Inquisition [n]
A part of the church tasked with ferreting out witches, heathens and devil-worshipers in the middle ages. Responsible for the alienation of several human nations, repression of supernatural knowledge that helped defend humanity against creatures of the Nevernever (such as the Vampire Courts), the reduction of White Council political and economic power and thus certain failures to defend humans from major supernatural threats, the education of warlocks in unity against common enemies and that secrecy could provide them with much greater power, the spread of fear and chaos that fed power into the Downbelow and an insurance against human theological and spiritual unity against the supernatural.
The inquisition was destroyed by individual yet concurrent efforts from the White Council, human monarchs, advances in education, human-friendly supernaturals and several major plagues that may or may not have been the Black Court spreading across the globe in a new age of exploration. Human religions are still mutually mistrustful and opposing, science has mostly replaced faith, the White Council clings to a mantle of secrecy that does not work in the modern world and the world is a decade from a possible Armageddon.
Yeah, witch-hunting is very good. Especially if you're a Sspernatural nation that wants to conquer the world and doesn't want humans to have any defenses.
