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Cahokia Hallowed Arden Revival Righteous Enflamed Devotees
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Sponsor: Order of the Inferno
The Cahokia Hallowed Ardent Revival started as a joke. Three drivers, a campfire on top of a thousand year old mound, and someone’s dog-eared copy of Freedom in the Flames.
The joke got out of hand. People showed up. More people showed up. Someone built a structure. Someone else established a doctrine. At some point the fires became permanent and the racing became liturgical and the founding members looked at each other and decided the most profitable thing to do was commit to the bit entirely.
The sincerity of the congregation is real, which is either the most St. Louis thing imaginable or a reasonable response to the apocalypse. Probably both.
They maintain a sacred flame on the great mound above the eastern floodplain — lit, according to their doctrine, in an unbroken line from the fires the ancient priests tended a thousand years before. Whether this is historically accurate is a question the Charred find both irrelevant and offensive.
CHAR’s racing division, the Righteous Enflamed Devotees, fields their vehicles in the Slaglands circuit as a living demonstration of the faith. That the acronym works out the way it does is either a divine sign or a fortunate coincidence. The founding members have strong opinions about which, none of which they will share publicly.
They have not yet achieved the speed required for transcendence. They are getting closer. The repair bills are extraordinary.