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The Priests

The Blazing-World's clergy, keepers of its worship, who must reconcile their rites with a sovereign who consults spirits and reasons her way toward God.

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Also known as the priests

First appearance: the description of a new world called the blazing world

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The priests preside over the realm's devotion and are drawn into the Empress's wide-ranging inquiry into religion, souls, and the nature of the divine. Their authority sits uneasily beside a ruler who debates theology…

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