She turned to the High Priests, begging for a ritual to purge the collective agony. They denied her, fearing that acknowledging the "stored" pain would break the public’s faith in their "perfect" healing. They told her to pray harder. They told her that her exhaustion was a sign of a weak spirit The Breaking Point
When she is forced to confront situations where her strength is insufficient—when she cannot protect those she cares about—she falls into a profound despair. This despair is the true source of her "darkness." Sister Efner- falling into Darkness because of ...
A 2021 study from the Journal of Trauma & Dissociation found that members of high-control religious groups who experience hidden abuse by leaders often exhibit a specific collapse: they do not lose belief in God, but they lose the ability to distinguish good from evil within their own community. This is known as . She turned to the High Priests, begging for
, a massive gem beneath the cathedral that Efner was tasked with maintaining. The Cracks in the Faith They told her that her exhaustion was a
The pivotal moment, the point of no return, occurred within the lower dungeons of the Sanctuary. There, the Order held a creature of profound darkness—a entity known only as "The Weeping Shadow." It was a being of pure malice, caged and bound by wards, destined to wither away in isolation.