Rengard of the Broken Seal
Patron of Restitution, Oathbreakers Seeking Redemption, Broken Contracts, and Second Chances
Rengard was once a decorated contract courier and seal-bearer in the merchant-courts of Kaletraion in Pthokos, famed for his reliability and precision in delivering temple-certified contracts between powerful guilds. Trusted with trade pacts worth entire cities, he bore the Seal of Certainty, a silver emblem carried only by those authorized to witness and convey holy agreements under Minos’ name. But one winter, amid political turmoil and mounting pressure from a corrupt trade-lord, Rengard accepted a bribe to destroy a sealed contract that would have guaranteed land rights to a destitute mining guild. The deal fell through. The guild collapsed. Miners lost homes. Families starved. Though Rengard fled, haunted by guilt, the Seal of Certainty was found shattered beside a ruined temple ledge, and his name was struck from temple rolls.
Years later, Rengard returned to Kaletraion unarmed and cloaked in ashes. He presented himself at the Temple of Minos during Accounting, demanded to be judged, and confessed his crime publicly, naming every coin, every lie, and every loss. He offered all his remaining wealth, meager by then, and vowed to work the rest of his life in menial labor for the descendants of the wronged. Moved by his sincerity and the precision of his restitution, the temple clergy did not forgive him immediately, but allowed him to perform penance as a temple porter, cleaning floors, sweeping ledgers, and learning doctrine. For nine years, he served in silence. In the tenth, he was permitted to carry messages again, this time only within temple grounds. The Church declared him an Exemplar posthumously, after he died of fever while delivering grain contracts to famine-struck hill towns, work he took on voluntarily after the temple finally restored his right to bear a seal.
Rengard's symbol is a broken ring sealed with thread, representing both the rupture of trust and the mending of it through painful effort. He is depicted as a travel-worn man kneeling before a ledger with broken chains at his feet and a scroll held reverently in both hands.
