Gate Renovation

Gate Renovation or sometimes Renovationism (Serovitic: dvāra-uddhāravāda), also known as Adoracine unionism, is a political movement in contemporary Adorac, which advocates the rationalistic consolidation of Adorac under a clearer, more centralised authority, a native Ascesian power, and a united actor in interordinate relations. This proposal usually advocates the strengthening of the Servitors of the Gate of Light's authority, and emphasise a continuity with the Combination of Dreams, which through the Servitors has never really lapsed. It is generally sceptical of foreign influence from Messenia and Outer Joriscia, such as Siurskeyti's domination of Adorac and wider Ascesia via the Cataphon system, though it is much more vehemently opposed to the rise of Vaestism with the Dusk War.

Attempts to restore the Combination's authority have been a factor in central-eastern Ascesian politics since its decline in the 18th century, and calls to rationalise the territories comprising modern Adorac into a proper state emerged soon after the 1892 Treaty of Cataphon. The modern Gate Renovation movement however properly originates following the Dravaplava unrest of the 1960s, which would be further promoted by rationalist Rajaka politics in the 1980s as enterprising Adoracine rulers promoted regional cooperation and unity. The Dusk War in the 1990s transformed it into a mass, popular movement as much of Adorac united behind the Trothed Alliance-Union to defeat Vesnite incursions in the west; Renovationist organisations soon became the Alliance-Union's political support base, and the Alliance-Union itself the main vehicle of unionism.

The wartime transformation of Gate Renovation has made it resemble a more hierocratic, fanatical model of rationalist political movements prevalent in other parts of Ascesia, such as the Circularists of Pemasura or the Cosmoscopists of Tarves. Combination revivalism, especially in connection with its founding prophecies, has become a significant element in popular forms of Renovationism. As an important confederation or even inchoate insurgent power, the Alliance-Union has relied considerably on this aspect to mobilise popular support, in turn shaping its policies and ambitions.