That evening, "The Star" Leonard Mitchell arrived at Saint Triss Church in the West Borough with his beloved wife, Shermane.
This was the earliest and largest church of The End Church in Backlund. Its architecture combined the features of the Church of Night with those of religious buildings from the Tudor period of the Fourth Epoch. It had a bell tower, asymmetrical buttresses, and enormous stained-glass windows, with extensive use of natural, unpolished obsidian. Its surfaces seemed coated in solidified lava, forming a rugged texture, as though it had endured all manner of disasters and remained standing.
Still, you can see the influence of the Church of Night... Though according to the latest research, the Goddess Church's architectural style also followed designs from before the great cataclysm. Both originated with that resurrected Sun God... Leonard, whose extensive knowledge of the affairs between Gods had somewhat diminished his reverence for them, pondered this. Seeing that there were few worshippers inside, he led Shermane in.
His wife wore a loose, airy white dress and held a swaddled infant close to her chest. Her long brown hair danced in the breeze, and a serene smile rested on her face.
The infant was the fruit of Leonard and Shermane's love, a boy who had just turned one month old. With Old Man's consent, Leonard had named him Mobet.
Neither of them had chosen to expel a low- or mid-sequence Beyonder characteristic from their bodies and pass it down to their child. On one hand, they worried that a child born half a Beyonder might hurt himself or others. On the other, they wanted Mobet to enjoy a normal childhood, until he could truly understand the powers of the world of mysticism and their accompanying dangers, then choose a suitable path for himself.
Of course,