Human Cleric miniature

Garrick wasn’t raised to swing a weapon—he was raised to read.In the city of Lysport, the Iron Synod maintained a massive archive of vows: treaties between lords, binding oaths sworn by mercenary companies, contracts sealed with temples, and—most dangerous—true-name accords that could compel fiends, break hexes, or shatter a cult’s hierarchy if read correctly.Garrick became a cleric-scribe, trained to spot loopholes, false seals, and “clean” lies. He learned that corruption rarely looks like a villain; it looks like a missing line item, a forged signature, a witness paid to forget.Then a war came. Not armies—influence.A powerful faction began buying judges, threatening priests, and burning records. One night the Synod archive went up in flames. Garrick fought through smoke and falling shelves to save what he could—shield up, codex in hand—reciting rites of warding while pulling wet parchment from the embers.He saved one book: a compilation of oaths and clauses known as The Ledger of Qu