Chapter 85: Chapter 83: It is a long way down

How many heroes have come and gone throughout the spans of history? I speak not of the ordinary men and women who rose to task when greatness called for them but rather of the specific class of ‘hero’ – a ‘true hero’, or ‘summoned hero’ that belongs to ordained souls.

Every hundred years, a crisis looms over our world, and often, a true hero is summoned to intervene and to save us. In previous eras, this was done by the gods, who sent them to us. However, in the past generations, after the gods have left us in deafening silence, the Holy Church has learned how to manifest this being themselves through a complicated, exotic ritual that is kept a closely guarded secret known only to the cardinals and bishops of the institution.

Not every crisis requires a hero to be summoned to our world, oftentimes, the hero is found within our own region of existence.