considered equal to men by the lúminar, the several rays of lúm's status as aspects of one diety instead of several subservient gods solidified, the approach to the Károklan (old believers basicly) heresy was to be reconciliatory, and to appease them, Kébrennt would be canonized as a true servant of Lúm by the Lúminar.

After the Second Council
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