Roots of the Condemned: Where Holy Cruelty Ends, a Terrifying Treason Begins.

The ecclesiastical machine demands a very specific kind of quiet. But the earth remembers what the church tries to bury.

For decades, Abbess Ursula Umbra has maintained the Bone Orchard with ruthless, cold precision. By using the calcified remains of condemned nobles to fertilize grafted fruit trees, she extracts powerful resurrection seeds that fuel a dying dominion. She has built an intellectual fortress around her own deeply repressed guilt, justifying the horrific harvest as a necessary,...