The Inquisitor's Progress

Brunsol Mindspear is dead.

In life, he was the chief inquisitor of the Bounded Land, steeped in blood after decades of tyranny in the service of god. In death, he finds his god to be false, and that his world was created not to provide a home for humanity â€" but to study it. Yet the world above is not the true reality, for that, too, was created within another world. As Brunsol climbs a ladder of universes, he seeks the true god of all the worlds above â€" so that he might exact a vengeance for all the suffering in the worlds below.

“Better a betrayer of men than a god that betrays his own creation. Better a torturer in the name of god than a god that wills a world to torture. Better a tyrant of my own kind than a god who is tyrant over mere men…

“Better a man like me than a god like you.”

151,000 words.