Corporeal

Before oath and kingdom, before ruin and remembrance, all forces mingled in one body.

Holy, shadow, poison, and death were not enemies then, but truths awaiting a stronger hand.

Thus the knowing were taught to wield contradiction, that grace and corruption might answer the same design.

For the world is not preserved by purity alone, but by the will to bind what others fear to touch. - Codex Umbra