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The Apostate
A young priest's prayers fail to save a dying child. Decades later, in a forest a world away, his hands burn with a light that was never the gods' to give.
The Fall
He was a young priest tending to a fevered child. He prayed, begged, reached for the divine. Yet nothing came. The heavens had gone silent. The child died in his arms, and with her death, his faith.
He cast aside his vestments, denounced the gods, and bound the child’s doll around his neck as his only symbol.
Years of Wandering
For decades he wandered as an apostate, surviving through herbs, poultices, and stubborn will. A healer without blessing, a priest without faith. He donned sword and shield and survived as best he could.
Rekindled Light
He walks the broken world as both heretic and healer, haunted by the child he failed and guided only by the fragile flame he has found in himself. Which has led him to the forests of Ruhar where he meets a badly injured Svirfneblin. In the face of death, his hands burned with light again.
Not from any god, but from within.
He now believes divinity was never the gods’ alone; mortals have always carried it.
The Miniature
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Those who walk this story
Nearby in the dark
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A Half-Step Ahead
A phase elf walks the forest paths of Ruhar with a secret call at her ear, a companion at her side, and an encounter in the clearing ahead that none of them yet understand.
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Eloryn Vale
A wandering scholar with mild manners and a hidden hunger for ascension beyond mortality.
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Garrin Vosk
A wandering soldier who drifts through the world with his hound Barrow, answering when Triste calls.