Grey
Dialectical Hermeticist
It began with disappearances.
No one important; a beggar here, a harlot there. Beneath the notice of the Watch.
Then a priest, or an off-duty Watchman, or a handmaiden.
The Watch, whipped into action by the Duke, searched high and low to find the kidnappers.
They found murderers instead. Signs of ritual slaughter, occult markings, blasphemous tomes.
When the Watch was closing in on what they believed to be the home of the cult, the unthinkable happened.
A Demon erupted from the summoning circle and laid waste to the cultists, to the Watch. At great loss of life it was put down, vanishing back into the ether in the wreckage of a burnt inn.
Suspicion is keeping the Guilds, the Ducal Government, The Church from working together.
That is where you come in.
Between them, they have agreed to fund and staff the Inqusition. To root out Cultists, study Demons, and end the threat to Meridian once and for all.
Unfortunately, their skepticism means that for now the Inquisition is staffed with idiots, thieves, cowards, and thugs.
Good luck!
No one important; a beggar here, a harlot there. Beneath the notice of the Watch.
Then a priest, or an off-duty Watchman, or a handmaiden.
The Watch, whipped into action by the Duke, searched high and low to find the kidnappers.
They found murderers instead. Signs of ritual slaughter, occult markings, blasphemous tomes.
When the Watch was closing in on what they believed to be the home of the cult, the unthinkable happened.
A Demon erupted from the summoning circle and laid waste to the cultists, to the Watch. At great loss of life it was put down, vanishing back into the ether in the wreckage of a burnt inn.
Suspicion is keeping the Guilds, the Ducal Government, The Church from working together.
That is where you come in.
Between them, they have agreed to fund and staff the Inqusition. To root out Cultists, study Demons, and end the threat to Meridian once and for all.
Unfortunately, their skepticism means that for now the Inquisition is staffed with idiots, thieves, cowards, and thugs.
Good luck!