The Paladin: A Guardians of the Herald Short Story

The date is March 18, 1314. The King of France in conjunction with the Pope in Rome has orchestrated the fall of the Knights of the Temple of Solomon, the Knights Templar. A spiritual war has been raging on earth for centuries and the Templars are the last order to still know how to use fervent prayer to enter the spiritual realm known as the ether. It is in this unseen world of the ether where godly men and women have been fighting alongside God's heavenly host of angels against the demonic forces of Hell and Hell has been winning. Recently, the king forced a confession from both Jacques de Molay, the Grandmaster of the Knights Templar, and his closest aid Geoffrey de Charney. The two men however have recanted their confessions and are to be burned at the stake as relapsed heretics. The knights are scattered across both France and the world and cannot prevent an earthly death. However, distance is no obstacle to knights who can enter the spiritual realm and so one final battle is planned to save the men's eternal souls.