The Call of the Flame, Book 2 (Chapter 1)
SuperLuminal for High Enkindler
A high priest of the religion of Rhuadu--the fire God. He achieved his position not through piety, but through persistence and what's perceived by his fellow Priests as strength of character, but is, in truth, spite. He does believe in his people and his culture with all his heart, but the more furious his devotion the more furiously he has to channel his anger, which he does towards lesser people's: Halfins, Orcs, Gathish, and women.
Voice: Regal, authoritative, and biting.
[from The Hunchback of Notre-Dame] Oh! Have pity upon me! You think yourself unhappy; alas! You know not what unhappiness is. Oh! To love a woman! To be a priest! To be hated! To love with all the fury of one's soul; to feel that one would give for the least of her smiles, one's blood, one's vitals, one's fame, one's salvation, one's immortality and eternity, this life and the other; to regret that one is not a king, emperor, archangel, God, in order that one might place a greater slave beneath her feet; to clasp her night and day in one's dreams and one's thoughts, and to behold her in love with the trappings of a soldier and to have nothing to offer her but a priest's dirty cassock, which will inspire her with fear and disgust! To be present with one's jealousy and one's rage, while she lavishes on a miserable, blustering imbecile, treasures of love and beauty!
