Somewhere on the outskirts of Novis, an old cathedral stood tall in the center of a small town's plaza, where a single figure wearing a large hooded cloak sauntered towards the building.
It was an old man with a prominent hunched back and a cane to support him, with his facial features shrouded by the hood except for his long, gray beard.
When the man reached the massive double doors of the cathedral, two younger men wearing the same type of cloak opened them for him, entering the building solely illuminated by the moonlight coming in from the mosaic windows.
A group of hooded men were sitting on the benches directed at the altar, not moving or reacting to the old man slowly walking through the corridor in the middle.
Behind the altar, the man went through another door into the bedroom chambers, which were situated beside a staircase that led underground.
