The vision came to Sister Vaelissa on the first night of Scorchend, in the Dreamhaven Temple of the Shimmerfields — the province of illusion, festival, and curated truth.
Vaelissa was a Revist priest — a follower of Cassiriel, the Dreamshaper, the vassal goddess whose nature shaped the Shimmerfields into the kingdom's most visually spectacular and most epistemically unreliable province. Revist priests occupied a particular niche in the kingdom's religious hierarchy: they were the Crucible's propagandists, festival designers, and — in rare cases — prophets. Cassiriel's blessing occasionally produced visions in her most devoted practitioners, and those visions, while filtered through the goddess's illusionary nature, had a historical accuracy rate of approximately seventy percent.
Seventy percent was high enough to take seriously. Thirty percent was high enough to question.
