The high priest's body was Hench, but in reality, it was Gregory. He wasn't surrounded by true believers, but rather former Firewood Carriers. These Casters had been twisted into abominable living corpses. They were cloaked in the cinders left after the destruction of the Tower of Primordial Fire, their faces blurred and ash-black.
When the cold wind blew into the cracks of their skin, they would glow with a faint red heat, and with every movement, the living corpses would spew a warm, foul-smelling ichor.
In life, they all possessed trained and developed Magic Circuits, making them excellent materials. After being transformed, they were elites comparable to Demons, perfectly capable of carrying out the Mother Goddess's order—to convert the Divine Remains of the white Bear God into one of their own.
