Domains: Order, Death (as punishment) | Alignment: Lawful Neutral, trending Lawful Evil in practice Symbol: A set of scales, one side weighted with a shackle Holy Day: The Accounting, an annual public reading of Mournspire's judgments from the previous year
Kaldrath's worship has fused almost completely with Mournspire's civic law — judges, wardens, and executioners hold genuine clerical rank there, and "the law" and "the faith" aren't meaningfully separable concepts within the city's walls. Outsiders describe this as cold. Mournspire's own citizens describe it as honest, and mean it as the higher compliment.
Formal, hierarchical, and fused with civil government in a way no other faith in the Meridian Lands mirrors. The current head of Mournspire's Iron Judiciary is High Warden Ossane Drell, a severe, precise woman who has personally presided over more executions than anyone else currently living, and is, by all honest accounts, scrupulously fair about it.
Kaldrath is said to have once judged himself, weighing his own harshness against the world's need for order, and found the scale wouldn't settle either way — proof, in Mournspire's teaching, that even a god's judgment requires ongoing vigilance rather than a single verdict. This myth is cited whenever Mournspire revises its legal code, framing revision as faithfulness rather than inconsistency.
Claims doctrinal seniority over Aldric (a claim disputed everywhere outside Mournspire's walls). Quiet, mutual distaste with Meri.
Unpunished wrongdoing is the actual sin in Kaldrath's theology — not the wrongdoing itself, treated as essentially inevitable, but a debt left deliberately uncollected.