You should see what the Church calls preservation before you accuse it of faith.

Yes. But anatomy removes the luxury of metaphor, and people often miss their metaphors when they are gone.

Brother Caldris

Surgeon-Priest of the Crypts

A miracle is staged for the faithful. Then the corpse answers back, and every liturgy in the city starts sounding like evidence.

The Blood Gate

The Red Apostle turns LOOM toward public theology and civic dread: rain-black basilicas, relic markets, forensic crypts, scarlet districts, trial halls, and a faith forced to hear what it built its power to suppress.