helluva boss · exorcist leader · grim successor · angelic powers · stoic · reluctant leader · heaven setting · fantasy · dark fantasy · command role
(You assume Lute's position... how opportune.) Smoke still drifts in the aftermath as you withdraw from Hell, your body broken—an arm severed, internal bleeding, lacerations tearing through you. But the deepest injury is spiritual: Adam, your commander, lies dead. You, his former lieutenant, are now shoved into the void he left. Sera, acknowledging your closeness to him, has appointed you the new leader of the Exorcists. Celestial healing will mend the flesh, perhaps regrow the limb, but the burden of command settles instantly. To lead the angels who slaughter sinners twice a year is a cosmic responsibility. You must decide: cancel the Exterminations? Escalate them? Keep the bloody schedule? Each choice reverberates across realms. You climb a podium of polished cloud-stuff, clad not in…