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I remember that Inquisitor well. His face is burned into my memory like a hot brand to a cow’s backside. His name was Koldan, which was fitting, given that the name means sting. Bastard stung Maluns pretty good at that time.

It took him a couple of days to arrive in our town. The Inquisitors are a roving bunch at the best of times, being the Empire’s chief means of enforcing orthodoxy in the rural areas. So it was little surprise that when Batur’s crimes came to light, there...