The Fire Wardens of Nocturne
The Chapter most stories on this site revolve around: heirs of Vulkan who refuse to book civilians as the price of victory. Five stories, from the siege of the Chainkeep to knowledge the priesthood has condemned. To read on afterwards, the reading path “The Witnesses” continues Captain Bre'kar's story.
The best way into the Chapter: Captain Vel'Kaddar of the Golden Wall is holding the besieged Chainkeep when Captain Bre'kar arrives with the Fire Wardens. Two codes of honour collide — and neither wins outright.
Twenty years later, the same fortress, the same question in a new form: what becomes of the survivors of that night? The sequel to the novella, told from the city beneath the wall.
Bre'kar and Chaplain Vel'Schwur meet a renegade confessor in search of redemption. The longest story on this path — and the one in which the Fire Wardens show how far their mercy reaches.
Two heirs of Vulkan return to a twice-forgotten world: Fire Wardens and Iron Veins, two readings of the same inheritance. Apothecary Dra'kaan stands between them — and will return in “The Witnesses”.
Six years after Morthis IV: the Chapter is losing its gene-seed, and a brother finds Vulkan's own forbidden research. The path ends with the question of what a fire is worth if it can only be kept in secret.