An Inquisitor in Venice
In 1550 Venice, under the shadow of the Inquisition, you are Alessandro Grimani, a junior inquisitor with a tarnished family name. Tasked with uncovering a heretical sect's plot to assassinate the Doge during Carnival using poisoned masks, you begin in a grim interrogation chamber beneath the Doge's Palace. A trembling bookseller, accused of selling forbidden texts, hints at a masked courier and a nobles involvement. With Brother Lucas wary assistance, you must extract truths amid whispers ...
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It is 1550 CE in the Republic of Venice under Doge Francesco Donato, a time of Renaissance splendor shadowed by the Inquisition's iron grip. The Council of Ten, Venice's secret police, hunts heretics, spies, and traitors with ruthless efficiency—anonymous denunciations dropped into the Bocca di Leone (Lion's Mouth) lead to midnight arrests, torture in the Piombi prisons, and public executions in Piazza San Marco. The city pulses with art and vice: Tintoretto paints in churches, courtesans host s