Mighty Host of God and the Archangels

The Mighty Host of God and the Archangels was a vast army raised by the Church of God Awaiting during the Jihad against the Empire of Charis and the Republic of Siddarmark.

Composed mostly of Harchongese forces, it was equipped with more than 600,000 rifles, nearly 100,000 of them Saint Kylmahns, and trained in the Border States. It was commanded by Lord of Horse Tyshu Daiyang, Earl Rainbow Waters. Rainbow Waters' senior aide and adjutant was his nephew, Medyng Hwojahn, Baron Wind Song.

By spring of the Year of God 898, the Mighty Host was to be reinforced to close to two million men. 

After the Jihad ended, the nobles of North Harchong refused to allow the Mighty Host's soldiers to come home. Most of them were conscripted serfs or minor peasants; the nobles feared the result if serfs with military training were allowed to return, considering how serfs were normally treated. Grand Vicar Rhobair agreed under protest to keep the Mighty Host out of Harchong, on the condition that the families of officers (who were drawn mostly from the upper classes) be allowed to join their husbands and fathers in exile if they so chose. He arranged for the Host's soldiers to settle in the Temple Lands. (TFT) Many officers abandoned the Host to accept imperial invitations to return home. However, Rainbow Waters and Wind Song refused to abandon their men, and as a consequence lost of their estates.

After the Harchongese serf rebellion in 903, Rainbow Waters and Wind Song led the Host into the eastern portion of North Harchong and established a provisional government nominally under the emperor. However, the emperor's denunciations and refusal to work with the Host led Rainbow Waters to declare East Harchong's independence and establish a parliament to write a constitution.