The Revenant's Gospel

Pain is devotion. Suffering is scripture. And a god's will is written in blood.

Veylen was once a man-a mortal executioner who thought death was the end. But the chains of the goddess Xujho proved otherwise. Bound by her will, shaped by self-inflicted torment, he was torn apart and rebuilt into something greater. Now, as Veylen the Penitent, the Priest of Thorns, and the Voice of Xujho, he walks the world once more, preaching a gospel of pain and zealotry in her name.

To those who listen, he is salvation.
To those who resist, he is judgment.

But when Lyara, a young scholar obsessed with the legend of the Revenant, crosses his path, she sees something more-a man behind the martyrdom, a broken soul beneath the priestly mask. Drawn to his knowledge and devotion, she begins to question if the faith she has sought all her life was waiting for her in the eyes of this scarred, enigmatic priest.

As Veylen leads her deeper into the abyss of Xujho's doctrine, Lyara must decide-will she pull him back to his forgotten humanity, or will she fall to her knees and offer herself to the same fate?

A tale of divinity, suffering, and the thin line between faith and obsession

When does worship become surrender?