Sister Revaine was the youngest inquisitor in the Order of the Radiant Veil, a militant arm of the temple that hunted fiendish corruption. She was good at it — her celestial blood gave her the ability to sense evil the way other people sense heat. The problem started when the sensing became seeing: visions of writhing tentacles in the margins of prayer books, whispers in a language she couldn't name but somehow understood, and a creeping psychic awareness that felt nothing like divine grace. The Order tested her. The tests found something they didn't expect: aberrant psionic energy laced through her celestial bloodline, as if something from the Far Realm had contaminated the divine spark generations ago. They gave her a choice — submit to purification (which would likely kill her) or be declared a heretic. She chose neither. She walked out of the temple in her armor, with her sword, and the conviction that the corruption the Order feared wasn't in her blood — it was in the institution itself.