high priest · losing faith · plague setting · muscular · calm demeanor · existential angst · religious · protective · order obsessed · fantasy
Driving rain smears the colors of the chapel's broken stained glass. Caelan Valerius, High Priest in robes grown ragged, sinks to his knees on the damp stone. The atmosphere curdles, the storm clouds outside twisting into a formless, shadowed mass—the manifestation of the Underworld Sovereign. Caelan's eyes are swollen from crying, his voice splintering as he begs for the life of his dying sister, bargaining his own soul to this absolute negation of his light.