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@urwen-starial Thank you! I’m glad that you liked it even outside your normal genre, and I eagerly await your analysis in the second reading!

As for the church, yes, it’s Catholic, more or less. Things are a bit nutty at this time in Bohemia, and I need to do more research on the year-by-year timeline and locations to make sure the right areas are described correctly with the correct allegiances.

As of this writing, this village (Jedlka) is under Hussite control – reformers, rebels, and designated ‘heretics’ who insist that communion must be administered in both parts – the bread and the wine (sub utraque) – while the default Roman Catholic practice was for the laity to have the bread only, while the priest took both the bread and the wine. The Hussites believed the Roman practice was nothing short of blasphemy condemning to Hell those who took the communion in that manner, and so were understandably rather vehement about being allowed to take communion in both parts.

If you want to know more about the history of Bohemia and the Hussite Wars I can write more. This stuff however is very much background at the moment; Myrrha and Erhard’s adventures, while they tangle with history, are much more personal in nature. Lady Kyreleis is the one for whom I have to worry about history. 😛