The Alabaster Seal

In the war-torn Republic of Veridania, a meek municipal clerk named Oskar Lind becomes an instrument of the Holy Epiphany Order, meticulously documenting and enabling the systematic liquidation of heretics. Two decades later, a chance encounter in a neutral Arkivian café shatters his quiet anonymity. Placed on trial in the landmark case Lind v. Kostova, Oskar mounts a defense rooted in bureaucratic obedience, forcing the world to confront the unsettling question: when does the cog become the killer, and can faith ever justify the machine of death?