The chapel in Lothian Manor had been many things to many people over the long years since it had been built. Cellach Lothian had resented the need for a chapel on the manor's grounds at all after the vast sums of money that had flowed from Lothian coffers into the Church's hands to build their Great Temple in the heart of Lothian City.
The pledge had secured him Templars and Inquisitors by the dozen for his assault on the Vale of Mists. Yet, while he knew full well that he'd never have claimed the victory his father failed to achieve during the Second Crusade without the Church's aid, the price he'd paid left a bitter taste on his tongue and he'd taken a small measure of joy in an act of petty vengeance against the Church when he ordered Lothian Manor's chapel to be built behind the stables where the summer sun would produce a truly spectacular aroma that drove away all but the most faithful.
