Revelation

The Movement of Faith in the Revelation and Return of Our Benefactors, more commonly known as Revelation or the MFRROB, is a conglomerate of Benefactor cults allegedly formed by a patriarch known as Benefactor Nicodemus.

Revelation is the aggressor in an ongoing war with East Lambda and is also the primary cause of the socioeconomic disaster known as the Revelation Crisis.

Overview
Details of life in Revelation settlements are scarce. Members frequently embark on pilgrimages to holy sites or scavenging runs.

Raiding parties are known to capture settlers and travelers. Those who are not tortured or killed are usually put through conversion regiments or forced to perform slave labor. Vortigaunts who are captured are shackled and used to generate electricity or perform labor.

Revelation mass prints books containing their holy texts. The recovery of these books has enabled researchers to create a detailed profile of their belief systems. According to their most common holy text, Truths of Our Benefactors, Revelation formed in anticipation of the return of the Combine, whose interdimensional access to Earth was severed shortly after the Uprising. Furthermore, Revelation anticipates the return of Wallace Breen, former Administrator of the Union, who disappeared after Gordon Freeman's raid of the Citadel. Truths of Our Benefactors asserts that Breen did not die, but was instead recovered by the Combine.

A major tenet of Revelation's belief system is the principle of viewship. Owing itself to the Combine's ability to travel interdimensionally, viewship is the premise that the Combine are able to view both time and space nonlinearily. Certain texts claim that Wallace Breen is able to view and judge the actions of humanity on Earth.

History
Benefactor cults were common even during the Occupation. The assembly of smaller cults and tribes into alliances did not take place until around 30 AL, when groups within proximity of each other began pooling their resources to raid large settlements.

Evidence of Revelation's existence was first recovered in the winter of 33 AL. Lambda rangers on a reconnaissance assignment came across a series of sites containing totems, symbolic structures used for prayer. Mass-printed texts mentioning the movement by name were found alongside wood-carved fetishes and synth oil. In the following year, the UDD reported upwards of 20 incursions attributed to organized raider bands theorized to have been associated with Revelation.

On September 2nd, '45, Revelation forces broke through a border outpost in East Lambda and razed the town of Quill Point. After skirmishing with response teams, the raiders overtook another border outpost, effectively shattering UDD control over the area. Since then, Revelation has been embroiled in war with East Lambda, stealing significant swathes of territory and causing a refugee crisis with their expansion.