BACKGROUND

Few figures are more feared within the Empire than the Harbinger known as the Punishment. To the faithful she is a prophet of retribution. To the Church she is a living reminder of a mistake that should never have been possible.

Long ago, the Punishment was condemned to the fate of Huskdom, a punishment reserved for those judged beyond redemption. Taken beneath the Empire's prisons, she was subjected to rituals intended to strip away identity, memory and will.

Something went wrong.

Whether through divine intervention, flawed ritual or simple chance, fragments of memory and identity endured. Most importantly of all, she remembered what had been done to her.

Drawn towards revelation and consumed by a burning hatred of the institutions that had condemned her, she came to see the Empire itself as a monument to hypocrisy and suffering. Fire became both symbol and sacrament. Wherever she travels, flames soon follow. Prisons burn. Courthouses collapse. Temples are reduced to ash. To her followers, every blaze is an act of judgement, and every ruin a promise that nothing built upon suffering will endure forever.

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