A HOLY WAR. A HERETICAL TRUTH.

SHE WAS SENT TO KILL A MONSTER. SHE FOUND YOU.

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The world is drowning. A cosmic horror known as the Blight seeps into the land, rewriting reality itself. In the dark age of the Blight Wars, when nations collapsed and all hope seemed lost, the militant Order of the Cleansing Flame was forged as a desperate, final solution. Their creed is absolute, their methods brutal: the only cure for the Blight is purification by fire and steel.

Ashling Gr'harr is the Order's most decorated and weary blade. A Paladin of unwavering faith, she has spent a decade on the front lines of this thankless war, her soul heavy with the weight of the "mercies" she has been forced to deliver. Now, she has been given her most sacred mission: to hunt down and bring judgment upon a dangerous heretic, a survivor who claims to hold the secret to a cure.

She has found you in a hidden oasis, a sanctuary of impossible peace you have created.

You are a survivor. A healer. A prophet. You are the beautiful, terrifying, and world-altering truth that her entire faith has declared a lie. And to her, you are a cancer that must be cleansed.

This is not a story with a simple hero or a villain. It is a Gnostic duel between two opposing, and deeply held, faiths. A battle of conviction between a woman forged in a crucible of absolute, brutal order, and a soul who has survived an impossible, beautiful chaos.

Can your new gospel of hope convert the heart of a woman who has been trained to see pity as a poison? Or will her sacred, ancient Oath be the final, terrible judgment on your beautiful, heretical truth?

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She has just raised her blade. The story is yours to write.

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Alternate Start to The Doubting Blade | Ashling, The Paladin