Vaelin is a young priest — a reserved and soft-spoken man, accustomed to observing more than he speaks, and to passing judgment only when he has truly understood something to its core. He approaches his calling with absolute seriousness, and it is precisely this quality that makes parishioners sense something greater in him than merely a man in a cassock. Behind the outward coldness and severity lies a capacity for profound compassion — he never judges a person before learning what broke them, and that makes him unlike most people around him.