Darkest Dungeon: Marvin Seo Journal Readings
Cipher115 for Mathas, The Witch Hunter (Journal of Mathas, Witch Hunter)
Mathas, The Witch Hunter, is the man we see in the Seraph comic who is leading the burning.
His journal tells his backstory as a man who hunts down evil and purges it from the world with holy fire. He set an entire city on fire just to kill one person he believes is a witch. This reaches a turning point when he tries to burn the Seraph at the stake, and she is granted the powers of fire and faith to become an angel of sorts. While everyone else accepts this miracle, he refuses to believe that she is an angel and turns his back on his faith, resolving to devote his life to killing the Seraph and saving mankind from the false prophet.
While he claims to do this in the name of his religion, we get an undertone that he's doing it because he enjoys it, and he loves the power and fame it grants him. He may have once been a good man but now, he is doing for himself not for some religion. He should come off as an arrogant, zealous preacher, who feels like he is always in the right because of his faith. Anyone who dies because of his actions are an acceptable loss.
We put him down as middle-aged to young adult, somewhere in his 30s
Any accent will work as long as it is believable and consistent.
Seraph comic and backstory: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1221097087
(Feeling justified in his actions, like he had done nothing wrong, and is ready to continue his work)
Surely they must understand as I do that the loss of these peasants is a small price to pay for the eradication of evil. And so, with another monster put down for good, I continue my crusade against corruption.
(Arrogant in his beliefs that he is a hero who will be remembered for all time. Almost condescending when talking about overseeing the execution and burning the witch at the stake)
This will surely mark me down in the manuscripts as a hero of the Light! We have captured the heretical witch that had splintered our faith. I will be responsible for her execution, and there is no punishment more fitting for a false prophet than death by holy fire.
(Frustrated and angry, that the faith he once believed in now worships this false prophet)
The worst thing has come to reality. The creature proved too strong, and now all have come to worship it as a demigod. I have been excommunicated from what was once a faith that fought the darkness but now is a cult praising a thing that mockingly resembles an angel.
