Cleansing Ritual Record

To kindle the ember is to embrace pain.

Third sacrifice: a Nuian male. After surrendering his eyes, he wailed on his third breath, when the heat burned brightest.

The darkness stirred when his spine split. Earlier trials failed, the eyes ruptured too soon.
Fourth sacrifice: a gnoll male. Gnolls are foul...but their hides useful.
When I burned the fat beside the kidneys, the Abyss trembled. A rare offering indeed!
Tomorrow, I shall gift the Abyss one with two hearts.

True divinity blooms in black blood and bone.