[Lore] Night had fallen now, the flames of the fire in the nave giving the stained glass a new and terrifying blaze of light. Recoiling from the heat, the monster swung through the empty corridors of the cathedral, lurching wetly across the ancient flagstones it had last seen three hundred years ago. Until today’s arrival, the creature had been trapped solidly in the walls for centuries, interred alongside a reliquary in a silent midnight ceremony ahead of the building’s consecration. A violent compromise of light and dark forces, left to stand guard against any who would seek to destroy the relic, or to bring forth its power before its time had come. But as the power and influence of the church waned over the centuries, so had the forces binding the monster to the darkness of its forgotten alcove. The arrival of a group of intruders had been the final crack in its prison. The flames fading behind it, the creature turned back towards the apse to face them again.