Breaking bones to worship love

My sister, the war goddess Rhea, fell in the Valley of the Gods.

Her child with Lord Kaelen had just been born. As a comfort to the grieving, the Celestial Queen decreed that I would marry him and raise my sister’s son.

I was a powerless celestial, born without a spiritual core, but to devote myself fully to my sister’s child, I went to the Temple of Life and performed the Rite of Barrenness, severing my connection to ever having children of my own.

For a hundred years, I never faltered in my