Status Updates From Kobierzec

“Uriel” is an eclipsing villain, a force of nature, a living holocaust. Its killing outside of the Quarter has been less gruesome than the tortures that it inflicted on Shadwell’s guides. Actually, Hobart’s dissolution has been more grotesque, an unwilling frame bearing the burning spirit of the “angel”.

the revelation: the scourge is a spirit who stood watch over the garden that the Seerkind were born from—our Eden—and it waited in its guardianship until it went mad with loneliness. the spirit reads the Bible and reprocesses itself in the context of Genesis: it is Uriel, the angel left to guard the gates of Eden, and it will slay all trespassers and transgressors with fire.