The Ghost on Atonement Altar

Freya, the most beloved princess of the Northern Wolf Clan, was exiled to the border temple by her elder brother King Hadrian on false charges of poisoning the Holy Maiden, where she endured three months of unspeakable torture. She fought hellhounds for scraps of food in a livestock shed, suffered burns from red-hot silver needles and prolonged submersion in ice vats, and perished utterly consumed by despair. Yet every soul believed she was merely feigning death. Her brother stuffed her lifeless