Aelius Fatum

My latest guy who I'm utterly obsessed with atm.

He used to be a small-town priest before he experienced the onset symptoms of sudden cardiac death on his way home from a service and lost consciousness. He was given medical care, but unfortunately he was not able to be revived and passed away. Well, sort of!! His heart stopped for around 10 minutes and he was pronounced dead, but then miraculously it started beating again. Aelius was never the same after the incident though, going from warm and jovial to withdrawn and emotionally repressed.

Because of the mystique surrounding their recovery, they are offered a seat among The Shepherds of Cinderhallow, since it's clear they MUST be blessed by Solem in some way. They reside there to this day, becoming something of a de facto leader as they say and do things that suggest that Solem speaks with them- or through them often.

They are a strong proponent of the mindset philosophy of Amor Fati to justify the action- or inaction of their god, and they navigate every situation with an unnerving calmness because of it. To Aelius, Solem is an artist, and reality is their art made to express the complexities of their inner landscape. Any tragedy that Solem allows to happen is because sometimes art exists to challenge us and make us uncomfortable. Anything is fair game if it properly communicates Solem's vision, because that is what good art does.

Following the art metaphor, I believe Aelius interprets his roll as Solem's paintbrush/pen/pencil etc, a tool that acts as an extension of its artist to be used to bend a reality that Solem can only interact with by proxy.