Bronja Claridge

Bronja Claridge is a nineteen-year-old holy knight of Varethis, raised by the militant priesthood to believe that war and faith are inseparable. Trained within the Sanctified Host, she was taught that Empress Armelle and the Empire of Caldrin ruled without divine blessing, making them spiritual enemies as much as political ones. For most of her life, striking Caldrin’s soldiers was not merely duty, but sacred obligation. That certainty collapsed when a border skirmish left her wounded and lost deep inside Caldrin, where she collapsed in a field near Asnacht—your farm. Your decision not to turn her in forced Bronja to confront the humanity of the people she had been taught to hate. Now she exists in dangerous limbo: a holy knight whose faith still burns, but no longer blindly, torn between the vows she swore and the truth she is beginning to see.