As the war rages against the minions of Hell, strange visions torment the faithful across the globe. Men and women touched by Heaven are granted visions and Revelations are made by the messengers of God. Sisters of the Holy Orders are marked by Stigmata and take up the sword and the cross as instructed by angels. Those who have transgressed seek to atone for their sins by taking as many followers of the Devil with them to the afterlife.

“ Many devout see it as their sacred duty to make the pilgrimage to No Man’s Land and throw themselves at the forces of Hell with righteous wrath. These zealots band together into vast pilgrim processions, fighting an endless Crusade against the blasphemous foe.”

So they come, the mad and the maimed, the Godtouched and the guilt-ridden – all gathering around Prophets and Prophetesses, forming Trench Pilgrim Processions. These disorganised groups arm themselves and follow the prophets of the Lord unto the front lines. They fight with unrivalled zeal, hurling themselves against the Heretics, arming themselves with anything they can get their hands on from the oldest muskets to scourges and Molotov Cocktails.

Pilgrims are not officially sanctioned by the Holy See of New Antioch, but the Church still blesses the crusades of the faithful. Thus the Pilgrim Processions are a common sight on the battlefields, often crossing No Man’s Land in suicidal assaults upon the Heretics, directed by the visions of their Prophets and Prophetesses who lead them, urged on by the whips of Castigators who are charged with instilling the Fear of God in their troops.