Thamryss the Mirror

Little is agreed upon regarding Thamryss the Mirror, save that he was cast down for revealing truths too great for his time. To some, he was a saint and martyr, slain by developing sects that would later become the Church of Holy Law. To others, a sorcerer-ascendant who once walked the gilded halls of the Imorean Celestiarchivum. A few even claim he was no man at all, but something older—an echo of a god, or a reflection of something far beyond.

Among the fragmented doctrines of the Coterie of the Hollow Saint, Thamryss is held in highest esteem. They teach that he unveiled the lie at the Church's foundations, proclaiming that the world is not whole, but a grave. For this, he was condemned, erased from scripture, and—according to legend—sealed in silence by the very order he once served.

Some claim Thamryss taught the Path of Splendor, a forbidden philosophy that urged his followers to seek transformation not through domination or piety, but through self-development. To behold one’s true reflection—not as one is, but as one could be—was said to be the first step toward self divinity.

Today, his name survives only in scattered fragments: a broken mirror in a ruined temple, a face glimpsed in still water, a passage in a banned book that speaks in reversals.

Whether he was prophet, sorcerer, or something stranger, the question remains: What did Thamryss see that made him so dangerous?