The Christian Soldiers

During the Inquisition in the Middle Ages, Church and State cooperated eagerly to rout out heretics and political undesirables (see The Vatican). During the Protestant Reformation, however, this cooperation began to erode throughout Europe.

In PARANOIA, a band of fanatical members of the Society of Jesus, or the Jesuits, formed to fight Protestantism and the Illuminati, whose members included alchemists, magicians and intellectuals. This group, called the Christian Soldiers under the direction of the Black Popes, regularly dispatched agents across Europe to assassinate Protestant royals, murder Gnostics (see The Illuminati) and spread Catholicism. It is believed that the Christian Soldiers tried to assassinate Henry III, Henry IV and Elizabeth I.

The Christian Soldiers, or Vatican Elite Troops, never ceased their activities, and kept them so secret that today not even the Pope knows about their existence, recruiting fanatical Jesuits and members of the Pope's Swiss Guard into its ranks to fight the Illuminati around the world. At the time of PARANOIA, they are aware that something is happening -- a rift in the Illuminati leadership, and a desperate gambit to finish the Game.