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== Note to Visitors ==
Much of the material on this site is drawn from work done on two MUSHes, both now since closed -- Dark Between the Stars and the original Fading Suns MUSH. Most of it was generated by me or by Lextius/Tholumiyelos, but the nature of a collaborative forum like a MUSH means that many had a hand in some of that legacy work. In some cases, the material I've posted up was written a long time ago, and I now have some doubts about what I wrote. In those cases, I've commented on the article's talk page.

Users must register and be logged-in to edit the wiki, though registration is open to all - but to avoid vandalism, you'll need to contact me to get a username.

-- "P"

== Theme ==

* [[Noble Ranks]] -- A discussion of each of the noble ranks and their ordinary characteristics.
** [[The Myth of House Farfenugen]] -- A short essay on the autonomy of nobles.
** [[Power, Precedence and Respect]] -- A short essay on the relationship between power and precedence.
** [[The Etiquette of Proportional Warfare]] -- Why border disputes don't become interstellar wars.
** [[The Emperor and House Hawkwood]] -- Why Emperor Alexius I keeps his distance from his family.
** [[Mantis Knights]] -- Thoughts on House Decados' rivals to the Questing Knights, the Order of the Mantis.

* [[Religion and the Church]] -- In-depth on the Universal Church of the Celestial Sun
** [[Parish Priests]] -- Thoughts on Parish Priests and their relationship with the Orthodoxy and other sects.
** [[Brother Battle Auxiliaries]] -- The lay soldiers of the Brother Battle.

* [[Guild Structure ]] -- The triple nature of a merchant guild as labor union, trade association and political organization.
** [[Banks and Banking]] -- How the banking system and the Reeve, Brother Battle and Imperial banks work.

* [[Electors of the Empire]] -- Some details on elector rods.
**[[Elector Rod Math]] -- What happened to the 40 Elector Rods Vladimir created?

* [[Law Courts in the Known Worlds]] -- The various sorts of courts and what they decide.

* [[Science and Technology]] -- The outlines of a world without science.
** [[Squawkers]] -- Communications devices and how they function.
** [[Elixir]] -- The Second Republic wonder drug and what it can and can't heal.
** [[Interstellar Communications]] -- How one gets a message from Leminkainen to Byzantium Secundus.
** [[Void Travel]] -- Why it takes a long time to get from one planet to another.
*** [[Perils of Void Travel]] -- The ways in which traveling between worlds can kill you.
*** [['Jump Juice']] -- What exactly the "jumps" entry on starship statlines means.

* [[The Ukari and Society]] -- How society views the Ukari. (Hint: it doesn't like them.)

* [[Psi and You]] -- Cultural attitudes towards psi and psychics.

* [[Omega Gospel Passages]]

* [[Hagiography]] -- A listing of saints of the Universal Church.

== House Rules ==

* [[VPS with TNs]] -- A simple but substantial change to the VPS system that adds Target Numbers.
* [[Armor and High-Tech Weapons]] -- Armor is less effective against bullets and high-tech weapons. Replaces the "Deadlier Guns" rule from the core book.
* [[Strength Damage]] -- Strength provides extra damage sooner. Also, a bonus for using weapons two-handed.
* [[XP Chart]] -- A redone XP chart.

===Old Rules===
* [[High Goals]] -- Goals above 18 still add successes.
* [[Economy System]] -- This was the economy system we used online, which we're working on adapting to tabletop. It's too complicated right now.

== Epics ==

* [[The Longest Dark]] -- Our current epic about a Justinian heir thrust into the last days of man.

''Former Epics''
* [[Family and Glory]] -- An old epic about a Hazat family.
* [[Seven Sinners]] -- A short-lived epic about the Hawkwoods.

== Resources and External Links ==

* [http://fadingsuns.org/faq.pdf The Fading Suns Listserv FAQ] -- The FAQ includes summaries of rule changes between 1st and 2nd Edition as well as Q&A with the game designers.
* [http://fadingsuns.wikia.com/wiki/Periods_of_History Fading Suns Timeline]

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<center><big>A place for Fading Suns Theme, Rules, and Games</big></center>

== Note to Visitors ==
Much of the material on this site is drawn from work done on two MUSHes, both now since closed -- Dark Between the Stars and the original Fading Suns MUSH. Most of it was generated by me or by Lextius/Tholumiyelos, but the nature of a collaborative forum like a MUSH means that many had a hand in some of that legacy work. In some cases, the material I've posted up was written a long time ago, and I now have some doubts about what I wrote. In those cases, I've commented on the article's talk page.

Users must register and be logged-in to edit the wiki, though registration is open to all - but to avoid vandalism, you'll need to contact me to get a username.

-- "P"

== Theme ==

* [[Noble Ranks]] -- A discussion of each of the noble ranks and their ordinary characteristics.
** [[The Myth of House Farfenugen]] -- A short essay on the autonomy of nobles.
** [[Power, Precedence and Respect]] -- A short essay on the relationship between power and precedence.
** [[The Etiquette of Proportional Warfare]] -- Why border disputes don't become interstellar wars.
** [[The Emperor and House Hawkwood]] -- Why Emperor Alexius I keeps his distance from his family.
** [[Mantis Knights]] -- Thoughts on House Decados' rivals to the Questing Knights, the Order of the Mantis.

* [[Religion and the Church]] -- In-depth on the Universal Church of the Celestial Sun
** [[Parish Priests]] -- Thoughts on Parish Priests and their relationship with the Orthodoxy and other sects.
** [[Brother Battle Auxiliaries]] -- The lay soldiers of the Brother Battle.

* [[Guild Structure ]] -- The triple nature of a merchant guild as labor union, trade association and political organization.
** [[Banks and Banking]] -- How the banking system and the Reeve, Brother Battle and Imperial banks work.

* [[Electors of the Empire]] -- Some details on elector rods.
**[[Elector Rod Math]] -- What happened to the 40 Elector Rods Vladimir created?

* [[Law Courts in the Known Worlds]] -- The various sorts of courts and what they decide.

* [[Science and Technology]] -- The outlines of a world without science.
** [[Squawkers]] -- Communications devices and how they function.
** [[Elixir]] -- The Second Republic wonder drug and what it can and can't heal.
** [[Interstellar Communications]] -- How one gets a message from Leminkainen to Byzantium Secundus.
** [[Void Travel]] -- Why it takes a long time to get from one planet to another.
*** [[Perils of Void Travel]] -- The ways in which traveling between worlds can kill you.
*** [['Jump Juice']] -- What exactly the "jumps" entry on starship statlines means.

* [[The Ukari and Society]] -- How society views the Ukari. (Hint: it doesn't like them.)

* [[Psi and You]] -- Cultural attitudes towards psi and psychics.

* [[Omega Gospel Passages]]

* [[Hagiography]] -- A listing of saints of the Universal Church.

== House Rules ==

* [[VPS with TNs]] -- A simple but substantial change to the VPS system that adds Target Numbers.
* [[Armor and High-Tech Weapons]] -- Armor is less effective against bullets and high-tech weapons. Replaces the "Deadlier Guns" rule from the core book.
* [[Strength Damage]] -- Strength provides extra damage sooner. Also, a bonus for using weapons two-handed.
* [[XP Chart]] -- A redone XP chart.

===Old Rules===
* [[High Goals]] -- Goals above 18 still add successes.
* [[Economy System]] -- This was the economy system we used online, which we're working on adapting to tabletop. It's too complicated right now.

== Epics ==

* [[The Longest Dark]] -- Our current epic about a Justinian heir thrust into the last days of man.

''Former''
* [[Family and Glory]] -- An old epic about a Hazat family.
* [[Seven Sinners]] -- A short-lived epic about the Hawkwoods.

== Resources and External Links ==

* [http://fadingsuns.org/faq.pdf The Fading Suns Listserv FAQ] -- The FAQ includes summaries of rule changes between 1st and 2nd Edition as well as Q&A with the game designers.
* [http://fadingsuns.wikia.com/wiki/Periods_of_History Fading Suns Timeline]

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[[Special:RecentChanges|Recent Updates]]

Hagiography

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This is an incomplete list of saints from the Fading Suns canon, gathered from various canon sources.
== Pre-Reflective Saints ==

;Saint Ramos
:Ramos, a popular colonist rights activist, was martyred before the guns of zaibatsu police. Lived before the Prophet, canonized in the Second Republic. Has a holiday (Saint Ramos Day/Colony Day) named after him -- August 10. (L&P church appendix 146)

== The Prophet's Disciples ==

;Saint Paulus the Traveler
:Born Paul Deveroux, the Prophet's first disciple carried him to Yathrib, where the Prophet beheld the Holy Flame, and then to many destinations beyond. He lamented that he was not with the Prophet on his final journey and is said to have died on "the Garden of Nowhere." Though he is said to have died alone, the cathedral on Rampart claims to have his relics, stolen in a raid from a Gwynneth cathedral in the 4700s. His virtue is Questing, and he is the patron of pilots, children and adventurers. (PotCS 12, IS4 23)

;Saint Lextius the Knight
:The Prophet's second disciple - Lucas Kambei - was the Lord whose Lord was the Prophet. He was the ruler of the planet Dogen; after the Prophet's death, he sealed Dogen's jumpgate, promising to return when the universe was once again governed by faith. His virtue is Loyalty, and he is the patron of the nobility. (PotCS 12)

;Saint Amalthea the Healer
:Saint Amalthea had many followers and indeed was the leader of her own religion when she encountered the Prophet. He was brought to her after being grievously wounded, and she healed him by bleeding light into the Grail. She melded her followers with his; after his death, she continued to lead her sect until she died on Artemis. Her virtue is Compassion, and she is the patron of healers and parents. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Mantius the Soldier
:Avram Manchewitz was a mercenary soldier who became the Prophet's bodyguard, protecting him against many attempts to kill him, most famously in the Miracle of the Bullets, when he threw himself in front of the Prophet but was unharmed. After the Prophet's death, he retreated to begin perfecting the martial arts now practiced by the Brother Battle; some rumor that he is alive to this day, appearing to protect those who need him most. His virtue is Protection, and he is the patron of soldiers and the Brother Battle. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Maya the Scorned Woman
:Maya lived on Shaprut and was married to a cruel and abusive husband. Angry, she sought out dark magics, but turned away from that black path when she received a vision of a star falling to earth. She traveled there and met the Prophet. After his death, she traveled the world preaching against injustice. Maya was eventually captured by a Decados lord, who tortured her for days before she was martyred. Her virtue is Justice or divine Retribution, and she is the patron of lawyers and the oppressed. (PotCS 14)

;Saint Horace the Learned Man
:Horace Abdalim was a rationalist philosopher who engaged in a great debate with the Prophet. Horace was unwilling to concede, and so the Prophet smote him with his staff in the Miracle of the Club. Horace then beheld the truth and dedicated his life before and after the Prophet's death to teaching the Prophet's philosophy before dying peacefully. His virtue is Wisdom, and he is the patron of scholars and mystics. (PotCS 15)

;Saint Hombor the Beggar
:Hombor was a beggar and con artist working on Criticorum who questioned the Prophet's sincerity in the Miracle of Giving. The Prophet offered to give Hombor anything he wanted, and Hombor demanded the Prophet's voice, at which point the Prophet cut his own vocal cords. Hombor wept and cried out "I am the death of faith, for this man was not done speaking!" and then the Prophet was healed. He disappeared after the Prophet's death. His virtue is Humility, and he is the patron of beggars and thieves. (PotCS 16)

;Saint Ven Lohji the Ur-Obun
:Ven Lohji was an Obun priestess and diplomat who met the Prophet; she shared details of the Obun religion with him, and after his death returned to Obun to found a new, syncretic sect of the Universal Church. She is in disfavor among the modern Church and is rarely recognized as a disciple. Her virtue is Discipline, and she is the patron of aliens. (PotCS 17)

== Early Church Fathers ==

;Saint Palamedes Alecto
:First Patriarch, scion of noble house Alecto, uniter of humanity in the Ukar Wars. (PotCS 22)

;Saint J'waltan
:Leader of the Agniites, an early Church sect descended from the first crowd to hear the Prophet preach on Aylon, he martyred himself to soothe the angry world of Stigmata. (IS6 16)

;Saint Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. May be a "martyr" instead of a full saint. (CotG 68)

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Saint Charissa
:One of the Prophet's early followers, she is mentioned twice in the Omega Gospels. After Zebulon's death, she remained on Kish, where she performed five miracles before eventually dying in the Cave of Mysteries, where her body lay untainted for centuries. (IS4 1)

;Saint Cato
:Born Lord Cato Hawkwood, Saint Cato was so distraught at the Prophet's death that he led a convoy of Ravennan pilgrims on a suicide trip, crashing into the Ravenna jumpgate. He is a favorite figure for stained-glass windows on Ravenna. (IS1 9)

;Saint Nicodemus
:Horace's greatest student, he wrote the Acts of Horace, describing the life of St. Horace after the Prophet's death. (PotCS 63)

== New Dark Ages Saints ==

;Saint Daveed Laurence
:A holy singer who traveled the jumpweb after the Fall; he ultimately inspired the Chorali. (PC 46)

;Saint Yara
:The daughter of a local smith on Artemis, Saint Yara objected when nobles harassed the Amaltheans after the Fall. To get revenge, the nobles shackled Yara to a boulder to be eaten alive by buzzards; she was martyred after six days of exposure, having forgiven her torturers. (IS7 14)

;Saint Rasmussen
:Torn apart during the Fall of the Second Republic, lamenting "Oh that my head were water, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for lost humanity! Tremble, ye sinners, for the long night is upon us and the suns themselves are seen to fade. Repent, and know salvation. Repent, or die!" (FS2nd 24)

;Saint Godfrey de Moley
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Malcolm Xavier Justinian
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

;Saint Athanaseus
:A Hesychast on Grange/Pandemonium while Grange was a Lost World, he was renowned for his wisdom and his great mirror - he used it as a centerpiece for teachings that helped students rid themselves of sin. When Grange was rediscovered, he was recognized by the Universal Church.

;Saint Natih Hadara
:One of the few women to serve as Matriarch of the Universal Church of the Celestial Sun (4868-4877), she was a miraculuous healer and was canonized almost immediately upon her death. (PotCS 27)

;Saint Deimos of the Holy Mountain
:The founder of the then-heretical Eskatonic Order, he was eventually accepted as saint by the Orthodoxy as part of the Pentateuch Concordat. Saint Deimos lived around the time of Vladimir, preaching the Doctrine of the Inherent Flame from the Apocrypha of Horace. (PotCS 66)

;Saint Solius
:Saint Solius was martyred on Icon by a pre-Cardanite Li Halan prince in 4207, torn to pieces by the Prince's Vorox guards. His left hand is a famous relic venerated on Icon, and he is the planet's patron saint. (IS4 8)

;Saint Dena
:A New Dark Ages saint who cried out "what horrors have men wrought?" (PotCS 64)

== Second Republic Saints ==

;"Saint" Pietrarcholus

:While never officially canonized, the founder of Temple Avesti appeared out of the desert in 3500 and dictated the epic "Fervitudes", a poetic work that inspires much Avesti theology. (PotCS 83)

== Ukari Martyrs ==

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. (CotG 68)

;Glam
:An Ukari martyred on Kordeth by his own people. The closest any Ukari has come to sainthood; sometimes referred to as "Saint Glam". (CotG 68; SS )

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

== Hermit Saints ==

;Saint Romulus
:Called the "Desert Hermit", he survived a mudslide that killed 4000 followers (the "Miracle of the Mud") and sat upon a cactus for 12 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Heather of Ravenna
:Ate only pine needles for 27 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Evangelia of Malignatius
:Sat naked on the ice-world of Malignatius, contemplating the love and beauty of the Pancreator through ice and snow. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Ijunn of of Istakhr
:Declared clothing a vanity and led 3000 followers into Samarkand cathedral; was rained on after a prayer from Archbishop Mali and then draped in a carpet. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Calix
:Saved a Hawkwood lord from barbarians after the Fall; companion was a wolf, Lupo, and he founded St. Hombor's/The Monastery of the Eternal Light on Ravenna. Also healed a Hawkwood countess in 4276. (PotCS 122, 125)

== Divers Other Saints ==

;Saint Oman
:Martyred by Count Eshram Hamid, he was dunked in boiling oil so Count Eshram could claim his bones as a trophy. When his bones were removed, Saint Oman's bones were mirror-reflective. (PotCS 19)

;Saint Verda
:A saint who has a shroud. (PC 18)

;Saint Iman
:He has a crown, which was on Cadiz before it was stolen. Same Iman as Saint Emanuel? (PC 19)

;Saint Mythior
:He had a vision of the Eskaton. (PC 20)

;Saint Akahito
:He appears to have been a missionary to the Vorox, and performed the Miracle of the Gong. (PC 23)

;Saint Salah
:His cathedral is in Cairo. (IS7 28)

;Saint Xing the Serene
:He has a relic called the Reflective Eye; it was originally on Midian, but stolen by a heretical sect on Rampart. (IS4 21)

;Saint Kynon
:Formerly the patron saint of Rampart, he was replaced by Saint Paulus because of his associations with Rampart politics. (IS4 23)

;Saint Maximillian
:He has a cathedral on Ravenna, in southern Castillo where the Prophet is said to have addressed the multitudes. (IS1 12)

;Saint Regoe
:Saint Regoe's cathedral is on Ravenna in the city of Suryada, near where Alexius was born. (IS1 12)

;Saint Cuthbert
:Sister Theafana al-Malik carries a relic sword of this saint. (ByzII 63)

== Other Historical Church Figures ==

;Pontius Cciardi
:Archbishop of Pyre in 4235, he led the Temple Avesti when they were integrated into the Universal Church. (PotCS 84)

;Argus the Vigilant
:Avestite bishop who wrote the standard text on inquisitorial practice, the Instructones Inquisitorum. (PotCS 85)

;Theocrat Halvor I
:Halvor was Patriarch, Prince of the Li Halan, and Regent, and ruled for ten years as Theocrat of the Known Worlds. He is revered as a local saint on Icon. (IS4 10)

Hagiography

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P: /* New Dark Ages Saints */

This is an incomplete list of saints from the Fading Suns canon, gathered from various canon sources.
== Pre-Reflective Saints ==

;Saint Ramos
:Ramos, a popular colonist rights activist, was martyred before the guns of zaibatsu police. Lived before the Prophet, canonized in the Second Republic. Has a holiday (Saint Ramos Day/Colony Day) named after him -- August 10. (L&P church appendix 146)

== The Prophet's Disciples ==

;Saint Paulus the Traveler
:Born Paul Deveroux, the Prophet's first disciple carried him to Yathrib, where the Prophet beheld the Holy Flame, and then to many destinations beyond. He lamented that he was not with the Prophet on his final journey and is said to have died on "the Garden of Nowhere." Though he is said to have died alone, the cathedral on Rampart claims to have his relics, stolen in a raid from a Gwynneth cathedral in the 4700s. His virtue is Questing, and he is the patron of pilots, children and adventurers. (PotCS 12, IS4 23)

;Saint Lextius the Knight
:The Prophet's second disciple - Lucas Kambei - was the Lord whose Lord was the Prophet. He was the ruler of the planet Dogen; after the Prophet's death, he sealed Dogen's jumpgate, promising to return when the universe was once again governed by faith. His virtue is Loyalty, and he is the patron of the nobility. (PotCS 12)

;Saint Amalthea the Healer
:Saint Amalthea had many followers and indeed was the leader of her own religion when she encountered the Prophet. He was brought to her after being grievously wounded, and she healed him by bleeding light into the Grail. She melded her followers with his; after his death, she continued to lead her sect until she died on Artemis. Her virtue is Compassion, and she is the patron of healers and parents. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Mantius the Soldier
:Avram Manchewitz was a mercenary soldier who became the Prophet's bodyguard, protecting him against many attempts to kill him, most famously in the Miracle of the Bullets, when he threw himself in front of the Prophet but was unharmed. After the Prophet's death, he retreated to begin perfecting the martial arts now practiced by the Brother Battle; some rumor that he is alive to this day, appearing to protect those who need him most. His virtue is Protection, and he is the patron of soldiers and the Brother Battle. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Maya the Scorned Woman
:Maya lived on Shaprut and was married to a cruel and abusive husband. Angry, she sought out dark magics, but turned away from that black path when she received a vision of a star falling to earth. She traveled there and met the Prophet. After his death, she traveled the world preaching against injustice. Maya was eventually captured by a Decados lord, who tortured her for days before she was martyred. Her virtue is Justice or divine Retribution, and she is the patron of lawyers and the oppressed. (PotCS 14)

;Saint Horace the Learned Man
:Horace Abdalim was a rationalist philosopher who engaged in a great debate with the Prophet. Horace was unwilling to concede, and so the Prophet smote him with his staff in the Miracle of the Club. Horace then beheld the truth and dedicated his life before and after the Prophet's death to teaching the Prophet's philosophy before dying peacefully. His virtue is Wisdom, and he is the patron of scholars and mystics. (PotCS 15)

;Saint Hombor the Beggar
:Hombor was a beggar and con artist working on Criticorum who questioned the Prophet's sincerity in the Miracle of Giving. The Prophet offered to give Hombor anything he wanted, and Hombor demanded the Prophet's voice, at which point the Prophet cut his own vocal cords. Hombor wept and cried out "I am the death of faith, for this man was not done speaking!" and then the Prophet was healed. He disappeared after the Prophet's death. His virtue is Humility, and he is the patron of beggars and thieves. (PotCS 16)

;Saint Ven Lohji the Ur-Obun
:Ven Lohji was an Obun priestess and diplomat who met the Prophet; she shared details of the Obun religion with him, and after his death returned to Obun to found a new, syncretic sect of the Universal Church. She is in disfavor among the modern Church and is rarely recognized as a disciple. Her virtue is Discipline, and she is the patron of aliens. (PotCS 17)

== Early Church Fathers ==

;Saint Palamedes Alecto
:First Patriarch, scion of noble house Alecto, uniter of humanity in the Ukar Wars. (PotCS 22)

;Saint J'waltan
:Leader of the Agniites, an early Church sect descended from the first crowd to hear the Prophet preach on Aylon, he martyred himself to soothe the angry world of Stigmata. (IS6 16)

;Saint Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. May be a "martyr" instead of a full saint. (CotG 68)

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Saint Charissa
:One of the Prophet's early followers, she is mentioned twice in the Omega Gospels. After Zebulon's death, she remained on Kish, where she performed five miracles before eventually dying in the Cave of Mysteries, where her body lay untainted for centuries. (IS4 1)

;Saint Cato
:Born Lord Cato Hawkwood, Saint Cato was so distraught at the Prophet's death that he led a convoy of Ravennan pilgrims on a suicide trip, crashing into the Ravenna jumpgate. He is a favorite figure for stained-glass windows on Ravenna. (IS1 9)

;Saint Nicodemus
:Horace's greatest student, he wrote the Acts of Horace, describing the life of St. Horace after the Prophet's death. (PotCS 63)

== New Dark Ages Saints ==

;Saint Daveed Laurence
:A holy singer who traveled the jumpweb after the Fall; he ultimately inspired the Chorali. (PC 46)

;Saint Yara
:The daughter of a local smith on Artemis, Saint Yara objected when nobles harassed the Amaltheans after the Fall. To get revenge, the nobles shackled Yara to a boulder to be eaten alive by buzzards; she was martyred after six days of exposure, having forgiven her torturers. (IS7 14)

;Saint Rasmussen
:Torn apart during the Fall of the Second Republic, lamenting "Oh that my head were water, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for lost humanity! Tremble, ye sinners, for the long night is upon us and the suns themselves are seen to fade. Repent, and know salvation. Repent, or die!" (FS2nd 24)

;Saint Godfrey de Moley
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Malcolm Xavier Justinian
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

;Saint Athanaseus
:A Hesychast on Grange/Pandemonium while Grange was a Lost World, he was renowned for his wisdom and his great mirror - he used it as a centerpiece for teachings that helped students rid themselves of sin. When Grange was rediscovered, he was recognized by the Universal Church.

;Saint Natih Hadara
:One of the few women to serve as Matriarch of the Universal Church of the Celestial Sun (4868-4877), she was a miraculuous healer and was canonized almost immediately upon her death. (PotCS 27)

;Saint Deimos of the Holy Mountain
:The founder of the then-heretical Eskatonic Order, he was eventually accepted as saint by the Orthodoxy as part of the Pentateuch Concordat. Saint Deimos lived around the time of Vladimir, preaching the Doctrine of the Inherent Flame from the Apocrypha of Horace. (PotCS 66)

;Saint Solius
:Saint Solius was martyred on Icon by a pre-Cardanite Li Halan prince in 4207, torn to pieces by the Prince's Vorox guards. His left hand is a famous relic venerated on Icon, and he is the planet's patron saint. (IS4 8)

:Saint Dena
;A New Dark Ages saint who cried out "what horrors have men wrought?" (PotCS 64)

== Second Republic Saints ==

;"Saint" Pietrarcholus

:While never officially canonized, the founder of Temple Avesti appeared out of the desert in 3500 and dictated the epic "Fervitudes", a poetic work that inspires much Avesti theology. (PotCS 83)

== Ukari Martyrs ==

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. (CotG 68)

;Glam
:An Ukari martyred on Kordeth by his own people. The closest any Ukari has come to sainthood; sometimes referred to as "Saint Glam". (CotG 68; SS )

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

== Hermit Saints ==

;Saint Romulus
:Called the "Desert Hermit", he survived a mudslide that killed 4000 followers (the "Miracle of the Mud") and sat upon a cactus for 12 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Heather of Ravenna
:Ate only pine needles for 27 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Evangelia of Malignatius
:Sat naked on the ice-world of Malignatius, contemplating the love and beauty of the Pancreator through ice and snow. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Ijunn of of Istakhr
:Declared clothing a vanity and led 3000 followers into Samarkand cathedral; was rained on after a prayer from Archbishop Mali and then draped in a carpet. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Calix
:Saved a Hawkwood lord from barbarians after the Fall; companion was a wolf, Lupo, and he founded St. Hombor's/The Monastery of the Eternal Light on Ravenna. Also healed a Hawkwood countess in 4276. (PotCS 122, 125)

== Divers Other Saints ==

;Saint Oman
:Martyred by Count Eshram Hamid, he was dunked in boiling oil so Count Eshram could claim his bones as a trophy. When his bones were removed, Saint Oman's bones were mirror-reflective. (PotCS 19)

;Saint Verda
:A saint who has a shroud. (PC 18)

;Saint Iman
:He has a crown, which was on Cadiz before it was stolen. Same Iman as Saint Emanuel? (PC 19)

;Saint Mythior
:He had a vision of the Eskaton. (PC 20)

;Saint Akahito
:He appears to have been a missionary to the Vorox, and performed the Miracle of the Gong. (PC 23)

;Saint Salah
:His cathedral is in Cairo. (IS7 28)

;Saint Xing the Serene
:He has a relic called the Reflective Eye; it was originally on Midian, but stolen by a heretical sect on Rampart. (IS4 21)

;Saint Kynon
:Formerly the patron saint of Rampart, he was replaced by Saint Paulus because of his associations with Rampart politics. (IS4 23)

;Saint Maximillian
:He has a cathedral on Ravenna, in southern Castillo where the Prophet is said to have addressed the multitudes. (IS1 12)

;Saint Regoe
:Saint Regoe's cathedral is on Ravenna in the city of Suryada, near where Alexius was born. (IS1 12)

;Saint Cuthbert
:Sister Theafana al-Malik carries a relic sword of this saint. (ByzII 63)

== Other Historical Church Figures ==

;Pontius Cciardi
:Archbishop of Pyre in 4235, he led the Temple Avesti when they were integrated into the Universal Church. (PotCS 84)

;Argus the Vigilant
:Avestite bishop who wrote the standard text on inquisitorial practice, the Instructones Inquisitorum. (PotCS 85)

;Theocrat Halvor I
:Halvor was Patriarch, Prince of the Li Halan, and Regent, and ruled for ten years as Theocrat of the Known Worlds. He is revered as a local saint on Icon. (IS4 10)

Hagiography

2013-05-16T02:00:51Z

This is an incomplete list of saints from the Fading Suns canon, gathered from various canon sources.
== Pre-Reflective Saints ==

;Saint Ramos
:Ramos, a popular colonist rights activist, was martyred before the guns of zaibatsu police. Lived before the Prophet, canonized in the Second Republic. Has a holiday (Saint Ramos Day/Colony Day) named after him -- August 10. (L&P church appendix 146)

== The Prophet's Disciples ==

;Saint Paulus the Traveler
:Born Paul Deveroux, the Prophet's first disciple carried him to Yathrib, where the Prophet beheld the Holy Flame, and then to many destinations beyond. He lamented that he was not with the Prophet on his final journey and is said to have died on "the Garden of Nowhere." Though he is said to have died alone, the cathedral on Rampart claims to have his relics, stolen in a raid from a Gwynneth cathedral in the 4700s. His virtue is Questing, and he is the patron of pilots, children and adventurers. (PotCS 12, IS4 23)

;Saint Lextius the Knight
:The Prophet's second disciple - Lucas Kambei - was the Lord whose Lord was the Prophet. He was the ruler of the planet Dogen; after the Prophet's death, he sealed Dogen's jumpgate, promising to return when the universe was once again governed by faith. His virtue is Loyalty, and he is the patron of the nobility. (PotCS 12)

;Saint Amalthea the Healer
:Saint Amalthea had many followers and indeed was the leader of her own religion when she encountered the Prophet. He was brought to her after being grievously wounded, and she healed him by bleeding light into the Grail. She melded her followers with his; after his death, she continued to lead her sect until she died on Artemis. Her virtue is Compassion, and she is the patron of healers and parents. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Mantius the Soldier
:Avram Manchewitz was a mercenary soldier who became the Prophet's bodyguard, protecting him against many attempts to kill him, most famously in the Miracle of the Bullets, when he threw himself in front of the Prophet but was unharmed. After the Prophet's death, he retreated to begin perfecting the martial arts now practiced by the Brother Battle; some rumor that he is alive to this day, appearing to protect those who need him most. His virtue is Protection, and he is the patron of soldiers and the Brother Battle. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Maya the Scorned Woman
:Maya lived on Shaprut and was married to a cruel and abusive husband. Angry, she sought out dark magics, but turned away from that black path when she received a vision of a star falling to earth. She traveled there and met the Prophet. After his death, she traveled the world preaching against injustice. Maya was eventually captured by a Decados lord, who tortured her for days before she was martyred. Her virtue is Justice or divine Retribution, and she is the patron of lawyers and the oppressed. (PotCS 14)

;Saint Horace the Learned Man
:Horace Abdalim was a rationalist philosopher who engaged in a great debate with the Prophet. Horace was unwilling to concede, and so the Prophet smote him with his staff in the Miracle of the Club. Horace then beheld the truth and dedicated his life before and after the Prophet's death to teaching the Prophet's philosophy before dying peacefully. His virtue is Wisdom, and he is the patron of scholars and mystics. (PotCS 15)

;Saint Hombor the Beggar
:Hombor was a beggar and con artist working on Criticorum who questioned the Prophet's sincerity in the Miracle of Giving. The Prophet offered to give Hombor anything he wanted, and Hombor demanded the Prophet's voice, at which point the Prophet cut his own vocal cords. Hombor wept and cried out "I am the death of faith, for this man was not done speaking!" and then the Prophet was healed. He disappeared after the Prophet's death. His virtue is Humility, and he is the patron of beggars and thieves. (PotCS 16)

;Saint Ven Lohji the Ur-Obun
:Ven Lohji was an Obun priestess and diplomat who met the Prophet; she shared details of the Obun religion with him, and after his death returned to Obun to found a new, syncretic sect of the Universal Church. She is in disfavor among the modern Church and is rarely recognized as a disciple. Her virtue is Discipline, and she is the patron of aliens. (PotCS 17)

== Early Church Fathers ==

;Saint Palamedes Alecto
:First Patriarch, scion of noble house Alecto, uniter of humanity in the Ukar Wars. (PotCS 22)

;Saint J'waltan
:Leader of the Agniites, an early Church sect descended from the first crowd to hear the Prophet preach on Aylon, he martyred himself to soothe the angry world of Stigmata. (IS6 16)

;Saint Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. May be a "martyr" instead of a full saint. (CotG 68)

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Saint Charissa
:One of the Prophet's early followers, she is mentioned twice in the Omega Gospels. After Zebulon's death, she remained on Kish, where she performed five miracles before eventually dying in the Cave of Mysteries, where her body lay untainted for centuries. (IS4 1)

;Saint Cato
:Born Lord Cato Hawkwood, Saint Cato was so distraught at the Prophet's death that he led a convoy of Ravennan pilgrims on a suicide trip, crashing into the Ravenna jumpgate. He is a favorite figure for stained-glass windows on Ravenna. (IS1 9)

;Saint Nicodemus
:Horace's greatest student, he wrote the Acts of Horace, describing the life of St. Horace after the Prophet's death. (PotCS 63)

== New Dark Ages Saints ==

;Saint Daveed Laurence
:A holy singer who traveled the jumpweb after the Fall; he ultimately inspired the Chorali. (PC 46)

;Saint Yara
:The daughter of a local smith on Artemis, Saint Yara objected when nobles harassed the Amaltheans after the Fall. To get revenge, the nobles shackled Yara to a boulder to be eaten alive by buzzards; she was martyred after six days of exposure, having forgiven her torturers. (IS7 14)

;Saint Rasmussen
:Torn apart during the Fall of the Second Republic, lamenting "Oh that my head were water, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for lost humanity! Tremble, ye sinners, for the long night is upon us and the suns themselves are seen to fade. Repent, and know salvation. Repent, or die!" (FS2nd 24)

;Saint Godfrey de Moley
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Malcolm Xavier Justinian
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

;Saint Athanaseus
:A Hesychast on Grange/Pandemonium while Grange was a Lost World, he was renowned for his wisdom and his great mirror - he used it as a centerpiece for teachings that helped students rid themselves of sin. When Grange was rediscovered, he was recognized by the Universal Church.

;Saint Natih Hadara
:One of the few women to serve as Matriarch of the Universal Church of the Celestial Sun (4868-4877), she was a miraculuous healer and was canonized almost immediately upon her death. (PotCS 27)

;Saint Deimos of the Holy Mountain
:The founder of the then-heretical Eskatonic Order, he was eventually accepted as saint by the Orthodoxy as part of the Pentateuch Concordat. Saint Deimos lived around the time of Vladimir, preaching the Doctrine of the Inherent Flame from the Apocrypha of Horace. (PotCS 66)

;Saint Solius
:Saint Solius was martyred on Icon by a pre-Cardanite Li Halan prince in 4207, torn to pieces by the Prince's Vorox guards. His left hand is a famous relic venerated on Icon, and he is the planet's patron saint. (IS4 8)

== Second Republic Saints ==

;"Saint" Pietrarcholus

:While never officially canonized, the founder of Temple Avesti appeared out of the desert in 3500 and dictated the epic "Fervitudes", a poetic work that inspires much Avesti theology. (PotCS 83)

== Ukari Martyrs ==

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. (CotG 68)

;Glam
:An Ukari martyred on Kordeth by his own people. The closest any Ukari has come to sainthood; sometimes referred to as "Saint Glam". (CotG 68; SS )

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

== Hermit Saints ==

;Saint Romulus
:Called the "Desert Hermit", he survived a mudslide that killed 4000 followers (the "Miracle of the Mud") and sat upon a cactus for 12 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Heather of Ravenna
:Ate only pine needles for 27 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Evangelia of Malignatius
:Sat naked on the ice-world of Malignatius, contemplating the love and beauty of the Pancreator through ice and snow. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Ijunn of of Istakhr
:Declared clothing a vanity and led 3000 followers into Samarkand cathedral; was rained on after a prayer from Archbishop Mali and then draped in a carpet. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Calix
:Saved a Hawkwood lord from barbarians after the Fall; companion was a wolf, Lupo, and he founded St. Hombor's/The Monastery of the Eternal Light on Ravenna. Also healed a Hawkwood countess in 4276. (PotCS 122, 125)

== Divers Other Saints ==

;Saint Oman
:Martyred by Count Eshram Hamid, he was dunked in boiling oil so Count Eshram could claim his bones as a trophy. When his bones were removed, Saint Oman's bones were mirror-reflective. (PotCS 19)

;Saint Verda
:A saint who has a shroud. (PC 18)

;Saint Iman
:He has a crown, which was on Cadiz before it was stolen. Same Iman as Saint Emanuel? (PC 19)

;Saint Mythior
:He had a vision of the Eskaton. (PC 20)

;Saint Akahito
:He appears to have been a missionary to the Vorox, and performed the Miracle of the Gong. (PC 23)

;Saint Salah
:His cathedral is in Cairo. (IS7 28)

;Saint Xing the Serene
:He has a relic called the Reflective Eye; it was originally on Midian, but stolen by a heretical sect on Rampart. (IS4 21)

;Saint Kynon
:Formerly the patron saint of Rampart, he was replaced by Saint Paulus because of his associations with Rampart politics. (IS4 23)

;Saint Maximillian
:He has a cathedral on Ravenna, in southern Castillo where the Prophet is said to have addressed the multitudes. (IS1 12)

;Saint Regoe
:Saint Regoe's cathedral is on Ravenna in the city of Suryada, near where Alexius was born. (IS1 12)

;Saint Cuthbert
:Sister Theafana al-Malik carries a relic sword of this saint. (ByzII 63)

== Other Historical Church Figures ==

;Pontius Cciardi
:Archbishop of Pyre in 4235, he led the Temple Avesti when they were integrated into the Universal Church. (PotCS 84)

;Argus the Vigilant
:Avestite bishop who wrote the standard text on inquisitorial practice, the Instructones Inquisitorum. (PotCS 85)

;Theocrat Halvor I
:Halvor was Patriarch, Prince of the Li Halan, and Regent, and ruled for ten years as Theocrat of the Known Worlds. He is revered as a local saint on Icon. (IS4 10)

Family and Glory

2013-03-02T22:48:02Z

P: /* Dramas */

The Justus de Castro Salazar are an old, old Hazat family: one of Saint Emanuel's companions, he was given a castle on Aragon that controlled one of the approaches to Castle Furias. With that, the Marquis de Castro Salazar received a substantial income as one of the Wardens of the Skyways, receiving incomes from ships traveling to Castle Furias, but in starting in 4696 the Castro Salazar family was divided; two twin sons were born, and the marquessate was split, with one son becoming Baron de Castro Salazar, ruling the castle and receiving income as a Warden of the Skyway, while the other becoming Baron de Salazar, with the income from Salazar Town and its lands.

For most of their history, the Castro Salazars and the town Salazars coexisted happily as cousins, but in 4953 an attempt to reunite the two branches of the family in the person of the daughter of the Castro Salazars ended when Ramiro Salazar - heir to Salazar Town - got a bastard on Matilde de Castro Salazar several months before they were to be married. Matilde fled with the child, and instead her younger brother Ferdinand inherited. Ramiro never forgave the Castro Salazars, but he did have his revenge until 4994, when he accused - successfully - Ferdinand's son Rodrigo of allowing through inattention the destruction of the atmosphere generator he was assigned to guard at Jericho. With Ferdinand driven mad and committed to the Oubliette by his cousin Ramiro, Ramiro was able to have himself named Marquis de Salazar with the support of Elena de Castenda, whose niece he had married.

== Dramas ==

# [[The Duke and the Emperor]] -- The heroes arrive on the throneworld and become embroiled in politics of both the personal and interplanetary sort. Don Dario becomes a Questing Knight. (Byzantium Secundus)
# [[The Drowned God]] -- Still on Byzantium, the heroes journey into Drown Town to help a woman rescue her daughter; there, they confront aliens and techno-cultists and ultimately recover an ancient and powerful war machine. In the process, they start a bloody war that ripples across Drown Town. (Byzantium Secundus)
# [[The House of the Fox]] -- Now sworn to help an Amalthean find a cure for a mysterious disease, the heroes have accompanied her to Tethys, where while she researches they journey into the maw of the beast to recover a stolen Imperial Seal from the house of Scraver matriarch Benita Ivankov in order to improve the slums of New Madrid. (Tethys)
# [[A Cup of Miracles]] -- The heroes track an artifact known as the Mael Cup to a ruined village, and then follow its trail through a band of slavers to an Engineer scientist engaged in bio-weapons research. (Tethys)
# [[Gulag Julka]] -- Now in Malignatius space, the heroes are captured by a Baron Petra Decados and sent to the infamous Atshen Internment Camp on Malignatius' barren moon of Julka. There, they lead a daring escape. (Malignatius Space)
# [[The People of the Sky]] -- On Malignatius, the heroes seek out the Grand Gathering of the Zuranists to protect them from Incarnate air pirates while the Amalthean they are traveling with cures the Zuranists of a deadly plague. (Malignatius)
# [[Snow Terrors]] -- Still on Malignatius, the heroes encounter a terrible ruined castle and the lady who claims it; they must fight for their very lives against unspeakable evil to escape. (Malignatius)
# [[Thirst]] -- On their way back to Aragon, the heroes stop at the home of a bishop known to the family, and help him slake his thirst. (Criticorum)
# [[Tournament of Roses]] -- On Aragon, the heroes learn that their father is being kept in shabby conditions; they fight in a tournament to reclaim him to their custody, but ultimately break him out by force. (Aragon)
# [[No One Expects...]] -- The heroes end up on Barter, where they run into Avesti who are not what they seem. (Barter)
# [[Filial Piety]] -- The heroes go to Cadiz to seek treatment for a wasting disease their father suffers from. (Cadiz)
# [[The Neptune Adventure]]

== PCs ==

* [[Don Dario Benizio Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- A Hazat knight whose family was dispossessed. He is a veteran of the Emperor Wars. (Played by Sean)
* [[Father-Commander Domingo Emmanuel Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- Don Dario's older brother, Domingo is a priest and a former starship commander in the Patriarchal Fleet. (Played by Gavin)
* [[Don Alejandro Plácido Ignacio Eduardo de Ves]] -- A Hazat knight and former crusader who spent 10 years imprisoned in Kurgan space, he is the Castro Salazars' cousin as well as a grand-nephew to Duke Jose. (Played by Reid)
* [[Aurelia Castro]] -- The bastard daughter of Ramiro de Castro Salazar and Dario and Domingo's half-sister, she is householder with unsavory connections. (Played by Vanessa)
* [[Captain Joe Ridek]] -- A Charioteer commander and an employee of the De Vatha hong, he has been assigned to help the Castro Salazars by his hong. (Played by Jeremy)

== Major NPCs ==

'''Byzantium Secundus'''
* ''Emperor Alexius I'' -- Hawkwood Emperor of the Known Worlds and victor of the Emperor Wars.
* ''Sir Chamon Mazarin'' -- The Emperor's cunning dwarf spymaster.
* ''Duke Jose Alfonso Louis Eduardo de Aragon'' -- Prince Juan's brother, Duke Jose is the Hazat ambassador to the Emperor and one of the most respected and honorable men in the Known Worlds.
* ''Count Faustus Hawkwood'' -- A veteran Hawkwood general, Count Faustus has become disaffected with the Emperor and is the leader of a nascent Hawkwood nationalist faction on Byzantium Secundus.
* ''Count Alrich Li Halan'' -- Li Halan ambassador to the Imperial Court. Father Domingo may have killed his son.
* ''Baron Eviathan Hawkwood'' -- One of the Questing Knights, Baron Eviathan is the sort of social head of the Company, living mostly on the throneworld.
* ''Duchess Salandra Decados'' -- The Decados ambassador is a beautiful woman of ever-changing face and one of the canniest women in the Known Worlds.

'''Aragon'''
* ''Prince Juan Jacobi Nelson Eduardo de Aragon'' -- Prince of the Hazat.
* ''Consul Dorian De Vatha'' -- Dorian De Vatha is one of Ozul De Vatha's nephews and represents the Hong to Prince Juan's court. He is said to be particularly politically astute.
* ''Baron Benizio Eduardo de Ves'' -- Don Alejandro's father, a minor baron.
* ''Marquis Ramiro Malegant Justus de Salazar'' -- Marquis de Salazar and Warden of the Skyway, Don Ramiro is the architect of the heroes' family's fall from grace.

'''The League'''
* ''Mater Benita "The Fox" Ivankov'' -- Head of the Scravers' Guild, and someone not fond of the heroes.

'''At Large'''
* ''Ricardo Salazar'' -- Bastard son of Marquis Ramiro de Salazar, Ricardo is infamous for his service as a raider in the Hazat navy.

Family and Glory

2013-01-06T18:46:02Z

P: /* Dramas */

The Justus de Castro Salazar are an old, old Hazat family: one of Saint Emanuel's companions, he was given a castle on Aragon that controlled one of the approaches to Castle Furias. With that, the Marquis de Castro Salazar received a substantial income as one of the Wardens of the Skyways, receiving incomes from ships traveling to Castle Furias, but in starting in 4696 the Castro Salazar family was divided; two twin sons were born, and the marquessate was split, with one son becoming Baron de Castro Salazar, ruling the castle and receiving income as a Warden of the Skyway, while the other becoming Baron de Salazar, with the income from Salazar Town and its lands.

For most of their history, the Castro Salazars and the town Salazars coexisted happily as cousins, but in 4953 an attempt to reunite the two branches of the family in the person of the daughter of the Castro Salazars ended when Ramiro Salazar - heir to Salazar Town - got a bastard on Matilde de Castro Salazar several months before they were to be married. Matilde fled with the child, and instead her younger brother Ferdinand inherited. Ramiro never forgave the Castro Salazars, but he did have his revenge until 4994, when he accused - successfully - Ferdinand's son Rodrigo of allowing through inattention the destruction of the atmosphere generator he was assigned to guard at Jericho. With Ferdinand driven mad and committed to the Oubliette by his cousin Ramiro, Ramiro was able to have himself named Marquis de Salazar with the support of Elena de Castenda, whose niece he had married.

== Dramas ==

# [[The Duke and the Emperor]] -- The heroes arrive on the throneworld and become embroiled in politics of both the personal and interplanetary sort. Don Dario becomes a Questing Knight. (Byzantium Secundus)
# [[The Drowned God]] -- Still on Byzantium, the heroes journey into Drown Town to help a woman rescue her daughter; there, they confront aliens and techno-cultists and ultimately recover an ancient and powerful war machine. In the process, they start a bloody war that ripples across Drown Town. (Byzantium Secundus)
# [[The House of the Fox]] -- Now sworn to help an Amalthean find a cure for a mysterious disease, the heroes have accompanied her to Tethys, where while she researches they journey into the maw of the beast to recover a stolen Imperial Seal from the house of Scraver matriarch Benita Ivankov in order to improve the slums of New Madrid. (Tethys)
# [[A Cup of Miracles]] -- The heroes track an artifact known as the Mael Cup to a ruined village, and then follow its trail through a band of slavers to an Engineer scientist engaged in bio-weapons research. (Tethys)
# [[Gulag Julka]] -- Now in Malignatius space, the heroes are captured by a Baron Petra Decados and sent to the infamous Atshen Internment Camp on Malignatius' barren moon of Julka. There, they lead a daring escape. (Malignatius Space)
# [[The People of the Sky]] -- On Malignatius, the heroes seek out the Grand Gathering of the Zuranists to protect them from Incarnate air pirates while the Amalthean they are traveling with cures the Zuranists of a deadly plague. (Malignatius)
# [[Snow Terrors]] -- Still on Malignatius, the heroes encounter a terrible ruined castle and the lady who claims it; they must fight for their very lives against unspeakable evil to escape. (Malignatius)
# [[Thirst]] -- On their way back to Aragon, the heroes stop at the home of a bishop known to the family, and help him slake his thirst. (Criticorum)
# [[Tournament of Roses]] -- On Aragon, the heroes learn that their father is being kept in shabby conditions; they fight in a tournament to reclaim him to their custody, but ultimately break him out by force. (Aragon)
# [[No One Expects...]] -- The heroes end up on Barter, where they run into Avesti who are not what they seem. (Barter)
# [[Filial Piety]] -- The heroes go to Cadiz to seek treatment for a wasting disease their father suffers from. (Cadiz)

== PCs ==

* [[Don Dario Benizio Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- A Hazat knight whose family was dispossessed. He is a veteran of the Emperor Wars. (Played by Sean)
* [[Father-Commander Domingo Emmanuel Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- Don Dario's older brother, Domingo is a priest and a former starship commander in the Patriarchal Fleet. (Played by Gavin)
* [[Don Alejandro Plácido Ignacio Eduardo de Ves]] -- A Hazat knight and former crusader who spent 10 years imprisoned in Kurgan space, he is the Castro Salazars' cousin as well as a grand-nephew to Duke Jose. (Played by Reid)
* [[Aurelia Castro]] -- The bastard daughter of Ramiro de Castro Salazar and Dario and Domingo's half-sister, she is householder with unsavory connections. (Played by Vanessa)
* [[Captain Joe Ridek]] -- A Charioteer commander and an employee of the De Vatha hong, he has been assigned to help the Castro Salazars by his hong. (Played by Jeremy)

== Major NPCs ==

'''Byzantium Secundus'''
* ''Emperor Alexius I'' -- Hawkwood Emperor of the Known Worlds and victor of the Emperor Wars.
* ''Sir Chamon Mazarin'' -- The Emperor's cunning dwarf spymaster.
* ''Duke Jose Alfonso Louis Eduardo de Aragon'' -- Prince Juan's brother, Duke Jose is the Hazat ambassador to the Emperor and one of the most respected and honorable men in the Known Worlds.
* ''Count Faustus Hawkwood'' -- A veteran Hawkwood general, Count Faustus has become disaffected with the Emperor and is the leader of a nascent Hawkwood nationalist faction on Byzantium Secundus.
* ''Count Alrich Li Halan'' -- Li Halan ambassador to the Imperial Court. Father Domingo may have killed his son.
* ''Baron Eviathan Hawkwood'' -- One of the Questing Knights, Baron Eviathan is the sort of social head of the Company, living mostly on the throneworld.
* ''Duchess Salandra Decados'' -- The Decados ambassador is a beautiful woman of ever-changing face and one of the canniest women in the Known Worlds.

'''Aragon'''
* ''Prince Juan Jacobi Nelson Eduardo de Aragon'' -- Prince of the Hazat.
* ''Consul Dorian De Vatha'' -- Dorian De Vatha is one of Ozul De Vatha's nephews and represents the Hong to Prince Juan's court. He is said to be particularly politically astute.
* ''Baron Benizio Eduardo de Ves'' -- Don Alejandro's father, a minor baron.
* ''Marquis Ramiro Malegant Justus de Salazar'' -- Marquis de Salazar and Warden of the Skyway, Don Ramiro is the architect of the heroes' family's fall from grace.

'''The League'''
* ''Mater Benita "The Fox" Ivankov'' -- Head of the Scravers' Guild, and someone not fond of the heroes.

'''At Large'''
* ''Ricardo Salazar'' -- Bastard son of Marquis Ramiro de Salazar, Ricardo is infamous for his service as a raider in the Hazat navy.

Hagiography

2012-12-18T07:21:27Z

P: /* New Dark Ages Saints */

This is an incomplete list of saints from the Fading Suns canon; particularly, it is missing the Big 8 (Paulus, Lextius, Mantius, Horace, Hombor, Maya, Amalthea, and Ven Lohji.)

== Pre-Reflective Saints ==

;Saint Ramos
:Ramos, a popular colonist rights activist, was martyred before the guns of zaibatsu police. Lived before the Prophet, canonized in the Second Republic. Has a holiday (Saint Ramos Day/Colony Day) named after him -- August 10. (L&P church appendix 146)

== The Prophet's Disciples ==

;Saint Paulus the Traveler
:Born Paul Deveroux, the Prophet's first disciple carried him to Yathrib, where the Prophet beheld the Holy Flame, and then to many destinations beyond. He lamented that he was not with the Prophet on his final journey and is said to have died on "the Garden of Nowhere." Though he is said to have died alone, the cathedral on Rampart claims to have his relics, stolen in a raid from a Gwynneth cathedral in the 4700s. His virtue is Questing, and he is the patron of pilots, children and adventurers. (PotCS 12, IS4 23)

;Saint Lextius the Knight
:The Prophet's second disciple - Lucas Kambei - was the Lord whose Lord was the Prophet. He was the ruler of the planet Dogen; after the Prophet's death, he sealed Dogen's jumpgate, promising to return when the universe was once again governed by faith. His virtue is Loyalty, and he is the patron of the nobility. (PotCS 12)

;Saint Amalthea the Healer
:Saint Amalthea had many followers and indeed was the leader of her own religion when she encountered the Prophet. He was brought to her after being grievously wounded, and she healed him by bleeding light into the Grail. She melded her followers with his; after his death, she continued to lead her sect until she died on Artemis. Her virtue is Compassion, and she is the patron of healers and parents. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Mantius the Soldier
:Avram Manchewitz was a mercenary soldier who became the Prophet's bodyguard, protecting him against many attempts to kill him, most famously in the Miracle of the Bullets, when he threw himself in front of the Prophet but was unharmed. After the Prophet's death, he retreated to begin perfecting the martial arts now practiced by the Brother Battle; some rumor that he is alive to this day, appearing to protect those who need him most. His virtue is Protection, and he is the patron of soldiers and the Brother Battle. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Maya the Scorned Woman
:Maya lived on Shaprut and was married to a cruel and abusive husband. Angry, she sought out dark magics, but turned away from that black path when she received a vision of a star falling to earth. She traveled there and met the Prophet. After his death, she traveled the world preaching against injustice. Maya was eventually captured by a Decados lord, who tortured her for days before she was martyred. Her virtue is Justice or divine Retribution, and she is the patron of lawyers and the oppressed. (PotCS 14)

;Saint Horace the Learned Man
:Horace Abdalim was a rationalist philosopher who engaged in a great debate with the Prophet. Horace was unwilling to concede, and so the Prophet smote him with his staff in the Miracle of the Club. Horace then beheld the truth and dedicated his life before and after the Prophet's death to teaching the Prophet's philosophy before dying peacefully. His virtue is Wisdom, and he is the patron of scholars and mystics. (PotCS 15)

;Saint Hombor the Beggar
:Hombor was a beggar and con artist working on Criticorum who questioned the Prophet's sincerity in the Miracle of Giving. The Prophet offered to give Hombor anything he wanted, and Hombor demanded the Prophet's voice, at which point the Prophet cut his own vocal cords. Hombor wept and cried out "I am the death of faith, for this man was not done speaking!" and then the Prophet was healed. He disappeared after the Prophet's death. His virtue is Humility, and he is the patron of beggars and thieves. (PotCS 16)

;Saint Ven Lohji the Ur-Obun
:Ven Lohji was an Obun priestess and diplomat who met the Prophet; she shared details of the Obun religion with him, and after his death returned to Obun to found a new, syncretic sect of the Universal Church. She is in disfavor among the modern Church and is rarely recognized as a disciple. Her virtue is Discipline, and she is the patron of aliens. (PotCS 17)

== Early Church Fathers ==

;Saint Palamedes Alecto
:First Patriarch, scion of noble house Alecto, uniter of humanity in the Ukar Wars. (PotCS 22)

;Saint J'waltan
:Leader of the Agniites, an early Church sect descended from the first crowd to hear the Prophet preach on Aylon, he martyred himself to soothe the angry world of Stigmata. (IS6 16)

;Saint Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. May be a "martyr" instead of a full saint. (CotG 68)

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Saint Charissa
:One of the Prophet's early followers, she is mentioned twice in the Omega Gospels. After Zebulon's death, she remained on Kish, where she performed five miracles before eventually dying in the Cave of Mysteries, where her body lay untainted for centuries. (IS4 1)

;Saint Cato
:Born Lord Cato Hawkwood, Saint Cato was so distraught at the Prophet's death that he led a convoy of Ravennan pilgrims on a suicide trip, crashing into the Ravenna jumpgate. He is a favorite figure for stained-glass windows on Ravenna. (IS1 9)

== New Dark Ages Saints ==

;Saint Daveed Laurence
:A holy singer who traveled the jumpweb after the Fall; he ultimately inspired the Chorali. (PC 46)

;Saint Yara
:The daughter of a local smith on Artemis, Saint Yara objected when nobles harassed the Amaltheans after the Fall. To get revenge, the nobles shackled Yara to a boulder to be eaten alive by buzzards; she was martyred after six days of exposure, having forgiven her torturers. (IS7 14)

;Saint Rasmussen
:Torn apart during the Fall of the Second Republic, lamenting "Oh that my head were water, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for lost humanity! Tremble, ye sinners, for the long night is upon us and the suns themselves are seen to fade. Repent, and know salvation. Repent, or die!" (FS2nd 24)

;Saint Godfrey de Moley
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Malcolm Xavier Justinian
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

;Saint Athanaseus
:A Hesychast on Grange/Pandemonium while Grange was a Lost World, he was renowned for his wisdom and his great mirror - he used it as a centerpiece for teachings that helped students rid themselves of sin. When Grange was rediscovered, he was recognized by the Universal Church.

;Saint Natih Hadara
:One of the few women to serve as Matriarch of the Universal Church of the Celestial Sun (4868-4877), she was a miraculuous healer and was canonized almost immediately upon her death. (PotCS 27)

;Saint Deimos of the Holy Mountain
:The founder of the then-heretical Eskatonic Order, he was eventually accepted as saint by the Orthodoxy as part of the Pentateuch Concordat. Saint Deimos lived around the time of Vladimir, preaching the Doctrine of the Inherent Flame from the Apocrypha of Horace. (PotCS 66)

;Saint Solius
:Saint Solius was martyred on Icon by a pre-Cardanite Li Halan prince in 4207, torn to pieces by the Prince's Vorox guards. His left hand is a famous relic venerated on Icon, and he is the planet's patron saint. (IS4 8)

== Second Republic Saints ==

;"Saint" Pietrarcholus

:While never officially canonized, the founder of Temple Avesti appeared out of the desert in 3500 and dictated the epic "Fervitudes", a poetic work that inspires much Avesti theology. (PotCS 83)

== Ukari Martyrs ==

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. (CotG 68)

;Glam
:An Ukari martyred on Kordeth by his own people. The closest any Ukari has come to sainthood; sometimes referred to as "Saint Glam". (CotG 68; SS )

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

== Hermit Saints ==

;Saint Romulus
:Called the "Desert Hermit", he survived a mudslide that killed 4000 followers (the "Miracle of the Mud") and sat upon a cactus for 12 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Heather of Ravenna
:Ate only pine needles for 27 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Evangelia of Malignatius
:Sat naked on the ice-world of Malignatius, contemplating the love and beauty of the Pancreator through ice and snow. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Ijunn of of Istakhr
:Declared clothing a vanity and led 3000 followers into Samarkand cathedral; was rained on after a prayer from Archbishop Mali and then draped in a carpet. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Calix
:Saved a Hawkwood lord from barbarians after the Fall; companion was a wolf, Lupo, and he founded St. Hombor's/The Monastery of the Eternal Light on Ravenna. Also healed a Hawkwood countess in 4276. (PotCS 122, 125)

== Divers Other Saints ==

;Saint Oman
:Martyred by Count Eshram Hamid, he was dunked in boiling oil so Count Eshram could claim his bones as a trophy. When his bones were removed, Saint Oman's bones were mirror-reflective. (PotCS 19)

;Saint Verda
:A saint who has a shroud. (PC 18)

;Saint Iman
:He has a crown, which was on Cadiz before it was stolen. Same Iman as Saint Emanuel? (PC 19)

;Saint Mythior
:He had a vision of the Eskaton. (PC 20)

;Saint Akahito
:He appears to have been a missionary to the Vorox, and performed the Miracle of the Gong. (PC 23)

;Saint Salah
:His cathedral is in Cairo. (IS7 28)

;Saint Xing the Serene
:He has a relic called the Reflective Eye; it was originally on Midian, but stolen by a heretical sect on Rampart. (IS4 21)

;Saint Kynon
:Formerly the patron saint of Rampart, he was replaced by Saint Paulus because of his associations with Rampart politics. (IS4 23)

;Saint Maximillian
:He has a cathedral on Ravenna, in southern Castillo where the Prophet is said to have addressed the multitudes. (IS1 12)

;Saint Regoe
:Saint Regoe's cathedral is on Ravenna in the city of Suryada, near where Alexius was born. (IS1 12)

;Saint Cuthbert
:Sister Theafana al-Malik carries a relic sword of this saint. (ByzII 63)

== Other Historical Church Figures ==

;Pontius Cciardi
:Archbishop of Pyre in 4235, he led the Temple Avesti when they were integrated into the Universal Church. (PotCS 84)

;Argus the Vigilant
:Avestite bishop who wrote the standard text on inquisitorial practice, the Instructones Inquisitorum. (PotCS 85)

;Theocrat Halvor I
:Halvor was Patriarch, Prince of the Li Halan, and Regent, and ruled for ten years as Theocrat of the Known Worlds. He is revered as a local saint on Icon. (IS4 10)

Hagiography

2012-12-02T04:21:43Z

This is an incomplete list of saints from the Fading Suns canon; particularly, it is missing the Big 8 (Paulus, Lextius, Mantius, Horace, Hombor, Maya, Amalthea, and Ven Lohji.)

== Pre-Reflective Saints ==

;Saint Ramos
:Ramos, a popular colonist rights activist, was martyred before the guns of zaibatsu police. Lived before the Prophet, canonized in the Second Republic. Has a holiday (Saint Ramos Day/Colony Day) named after him -- August 10. (L&P church appendix 146)

== The Prophet's Disciples ==

;Saint Paulus the Traveler
:Born Paul Deveroux, the Prophet's first disciple carried him to Yathrib, where the Prophet beheld the Holy Flame, and then to many destinations beyond. He lamented that he was not with the Prophet on his final journey and is said to have died on "the Garden of Nowhere." Though he is said to have died alone, the cathedral on Rampart claims to have his relics, stolen in a raid from a Gwynneth cathedral in the 4700s. His virtue is Questing, and he is the patron of pilots, children and adventurers. (PotCS 12, IS4 23)

;Saint Lextius the Knight
:The Prophet's second disciple - Lucas Kambei - was the Lord whose Lord was the Prophet. He was the ruler of the planet Dogen; after the Prophet's death, he sealed Dogen's jumpgate, promising to return when the universe was once again governed by faith. His virtue is Loyalty, and he is the patron of the nobility. (PotCS 12)

;Saint Amalthea the Healer
:Saint Amalthea had many followers and indeed was the leader of her own religion when she encountered the Prophet. He was brought to her after being grievously wounded, and she healed him by bleeding light into the Grail. She melded her followers with his; after his death, she continued to lead her sect until she died on Artemis. Her virtue is Compassion, and she is the patron of healers and parents. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Mantius the Soldier
:Avram Manchewitz was a mercenary soldier who became the Prophet's bodyguard, protecting him against many attempts to kill him, most famously in the Miracle of the Bullets, when he threw himself in front of the Prophet but was unharmed. After the Prophet's death, he retreated to begin perfecting the martial arts now practiced by the Brother Battle; some rumor that he is alive to this day, appearing to protect those who need him most. His virtue is Protection, and he is the patron of soldiers and the Brother Battle. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Maya the Scorned Woman
:Maya lived on Shaprut and was married to a cruel and abusive husband. Angry, she sought out dark magics, but turned away from that black path when she received a vision of a star falling to earth. She traveled there and met the Prophet. After his death, she traveled the world preaching against injustice. Maya was eventually captured by a Decados lord, who tortured her for days before she was martyred. Her virtue is Justice or divine Retribution, and she is the patron of lawyers and the oppressed. (PotCS 14)

;Saint Horace the Learned Man
:Horace Abdalim was a rationalist philosopher who engaged in a great debate with the Prophet. Horace was unwilling to concede, and so the Prophet smote him with his staff in the Miracle of the Club. Horace then beheld the truth and dedicated his life before and after the Prophet's death to teaching the Prophet's philosophy before dying peacefully. His virtue is Wisdom, and he is the patron of scholars and mystics. (PotCS 15)

;Saint Hombor the Beggar
:Hombor was a beggar and con artist working on Criticorum who questioned the Prophet's sincerity in the Miracle of Giving. The Prophet offered to give Hombor anything he wanted, and Hombor demanded the Prophet's voice, at which point the Prophet cut his own vocal cords. Hombor wept and cried out "I am the death of faith, for this man was not done speaking!" and then the Prophet was healed. He disappeared after the Prophet's death. His virtue is Humility, and he is the patron of beggars and thieves. (PotCS 16)

;Saint Ven Lohji the Ur-Obun
:Ven Lohji was an Obun priestess and diplomat who met the Prophet; she shared details of the Obun religion with him, and after his death returned to Obun to found a new, syncretic sect of the Universal Church. She is in disfavor among the modern Church and is rarely recognized as a disciple. Her virtue is Discipline, and she is the patron of aliens. (PotCS 17)

== Early Church Fathers ==

;Saint Palamedes Alecto
:First Patriarch, scion of noble house Alecto, uniter of humanity in the Ukar Wars. (PotCS 22)

;Saint J'waltan
:Leader of the Agniites, an early Church sect descended from the first crowd to hear the Prophet preach on Aylon, he martyred himself to soothe the angry world of Stigmata. (IS6 16)

;Saint Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. May be a "martyr" instead of a full saint. (CotG 68)

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Saint Charissa
:One of the Prophet's early followers, she is mentioned twice in the Omega Gospels. After Zebulon's death, she remained on Kish, where she performed five miracles before eventually dying in the Cave of Mysteries, where her body lay untainted for centuries. (IS4 1)

;Saint Cato
:Born Lord Cato Hawkwood, Saint Cato was so distraught at the Prophet's death that he led a convoy of Ravennan pilgrims on a suicide trip, crashing into the Ravenna jumpgate. He is a favorite figure for stained-glass windows on Ravenna. (IS1 9)

== New Dark Ages Saints ==

:Saint Daveed Laurence
;A holy singer who traveled the jumpweb after the Fall; he ultimately inspired the Chorali. (PC 46)

;Saint Yara
:The daughter of a local smith on Artemis, Saint Yara objected when nobles harassed the Amaltheans after the Fall. To get revenge, the nobles shackled Yara to a boulder to be eaten alive by buzzards; she was martyred after six days of exposure, having forgiven her torturers. (IS7 14)

;Saint Rasmussen
:Torn apart during the Fall of the Second Republic, lamenting "Oh that my head were water, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for lost humanity! Tremble, ye sinners, for the long night is upon us and the suns themselves are seen to fade. Repent, and know salvation. Repent, or die!" (FS2nd 24)

;Saint Godfrey de Moley
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Malcolm Xavier Justinian
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

;Saint Athanaseus
:A Hesychast on Grange/Pandemonium while Grange was a Lost World, he was renowned for his wisdom and his great mirror - he used it as a centerpiece for teachings that helped students rid themselves of sin. When Grange was rediscovered, he was recognized by the Universal Church.

;Saint Natih Hadara
:One of the few women to serve as Matriarch of the Universal Church of the Celestial Sun (4868-4877), she was a miraculuous healer and was canonized almost immediately upon her death. (PotCS 27)

;Saint Deimos of the Holy Mountain
:The founder of the then-heretical Eskatonic Order, he was eventually accepted as saint by the Orthodoxy as part of the Pentateuch Concordat. Saint Deimos lived around the time of Vladimir, preaching the Doctrine of the Inherent Flame from the Apocrypha of Horace. (PotCS 66)

;Saint Solius
:Saint Solius was martyred on Icon by a pre-Cardanite Li Halan prince in 4207, torn to pieces by the Prince's Vorox guards. His left hand is a famous relic venerated on Icon, and he is the planet's patron saint. (IS4 8)

== Second Republic Saints ==

;"Saint" Pietrarcholus

:While never officially canonized, the founder of Temple Avesti appeared out of the desert in 3500 and dictated the epic "Fervitudes", a poetic work that inspires much Avesti theology. (PotCS 83)

== Ukari Martyrs ==

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. (CotG 68)

;Glam
:An Ukari martyred on Kordeth by his own people. The closest any Ukari has come to sainthood; sometimes referred to as "Saint Glam". (CotG 68; SS )

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

== Hermit Saints ==

;Saint Romulus
:Called the "Desert Hermit", he survived a mudslide that killed 4000 followers (the "Miracle of the Mud") and sat upon a cactus for 12 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Heather of Ravenna
:Ate only pine needles for 27 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Evangelia of Malignatius
:Sat naked on the ice-world of Malignatius, contemplating the love and beauty of the Pancreator through ice and snow. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Ijunn of of Istakhr
:Declared clothing a vanity and led 3000 followers into Samarkand cathedral; was rained on after a prayer from Archbishop Mali and then draped in a carpet. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Calix
:Saved a Hawkwood lord from barbarians after the Fall; companion was a wolf, Lupo, and he founded St. Hombor's/The Monastery of the Eternal Light on Ravenna. Also healed a Hawkwood countess in 4276. (PotCS 122, 125)

== Divers Other Saints ==

;Saint Oman
:Martyred by Count Eshram Hamid, he was dunked in boiling oil so Count Eshram could claim his bones as a trophy. When his bones were removed, Saint Oman's bones were mirror-reflective. (PotCS 19)

;Saint Verda
:A saint who has a shroud. (PC 18)

;Saint Iman
:He has a crown, which was on Cadiz before it was stolen. Same Iman as Saint Emanuel? (PC 19)

;Saint Mythior
:He had a vision of the Eskaton. (PC 20)

;Saint Akahito
:He appears to have been a missionary to the Vorox, and performed the Miracle of the Gong. (PC 23)

;Saint Salah
:His cathedral is in Cairo. (IS7 28)

;Saint Xing the Serene
:He has a relic called the Reflective Eye; it was originally on Midian, but stolen by a heretical sect on Rampart. (IS4 21)

;Saint Kynon
:Formerly the patron saint of Rampart, he was replaced by Saint Paulus because of his associations with Rampart politics. (IS4 23)

;Saint Maximillian
:He has a cathedral on Ravenna, in southern Castillo where the Prophet is said to have addressed the multitudes. (IS1 12)

;Saint Regoe
:Saint Regoe's cathedral is on Ravenna in the city of Suryada, near where Alexius was born. (IS1 12)

;Saint Cuthbert
:Sister Theafana al-Malik carries a relic sword of this saint. (ByzII 63)

== Other Historical Church Figures ==

;Pontius Cciardi
:Archbishop of Pyre in 4235, he led the Temple Avesti when they were integrated into the Universal Church. (PotCS 84)

;Argus the Vigilant
:Avestite bishop who wrote the standard text on inquisitorial practice, the Instructones Inquisitorum. (PotCS 85)

;Theocrat Halvor I
:Halvor was Patriarch, Prince of the Li Halan, and Regent, and ruled for ten years as Theocrat of the Known Worlds. He is revered as a local saint on Icon. (IS4 10)

Hagiography

2012-08-26T00:36:13Z

This is an incomplete list of saints from the Fading Suns canon; particularly, it is missing the Big 8 (Paulus, Lextius, Mantius, Horace, Hombor, Maya, Amalthea, and Ven Lohji.)

== Pre-Reflective Saints ==

;Saint Ramos
:Ramos, a popular colonist rights activist, was martyred before the guns of zaibatsu police. Lived before the Prophet, canonized in the Second Republic. Has a holiday (Saint Ramos Day/Colony Day) named after him -- August 10. (L&P church appendix 146)

== The Prophet's Disciples ==

;Saint Paulus the Traveler
:Born Paul Deveroux, the Prophet's first disciple carried him to Yathrib, where the Prophet beheld the Holy Flame, and then to many destinations beyond. He lamented that he was not with the Prophet on his final journey and is said to have died on "the Garden of Nowhere." Though he is said to have died alone, the cathedral on Rampart claims to have his relics, stolen in a raid from a Gwynneth cathedral in the 4700s. His virtue is Questing, and he is the patron of pilots, children and adventurers. (PotCS 12, IS4 23)

;Saint Lextius the Knight
:The Prophet's second disciple - Lucas Kambei - was the Lord whose Lord was the Prophet. He was the ruler of the planet Dogen; after the Prophet's death, he sealed Dogen's jumpgate, promising to return when the universe was once again governed by faith. His virtue is Loyalty, and he is the patron of the nobility. (PotCS 12)

;Saint Amalthea the Healer
:Saint Amalthea had many followers and indeed was the leader of her own religion when she encountered the Prophet. He was brought to her after being grievously wounded, and she healed him by bleeding light into the Grail. She melded her followers with his; after his death, she continued to lead her sect until she died on Artemis. Her virtue is Compassion, and she is the patron of healers and parents. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Mantius the Soldier
:Avram Manchewitz was a mercenary soldier who became the Prophet's bodyguard, protecting him against many attempts to kill him, most famously in the Miracle of the Bullets, when he threw himself in front of the Prophet but was unharmed. After the Prophet's death, he retreated to begin perfecting the martial arts now practiced by the Brother Battle; some rumor that he is alive to this day, appearing to protect those who need him most. His virtue is Protection, and he is the patron of soldiers and the Brother Battle. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Maya the Scorned Woman
:Maya lived on Shaprut and was married to a cruel and abusive husband. Angry, she sought out dark magics, but turned away from that black path when she received a vision of a star falling to earth. She traveled there and met the Prophet. After his death, she traveled the world preaching against injustice. Maya was eventually captured by a Decados lord, who tortured her for days before she was martyred. Her virtue is Justice or divine Retribution, and she is the patron of lawyers and the oppressed. (PotCS 14)

;Saint Horace the Learned Man
:Horace Abdalim was a rationalist philosopher who engaged in a great debate with the Prophet. Horace was unwilling to concede, and so the Prophet smote him with his staff in the Miracle of the Club. Horace then beheld the truth and dedicated his life before and after the Prophet's death to teaching the Prophet's philosophy before dying peacefully. His virtue is Wisdom, and he is the patron of scholars and mystics. (PotCS 15)

;Saint Hombor the Beggar
:Hombor was a beggar and con artist working on Criticorum who questioned the Prophet's sincerity in the Miracle of Giving. The Prophet offered to give Hombor anything he wanted, and Hombor demanded the Prophet's voice, at which point the Prophet cut his own vocal cords. Hombor wept and cried out "I am the death of faith, for this man was not done speaking!" and then the Prophet was healed. He disappeared after the Prophet's death. His virtue is Humility, and he is the patron of beggars and thieves. (PotCS 16)

;Saint Ven Lohji the Ur-Obun
:Ven Lohji was an Obun priestess and diplomat who met the Prophet; she shared details of the Obun religion with him, and after his death returned to Obun to found a new, syncretic sect of the Universal Church. She is in disfavor among the modern Church and is rarely recognized as a disciple. Her virtue is Discipline, and she is the patron of aliens. (PotCS 17)

== Early Church Fathers ==

;Saint Palamedes Alecto
:First Patriarch, scion of noble house Alecto, uniter of humanity in the Ukar Wars. (PotCS 22)

;Saint J'waltan
:Leader of the Agniites, an early Church sect descended from the first crowd to hear the Prophet preach on Aylon, he martyred himself to soothe the angry world of Stigmata. (IS6 16)

;Saint Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. May be a "martyr" instead of a full saint. (CotG 68)

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Saint Charissa
:One of the Prophet's early followers, she is mentioned twice in the Omega Gospels. After Zebulon's death, she remained on Kish, where she performed five miracles before eventually dying in the Cave of Mysteries, where her body lay untainted for centuries. (IS4 1)

;Saint Cato
:Born Lord Cato Hawkwood, Saint Cato was so distraught at the Prophet's death that he led a convoy of Ravennan pilgrims on a suicide trip, crashing into the Ravenna jumpgate. He is a favorite figure for stained-glass windows on Ravenna. (IS1 9)

== New Dark Ages Saints ==

;Saint Yara
:The daughter of a local smith on Artemis, Saint Yara objected when nobles harassed the Amaltheans after the Fall. To get revenge, the nobles shackled Yara to a boulder to be eaten alive by buzzards; she was martyred after six days of exposure, having forgiven her torturers. (IS7 14)

;Saint Rasmussen
:Torn apart during the Fall of the Second Republic, lamenting "Oh that my head were water, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for lost humanity! Tremble, ye sinners, for the long night is upon us and the suns themselves are seen to fade. Repent, and know salvation. Repent, or die!" (FS2nd 24)

;Saint Godfrey de Moley
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Malcolm Xavier Justinian
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

;Saint Athanaseus
:A Hesychast on Grange/Pandemonium while Grange was a Lost World, he was renowned for his wisdom and his great mirror - he used it as a centerpiece for teachings that helped students rid themselves of sin. When Grange was rediscovered, he was recognized by the Universal Church.

;Saint Natih Hadara
:One of the few women to serve as Matriarch of the Universal Church of the Celestial Sun (4868-4877), she was a miraculuous healer and was canonized almost immediately upon her death. (PotCS 27)

;Saint Deimos of the Holy Mountain
:The founder of the then-heretical Eskatonic Order, he was eventually accepted as saint by the Orthodoxy as part of the Pentateuch Concordat. Saint Deimos lived around the time of Vladimir, preaching the Doctrine of the Inherent Flame from the Apocrypha of Horace. (PotCS 66)

;Saint Solius
:Saint Solius was martyred on Icon by a pre-Cardanite Li Halan prince in 4207, torn to pieces by the Prince's Vorox guards. His left hand is a famous relic venerated on Icon, and he is the planet's patron saint. (IS4 8)

== Second Republic Saints ==

;"Saint" Pietrarcholus

:While never officially canonized, the founder of Temple Avesti appeared out of the desert in 3500 and dictated the epic "Fervitudes", a poetic work that inspires much Avesti theology. (PotCS 83)

== Ukari Martyrs ==

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. (CotG 68)

;Glam
:An Ukari martyred on Kordeth by his own people. The closest any Ukari has come to sainthood; sometimes referred to as "Saint Glam". (CotG 68; SS )

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

== Hermit Saints ==

;Saint Romulus
:Called the "Desert Hermit", he survived a mudslide that killed 4000 followers (the "Miracle of the Mud") and sat upon a cactus for 12 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Heather of Ravenna
:Ate only pine needles for 27 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Evangelia of Malignatius
:Sat naked on the ice-world of Malignatius, contemplating the love and beauty of the Pancreator through ice and snow. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Ijunn of of Istakhr
:Declared clothing a vanity and led 3000 followers into Samarkand cathedral; was rained on after a prayer from Archbishop Mali and then draped in a carpet. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Calix
:Saved a Hawkwood lord from barbarians after the Fall; companion was a wolf, Lupo, and he founded St. Hombor's/The Monastery of the Eternal Light on Ravenna. Also healed a Hawkwood countess in 4276. (PotCS 122, 125)

== Divers Other Saints ==

;Saint Oman
:Martyred by Count Eshram Hamid, he was dunked in boiling oil so Count Eshram could claim his bones as a trophy. When his bones were removed, Saint Oman's bones were mirror-reflective. (PotCS 19)

;Saint Verda
:A saint who has a shroud. (PC 18)

;Saint Iman
:He has a crown, which was on Cadiz before it was stolen. Same Iman as Saint Emanuel? (PC 19)

;Saint Mythior
:He had a vision of the Eskaton. (PC 20)

;Saint Akahito
:He appears to have been a missionary to the Vorox, and performed the Miracle of the Gong. (PC 23)

;Saint Salah
:His cathedral is in Cairo. (IS7 28)

;Saint Xing the Serene
:He has a relic called the Reflective Eye; it was originally on Midian, but stolen by a heretical sect on Rampart. (IS4 21)

;Saint Kynon
:Formerly the patron saint of Rampart, he was replaced by Saint Paulus because of his associations with Rampart politics. (IS4 23)

;Saint Maximillian
:He has a cathedral on Ravenna, in southern Castillo where the Prophet is said to have addressed the multitudes. (IS1 12)

;Saint Regoe
:Saint Regoe's cathedral is on Ravenna in the city of Suryada, near where Alexius was born. (IS1 12)

;Saint Cuthbert
:Sister Theafana al-Malik carries a relic sword of this saint. (ByzII 63)

== Other Historical Church Figures ==

;Pontius Cciardi
:Archbishop of Pyre in 4235, he led the Temple Avesti when they were integrated into the Universal Church. (PotCS 84)

;Argus the Vigilant
:Avestite bishop who wrote the standard text on inquisitorial practice, the Instructones Inquisitorum. (PotCS 85)

;Theocrat Halvor I
:Halvor was Patriarch, Prince of the Li Halan, and Regent, and ruled for ten years as Theocrat of the Known Worlds. He is revered as a local saint on Icon. (IS4 10)

Hagiography

2012-08-25T07:52:52Z

P: /* Early Church Fathers */

This is an incomplete list of saints from the Fading Suns canon; particularly, it is missing the Big 8 (Paulus, Lextius, Mantius, Horace, Hombor, Maya, Amalthea, and Ven Lohji.)

== Pre-Reflective Saints ==

;Saint Ramos
:Ramos, a popular colonist rights activist, was martyred before the guns of zaibatsu police. Lived before the Prophet, canonized in the Second Republic. Has a holiday (Saint Ramos Day/Colony Day) named after him -- August 10. (L&P church appendix 146)

== The Prophet's Disciples ==

;Saint Paulus the Traveler
:Born Paul Deveroux, the Prophet's first disciple carried him to Yathrib, where the Prophet beheld the Holy Flame, and then to many destinations beyond. He lamented that he was not with the Prophet on his final journey and is said to have died on "the Garden of Nowhere." Though he is said to have died alone, the cathedral on Rampart claims to have his relics, stolen in a raid from a Gwynneth cathedral in the 4700s. His virtue is Questing, and he is the patron of pilots, children and adventurers. (PotCS 12, IS4 23)

;Saint Lextius the Knight
:The Prophet's second disciple - Lucas Kambei - was the Lord whose Lord was the Prophet. He was the ruler of the planet Dogen; after the Prophet's death, he sealed Dogen's jumpgate, promising to return when the universe was once again governed by faith. His virtue is Loyalty, and he is the patron of the nobility. (PotCS 12)

;Saint Amalthea the Healer
:Saint Amalthea had many followers and indeed was the leader of her own religion when she encountered the Prophet. He was brought to her after being grievously wounded, and she healed him by bleeding light into the Grail. She melded her followers with his; after his death, she continued to lead her sect until she died on Artemis. Her virtue is Compassion, and she is the patron of healers and parents. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Mantius the Soldier
:Avram Manchewitz was a mercenary soldier who became the Prophet's bodyguard, protecting him against many attempts to kill him, most famously in the Miracle of the Bullets, when he threw himself in front of the Prophet but was unharmed. After the Prophet's death, he retreated to begin perfecting the martial arts now practiced by the Brother Battle; some rumor that he is alive to this day, appearing to protect those who need him most. His virtue is Protection, and he is the patron of soldiers and the Brother Battle. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Maya the Scorned Woman
:Maya lived on Shaprut and was married to a cruel and abusive husband. Angry, she sought out dark magics, but turned away from that black path when she received a vision of a star falling to earth. She traveled there and met the Prophet. After his death, she traveled the world preaching against injustice. Maya was eventually captured by a Decados lord, who tortured her for days before she was martyred. Her virtue is Justice or divine Retribution, and she is the patron of lawyers and the oppressed. (PotCS 14)

;Saint Horace the Learned Man
:Horace Abdalim was a rationalist philosopher who engaged in a great debate with the Prophet. Horace was unwilling to concede, and so the Prophet smote him with his staff in the Miracle of the Club. Horace then beheld the truth and dedicated his life before and after the Prophet's death to teaching the Prophet's philosophy before dying peacefully. His virtue is Wisdom, and he is the patron of scholars and mystics. (PotCS 15)

;Saint Hombor the Beggar
:Hombor was a beggar and con artist working on Criticorum who questioned the Prophet's sincerity in the Miracle of Giving. The Prophet offered to give Hombor anything he wanted, and Hombor demanded the Prophet's voice, at which point the Prophet cut his own vocal cords. Hombor wept and cried out "I am the death of faith, for this man was not done speaking!" and then the Prophet was healed. He disappeared after the Prophet's death. His virtue is Humility, and he is the patron of beggars and thieves. (PotCS 16)

;Saint Ven Lohji the Ur-Obun
:Ven Lohji was an Obun priestess and diplomat who met the Prophet; she shared details of the Obun religion with him, and after his death returned to Obun to found a new, syncretic sect of the Universal Church. She is in disfavor among the modern Church and is rarely recognized as a disciple. Her virtue is Discipline, and she is the patron of aliens. (PotCS 17)

== Early Church Fathers ==

;Saint Palamedes Alecto
:First Patriarch, scion of noble house Alecto, uniter of humanity in the Ukar Wars. (PotCS 22)

;Saint J'waltan
:Leader of the Agniites, an early Church sect descended from the first crowd to hear the Prophet preach on Aylon, he martyred himself to soothe the angry world of Stigmata. (IS6 16)

;Saint Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. May be a "martyr" instead of a full saint. (CotG 68)

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Saint Charissa
:One of the Prophet's early followers, she is mentioned twice in the Omega Gospels. After Zebulon's death, she remained on Kish, where she performed five miracles before eventually dying in the Cave of Mysteries, where her body lay untainted for centuries. (IS4 1)

;Saint Cato
:Born Lord Cato Hawkwood, Saint Cato was so distraught at the Prophet's death that he led a convoy of Ravennan pilgrims on a suicide trip, crashing into the Ravenna jumpgate. He is a favorite figure for stained-glass windows on Ravenna. (IS1 9)

== New Dark Ages Saints ==

;Saint Yara
:The daughter of a local smith on Artemis, Saint Yara objected when nobles harassed the Amaltheans after the Fall. To get revenge, the nobles shackled Yara to a boulder to be eaten alive by buzzards; she was martyred after six days of exposure, having forgiven her torturers. (IS7 14)

;Saint Rasmussen
:Torn apart during the Fall of the Second Republic, lamenting "Oh that my head were water, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for lost humanity! Tremble, ye sinners, for the long night is upon us and the suns themselves are seen to fade. Repent, and know salvation. Repent, or die!" (FS2nd 24)

;Saint Godfrey de Moley
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Malcolm Xavier Justinian
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

;Saint Athanaseus
:A Hesychast on Grange/Pandemonium while Grange was a Lost World, he was renowned for his wisdom and his great mirror - he used it as a centerpiece for teachings that helped students rid themselves of sin. When Grange was rediscovered, he was recognized by the Universal Church.

;Saint Natih Hadara
:One of the few women to serve as Matriarch of the Universal Church of the Celestial Sun (4868-4877), she was a miraculuous healer and was canonized almost immediately upon her death. (PotCS 27)

;Saint Deimos of the Holy Mountain
:The founder of the then-heretical Eskatonic Order, he was eventually accepted as saint by the Orthodoxy as part of the Pentateuch Concordat. Saint Deimos lived around the time of Vladimir, preaching the Doctrine of the Inherent Flame from the Apocrypha of Horace. (PotCS 66)

;Saint Solius
:Saint Solius was martyred on Icon by a pre-Cardanite Li Halan prince in 4207, torn to pieces by the Prince's Vorox guards. His left hand is a famous relic venerated on Icon, and he is the planet's patron saint. (IS4 8)

== Second Republic Saints ==

;"Saint" Pietrarcholus

:While never officially canonized, the founder of Temple Avesti appeared out of the desert in 3500 and dictated the epic "Fervitudes", a poetic work that inspires much Avesti theology. (PotCS 83)

== Ukari Martyrs ==

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. (CotG 68)

;Glam
:An Ukari martyred on Kordeth by his own people. The closest any Ukari has come to sainthood; sometimes referred to as "Saint Glam". (CotG 68; SS )

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

== Hermit Saints ==

;Saint Romulus
:Called the "Desert Hermit", he survived a mudslide that killed 4000 followers (the "Miracle of the Mud") and sat upon a cactus for 12 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Heather of Ravenna
:Ate only pine needles for 27 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Evangelia of Malignatius
:Sat naked on the ice-world of Malignatius, contemplating the love and beauty of the Pancreator through ice and snow. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Ijunn of of Istakhr
:Declared clothing a vanity and led 3000 followers into Samarkand cathedral; was rained on after a prayer from Archbishop Mali and then draped in a carpet. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Calix
:Saved a Hawkwood lord from barbarians after the Fall; companion was a wolf, Lupo, and he founded St. Hombor's/The Monastery of the Eternal Light on Ravenna. Also healed a Hawkwood countess in 4276. (PotCS 122, 125)

== Divers Other Saints ==

;Saint Oman
:Martyred by Count Eshram Hamid, he was dunked in boiling oil so Count Eshram could claim his bones as a trophy. When his bones were removed, Saint Oman's bones were mirror-reflective. (PotCS 19)

;Saint Verda
:A saint who has a shroud. (PC 18)

;Saint Iman
:He has a crown, which was on Cadiz before it was stolen. Same Iman as Saint Emanuel? (PC 19)

;Saint Mythior
:He had a vision of the Eskaton. (PC 20)

;Saint Akahito
:He appears to have been a missionary to the Vorox, and performed the Miracle of the Gong. (PC 23)

;Saint Salah
:His cathedral is in Cairo. (IS7 28)

;Saint Xing the Serene
:He has a relic called the Reflective Eye; it was originally on Midian, but stolen by a heretical sect on Rampart. (IS4 21)

;Saint Kynon
:Formerly the patron saint of Rampart, he was replaced by Saint Paulus because of his associations with Rampart politics. (IS4 23)

;Saint Maximillian
:He has a cathedral on Ravenna, in southern Castillo where the Prophet is said to have addressed the multitudes. (IS1 12)

;Saint Regoe
;Saint Regoe's cathedral is on Ravenna in the city of Suryada, near where Alexius was born. (IS1 12)

== Other Historical Church Figures ==

;Pontius Cciardi
:Archbishop of Pyre in 4235, he led the Temple Avesti when they were integrated into the Universal Church. (PotCS 84)

;Argus the Vigilant
:Avestite bishop who wrote the standard text on inquisitorial practice, the Instructones Inquisitorum. (PotCS 85)

;Theocrat Halvor I
:Halvor was Patriarch, Prince of the Li Halan, and Regent, and ruled for ten years as Theocrat of the Known Worlds. He is revered as a local saint on Icon. (IS4 10)

Hagiography

2012-08-25T07:50:26Z

P: /* Divers Other Saints */

This is an incomplete list of saints from the Fading Suns canon; particularly, it is missing the Big 8 (Paulus, Lextius, Mantius, Horace, Hombor, Maya, Amalthea, and Ven Lohji.)

== Pre-Reflective Saints ==

;Saint Ramos
:Ramos, a popular colonist rights activist, was martyred before the guns of zaibatsu police. Lived before the Prophet, canonized in the Second Republic. Has a holiday (Saint Ramos Day/Colony Day) named after him -- August 10. (L&P church appendix 146)

== The Prophet's Disciples ==

;Saint Paulus the Traveler
:Born Paul Deveroux, the Prophet's first disciple carried him to Yathrib, where the Prophet beheld the Holy Flame, and then to many destinations beyond. He lamented that he was not with the Prophet on his final journey and is said to have died on "the Garden of Nowhere." Though he is said to have died alone, the cathedral on Rampart claims to have his relics, stolen in a raid from a Gwynneth cathedral in the 4700s. His virtue is Questing, and he is the patron of pilots, children and adventurers. (PotCS 12, IS4 23)

;Saint Lextius the Knight
:The Prophet's second disciple - Lucas Kambei - was the Lord whose Lord was the Prophet. He was the ruler of the planet Dogen; after the Prophet's death, he sealed Dogen's jumpgate, promising to return when the universe was once again governed by faith. His virtue is Loyalty, and he is the patron of the nobility. (PotCS 12)

;Saint Amalthea the Healer
:Saint Amalthea had many followers and indeed was the leader of her own religion when she encountered the Prophet. He was brought to her after being grievously wounded, and she healed him by bleeding light into the Grail. She melded her followers with his; after his death, she continued to lead her sect until she died on Artemis. Her virtue is Compassion, and she is the patron of healers and parents. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Mantius the Soldier
:Avram Manchewitz was a mercenary soldier who became the Prophet's bodyguard, protecting him against many attempts to kill him, most famously in the Miracle of the Bullets, when he threw himself in front of the Prophet but was unharmed. After the Prophet's death, he retreated to begin perfecting the martial arts now practiced by the Brother Battle; some rumor that he is alive to this day, appearing to protect those who need him most. His virtue is Protection, and he is the patron of soldiers and the Brother Battle. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Maya the Scorned Woman
:Maya lived on Shaprut and was married to a cruel and abusive husband. Angry, she sought out dark magics, but turned away from that black path when she received a vision of a star falling to earth. She traveled there and met the Prophet. After his death, she traveled the world preaching against injustice. Maya was eventually captured by a Decados lord, who tortured her for days before she was martyred. Her virtue is Justice or divine Retribution, and she is the patron of lawyers and the oppressed. (PotCS 14)

;Saint Horace the Learned Man
:Horace Abdalim was a rationalist philosopher who engaged in a great debate with the Prophet. Horace was unwilling to concede, and so the Prophet smote him with his staff in the Miracle of the Club. Horace then beheld the truth and dedicated his life before and after the Prophet's death to teaching the Prophet's philosophy before dying peacefully. His virtue is Wisdom, and he is the patron of scholars and mystics. (PotCS 15)

;Saint Hombor the Beggar
:Hombor was a beggar and con artist working on Criticorum who questioned the Prophet's sincerity in the Miracle of Giving. The Prophet offered to give Hombor anything he wanted, and Hombor demanded the Prophet's voice, at which point the Prophet cut his own vocal cords. Hombor wept and cried out "I am the death of faith, for this man was not done speaking!" and then the Prophet was healed. He disappeared after the Prophet's death. His virtue is Humility, and he is the patron of beggars and thieves. (PotCS 16)

;Saint Ven Lohji the Ur-Obun
:Ven Lohji was an Obun priestess and diplomat who met the Prophet; she shared details of the Obun religion with him, and after his death returned to Obun to found a new, syncretic sect of the Universal Church. She is in disfavor among the modern Church and is rarely recognized as a disciple. Her virtue is Discipline, and she is the patron of aliens. (PotCS 17)

== Early Church Fathers ==

;Saint Palamedes Alecto
:First Patriarch, scion of noble house Alecto, uniter of humanity in the Ukar Wars. (PotCS 22)

;Saint J'waltan
:Leader of the Agniites, an early Church sect descended from the first crowd to hear the Prophet preach on Aylon, he martyred himself to soothe the angry world of Stigmata. (IS6 16)

;Saint Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. May be a "martyr" instead of a full saint. (CotG 68)

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Saint Charissa
:One of the Prophet's early followers, she is mentioned twice in the Omega Gospels. After Zebulon's death, she remained on Kish, where she performed five miracles before eventually dying in the Cave of Mysteries, where her body lay untainted for centuries. (IS4 1)

== New Dark Ages Saints ==

;Saint Yara
:The daughter of a local smith on Artemis, Saint Yara objected when nobles harassed the Amaltheans after the Fall. To get revenge, the nobles shackled Yara to a boulder to be eaten alive by buzzards; she was martyred after six days of exposure, having forgiven her torturers. (IS7 14)

;Saint Rasmussen
:Torn apart during the Fall of the Second Republic, lamenting "Oh that my head were water, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for lost humanity! Tremble, ye sinners, for the long night is upon us and the suns themselves are seen to fade. Repent, and know salvation. Repent, or die!" (FS2nd 24)

;Saint Godfrey de Moley
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Malcolm Xavier Justinian
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

;Saint Athanaseus
:A Hesychast on Grange/Pandemonium while Grange was a Lost World, he was renowned for his wisdom and his great mirror - he used it as a centerpiece for teachings that helped students rid themselves of sin. When Grange was rediscovered, he was recognized by the Universal Church.

;Saint Natih Hadara
:One of the few women to serve as Matriarch of the Universal Church of the Celestial Sun (4868-4877), she was a miraculuous healer and was canonized almost immediately upon her death. (PotCS 27)

;Saint Deimos of the Holy Mountain
:The founder of the then-heretical Eskatonic Order, he was eventually accepted as saint by the Orthodoxy as part of the Pentateuch Concordat. Saint Deimos lived around the time of Vladimir, preaching the Doctrine of the Inherent Flame from the Apocrypha of Horace. (PotCS 66)

;Saint Solius
:Saint Solius was martyred on Icon by a pre-Cardanite Li Halan prince in 4207, torn to pieces by the Prince's Vorox guards. His left hand is a famous relic venerated on Icon, and he is the planet's patron saint. (IS4 8)

== Second Republic Saints ==

;"Saint" Pietrarcholus

:While never officially canonized, the founder of Temple Avesti appeared out of the desert in 3500 and dictated the epic "Fervitudes", a poetic work that inspires much Avesti theology. (PotCS 83)

== Ukari Martyrs ==

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. (CotG 68)

;Glam
:An Ukari martyred on Kordeth by his own people. The closest any Ukari has come to sainthood; sometimes referred to as "Saint Glam". (CotG 68; SS )

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

== Hermit Saints ==

;Saint Romulus
:Called the "Desert Hermit", he survived a mudslide that killed 4000 followers (the "Miracle of the Mud") and sat upon a cactus for 12 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Heather of Ravenna
:Ate only pine needles for 27 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Evangelia of Malignatius
:Sat naked on the ice-world of Malignatius, contemplating the love and beauty of the Pancreator through ice and snow. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Ijunn of of Istakhr
:Declared clothing a vanity and led 3000 followers into Samarkand cathedral; was rained on after a prayer from Archbishop Mali and then draped in a carpet. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Calix
:Saved a Hawkwood lord from barbarians after the Fall; companion was a wolf, Lupo, and he founded St. Hombor's/The Monastery of the Eternal Light on Ravenna. Also healed a Hawkwood countess in 4276. (PotCS 122, 125)

== Divers Other Saints ==

;Saint Oman
:Martyred by Count Eshram Hamid, he was dunked in boiling oil so Count Eshram could claim his bones as a trophy. When his bones were removed, Saint Oman's bones were mirror-reflective. (PotCS 19)

;Saint Verda
:A saint who has a shroud. (PC 18)

;Saint Iman
:He has a crown, which was on Cadiz before it was stolen. Same Iman as Saint Emanuel? (PC 19)

;Saint Mythior
:He had a vision of the Eskaton. (PC 20)

;Saint Akahito
:He appears to have been a missionary to the Vorox, and performed the Miracle of the Gong. (PC 23)

;Saint Salah
:His cathedral is in Cairo. (IS7 28)

;Saint Xing the Serene
:He has a relic called the Reflective Eye; it was originally on Midian, but stolen by a heretical sect on Rampart. (IS4 21)

;Saint Kynon
:Formerly the patron saint of Rampart, he was replaced by Saint Paulus because of his associations with Rampart politics. (IS4 23)

;Saint Maximillian
:He has a cathedral on Ravenna, in southern Castillo where the Prophet is said to have addressed the multitudes. (IS1 12)

;Saint Regoe
;Saint Regoe's cathedral is on Ravenna in the city of Suryada, near where Alexius was born. (IS1 12)

== Other Historical Church Figures ==

;Pontius Cciardi
:Archbishop of Pyre in 4235, he led the Temple Avesti when they were integrated into the Universal Church. (PotCS 84)

;Argus the Vigilant
:Avestite bishop who wrote the standard text on inquisitorial practice, the Instructones Inquisitorum. (PotCS 85)

;Theocrat Halvor I
:Halvor was Patriarch, Prince of the Li Halan, and Regent, and ruled for ten years as Theocrat of the Known Worlds. He is revered as a local saint on Icon. (IS4 10)

Hagiography

2012-08-25T07:47:45Z

P: /* The Prophet's Disciples */

This is an incomplete list of saints from the Fading Suns canon; particularly, it is missing the Big 8 (Paulus, Lextius, Mantius, Horace, Hombor, Maya, Amalthea, and Ven Lohji.)

== Pre-Reflective Saints ==

;Saint Ramos
:Ramos, a popular colonist rights activist, was martyred before the guns of zaibatsu police. Lived before the Prophet, canonized in the Second Republic. Has a holiday (Saint Ramos Day/Colony Day) named after him -- August 10. (L&P church appendix 146)

== The Prophet's Disciples ==

;Saint Paulus the Traveler
:Born Paul Deveroux, the Prophet's first disciple carried him to Yathrib, where the Prophet beheld the Holy Flame, and then to many destinations beyond. He lamented that he was not with the Prophet on his final journey and is said to have died on "the Garden of Nowhere." Though he is said to have died alone, the cathedral on Rampart claims to have his relics, stolen in a raid from a Gwynneth cathedral in the 4700s. His virtue is Questing, and he is the patron of pilots, children and adventurers. (PotCS 12, IS4 23)

;Saint Lextius the Knight
:The Prophet's second disciple - Lucas Kambei - was the Lord whose Lord was the Prophet. He was the ruler of the planet Dogen; after the Prophet's death, he sealed Dogen's jumpgate, promising to return when the universe was once again governed by faith. His virtue is Loyalty, and he is the patron of the nobility. (PotCS 12)

;Saint Amalthea the Healer
:Saint Amalthea had many followers and indeed was the leader of her own religion when she encountered the Prophet. He was brought to her after being grievously wounded, and she healed him by bleeding light into the Grail. She melded her followers with his; after his death, she continued to lead her sect until she died on Artemis. Her virtue is Compassion, and she is the patron of healers and parents. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Mantius the Soldier
:Avram Manchewitz was a mercenary soldier who became the Prophet's bodyguard, protecting him against many attempts to kill him, most famously in the Miracle of the Bullets, when he threw himself in front of the Prophet but was unharmed. After the Prophet's death, he retreated to begin perfecting the martial arts now practiced by the Brother Battle; some rumor that he is alive to this day, appearing to protect those who need him most. His virtue is Protection, and he is the patron of soldiers and the Brother Battle. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Maya the Scorned Woman
:Maya lived on Shaprut and was married to a cruel and abusive husband. Angry, she sought out dark magics, but turned away from that black path when she received a vision of a star falling to earth. She traveled there and met the Prophet. After his death, she traveled the world preaching against injustice. Maya was eventually captured by a Decados lord, who tortured her for days before she was martyred. Her virtue is Justice or divine Retribution, and she is the patron of lawyers and the oppressed. (PotCS 14)

;Saint Horace the Learned Man
:Horace Abdalim was a rationalist philosopher who engaged in a great debate with the Prophet. Horace was unwilling to concede, and so the Prophet smote him with his staff in the Miracle of the Club. Horace then beheld the truth and dedicated his life before and after the Prophet's death to teaching the Prophet's philosophy before dying peacefully. His virtue is Wisdom, and he is the patron of scholars and mystics. (PotCS 15)

;Saint Hombor the Beggar
:Hombor was a beggar and con artist working on Criticorum who questioned the Prophet's sincerity in the Miracle of Giving. The Prophet offered to give Hombor anything he wanted, and Hombor demanded the Prophet's voice, at which point the Prophet cut his own vocal cords. Hombor wept and cried out "I am the death of faith, for this man was not done speaking!" and then the Prophet was healed. He disappeared after the Prophet's death. His virtue is Humility, and he is the patron of beggars and thieves. (PotCS 16)

;Saint Ven Lohji the Ur-Obun
:Ven Lohji was an Obun priestess and diplomat who met the Prophet; she shared details of the Obun religion with him, and after his death returned to Obun to found a new, syncretic sect of the Universal Church. She is in disfavor among the modern Church and is rarely recognized as a disciple. Her virtue is Discipline, and she is the patron of aliens. (PotCS 17)

== Early Church Fathers ==

;Saint Palamedes Alecto
:First Patriarch, scion of noble house Alecto, uniter of humanity in the Ukar Wars. (PotCS 22)

;Saint J'waltan
:Leader of the Agniites, an early Church sect descended from the first crowd to hear the Prophet preach on Aylon, he martyred himself to soothe the angry world of Stigmata. (IS6 16)

;Saint Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. May be a "martyr" instead of a full saint. (CotG 68)

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Saint Charissa
:One of the Prophet's early followers, she is mentioned twice in the Omega Gospels. After Zebulon's death, she remained on Kish, where she performed five miracles before eventually dying in the Cave of Mysteries, where her body lay untainted for centuries. (IS4 1)

== New Dark Ages Saints ==

;Saint Yara
:The daughter of a local smith on Artemis, Saint Yara objected when nobles harassed the Amaltheans after the Fall. To get revenge, the nobles shackled Yara to a boulder to be eaten alive by buzzards; she was martyred after six days of exposure, having forgiven her torturers. (IS7 14)

;Saint Rasmussen
:Torn apart during the Fall of the Second Republic, lamenting "Oh that my head were water, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for lost humanity! Tremble, ye sinners, for the long night is upon us and the suns themselves are seen to fade. Repent, and know salvation. Repent, or die!" (FS2nd 24)

;Saint Godfrey de Moley
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Malcolm Xavier Justinian
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

;Saint Athanaseus
:A Hesychast on Grange/Pandemonium while Grange was a Lost World, he was renowned for his wisdom and his great mirror - he used it as a centerpiece for teachings that helped students rid themselves of sin. When Grange was rediscovered, he was recognized by the Universal Church.

;Saint Natih Hadara
:One of the few women to serve as Matriarch of the Universal Church of the Celestial Sun (4868-4877), she was a miraculuous healer and was canonized almost immediately upon her death. (PotCS 27)

;Saint Deimos of the Holy Mountain
:The founder of the then-heretical Eskatonic Order, he was eventually accepted as saint by the Orthodoxy as part of the Pentateuch Concordat. Saint Deimos lived around the time of Vladimir, preaching the Doctrine of the Inherent Flame from the Apocrypha of Horace. (PotCS 66)

;Saint Solius
:Saint Solius was martyred on Icon by a pre-Cardanite Li Halan prince in 4207, torn to pieces by the Prince's Vorox guards. His left hand is a famous relic venerated on Icon, and he is the planet's patron saint. (IS4 8)

== Second Republic Saints ==

;"Saint" Pietrarcholus

:While never officially canonized, the founder of Temple Avesti appeared out of the desert in 3500 and dictated the epic "Fervitudes", a poetic work that inspires much Avesti theology. (PotCS 83)

== Ukari Martyrs ==

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. (CotG 68)

;Glam
:An Ukari martyred on Kordeth by his own people. The closest any Ukari has come to sainthood; sometimes referred to as "Saint Glam". (CotG 68; SS )

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

== Hermit Saints ==

;Saint Romulus
:Called the "Desert Hermit", he survived a mudslide that killed 4000 followers (the "Miracle of the Mud") and sat upon a cactus for 12 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Heather of Ravenna
:Ate only pine needles for 27 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Evangelia of Malignatius
:Sat naked on the ice-world of Malignatius, contemplating the love and beauty of the Pancreator through ice and snow. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Ijunn of of Istakhr
:Declared clothing a vanity and led 3000 followers into Samarkand cathedral; was rained on after a prayer from Archbishop Mali and then draped in a carpet. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Calix
:Saved a Hawkwood lord from barbarians after the Fall; companion was a wolf, Lupo, and he founded St. Hombor's/The Monastery of the Eternal Light on Ravenna. Also healed a Hawkwood countess in 4276. (PotCS 122, 125)

== Divers Other Saints ==

;Saint Oman
:Martyred by Count Eshram Hamid, he was dunked in boiling oil so Count Eshram could claim his bones as a trophy. When his bones were removed, Saint Oman's bones were mirror-reflective. (PotCS 19)

;Saint Verda
:A saint who has a shroud. (PC 18)

;Saint Iman
:He has a crown, which was on Cadiz before it was stolen. Same Iman as Saint Emanuel? (PC 19)

;Saint Mythior
:He had a vision of the Eskaton. (PC 20)

;Saint Akahito
:He appears to have been a missionary to the Vorox, and performed the Miracle of the Gong. (PC 23)

;Saint Salah
:His cathedral is in Cairo. (IS7 28)

;Saint Xing the Serene
:He has a relic called the Reflective Eye; it was originally on Midian, but stolen by a heretical sect on Rampart. (IS4 21)

;Saint Kynon
:Formerly the patron saint of Rampart, he was replaced by Saint Paulus because of his associations with Rampart politics. (IS4 23)

== Other Historical Church Figures ==

;Pontius Cciardi
:Archbishop of Pyre in 4235, he led the Temple Avesti when they were integrated into the Universal Church. (PotCS 84)

;Argus the Vigilant
:Avestite bishop who wrote the standard text on inquisitorial practice, the Instructones Inquisitorum. (PotCS 85)

;Theocrat Halvor I
:Halvor was Patriarch, Prince of the Li Halan, and Regent, and ruled for ten years as Theocrat of the Known Worlds. He is revered as a local saint on Icon. (IS4 10)

Hagiography

2012-08-25T07:45:27Z

P: /* Divers Other Saints */

This is an incomplete list of saints from the Fading Suns canon; particularly, it is missing the Big 8 (Paulus, Lextius, Mantius, Horace, Hombor, Maya, Amalthea, and Ven Lohji.)

== Pre-Reflective Saints ==

;Saint Ramos
:Ramos, a popular colonist rights activist, was martyred before the guns of zaibatsu police. Lived before the Prophet, canonized in the Second Republic. Has a holiday (Saint Ramos Day/Colony Day) named after him -- August 10. (L&P church appendix 146)

== The Prophet's Disciples ==

;Saint Paulus the Traveler
:Born Paul Deveroux, the Prophet's first disciple carried him to Yathrib, where the Prophet beheld the Holy Flame, and then to many destinations beyond. He lamented that he was not with the Prophet on his final journey and is said to have died on "the Garden of Nowhere." His virtue is Questing, and he is the patron of pilots, children and adventurers. (PotCS 12)

;Saint Lextius the Knight
:The Prophet's second disciple - Lucas Kambei - was the Lord whose Lord was the Prophet. He was the ruler of the planet Dogen; after the Prophet's death, he sealed Dogen's jumpgate, promising to return when the universe was once again governed by faith. His virtue is Loyalty, and he is the patron of the nobility. (PotCS 12)

;Saint Amalthea the Healer
:Saint Amalthea had many followers and indeed was the leader of her own religion when she encountered the Prophet. He was brought to her after being grievously wounded, and she healed him by bleeding light into the Grail. She melded her followers with his; after his death, she continued to lead her sect until she died on Artemis. Her virtue is Compassion, and she is the patron of healers and parents. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Mantius the Soldier
:Avram Manchewitz was a mercenary soldier who became the Prophet's bodyguard, protecting him against many attempts to kill him, most famously in the Miracle of the Bullets, when he threw himself in front of the Prophet but was unharmed. After the Prophet's death, he retreated to begin perfecting the martial arts now practiced by the Brother Battle; some rumor that he is alive to this day, appearing to protect those who need him most. His virtue is Protection, and he is the patron of soldiers and the Brother Battle. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Maya the Scorned Woman
:Maya lived on Shaprut and was married to a cruel and abusive husband. Angry, she sought out dark magics, but turned away from that black path when she received a vision of a star falling to earth. She traveled there and met the Prophet. After his death, she traveled the world preaching against injustice. Maya was eventually captured by a Decados lord, who tortured her for days before she was martyred. Her virtue is Justice or divine Retribution, and she is the patron of lawyers and the oppressed. (PotCS 14)

;Saint Horace the Learned Man
:Horace Abdalim was a rationalist philosopher who engaged in a great debate with the Prophet. Horace was unwilling to concede, and so the Prophet smote him with his staff in the Miracle of the Club. Horace then beheld the truth and dedicated his life before and after the Prophet's death to teaching the Prophet's philosophy before dying peacefully. His virtue is Wisdom, and he is the patron of scholars and mystics. (PotCS 15)

;Saint Hombor the Beggar
:Hombor was a beggar and con artist working on Criticorum who questioned the Prophet's sincerity in the Miracle of Giving. The Prophet offered to give Hombor anything he wanted, and Hombor demanded the Prophet's voice, at which point the Prophet cut his own vocal cords. Hombor wept and cried out "I am the death of faith, for this man was not done speaking!" and then the Prophet was healed. He disappeared after the Prophet's death. His virtue is Humility, and he is the patron of beggars and thieves. (PotCS 16)

;Saint Ven Lohji the Ur-Obun
:Ven Lohji was an Obun priestess and diplomat who met the Prophet; she shared details of the Obun religion with him, and after his death returned to Obun to found a new, syncretic sect of the Universal Church. She is in disfavor among the modern Church and is rarely recognized as a disciple. Her virtue is Discipline, and she is the patron of aliens. (PotCS 17)

== Early Church Fathers ==

;Saint Palamedes Alecto
:First Patriarch, scion of noble house Alecto, uniter of humanity in the Ukar Wars. (PotCS 22)

;Saint J'waltan
:Leader of the Agniites, an early Church sect descended from the first crowd to hear the Prophet preach on Aylon, he martyred himself to soothe the angry world of Stigmata. (IS6 16)

;Saint Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. May be a "martyr" instead of a full saint. (CotG 68)

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Saint Charissa
:One of the Prophet's early followers, she is mentioned twice in the Omega Gospels. After Zebulon's death, she remained on Kish, where she performed five miracles before eventually dying in the Cave of Mysteries, where her body lay untainted for centuries. (IS4 1)

== New Dark Ages Saints ==

;Saint Yara
:The daughter of a local smith on Artemis, Saint Yara objected when nobles harassed the Amaltheans after the Fall. To get revenge, the nobles shackled Yara to a boulder to be eaten alive by buzzards; she was martyred after six days of exposure, having forgiven her torturers. (IS7 14)

;Saint Rasmussen
:Torn apart during the Fall of the Second Republic, lamenting "Oh that my head were water, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for lost humanity! Tremble, ye sinners, for the long night is upon us and the suns themselves are seen to fade. Repent, and know salvation. Repent, or die!" (FS2nd 24)

;Saint Godfrey de Moley
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Malcolm Xavier Justinian
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

;Saint Athanaseus
:A Hesychast on Grange/Pandemonium while Grange was a Lost World, he was renowned for his wisdom and his great mirror - he used it as a centerpiece for teachings that helped students rid themselves of sin. When Grange was rediscovered, he was recognized by the Universal Church.

;Saint Natih Hadara
:One of the few women to serve as Matriarch of the Universal Church of the Celestial Sun (4868-4877), she was a miraculuous healer and was canonized almost immediately upon her death. (PotCS 27)

;Saint Deimos of the Holy Mountain
:The founder of the then-heretical Eskatonic Order, he was eventually accepted as saint by the Orthodoxy as part of the Pentateuch Concordat. Saint Deimos lived around the time of Vladimir, preaching the Doctrine of the Inherent Flame from the Apocrypha of Horace. (PotCS 66)

;Saint Solius
:Saint Solius was martyred on Icon by a pre-Cardanite Li Halan prince in 4207, torn to pieces by the Prince's Vorox guards. His left hand is a famous relic venerated on Icon, and he is the planet's patron saint. (IS4 8)

== Second Republic Saints ==

;"Saint" Pietrarcholus

:While never officially canonized, the founder of Temple Avesti appeared out of the desert in 3500 and dictated the epic "Fervitudes", a poetic work that inspires much Avesti theology. (PotCS 83)

== Ukari Martyrs ==

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. (CotG 68)

;Glam
:An Ukari martyred on Kordeth by his own people. The closest any Ukari has come to sainthood; sometimes referred to as "Saint Glam". (CotG 68; SS )

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

== Hermit Saints ==

;Saint Romulus
:Called the "Desert Hermit", he survived a mudslide that killed 4000 followers (the "Miracle of the Mud") and sat upon a cactus for 12 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Heather of Ravenna
:Ate only pine needles for 27 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Evangelia of Malignatius
:Sat naked on the ice-world of Malignatius, contemplating the love and beauty of the Pancreator through ice and snow. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Ijunn of of Istakhr
:Declared clothing a vanity and led 3000 followers into Samarkand cathedral; was rained on after a prayer from Archbishop Mali and then draped in a carpet. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Calix
:Saved a Hawkwood lord from barbarians after the Fall; companion was a wolf, Lupo, and he founded St. Hombor's/The Monastery of the Eternal Light on Ravenna. Also healed a Hawkwood countess in 4276. (PotCS 122, 125)

== Divers Other Saints ==

;Saint Oman
:Martyred by Count Eshram Hamid, he was dunked in boiling oil so Count Eshram could claim his bones as a trophy. When his bones were removed, Saint Oman's bones were mirror-reflective. (PotCS 19)

;Saint Verda
:A saint who has a shroud. (PC 18)

;Saint Iman
:He has a crown, which was on Cadiz before it was stolen. Same Iman as Saint Emanuel? (PC 19)

;Saint Mythior
:He had a vision of the Eskaton. (PC 20)

;Saint Akahito
:He appears to have been a missionary to the Vorox, and performed the Miracle of the Gong. (PC 23)

;Saint Salah
:His cathedral is in Cairo. (IS7 28)

;Saint Xing the Serene
:He has a relic called the Reflective Eye; it was originally on Midian, but stolen by a heretical sect on Rampart. (IS4 21)

;Saint Kynon
:Formerly the patron saint of Rampart, he was replaced by Saint Paulus because of his associations with Rampart politics. (IS4 23)

== Other Historical Church Figures ==

;Pontius Cciardi
:Archbishop of Pyre in 4235, he led the Temple Avesti when they were integrated into the Universal Church. (PotCS 84)

;Argus the Vigilant
:Avestite bishop who wrote the standard text on inquisitorial practice, the Instructones Inquisitorum. (PotCS 85)

;Theocrat Halvor I
:Halvor was Patriarch, Prince of the Li Halan, and Regent, and ruled for ten years as Theocrat of the Known Worlds. He is revered as a local saint on Icon. (IS4 10)

Hagiography

2012-08-25T07:41:06Z

P: /* Early Church Fathers */

This is an incomplete list of saints from the Fading Suns canon; particularly, it is missing the Big 8 (Paulus, Lextius, Mantius, Horace, Hombor, Maya, Amalthea, and Ven Lohji.)

== Pre-Reflective Saints ==

;Saint Ramos
:Ramos, a popular colonist rights activist, was martyred before the guns of zaibatsu police. Lived before the Prophet, canonized in the Second Republic. Has a holiday (Saint Ramos Day/Colony Day) named after him -- August 10. (L&P church appendix 146)

== The Prophet's Disciples ==

;Saint Paulus the Traveler
:Born Paul Deveroux, the Prophet's first disciple carried him to Yathrib, where the Prophet beheld the Holy Flame, and then to many destinations beyond. He lamented that he was not with the Prophet on his final journey and is said to have died on "the Garden of Nowhere." His virtue is Questing, and he is the patron of pilots, children and adventurers. (PotCS 12)

;Saint Lextius the Knight
:The Prophet's second disciple - Lucas Kambei - was the Lord whose Lord was the Prophet. He was the ruler of the planet Dogen; after the Prophet's death, he sealed Dogen's jumpgate, promising to return when the universe was once again governed by faith. His virtue is Loyalty, and he is the patron of the nobility. (PotCS 12)

;Saint Amalthea the Healer
:Saint Amalthea had many followers and indeed was the leader of her own religion when she encountered the Prophet. He was brought to her after being grievously wounded, and she healed him by bleeding light into the Grail. She melded her followers with his; after his death, she continued to lead her sect until she died on Artemis. Her virtue is Compassion, and she is the patron of healers and parents. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Mantius the Soldier
:Avram Manchewitz was a mercenary soldier who became the Prophet's bodyguard, protecting him against many attempts to kill him, most famously in the Miracle of the Bullets, when he threw himself in front of the Prophet but was unharmed. After the Prophet's death, he retreated to begin perfecting the martial arts now practiced by the Brother Battle; some rumor that he is alive to this day, appearing to protect those who need him most. His virtue is Protection, and he is the patron of soldiers and the Brother Battle. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Maya the Scorned Woman
:Maya lived on Shaprut and was married to a cruel and abusive husband. Angry, she sought out dark magics, but turned away from that black path when she received a vision of a star falling to earth. She traveled there and met the Prophet. After his death, she traveled the world preaching against injustice. Maya was eventually captured by a Decados lord, who tortured her for days before she was martyred. Her virtue is Justice or divine Retribution, and she is the patron of lawyers and the oppressed. (PotCS 14)

;Saint Horace the Learned Man
:Horace Abdalim was a rationalist philosopher who engaged in a great debate with the Prophet. Horace was unwilling to concede, and so the Prophet smote him with his staff in the Miracle of the Club. Horace then beheld the truth and dedicated his life before and after the Prophet's death to teaching the Prophet's philosophy before dying peacefully. His virtue is Wisdom, and he is the patron of scholars and mystics. (PotCS 15)

;Saint Hombor the Beggar
:Hombor was a beggar and con artist working on Criticorum who questioned the Prophet's sincerity in the Miracle of Giving. The Prophet offered to give Hombor anything he wanted, and Hombor demanded the Prophet's voice, at which point the Prophet cut his own vocal cords. Hombor wept and cried out "I am the death of faith, for this man was not done speaking!" and then the Prophet was healed. He disappeared after the Prophet's death. His virtue is Humility, and he is the patron of beggars and thieves. (PotCS 16)

;Saint Ven Lohji the Ur-Obun
:Ven Lohji was an Obun priestess and diplomat who met the Prophet; she shared details of the Obun religion with him, and after his death returned to Obun to found a new, syncretic sect of the Universal Church. She is in disfavor among the modern Church and is rarely recognized as a disciple. Her virtue is Discipline, and she is the patron of aliens. (PotCS 17)

== Early Church Fathers ==

;Saint Palamedes Alecto
:First Patriarch, scion of noble house Alecto, uniter of humanity in the Ukar Wars. (PotCS 22)

;Saint J'waltan
:Leader of the Agniites, an early Church sect descended from the first crowd to hear the Prophet preach on Aylon, he martyred himself to soothe the angry world of Stigmata. (IS6 16)

;Saint Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. May be a "martyr" instead of a full saint. (CotG 68)

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Saint Charissa
:One of the Prophet's early followers, she is mentioned twice in the Omega Gospels. After Zebulon's death, she remained on Kish, where she performed five miracles before eventually dying in the Cave of Mysteries, where her body lay untainted for centuries. (IS4 1)

== New Dark Ages Saints ==

;Saint Yara
:The daughter of a local smith on Artemis, Saint Yara objected when nobles harassed the Amaltheans after the Fall. To get revenge, the nobles shackled Yara to a boulder to be eaten alive by buzzards; she was martyred after six days of exposure, having forgiven her torturers. (IS7 14)

;Saint Rasmussen
:Torn apart during the Fall of the Second Republic, lamenting "Oh that my head were water, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for lost humanity! Tremble, ye sinners, for the long night is upon us and the suns themselves are seen to fade. Repent, and know salvation. Repent, or die!" (FS2nd 24)

;Saint Godfrey de Moley
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Malcolm Xavier Justinian
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

;Saint Athanaseus
:A Hesychast on Grange/Pandemonium while Grange was a Lost World, he was renowned for his wisdom and his great mirror - he used it as a centerpiece for teachings that helped students rid themselves of sin. When Grange was rediscovered, he was recognized by the Universal Church.

;Saint Natih Hadara
:One of the few women to serve as Matriarch of the Universal Church of the Celestial Sun (4868-4877), she was a miraculuous healer and was canonized almost immediately upon her death. (PotCS 27)

;Saint Deimos of the Holy Mountain
:The founder of the then-heretical Eskatonic Order, he was eventually accepted as saint by the Orthodoxy as part of the Pentateuch Concordat. Saint Deimos lived around the time of Vladimir, preaching the Doctrine of the Inherent Flame from the Apocrypha of Horace. (PotCS 66)

;Saint Solius
:Saint Solius was martyred on Icon by a pre-Cardanite Li Halan prince in 4207, torn to pieces by the Prince's Vorox guards. His left hand is a famous relic venerated on Icon, and he is the planet's patron saint. (IS4 8)

== Second Republic Saints ==

;"Saint" Pietrarcholus

:While never officially canonized, the founder of Temple Avesti appeared out of the desert in 3500 and dictated the epic "Fervitudes", a poetic work that inspires much Avesti theology. (PotCS 83)

== Ukari Martyrs ==

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. (CotG 68)

;Glam
:An Ukari martyred on Kordeth by his own people. The closest any Ukari has come to sainthood; sometimes referred to as "Saint Glam". (CotG 68; SS )

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

== Hermit Saints ==

;Saint Romulus
:Called the "Desert Hermit", he survived a mudslide that killed 4000 followers (the "Miracle of the Mud") and sat upon a cactus for 12 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Heather of Ravenna
:Ate only pine needles for 27 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Evangelia of Malignatius
:Sat naked on the ice-world of Malignatius, contemplating the love and beauty of the Pancreator through ice and snow. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Ijunn of of Istakhr
:Declared clothing a vanity and led 3000 followers into Samarkand cathedral; was rained on after a prayer from Archbishop Mali and then draped in a carpet. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Calix
:Saved a Hawkwood lord from barbarians after the Fall; companion was a wolf, Lupo, and he founded St. Hombor's/The Monastery of the Eternal Light on Ravenna. Also healed a Hawkwood countess in 4276. (PotCS 122, 125)

== Divers Other Saints ==

;Saint Oman
:Martyred by Count Eshram Hamid, he was dunked in boiling oil so Count Eshram could claim his bones as a trophy. When his bones were removed, Saint Oman's bones were mirror-reflective. (PotCS 19)

;Saint Verda
:A saint who has a shroud. (PC 18)

;Saint Iman
:He has a crown, which was on Cadiz before it was stolen. Same Iman as Saint Emanuel? (PC 19)

;Saint Mythior
:He had a vision of the Eskaton. (PC 20)

;Saint Akahito
:He appears to have been a missionary to the Vorox, and performed the Miracle of the Gong. (PC 23)

;Saint Salah
:His cathedral is in Cairo. (IS7 28)

;Saint Xing the Serene

:He has a relic called the Reflective Eye; it was originally on Midian, but stolen by a heretical sect on Rampart. (IS4 21)

== Other Historical Church Figures ==

;Pontius Cciardi
:Archbishop of Pyre in 4235, he led the Temple Avesti when they were integrated into the Universal Church. (PotCS 84)

;Argus the Vigilant
:Avestite bishop who wrote the standard text on inquisitorial practice, the Instructones Inquisitorum. (PotCS 85)

;Theocrat Halvor I
:Halvor was Patriarch, Prince of the Li Halan, and Regent, and ruled for ten years as Theocrat of the Known Worlds. He is revered as a local saint on Icon. (IS4 10)

Hagiography

2012-08-25T07:36:16Z

P: /* New Dark Ages Saints */

This is an incomplete list of saints from the Fading Suns canon; particularly, it is missing the Big 8 (Paulus, Lextius, Mantius, Horace, Hombor, Maya, Amalthea, and Ven Lohji.)

== Pre-Reflective Saints ==

;Saint Ramos
:Ramos, a popular colonist rights activist, was martyred before the guns of zaibatsu police. Lived before the Prophet, canonized in the Second Republic. Has a holiday (Saint Ramos Day/Colony Day) named after him -- August 10. (L&P church appendix 146)

== The Prophet's Disciples ==

;Saint Paulus the Traveler
:Born Paul Deveroux, the Prophet's first disciple carried him to Yathrib, where the Prophet beheld the Holy Flame, and then to many destinations beyond. He lamented that he was not with the Prophet on his final journey and is said to have died on "the Garden of Nowhere." His virtue is Questing, and he is the patron of pilots, children and adventurers. (PotCS 12)

;Saint Lextius the Knight
:The Prophet's second disciple - Lucas Kambei - was the Lord whose Lord was the Prophet. He was the ruler of the planet Dogen; after the Prophet's death, he sealed Dogen's jumpgate, promising to return when the universe was once again governed by faith. His virtue is Loyalty, and he is the patron of the nobility. (PotCS 12)

;Saint Amalthea the Healer
:Saint Amalthea had many followers and indeed was the leader of her own religion when she encountered the Prophet. He was brought to her after being grievously wounded, and she healed him by bleeding light into the Grail. She melded her followers with his; after his death, she continued to lead her sect until she died on Artemis. Her virtue is Compassion, and she is the patron of healers and parents. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Mantius the Soldier
:Avram Manchewitz was a mercenary soldier who became the Prophet's bodyguard, protecting him against many attempts to kill him, most famously in the Miracle of the Bullets, when he threw himself in front of the Prophet but was unharmed. After the Prophet's death, he retreated to begin perfecting the martial arts now practiced by the Brother Battle; some rumor that he is alive to this day, appearing to protect those who need him most. His virtue is Protection, and he is the patron of soldiers and the Brother Battle. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Maya the Scorned Woman
:Maya lived on Shaprut and was married to a cruel and abusive husband. Angry, she sought out dark magics, but turned away from that black path when she received a vision of a star falling to earth. She traveled there and met the Prophet. After his death, she traveled the world preaching against injustice. Maya was eventually captured by a Decados lord, who tortured her for days before she was martyred. Her virtue is Justice or divine Retribution, and she is the patron of lawyers and the oppressed. (PotCS 14)

;Saint Horace the Learned Man
:Horace Abdalim was a rationalist philosopher who engaged in a great debate with the Prophet. Horace was unwilling to concede, and so the Prophet smote him with his staff in the Miracle of the Club. Horace then beheld the truth and dedicated his life before and after the Prophet's death to teaching the Prophet's philosophy before dying peacefully. His virtue is Wisdom, and he is the patron of scholars and mystics. (PotCS 15)

;Saint Hombor the Beggar
:Hombor was a beggar and con artist working on Criticorum who questioned the Prophet's sincerity in the Miracle of Giving. The Prophet offered to give Hombor anything he wanted, and Hombor demanded the Prophet's voice, at which point the Prophet cut his own vocal cords. Hombor wept and cried out "I am the death of faith, for this man was not done speaking!" and then the Prophet was healed. He disappeared after the Prophet's death. His virtue is Humility, and he is the patron of beggars and thieves. (PotCS 16)

;Saint Ven Lohji the Ur-Obun
:Ven Lohji was an Obun priestess and diplomat who met the Prophet; she shared details of the Obun religion with him, and after his death returned to Obun to found a new, syncretic sect of the Universal Church. She is in disfavor among the modern Church and is rarely recognized as a disciple. Her virtue is Discipline, and she is the patron of aliens. (PotCS 17)

== Early Church Fathers ==

;Saint Palamedes Alecto
:First Patriarch, scion of noble house Alecto, uniter of humanity in the Ukar Wars. (PotCS 22)

;Saint J'waltan
:Leader of the Agniites, an early Church sect descended from the first crowd to hear the Prophet preach on Aylon, he martyred himself to soothe the angry world of Stigmata. (IS6 16)

;Saint Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. May be a "martyr" instead of a full saint. (CotG 68)

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

== New Dark Ages Saints ==

;Saint Yara
:The daughter of a local smith on Artemis, Saint Yara objected when nobles harassed the Amaltheans after the Fall. To get revenge, the nobles shackled Yara to a boulder to be eaten alive by buzzards; she was martyred after six days of exposure, having forgiven her torturers. (IS7 14)

;Saint Rasmussen
:Torn apart during the Fall of the Second Republic, lamenting "Oh that my head were water, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for lost humanity! Tremble, ye sinners, for the long night is upon us and the suns themselves are seen to fade. Repent, and know salvation. Repent, or die!" (FS2nd 24)

;Saint Godfrey de Moley
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Malcolm Xavier Justinian
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

;Saint Athanaseus
:A Hesychast on Grange/Pandemonium while Grange was a Lost World, he was renowned for his wisdom and his great mirror - he used it as a centerpiece for teachings that helped students rid themselves of sin. When Grange was rediscovered, he was recognized by the Universal Church.

;Saint Natih Hadara
:One of the few women to serve as Matriarch of the Universal Church of the Celestial Sun (4868-4877), she was a miraculuous healer and was canonized almost immediately upon her death. (PotCS 27)

;Saint Deimos of the Holy Mountain
:The founder of the then-heretical Eskatonic Order, he was eventually accepted as saint by the Orthodoxy as part of the Pentateuch Concordat. Saint Deimos lived around the time of Vladimir, preaching the Doctrine of the Inherent Flame from the Apocrypha of Horace. (PotCS 66)

;Saint Solius
:Saint Solius was martyred on Icon by a pre-Cardanite Li Halan prince in 4207, torn to pieces by the Prince's Vorox guards. His left hand is a famous relic venerated on Icon, and he is the planet's patron saint. (IS4 8)

== Second Republic Saints ==

;"Saint" Pietrarcholus

:While never officially canonized, the founder of Temple Avesti appeared out of the desert in 3500 and dictated the epic "Fervitudes", a poetic work that inspires much Avesti theology. (PotCS 83)

== Ukari Martyrs ==

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. (CotG 68)

;Glam
:An Ukari martyred on Kordeth by his own people. The closest any Ukari has come to sainthood; sometimes referred to as "Saint Glam". (CotG 68; SS )

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

== Hermit Saints ==

;Saint Romulus
:Called the "Desert Hermit", he survived a mudslide that killed 4000 followers (the "Miracle of the Mud") and sat upon a cactus for 12 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Heather of Ravenna
:Ate only pine needles for 27 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Evangelia of Malignatius
:Sat naked on the ice-world of Malignatius, contemplating the love and beauty of the Pancreator through ice and snow. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Ijunn of of Istakhr
:Declared clothing a vanity and led 3000 followers into Samarkand cathedral; was rained on after a prayer from Archbishop Mali and then draped in a carpet. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Calix
:Saved a Hawkwood lord from barbarians after the Fall; companion was a wolf, Lupo, and he founded St. Hombor's/The Monastery of the Eternal Light on Ravenna. Also healed a Hawkwood countess in 4276. (PotCS 122, 125)

== Divers Other Saints ==

;Saint Oman
:Martyred by Count Eshram Hamid, he was dunked in boiling oil so Count Eshram could claim his bones as a trophy. When his bones were removed, Saint Oman's bones were mirror-reflective. (PotCS 19)

;Saint Verda
:A saint who has a shroud. (PC 18)

;Saint Iman
:He has a crown, which was on Cadiz before it was stolen. Same Iman as Saint Emanuel? (PC 19)

;Saint Mythior
:He had a vision of the Eskaton. (PC 20)

;Saint Akahito
:He appears to have been a missionary to the Vorox, and performed the Miracle of the Gong. (PC 23)

;Saint Salah
:His cathedral is in Cairo. (IS7 28)

;Saint Xing the Serene

:He has a relic called the Reflective Eye; it was originally on Midian, but stolen by a heretical sect on Rampart. (IS4 21)

== Other Historical Church Figures ==

;Pontius Cciardi
:Archbishop of Pyre in 4235, he led the Temple Avesti when they were integrated into the Universal Church. (PotCS 84)

;Argus the Vigilant
:Avestite bishop who wrote the standard text on inquisitorial practice, the Instructones Inquisitorum. (PotCS 85)

;Theocrat Halvor I
:Halvor was Patriarch, Prince of the Li Halan, and Regent, and ruled for ten years as Theocrat of the Known Worlds. He is revered as a local saint on Icon. (IS4 10)

Hagiography

2012-08-25T07:33:29Z

P: /* Other Historical Church Figures */

This is an incomplete list of saints from the Fading Suns canon; particularly, it is missing the Big 8 (Paulus, Lextius, Mantius, Horace, Hombor, Maya, Amalthea, and Ven Lohji.)

== Pre-Reflective Saints ==

;Saint Ramos
:Ramos, a popular colonist rights activist, was martyred before the guns of zaibatsu police. Lived before the Prophet, canonized in the Second Republic. Has a holiday (Saint Ramos Day/Colony Day) named after him -- August 10. (L&P church appendix 146)

== The Prophet's Disciples ==

;Saint Paulus the Traveler
:Born Paul Deveroux, the Prophet's first disciple carried him to Yathrib, where the Prophet beheld the Holy Flame, and then to many destinations beyond. He lamented that he was not with the Prophet on his final journey and is said to have died on "the Garden of Nowhere." His virtue is Questing, and he is the patron of pilots, children and adventurers. (PotCS 12)

;Saint Lextius the Knight
:The Prophet's second disciple - Lucas Kambei - was the Lord whose Lord was the Prophet. He was the ruler of the planet Dogen; after the Prophet's death, he sealed Dogen's jumpgate, promising to return when the universe was once again governed by faith. His virtue is Loyalty, and he is the patron of the nobility. (PotCS 12)

;Saint Amalthea the Healer
:Saint Amalthea had many followers and indeed was the leader of her own religion when she encountered the Prophet. He was brought to her after being grievously wounded, and she healed him by bleeding light into the Grail. She melded her followers with his; after his death, she continued to lead her sect until she died on Artemis. Her virtue is Compassion, and she is the patron of healers and parents. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Mantius the Soldier
:Avram Manchewitz was a mercenary soldier who became the Prophet's bodyguard, protecting him against many attempts to kill him, most famously in the Miracle of the Bullets, when he threw himself in front of the Prophet but was unharmed. After the Prophet's death, he retreated to begin perfecting the martial arts now practiced by the Brother Battle; some rumor that he is alive to this day, appearing to protect those who need him most. His virtue is Protection, and he is the patron of soldiers and the Brother Battle. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Maya the Scorned Woman
:Maya lived on Shaprut and was married to a cruel and abusive husband. Angry, she sought out dark magics, but turned away from that black path when she received a vision of a star falling to earth. She traveled there and met the Prophet. After his death, she traveled the world preaching against injustice. Maya was eventually captured by a Decados lord, who tortured her for days before she was martyred. Her virtue is Justice or divine Retribution, and she is the patron of lawyers and the oppressed. (PotCS 14)

;Saint Horace the Learned Man
:Horace Abdalim was a rationalist philosopher who engaged in a great debate with the Prophet. Horace was unwilling to concede, and so the Prophet smote him with his staff in the Miracle of the Club. Horace then beheld the truth and dedicated his life before and after the Prophet's death to teaching the Prophet's philosophy before dying peacefully. His virtue is Wisdom, and he is the patron of scholars and mystics. (PotCS 15)

;Saint Hombor the Beggar
:Hombor was a beggar and con artist working on Criticorum who questioned the Prophet's sincerity in the Miracle of Giving. The Prophet offered to give Hombor anything he wanted, and Hombor demanded the Prophet's voice, at which point the Prophet cut his own vocal cords. Hombor wept and cried out "I am the death of faith, for this man was not done speaking!" and then the Prophet was healed. He disappeared after the Prophet's death. His virtue is Humility, and he is the patron of beggars and thieves. (PotCS 16)

;Saint Ven Lohji the Ur-Obun
:Ven Lohji was an Obun priestess and diplomat who met the Prophet; she shared details of the Obun religion with him, and after his death returned to Obun to found a new, syncretic sect of the Universal Church. She is in disfavor among the modern Church and is rarely recognized as a disciple. Her virtue is Discipline, and she is the patron of aliens. (PotCS 17)

== Early Church Fathers ==

;Saint Palamedes Alecto
:First Patriarch, scion of noble house Alecto, uniter of humanity in the Ukar Wars. (PotCS 22)

;Saint J'waltan
:Leader of the Agniites, an early Church sect descended from the first crowd to hear the Prophet preach on Aylon, he martyred himself to soothe the angry world of Stigmata. (IS6 16)

;Saint Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. May be a "martyr" instead of a full saint. (CotG 68)

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

== New Dark Ages Saints ==

;Saint Yara
The daughter of a local smith on Artemis, Saint Yara objected when nobles harassed the Amaltheans after the Fall. To get revenge, the nobles shackled Yara to a boulder to be eaten alive by buzzards; she was martyred after six days of exposure, having forgiven her torturers. (IS7 14)

;Saint Rasmussen
:Torn apart during the Fall of the Second Republic, lamenting "Oh that my head were water, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for lost humanity! Tremble, ye sinners, for the long night is upon us and the suns themselves are seen to fade. Repent, and know salvation. Repent, or die!" (FS2nd 24)

;Saint Godfrey de Moley
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Malcolm Xavier Justinian
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

;Saint Athanaseus
:A Hesychast on Grange/Pandemonium while Grange was a Lost World, he was renowned for his wisdom and his great mirror - he used it as a centerpiece for teachings that helped students rid themselves of sin. When Grange was rediscovered, he was recognized by the Universal Church.

;Saint Natih Hadara
:One of the few women to serve as Matriarch of the Universal Church of the Celestial Sun (4868-4877), she was a miraculuous healer and was canonized almost immediately upon her death. (PotCS 27)

;Saint Deimos of the Holy Mountain
:The founder of the then-heretical Eskatonic Order, he was eventually accepted as saint by the Orthodoxy as part of the Pentateuch Concordat. Saint Deimos lived around the time of Vladimir, preaching the Doctrine of the Inherent Flame from the Apocrypha of Horace. (PotCS 66)

== Second Republic Saints ==

;"Saint" Pietrarcholus

:While never officially canonized, the founder of Temple Avesti appeared out of the desert in 3500 and dictated the epic "Fervitudes", a poetic work that inspires much Avesti theology. (PotCS 83)

== Ukari Martyrs ==

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. (CotG 68)

;Glam
:An Ukari martyred on Kordeth by his own people. The closest any Ukari has come to sainthood; sometimes referred to as "Saint Glam". (CotG 68; SS )

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

== Hermit Saints ==

;Saint Romulus
:Called the "Desert Hermit", he survived a mudslide that killed 4000 followers (the "Miracle of the Mud") and sat upon a cactus for 12 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Heather of Ravenna
:Ate only pine needles for 27 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Evangelia of Malignatius
:Sat naked on the ice-world of Malignatius, contemplating the love and beauty of the Pancreator through ice and snow. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Ijunn of of Istakhr
:Declared clothing a vanity and led 3000 followers into Samarkand cathedral; was rained on after a prayer from Archbishop Mali and then draped in a carpet. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Calix
:Saved a Hawkwood lord from barbarians after the Fall; companion was a wolf, Lupo, and he founded St. Hombor's/The Monastery of the Eternal Light on Ravenna. Also healed a Hawkwood countess in 4276. (PotCS 122, 125)

== Divers Other Saints ==

;Saint Oman
:Martyred by Count Eshram Hamid, he was dunked in boiling oil so Count Eshram could claim his bones as a trophy. When his bones were removed, Saint Oman's bones were mirror-reflective. (PotCS 19)

;Saint Verda
:A saint who has a shroud. (PC 18)

;Saint Iman
:He has a crown, which was on Cadiz before it was stolen. Same Iman as Saint Emanuel? (PC 19)

;Saint Mythior
:He had a vision of the Eskaton. (PC 20)

;Saint Akahito
:He appears to have been a missionary to the Vorox, and performed the Miracle of the Gong. (PC 23)

;Saint Salah
:His cathedral is in Cairo. (IS7 28)

;Saint Xing the Serene

:He has a relic called the Reflective Eye; it was originally on Midian, but stolen by a heretical sect on Rampart. (IS4 21)

== Other Historical Church Figures ==

;Pontius Cciardi
:Archbishop of Pyre in 4235, he led the Temple Avesti when they were integrated into the Universal Church. (PotCS 84)

;Argus the Vigilant
:Avestite bishop who wrote the standard text on inquisitorial practice, the Instructones Inquisitorum. (PotCS 85)

;Theocrat Halvor I
:Halvor was Patriarch, Prince of the Li Halan, and Regent, and ruled for ten years as Theocrat of the Known Worlds. He is revered as a local saint on Icon. (IS4 10)

Hagiography

2012-08-25T07:27:35Z

This is an incomplete list of saints from the Fading Suns canon; particularly, it is missing the Big 8 (Paulus, Lextius, Mantius, Horace, Hombor, Maya, Amalthea, and Ven Lohji.)

== Pre-Reflective Saints ==

;Saint Ramos
:Ramos, a popular colonist rights activist, was martyred before the guns of zaibatsu police. Lived before the Prophet, canonized in the Second Republic. Has a holiday (Saint Ramos Day/Colony Day) named after him -- August 10. (L&P church appendix 146)

== The Prophet's Disciples ==

;Saint Paulus the Traveler
:Born Paul Deveroux, the Prophet's first disciple carried him to Yathrib, where the Prophet beheld the Holy Flame, and then to many destinations beyond. He lamented that he was not with the Prophet on his final journey and is said to have died on "the Garden of Nowhere." His virtue is Questing, and he is the patron of pilots, children and adventurers. (PotCS 12)

;Saint Lextius the Knight
:The Prophet's second disciple - Lucas Kambei - was the Lord whose Lord was the Prophet. He was the ruler of the planet Dogen; after the Prophet's death, he sealed Dogen's jumpgate, promising to return when the universe was once again governed by faith. His virtue is Loyalty, and he is the patron of the nobility. (PotCS 12)

;Saint Amalthea the Healer
:Saint Amalthea had many followers and indeed was the leader of her own religion when she encountered the Prophet. He was brought to her after being grievously wounded, and she healed him by bleeding light into the Grail. She melded her followers with his; after his death, she continued to lead her sect until she died on Artemis. Her virtue is Compassion, and she is the patron of healers and parents. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Mantius the Soldier
:Avram Manchewitz was a mercenary soldier who became the Prophet's bodyguard, protecting him against many attempts to kill him, most famously in the Miracle of the Bullets, when he threw himself in front of the Prophet but was unharmed. After the Prophet's death, he retreated to begin perfecting the martial arts now practiced by the Brother Battle; some rumor that he is alive to this day, appearing to protect those who need him most. His virtue is Protection, and he is the patron of soldiers and the Brother Battle. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Maya the Scorned Woman
:Maya lived on Shaprut and was married to a cruel and abusive husband. Angry, she sought out dark magics, but turned away from that black path when she received a vision of a star falling to earth. She traveled there and met the Prophet. After his death, she traveled the world preaching against injustice. Maya was eventually captured by a Decados lord, who tortured her for days before she was martyred. Her virtue is Justice or divine Retribution, and she is the patron of lawyers and the oppressed. (PotCS 14)

;Saint Horace the Learned Man
:Horace Abdalim was a rationalist philosopher who engaged in a great debate with the Prophet. Horace was unwilling to concede, and so the Prophet smote him with his staff in the Miracle of the Club. Horace then beheld the truth and dedicated his life before and after the Prophet's death to teaching the Prophet's philosophy before dying peacefully. His virtue is Wisdom, and he is the patron of scholars and mystics. (PotCS 15)

;Saint Hombor the Beggar
:Hombor was a beggar and con artist working on Criticorum who questioned the Prophet's sincerity in the Miracle of Giving. The Prophet offered to give Hombor anything he wanted, and Hombor demanded the Prophet's voice, at which point the Prophet cut his own vocal cords. Hombor wept and cried out "I am the death of faith, for this man was not done speaking!" and then the Prophet was healed. He disappeared after the Prophet's death. His virtue is Humility, and he is the patron of beggars and thieves. (PotCS 16)

;Saint Ven Lohji the Ur-Obun
:Ven Lohji was an Obun priestess and diplomat who met the Prophet; she shared details of the Obun religion with him, and after his death returned to Obun to found a new, syncretic sect of the Universal Church. She is in disfavor among the modern Church and is rarely recognized as a disciple. Her virtue is Discipline, and she is the patron of aliens. (PotCS 17)

== Early Church Fathers ==

;Saint Palamedes Alecto
:First Patriarch, scion of noble house Alecto, uniter of humanity in the Ukar Wars. (PotCS 22)

;Saint J'waltan
:Leader of the Agniites, an early Church sect descended from the first crowd to hear the Prophet preach on Aylon, he martyred himself to soothe the angry world of Stigmata. (IS6 16)

;Saint Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. May be a "martyr" instead of a full saint. (CotG 68)

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

== New Dark Ages Saints ==

;Saint Yara
The daughter of a local smith on Artemis, Saint Yara objected when nobles harassed the Amaltheans after the Fall. To get revenge, the nobles shackled Yara to a boulder to be eaten alive by buzzards; she was martyred after six days of exposure, having forgiven her torturers. (IS7 14)

;Saint Rasmussen
:Torn apart during the Fall of the Second Republic, lamenting "Oh that my head were water, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for lost humanity! Tremble, ye sinners, for the long night is upon us and the suns themselves are seen to fade. Repent, and know salvation. Repent, or die!" (FS2nd 24)

;Saint Godfrey de Moley
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Malcolm Xavier Justinian
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

;Saint Athanaseus
:A Hesychast on Grange/Pandemonium while Grange was a Lost World, he was renowned for his wisdom and his great mirror - he used it as a centerpiece for teachings that helped students rid themselves of sin. When Grange was rediscovered, he was recognized by the Universal Church.

;Saint Natih Hadara
:One of the few women to serve as Matriarch of the Universal Church of the Celestial Sun (4868-4877), she was a miraculuous healer and was canonized almost immediately upon her death. (PotCS 27)

;Saint Deimos of the Holy Mountain
:The founder of the then-heretical Eskatonic Order, he was eventually accepted as saint by the Orthodoxy as part of the Pentateuch Concordat. Saint Deimos lived around the time of Vladimir, preaching the Doctrine of the Inherent Flame from the Apocrypha of Horace. (PotCS 66)

== Second Republic Saints ==

;"Saint" Pietrarcholus

:While never officially canonized, the founder of Temple Avesti appeared out of the desert in 3500 and dictated the epic "Fervitudes", a poetic work that inspires much Avesti theology. (PotCS 83)

== Ukari Martyrs ==

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. (CotG 68)

;Glam
:An Ukari martyred on Kordeth by his own people. The closest any Ukari has come to sainthood; sometimes referred to as "Saint Glam". (CotG 68; SS )

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

== Hermit Saints ==

;Saint Romulus
:Called the "Desert Hermit", he survived a mudslide that killed 4000 followers (the "Miracle of the Mud") and sat upon a cactus for 12 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Heather of Ravenna
:Ate only pine needles for 27 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Evangelia of Malignatius
:Sat naked on the ice-world of Malignatius, contemplating the love and beauty of the Pancreator through ice and snow. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Ijunn of of Istakhr
:Declared clothing a vanity and led 3000 followers into Samarkand cathedral; was rained on after a prayer from Archbishop Mali and then draped in a carpet. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Calix
:Saved a Hawkwood lord from barbarians after the Fall; companion was a wolf, Lupo, and he founded St. Hombor's/The Monastery of the Eternal Light on Ravenna. Also healed a Hawkwood countess in 4276. (PotCS 122, 125)

== Divers Other Saints ==

;Saint Oman
:Martyred by Count Eshram Hamid, he was dunked in boiling oil so Count Eshram could claim his bones as a trophy. When his bones were removed, Saint Oman's bones were mirror-reflective. (PotCS 19)

;Saint Verda
:A saint who has a shroud. (PC 18)

;Saint Iman
:He has a crown, which was on Cadiz before it was stolen. Same Iman as Saint Emanuel? (PC 19)

;Saint Mythior
:He had a vision of the Eskaton. (PC 20)

;Saint Akahito
:He appears to have been a missionary to the Vorox, and performed the Miracle of the Gong. (PC 23)

;Saint Salah
:His cathedral is in Cairo. (IS7 28)

;Saint Xing the Serene

:He has a relic called the Reflective Eye; it was originally on Midian, but stolen by a heretical sect on Rampart. (IS4 21)

== Other Historical Church Figures ==

;Pontius Cciardi
:Archbishop of Pyre in 4235, he led the Temple Avesti when they were integrated into the Universal Church. (PotCS 84)

;Argus the Vigilant
:Avestite bishop who wrote the standard text on inquisitorial practice, the Instructones Inquisitorum. (PotCS 85)

Family and Glory

2012-07-15T17:32:10Z

The Justus de Castro Salazar are an old, old Hazat family: one of Saint Emanuel's companions, he was given a castle on Aragon that controlled one of the approaches to Castle Furias. With that, the Marquis de Castro Salazar received a substantial income as one of the Wardens of the Skyways, receiving incomes from ships traveling to Castle Furias, but in starting in 4696 the Castro Salazar family was divided; two twin sons were born, and the marquessate was split, with one son becoming Baron de Castro Salazar, ruling the castle and receiving income as a Warden of the Skyway, while the other becoming Baron de Salazar, with the income from Salazar Town and its lands.

For most of their history, the Castro Salazars and the town Salazars coexisted happily as cousins, but in 4953 an attempt to reunite the two branches of the family in the person of the daughter of the Castro Salazars ended when Ramiro Salazar - heir to Salazar Town - got a bastard on Matilde de Castro Salazar several months before they were to be married. Matilde fled with the child, and instead her younger brother Ferdinand inherited. Ramiro never forgave the Castro Salazars, but he did have his revenge until 4994, when he accused - successfully - Ferdinand's son Rodrigo of allowing through inattention the destruction of the atmosphere generator he was assigned to guard at Jericho. With Ferdinand driven mad and committed to the Oubliette by his cousin Ramiro, Ramiro was able to have himself named Marquis de Salazar with the support of Elena de Castenda, whose niece he had married.

== Dramas ==

# [[The Duke and the Emperor]] -- The heroes arrive on the throneworld and become embroiled in politics of both the personal and interplanetary sort. Don Dario becomes a Questing Knight. (Byzantium Secundus)
# [[The Drowned God]] -- Still on Byzantium, the heroes journey into Drown Town to help a woman rescue her daughter; there, they confront aliens and techno-cultists and ultimately recover an ancient and powerful war machine. In the process, they start a bloody war that ripples across Drown Town. (Byzantium Secundus)
# [[The House of the Fox]] -- Now sworn to help an Amalthean find a cure for a mysterious disease, the heroes have accompanied her to Tethys, where while she researches they journey into the maw of the beast to recover a stolen Imperial Seal from the house of Scraver matriarch Benita Ivankov in order to improve the slums of New Madrid. (Tethys)
# [[A Cup of Miracles]] -- The heroes track an artifact known as the Mael Cup to a ruined village, and then follow its trail through a band of slavers to an Engineer scientist engaged in bio-weapons research. (Tethys)
# [[Gulag Julka]] -- Now in Malignatius space, the heroes are captured by a Baron Petra Decados and sent to the infamous Atshen Internment Camp on Malignatius' barren moon of Julka. There, they lead a daring escape. (Malignatius Space)
# [[The People of the Sky]] -- On Malignatius, the heroes seek out the Grand Gathering of the Zuranists to protect them from Incarnate air pirates while the Amalthean they are traveling with cures the Zuranists of a deadly plague. (Malignatius)
# [[Snow Terrors]] -- Still on Malignatius, the heroes encounter a terrible ruined castle and the lady who claims it; they must fight for their very lives against unspeakable evil to escape. (Malignatius)
# [[Thirst]] -- On their way back to Aragon, the heroes stop at the home of a bishop known to the family, and help him slake his thirst. (Criticorum)
# [[Tournament of Roses]] -- On Aragon, the heroes learn that their father is being kept in shabby conditions; they fight in a tournament to reclaim him to their custody, but ultimately break him out by force. (Aragon)

== PCs ==

* [[Don Dario Benizio Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- A Hazat knight whose family was dispossessed. He is a veteran of the Emperor Wars. (Played by Sean)
* [[Father-Commander Domingo Emmanuel Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- Don Dario's older brother, Domingo is a priest and a former starship commander in the Patriarchal Fleet. (Played by Gavin)
* [[Don Alejandro Plácido Ignacio Eduardo de Ves]] -- A Hazat knight and former crusader who spent 10 years imprisoned in Kurgan space, he is the Castro Salazars' cousin as well as a grand-nephew to Duke Jose. (Played by Reid)
* [[Aurelia Castro]] -- The bastard daughter of Ramiro de Castro Salazar and Dario and Domingo's half-sister, she is householder with unsavory connections. (Played by Vanessa)
* [[Captain Joe Ridek]] -- A Charioteer commander and an employee of the De Vatha hong, he has been assigned to help the Castro Salazars by his hong. (Played by Jeremy)

== Major NPCs ==

'''Byzantium Secundus'''
* ''Emperor Alexius I'' -- Hawkwood Emperor of the Known Worlds and victor of the Emperor Wars.
* ''Sir Chamon Mazarin'' -- The Emperor's cunning dwarf spymaster.
* ''Duke Jose Alfonso Louis Eduardo de Aragon'' -- Prince Juan's brother, Duke Jose is the Hazat ambassador to the Emperor and one of the most respected and honorable men in the Known Worlds.
* ''Count Faustus Hawkwood'' -- A veteran Hawkwood general, Count Faustus has become disaffected with the Emperor and is the leader of a nascent Hawkwood nationalist faction on Byzantium Secundus.
* ''Count Alrich Li Halan'' -- Li Halan ambassador to the Imperial Court. Father Domingo may have killed his son.
* ''Baron Eviathan Hawkwood'' -- One of the Questing Knights, Baron Eviathan is the sort of social head of the Company, living mostly on the throneworld.
* ''Duchess Salandra Decados'' -- The Decados ambassador is a beautiful woman of ever-changing face and one of the canniest women in the Known Worlds.

'''Aragon'''
* ''Prince Juan Jacobi Nelson Eduardo de Aragon'' -- Prince of the Hazat.
* ''Consul Dorian De Vatha'' -- Dorian De Vatha is one of Ozul De Vatha's nephews and represents the Hong to Prince Juan's court. He is said to be particularly politically astute.
* ''Baron Benizio Eduardo de Ves'' -- Don Alejandro's father, a minor baron.
* ''Marquis Ramiro Malegant Justus de Salazar'' -- Marquis de Salazar and Warden of the Skyway, Don Ramiro is the architect of the heroes' family's fall from grace.

'''The League'''
* ''Mater Benita "The Fox" Ivankov'' -- Head of the Scravers' Guild, and someone not fond of the heroes.

'''At Large'''
* ''Ricardo Salazar'' -- Bastard son of Marquis Ramiro de Salazar, Ricardo is infamous for his service as a raider in the Hazat navy.

Hagiography

2012-06-20T00:43:39Z

This is an incomplete list of saints from the Fading Suns canon; particularly, it is missing the Big 8 (Paulus, Lextius, Mantius, Horace, Hombor, Maya, Amalthea, and Ven Lohji.)

== Pre-Reflective Saints ==

;Saint Ramos
:Ramos, a popular colonist rights activist, was martyred before the guns of zaibatsu police. Lived before the Prophet, canonized in the Second Republic. Has a holiday (Saint Ramos Day/Colony Day) named after him -- August 10. (L&P church appendix 146)

== The Prophet's Disciples ==

;Saint Paulus the Traveler
:Born Paul Deveroux, the Prophet's first disciple carried him to Yathrib, where the Prophet beheld the Holy Flame, and then to many destinations beyond. He lamented that he was not with the Prophet on his final journey and is said to have died on "the Garden of Nowhere." His virtue is Questing, and he is the patron of pilots, children and adventurers. (PotCS 12)

;Saint Lextius the Knight
:The Prophet's second disciple - Lucas Kambei - was the Lord whose Lord was the Prophet. He was the ruler of the planet Dogen; after the Prophet's death, he sealed Dogen's jumpgate, promising to return when the universe was once again governed by faith. His virtue is Loyalty, and he is the patron of the nobility. (PotCS 12)

;Saint Amalthea the Healer
:Saint Amalthea had many followers and indeed was the leader of her own religion when she encountered the Prophet. He was brought to her after being grievously wounded, and she healed him by bleeding light into the Grail. She melded her followers with his; after his death, she continued to lead her sect until she died on Artemis. Her virtue is Compassion, and she is the patron of healers and parents. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Mantius the Soldier
:Avram Manchewitz was a mercenary soldier who became the Prophet's bodyguard, protecting him against many attempts to kill him, most famously in the Miracle of the Bullets, when he threw himself in front of the Prophet but was unharmed. After the Prophet's death, he retreated to begin perfecting the martial arts now practiced by the Brother Battle; some rumor that he is alive to this day, appearing to protect those who need him most. His virtue is Protection, and he is the patron of soldiers and the Brother Battle. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Maya the Scorned Woman
:Maya lived on Shaprut and was married to a cruel and abusive husband. Angry, she sought out dark magics, but turned away from that black path when she received a vision of a star falling to earth. She traveled there and met the Prophet. After his death, she traveled the world preaching against injustice. Maya was eventually captured by a Decados lord, who tortured her for days before she was martyred. Her virtue is Justice or divine Retribution, and she is the patron of lawyers and the oppressed. (PotCS 14)

;Saint Horace the Learned Man
:Horace Abdalim was a rationalist philosopher who engaged in a great debate with the Prophet. Horace was unwilling to concede, and so the Prophet smote him with his staff in the Miracle of the Club. Horace then beheld the truth and dedicated his life before and after the Prophet's death to teaching the Prophet's philosophy before dying peacefully. His virtue is Wisdom, and he is the patron of scholars and mystics. (PotCS 15)

;Saint Hombor the Beggar
:Hombor was a beggar and con artist working on Criticorum who questioned the Prophet's sincerity in the Miracle of Giving. The Prophet offered to give Hombor anything he wanted, and Hombor demanded the Prophet's voice, at which point the Prophet cut his own vocal cords. Hombor wept and cried out "I am the death of faith, for this man was not done speaking!" and then the Prophet was healed. He disappeared after the Prophet's death. His virtue is Humility, and he is the patron of beggars and thieves. (PotCS 16)

;Saint Ven Lohji the Ur-Obun
:Ven Lohji was an Obun priestess and diplomat who met the Prophet; she shared details of the Obun religion with him, and after his death returned to Obun to found a new, syncretic sect of the Universal Church. She is in disfavor among the modern Church and is rarely recognized as a disciple. Her virtue is Discipline, and she is the patron of aliens. (PotCS 17)

== Early Church Fathers ==

;Saint Palamedes Alecto
:First Patriarch, scion of noble house Alecto, uniter of humanity in the Ukar Wars. (PotCS 22)

;Saint J'waltan
:Leader of the Agniites, an early Church sect descended from the first crowd to hear the Prophet preach on Aylon, he martyred himself to soothe the angry world of Stigmata. (IS6 16)

;Saint Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. May be a "martyr" instead of a full saint. (CotG 68)

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

== New Dark Ages Saints ==

;Saint Yara
The daughter of a local smith on Artemis, Saint Yara objected when nobles harassed the Amaltheans after the Fall. To get revenge, the nobles shackled Yara to a boulder to be eaten alive by buzzards; she was martyred after six days of exposure, having forgiven her torturers. (IS7 14)

;Saint Rasmussen
:Torn apart during the Fall of the Second Republic, lamenting "Oh that my head were water, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for lost humanity! Tremble, ye sinners, for the long night is upon us and the suns themselves are seen to fade. Repent, and know salvation. Repent, or die!" (FS2nd 24)

;Saint Godfrey de Moley
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Malcolm Xavier Justinian
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

;Saint Athanaseus
:A Hesychast on Grange/Pandemonium while Grange was a Lost World, he was renowned for his wisdom and his great mirror - he used it as a centerpiece for teachings that helped students rid themselves of sin. When Grange was rediscovered, he was recognized by the Universal Church.

;Saint Natih Hadara
:One of the few women to serve as Matriarch of the Universal Church of the Celestial Sun (4868-4877), she was a miraculuous healer and was canonized almost immediately upon her death. (PotCS 27)

;Saint Deimos of the Holy Mountain
:The founder of the then-heretical Eskatonic Order, he was eventually accepted as saint by the Orthodoxy as part of the Pentateuch Concordat. Saint Deimos lived around the time of Vladimir, preaching the Doctrine of the Inherent Flame from the Apocrypha of Horace. (PotCS 66)

== Second Republic Saints ==

;"Saint" Pietrarcholus

:While never officially canonized, the founder of Temple Avesti appeared out of the desert in 3500 and dictated the epic "Fervitudes", a poetic work that inspires much Avesti theology. (PotCS 83)

== Ukari Martyrs ==

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. (CotG 68)

;Glam
:An Ukari martyred on Kordeth by his own people. The closest any Ukari has come to sainthood; sometimes referred to as "Saint Glam". (CotG 68; SS )

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

== Hermit Saints ==

;Saint Romulus
:Called the "Desert Hermit", he survived a mudslide that killed 4000 followers (the "Miracle of the Mud") and sat upon a cactus for 12 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Heather of Ravenna
:Ate only pine needles for 27 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Evangelia of Malignatius
:Sat naked on the ice-world of Malignatius, contemplating the love and beauty of the Pancreator through ice and snow. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Ijunn of of Istakhr
:Declared clothing a vanity and led 3000 followers into Samarkand cathedral; was rained on after a prayer from Archbishop Mali and then draped in a carpet. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Calix
:Saved a Hawkwood lord from barbarians after the Fall; companion was a wolf, Lupo, and he founded St. Hombor's/The Monastery of the Eternal Light on Ravenna. Also healed a Hawkwood countess in 4276. (PotCS 122, 125)

== Divers Other Saints ==

;Saint Oman
:Martyred by Count Eshram Hamid, he was dunked in boiling oil so Count Eshram could claim his bones as a trophy. When his bones were removed, Saint Oman's bones were mirror-reflective. (PotCS 19)

;Saint Verda
:A saint who has a shroud. (PC 18)

;Saint Iman
:He has a crown, which was on Cadiz before it was stolen. Same Iman as Saint Emanuel? (PC 19)

;Saint Mythior
:He had a vision of the Eskaton. (PC 20)

;Saint Akahito
:He appears to have been a missionary to the Vorox, and performed the Miracle of the Gong. (PC 23)

;Saint Salah
:His cathedral is in Cairo. (IS7 28)

== Other Historical Church Figures ==

;Pontius Cciardi
:Archbishop of Pyre in 4235, he led the Temple Avesti when they were integrated into the Universal Church. (PotCS 84)

;Argus the Vigilant
:Avestite bishop who wrote the standard text on inquisitorial practice, the Instructones Inquisitorum. (PotCS 85)

Hagiography

2012-06-19T23:34:30Z

This is an incomplete list of saints from the Fading Suns canon; particularly, it is missing the Big 8 (Paulus, Lextius, Mantius, Horace, Hombor, Maya, Amalthea, and Ven Lohji.)

== Pre-Reflective Saints ==

;Saint Ramos
:Ramos, a popular colonist rights activist, was martyred before the guns of zaibatsu police. Lived before the Prophet, canonized in the Second Republic. Has a holiday (Saint Ramos Day/Colony Day) named after him -- August 10. (L&P church appendix 146)

== The Prophet's Disciples ==

;Saint Paulus the Traveler
:Born Paul Deveroux, the Prophet's first disciple carried him to Yathrib, where the Prophet beheld the Holy Flame, and then to many destinations beyond. He lamented that he was not with the Prophet on his final journey and is said to have died on "the Garden of Nowhere." His virtue is Questing, and he is the patron of pilots, children and adventurers. (PotCS 12)

;Saint Lextius the Knight
:The Prophet's second disciple - Lucas Kambei - was the Lord whose Lord was the Prophet. He was the ruler of the planet Dogen; after the Prophet's death, he sealed Dogen's jumpgate, promising to return when the universe was once again governed by faith. His virtue is Loyalty, and he is the patron of the nobility. (PotCS 12)

;Saint Amalthea the Healer
:Saint Amalthea had many followers and indeed was the leader of her own religion when she encountered the Prophet. He was brought to her after being grievously wounded, and she healed him by bleeding light into the Grail. She melded her followers with his; after his death, she continued to lead her sect until she died on Artemis. Her virtue is Compassion, and she is the patron of healers and parents. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Mantius the Soldier
:Avram Manchewitz was a mercenary soldier who became the Prophet's bodyguard, protecting him against many attempts to kill him, most famously in the Miracle of the Bullets, when he threw himself in front of the Prophet but was unharmed. After the Prophet's death, he retreated to begin perfecting the martial arts now practiced by the Brother Battle; some rumor that he is alive to this day, appearing to protect those who need him most. His virtue is Protection, and he is the patron of soldiers and the Brother Battle. (PotCS 13)

;Saint Maya the Scorned Woman
:Maya lived on Shaprut and was married to a cruel and abusive husband. Angry, she sought out dark magics, but turned away from that black path when she received a vision of a star falling to earth. She traveled there and met the Prophet. After his death, she traveled the world preaching against injustice. Maya was eventually captured by a Decados lord, who tortured her for days before she was martyred. Her virtue is Justice or divine Retribution, and she is the patron of lawyers and the oppressed. (PotCS 14)

;Saint Horace the Learned Man
:Horace Abdalim was a rationalist philosopher who engaged in a great debate with the Prophet. Horace was unwilling to concede, and so the Prophet smote him with his staff in the Miracle of the Club. Horace then beheld the truth and dedicated his life before and after the Prophet's death to teaching the Prophet's philosophy before dying peacefully. His virtue is Wisdom, and he is the patron of scholars and mystics. (PotCS 15)

;Saint Hombor the Beggar
:Hombor was a beggar and con artist working on Criticorum who questioned the Prophet's sincerity in the Miracle of Giving. The Prophet offered to give Hombor anything he wanted, and Hombor demanded the Prophet's voice, at which point the Prophet cut his own vocal cords. Hombor wept and cried out "I am the death of faith, for this man was not done speaking!" and then the Prophet was healed. He disappeared after the Prophet's death. His virtue is Humility, and he is the patron of beggars and thieves. (PotCS 16)

;Saint Ven Lohji the Ur-Obun
:Ven Lohji was an Obun priestess and diplomat who met the Prophet; she shared details of the Obun religion with him, and after his death returned to Obun to found a new, syncretic sect of the Universal Church. She is in disfavor among the modern Church and is rarely recognized as a disciple. Her virtue is Discipline, and she is the patron of aliens. (PotCS 17)

== Early Church Fathers ==

;Saint Palamedes Alecto
:First Patriarch, scion of noble house Alecto, uniter of humanity in the Ukar Wars. (PotCS 22)

;Saint J'waltan
:Leader of the Agniites, an early Church sect descended from the first crowd to hear the Prophet preach on Aylon, he martyred himself to soothe the angry world of Stigmata. (IS6 16)

;Saint Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. May be a "martyr" instead of a full saint. (CotG 68)

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

== New Dark Ages Saints ==

;Saint Rasmussen
:Torn apart during the Fall of the Second Republic, lamenting "Oh that my head were water, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for lost humanity! Tremble, ye sinners, for the long night is upon us and the suns themselves are seen to fade. Repent, and know salvation. Repent, or die!" (FS2nd 24)

;Saint Godfrey de Moley
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Malcolm Xavier Justinian
:One of the three founders of the Brother Battle. (PotCS 45)

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

;Saint Athanaseus
:A Hesychast on Grange/Pandemonium while Grange was a Lost World, he was renowned for his wisdom and his great mirror - he used it as a centerpiece for teachings that helped students rid themselves of sin. When Grange was rediscovered, he was recognized by the Universal Church.

;Saint Natih Hadara
:One of the few women to serve as Matriarch of the Universal Church of the Celestial Sun (4868-4877), she was a miraculuous healer and was canonized almost immediately upon her death. (PotCS 27)

;Saint Deimos of the Holy Mountain

:The founder of the then-heretical Eskatonic Order, he was eventually accepted as saint by the Orthodoxy as part of the Pentateuch Concordat. Saint Deimos lived around the time of Vladimir, preaching the Doctrine of the Inherent Flame from the Apocrypha of Horace. (PotCS 66)

== Second Republic Saints ==

;"Saint" Pietrarcholus

:While never officially canonized, the founder of Temple Avesti appeared out of the desert in 3500 and dictated the epic "Fervitudes", a poetic work that inspires much Avesti theology. (PotCS 83)

== Ukari Martyrs ==

;Saint Ostrein
:Martyed just before the start of the Second Republic preaching to the Ukari in 3440. (CotG 68)

;Sabrinus
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 3041. (CotG 68)

;Glam
:An Ukari martyred on Kordeth by his own people. The closest any Ukari has come to sainthood; sometimes referred to as "Saint Glam". (CotG 68; SS )

;Saint Fatima
:Martyred on Kordeth preaching to the Ukari in 4106. (CotG 68)

== Hermit Saints ==

;Saint Romulus
:Called the "Desert Hermit", he survived a mudslide that killed 4000 followers (the "Miracle of the Mud") and sat upon a cactus for 12 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Heather of Ravenna
:Ate only pine needles for 27 years. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Evangelia of Malignatius
:Sat naked on the ice-world of Malignatius, contemplating the love and beauty of the Pancreator through ice and snow. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Ijunn of of Istakhr
:Declared clothing a vanity and led 3000 followers into Samarkand cathedral; was rained on after a prayer from Archbishop Mali and then draped in a carpet. (PotCS 122)

;Saint Calix
:Saved a Hawkwood lord from barbarians after the Fall; companion was a wolf, Lupo, and he founded St. Hombor's/The Monastery of the Eternal Light on Ravenna. Also healed a Hawkwood countess in 4276. (PotCS 122, 125)

== Divers Other Saints ==

;Saint Oman
:Martyred by Count Eshram Hamid, he was dunked in boiling oil so Count Eshram could claim his bones as a trophy. When his bones were removed, Saint Oman's bones were mirror-reflective. (PotCS 19)

;Saint Verda
:A saint who has a shroud. (PC 18)

;Saint Iman
:He has a crown, which was on Cadiz before it was stolen. Same Iman as Saint Emanuel? (PC 19)

;Saint Mythior
:He had a vision of the Eskaton. (PC 20)

;Saint Akahito
:He appears to have been a missionary to the Vorox, and performed the Miracle of the Gong. (PC 23)

== Other Historical Church Figures ==

;Pontius Cciardi
:Archbishop of Pyre in 4235, he led the Temple Avesti when they were integrated into the Universal Church. (PotCS 84)

;Argus the Vigilant
:Avestite bishop who wrote the standard text on inquisitorial practice, the Instructones Inquisitorum. (PotCS 85)

Hagiography

2012-06-15T05:55:45Z

Hagiography

2012-06-15T05:55:17Z

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Hagiography

2012-06-15T05:53:48Z

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Main Page

2012-06-15T05:52:43Z

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== Note to Visitors ==
Much of the material on this site is drawn from work done on two MUSHes, both now since closed -- Dark Between the Stars and the original Fading Suns MUSH. Most of it was generated by me or by Lextius/Tholumiyelos, but the nature of a collaborative forum like a MUSH means that many had a hand in some of that legacy work. In some cases, the material I've posted up was written a long time ago, and I now have some doubts about what I wrote. In those cases, I've commented on the article's talk page.

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== Theme ==

* [[Noble Ranks]] -- A discussion of each of the noble ranks and their ordinary characteristics.
** [[The Myth of House Farfenugen]] -- A short essay on the autonomy of nobles.
** [[Power, Precedence and Respect]] -- A short essay on the relationship between power and precedence.
** [[The Etiquette of Proportional Warfare]] -- Why border disputes don't become interstellar wars.
** [[The Emperor and House Hawkwood]] -- Why Emperor Alexius I keeps his distance from his family.
** [[Mantis Knights]] -- Thoughts on House Decados' rivals to the Questing Knights, the Order of the Mantis.

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** [[Parish Priests]] -- Thoughts on Parish Priests and their relationship with the Orthodoxy and other sects.
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* [[Guild Structure ]] -- The triple nature of a merchant guild as labor union, trade association and political organization.
** [[Banks and Banking]] -- How the banking system and the Reeve, Brother Battle and Imperial banks work.

* [[Electors of the Empire]] -- Some details on elector rods.
**[[Elector Rod Math]] -- What happened to the 40 Elector Rods Vladimir created?

* [[Law Courts in the Known Worlds]] -- The various sorts of courts and what they decide.

* [[Science and Technology]] -- The outlines of a world without science.
** [[Squawkers]] -- Communications devices and how they function.
** [[Elixir]] -- The Second Republic wonder drug and what it can and can't heal.
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*** [[Perils of Void Travel]] -- The ways in which traveling between worlds can kill you.
*** [['Jump Juice']] -- What exactly the "jumps" entry on starship statlines means.

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* [[Psi and You]] -- Cultural attitudes towards psi and psychics.

* [[Omega Gospel Passages]]

* [[Hagiography]] -- A listing of saints of the Universal Church.

== House Rules ==

* [[VPS with TNs]] -- A simple but substantial change to the VPS system that adds Target Numbers.
* [[Armor and High-Tech Weapons]] -- Armor is less effective against bullets and high-tech weapons. Replaces the "Deadlier Guns" rule from the core book.
* [[Strength Damage]] -- Strength provides extra damage sooner. Also, a bonus for using weapons two-handed.
* [[XP Chart]] -- A redone XP chart.

===Old Rules===
* [[High Goals]] -- Goals above 18 still add successes.
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== Epics ==

* [[Family and Glory]] -- Our current epic about a Hazat family.
* [[Seven Sinners]] -- A short-lived epic about the Hawkwoods.

== Resources and External Links ==

* [http://fadingsuns.org/faq.pdf The Fading Suns Listserv FAQ] -- The FAQ includes summaries of rule changes between 1st and 2nd Edition as well as Q&A with the game designers.
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Family and Glory

2012-02-12T22:21:06Z

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The Justus de Castro Salazar are an old, old Hazat family: one of Saint Emanuel's companions, he was given a castle on Aragon that controlled one of the approaches to Castle Furias. With that, the Marquis de Castro Salazar received a substantial income as one of the Wardens of the Skyways, receiving incomes from ships traveling to Castle Furias, but in starting in 4696 the Castro Salazar family was divided; two twin sons were born, and the marquessate was split, with one son becoming Baron de Castro Salazar, ruling the castle and receiving income as a Warden of the Skyway, while the other becoming Baron de Salazar, with the income from Salazar Town and its lands.

For most of their history, the Castro Salazars and the town Salazars coexisted happily as cousins, but in 4953 an attempt to reunite the two branches of the family in the person of the daughter of the Castro Salazars ended when Ramiro Salazar - heir to Salazar Town - got a bastard on Matilde de Castro Salazar several months before they were to be married. Matilde fled with the child, and instead her younger brother Ferdinand inherited. Ramiro never forgave the Castro Salazars, but he did have his revenge until 4994, when he accused - successfully - Ferdinand's son Rodrigo of allowing through inattention the destruction of the atmosphere generator he was assigned to guard at Jericho. With Ferdinand driven mad and committed to the Oubliette by his cousin Ramiro, Ramiro was able to have himself named Marquis de Salazar with the support of Elena de Castenda, whose niece he had married.

== Dramas ==

# [[The Duke and the Emperor]] -- The heroes arrive on the throneworld and become embroiled in politics of both the personal and interplanetary sort. Don Dario becomes a Questing Knight. (Byzantium Secundus)
# [[The Drowned God]] -- Still on Byzantium, the heroes journey into Drown Town to help a woman rescue her daughter; there, they confront aliens and techno-cultists and ultimately recover an ancient and powerful war machine. In the process, they start a bloody war that ripples across Drown Town. (Byzantium Secundus)
# [[The House of the Fox]] -- Now sworn to help an Amalthean find a cure for a mysterious disease, the heroes have accompanied her to Tethys, where while she researches they journey into the maw of the beast to recover a stolen Imperial Seal from the house of Scraver matriarch Benita Ivankov in order to improve the slums of New Madrid. (Tethys)
# [[A Cup of Miracles]] -- The heroes track an artifact known as the Mael Cup to a ruined village, and then follow its trail through a band of slavers to an Engineer scientist engaged in bio-weapons research. (Tethys)
# [[Gulag Julka]] -- Now in Malignatius space, the heroes are captured by a Baron Petra Decados and sent to the infamous Atshen Internment Camp on Malignatius' barren moon of Julka. There, they lead a daring escape. (Malignatius Space)
# [[The People of the Sky]] -- On Malignatius, the heroes seek out the Grand Gathering of the Zuranists to protect them from Incarnate air pirates while the Amalthean they are traveling with cures the Zuranists of a deadly plague. (Malignatius)
# [[Snow Terrors]] -- Still on Malignatius, the heroes encounter a terrible ruined castle and the lady who claims it; they must fight for their very lives against unspeakable evil to escape. (Malignatius)
# [[Thirst]] -- On their way back to Aragon, the heroes stop at the home of a bishop known to the family, and help him slake his thirst. (Criticorum)
# [[Tournament of Roses]]

== PCs ==

* [[Don Dario Benizio Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- A Hazat knight whose family was dispossessed. He is a veteran of the Emperor Wars. (Played by Sean)
* [[Father-Commander Domingo Emmanuel Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- Don Dario's older brother, Domingo is a priest and a former starship commander in the Patriarchal Fleet. (Played by Gavin)
* [[Don Alejandro Plácido Ignacio Eduardo de Ves]] -- A Hazat knight and former crusader who spent 10 years imprisoned in Kurgan space, he is the Castro Salazars' cousin as well as a grand-nephew to Duke Jose. (Played by Reid)
* [[Aurelia Castro]] -- The bastard daughter of Ramiro de Castro Salazar and Dario and Domingo's half-sister, she is householder with unsavory connections. (Played by Vanessa)
* [[Captain Joe Ridek]] -- A Charioteer commander and an employee of the De Vatha hong, he has been assigned to help the Castro Salazars by his hong. (Played by Jeremy)

== Major NPCs ==

'''Byzantium Secundus'''
* ''Emperor Alexius I'' -- Hawkwood Emperor of the Known Worlds and victor of the Emperor Wars.
* ''Sir Chamon Mazarin'' -- The Emperor's cunning dwarf spymaster.
* ''Duke Jose Alfonso Louis Eduardo de Aragon'' -- Prince Juan's brother, Duke Jose is the Hazat ambassador to the Emperor and one of the most respected and honorable men in the Known Worlds.
* ''Count Faustus Hawkwood'' -- A veteran Hawkwood general, Count Faustus has become disaffected with the Emperor and is the leader of a nascent Hawkwood nationalist faction on Byzantium Secundus.
* ''Count Alrich Li Halan'' -- Li Halan ambassador to the Imperial Court. Father Domingo may have killed his son.
* ''Baron Eviathan Hawkwood'' -- One of the Questing Knights, Baron Eviathan is the sort of social head of the Company, living mostly on the throneworld.
* ''Duchess Salandra Decados'' -- The Decados ambassador is a beautiful woman of ever-changing face and one of the canniest women in the Known Worlds.

'''Aragon'''
* ''Prince Juan Jacobi Nelson Eduardo de Aragon'' -- Prince of the Hazat.
* ''Consul Dorian De Vatha'' -- Dorian De Vatha is one of Ozul De Vatha's nephews and represents the Hong to Prince Juan's court. He is said to be particularly politically astute.
* ''Baron Benizio Eduardo de Ves'' -- Don Alejandro's father, a minor baron.
* ''Marquis Ramiro Malegant Justus de Salazar'' -- Marquis de Salazar and Warden of the Skyway, Don Ramiro is the architect of the heroes' family's fall from grace.

'''The League'''
* ''Mater Benita "The Fox" Ivankov'' -- Head of the Scravers' Guild, and someone not fond of the heroes.

'''At Large'''
* ''Ricardo Salazar'' -- Bastard son of Marquis Ramiro de Salazar, Ricardo is infamous for his service as a raider in the Hazat navy.

Family and Glory

2011-11-13T21:09:51Z

P: /* Dramas */

The Justus de Castro Salazar are an old, old Hazat family: one of Saint Emanuel's companions, he was given a castle on Aragon that controlled one of the approaches to Castle Furias. With that, the Marquis de Castro Salazar received a substantial income as one of the Wardens of the Skyways, receiving incomes from ships traveling to Castle Furias, but in starting in 4696 the Castro Salazar family was divided; two twin sons were born, and the marquessate was split, with one son becoming Baron de Castro Salazar, ruling the castle and receiving income as a Warden of the Skyway, while the other becoming Baron de Salazar, with the income from Salazar Town and its lands.

For most of their history, the Castro Salazars and the town Salazars coexisted happily as cousins, but in 4953 an attempt to reunite the two branches of the family in the person of the daughter of the Castro Salazars ended when Ramiro Salazar - heir to Salazar Town - got a bastard on Matilde de Castro Salazar several months before they were to be married. Matilde fled with the child, and instead her younger brother Ferdinand inherited. Ramiro never forgave the Castro Salazars, but he did have his revenge until 4994, when he accused - successfully - Ferdinand's son Rodrigo of allowing through inattention the destruction of the atmosphere generator he was assigned to guard at Jericho. With Ferdinand driven mad and committed to the Oubliette by his cousin Ramiro, Ramiro was able to have himself named Marquis de Salazar with the support of Elena de Castenda, whose niece he had married.

== Dramas ==

# [[The Duke and the Emperor]] -- The heroes arrive on the throneworld and become embroiled in politics of both the personal and interplanetary sort. Don Dario becomes a Questing Knight. (Byzantium Secundus)
# [[The Drowned God]] -- Still on Byzantium, the heroes journey into Drown Town to help a woman rescue her daughter; there, they confront aliens and techno-cultists and ultimately recover an ancient and powerful war machine. In the process, they start a bloody war that ripples across Drown Town. (Byzantium Secundus)
# [[The House of the Fox]] -- Now sworn to help an Amalthean find a cure for a mysterious disease, the heroes have accompanied her to Tethys, where while she researches they journey into the maw of the beast to recover a stolen Imperial Seal from the house of Scraver matriarch Benita Ivankov in order to improve the slums of New Madrid. (Tethys)
# [[A Cup of Miracles]] -- The heroes track an artifact known as the Mael Cup to a ruined village, and then follow its trail through a band of slavers to an Engineer scientist engaged in bio-weapons research. (Tethys)
# [[Gulag Julka]] -- Now in Malignatius space, the heroes are captured by a Baron Petra Decados and sent to the infamous Atshen Internment Camp on Malignatius' barren moon of Julka. There, they lead a daring escape. (Malignatius Space)
# [[The People of the Sky]] -- On Malignatius, the heroes seek out the Grand Gathering of the Zuranists to protect them from Incarnate air pirates while the Amalthean they are traveling with cures the Zuranists of a deadly plague. (Malignatius)
# [[Snow Terrors]]

== PCs ==

* [[Don Dario Benizio Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- A Hazat knight whose family was dispossessed. He is a veteran of the Emperor Wars. (Played by Sean)
* [[Father-Commander Domingo Emmanuel Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- Don Dario's older brother, Domingo is a priest and a former starship commander in the Patriarchal Fleet. (Played by Gavin)
* [[Don Alejandro Plácido Ignacio Eduardo de Ves]] -- A Hazat knight and former crusader who spent 10 years imprisoned in Kurgan space, he is the Castro Salazars' cousin as well as a grand-nephew to Duke Jose. (Played by Reid)
* [[Aurelia Castro]] -- The bastard daughter of Ramiro de Castro Salazar and Dario and Domingo's half-sister, she is householder with unsavory connections. (Played by Vanessa)
* [[Captain Joe Ridek]] -- A Charioteer commander and an employee of the De Vatha hong, he has been assigned to help the Castro Salazars by his hong. (Played by Jeremy)

== Major NPCs ==

'''Byzantium Secundus'''
* ''Emperor Alexius I'' -- Hawkwood Emperor of the Known Worlds and victor of the Emperor Wars.
* ''Sir Chamon Mazarin'' -- The Emperor's cunning dwarf spymaster.
* ''Duke Jose Alfonso Louis Eduardo de Aragon'' -- Prince Juan's brother, Duke Jose is the Hazat ambassador to the Emperor and one of the most respected and honorable men in the Known Worlds.
* ''Count Faustus Hawkwood'' -- A veteran Hawkwood general, Count Faustus has become disaffected with the Emperor and is the leader of a nascent Hawkwood nationalist faction on Byzantium Secundus.
* ''Count Alrich Li Halan'' -- Li Halan ambassador to the Imperial Court. Father Domingo may have killed his son.
* ''Baron Eviathan Hawkwood'' -- One of the Questing Knights, Baron Eviathan is the sort of social head of the Company, living mostly on the throneworld.
* ''Duchess Salandra Decados'' -- The Decados ambassador is a beautiful woman of ever-changing face and one of the canniest women in the Known Worlds.

'''Aragon'''
* ''Prince Juan Jacobi Nelson Eduardo de Aragon'' -- Prince of the Hazat.
* ''Consul Dorian De Vatha'' -- Dorian De Vatha is one of Ozul De Vatha's nephews and represents the Hong to Prince Juan's court. He is said to be particularly politically astute.
* ''Baron Benizio Eduardo de Ves'' -- Don Alejandro's father, a minor baron.
* ''Marquis Ramiro Malegant Justus de Salazar'' -- Marquis de Salazar and Warden of the Skyway, Don Ramiro is the architect of the heroes' family's fall from grace.

'''The League'''
* ''Mater Benita "The Fox" Ivankov'' -- Head of the Scravers' Guild, and someone not fond of the heroes.

'''At Large'''
* ''Ricardo Salazar'' -- Bastard son of Marquis Ramiro de Salazar, Ricardo is infamous for his service as a raider in the Hazat navy.

Family and Glory

2011-11-13T21:08:58Z

P: /* Dramas */

The Justus de Castro Salazar are an old, old Hazat family: one of Saint Emanuel's companions, he was given a castle on Aragon that controlled one of the approaches to Castle Furias. With that, the Marquis de Castro Salazar received a substantial income as one of the Wardens of the Skyways, receiving incomes from ships traveling to Castle Furias, but in starting in 4696 the Castro Salazar family was divided; two twin sons were born, and the marquessate was split, with one son becoming Baron de Castro Salazar, ruling the castle and receiving income as a Warden of the Skyway, while the other becoming Baron de Salazar, with the income from Salazar Town and its lands.

For most of their history, the Castro Salazars and the town Salazars coexisted happily as cousins, but in 4953 an attempt to reunite the two branches of the family in the person of the daughter of the Castro Salazars ended when Ramiro Salazar - heir to Salazar Town - got a bastard on Matilde de Castro Salazar several months before they were to be married. Matilde fled with the child, and instead her younger brother Ferdinand inherited. Ramiro never forgave the Castro Salazars, but he did have his revenge until 4994, when he accused - successfully - Ferdinand's son Rodrigo of allowing through inattention the destruction of the atmosphere generator he was assigned to guard at Jericho. With Ferdinand driven mad and committed to the Oubliette by his cousin Ramiro, Ramiro was able to have himself named Marquis de Salazar with the support of Elena de Castenda, whose niece he had married.

== Dramas ==

# [[The Duke and the Emperor]] -- The heroes arrive on the throneworld and become embroiled in politics of both the personal and interplanetary sort. Don Dario becomes a Questing Knight.
# [[The Drowned God]] -- Still on Byzantium, the heroes journey into Drown Town to help a woman rescue her daughter; there, they confront aliens and techno-cultists and ultimately recover an ancient and powerful war machine. In the process, they start a bloody war that ripples across Drown Town.
# [[The House of the Fox]] -- Now sworn to help an Amalthean find a cure for a mysterious disease, the heroes have accompanied her to Tethys, where while she researches they journey into the maw of the beast to recover a stolen Imperial Seal from the house of Scraver matriarch Benita Ivankov in order to improve the slums of New Madrid.
# [[A Cup of Miracles]] -- The heroes track an artifact known as the Mael Cup to a ruined village, and then follow its trail through a band of slavers to an Engineer scientist engaged in bio-weapons research.
# [[Gulag Julka]] -- Now in Malignatius space, the heroes are captured by a Baron Petra Decados and sent to the infamous Atshen Internment Camp on Malignatius' barren moon of Julka. There, they lead a daring escape.
# [[The People of the Sky]] -- On Malignatius, the heroes seek out the Grand Gathering of the Zuranists to protect them from Incarnate air pirates while the Amalthean they are traveling with cures the Zuranists of a deadly plague.
# [[Snow Terrors]]

== PCs ==

* [[Don Dario Benizio Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- A Hazat knight whose family was dispossessed. He is a veteran of the Emperor Wars. (Played by Sean)
* [[Father-Commander Domingo Emmanuel Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- Don Dario's older brother, Domingo is a priest and a former starship commander in the Patriarchal Fleet. (Played by Gavin)
* [[Don Alejandro Plácido Ignacio Eduardo de Ves]] -- A Hazat knight and former crusader who spent 10 years imprisoned in Kurgan space, he is the Castro Salazars' cousin as well as a grand-nephew to Duke Jose. (Played by Reid)
* [[Aurelia Castro]] -- The bastard daughter of Ramiro de Castro Salazar and Dario and Domingo's half-sister, she is householder with unsavory connections. (Played by Vanessa)
* [[Captain Joe Ridek]] -- A Charioteer commander and an employee of the De Vatha hong, he has been assigned to help the Castro Salazars by his hong. (Played by Jeremy)

== Major NPCs ==

'''Byzantium Secundus'''
* ''Emperor Alexius I'' -- Hawkwood Emperor of the Known Worlds and victor of the Emperor Wars.
* ''Sir Chamon Mazarin'' -- The Emperor's cunning dwarf spymaster.
* ''Duke Jose Alfonso Louis Eduardo de Aragon'' -- Prince Juan's brother, Duke Jose is the Hazat ambassador to the Emperor and one of the most respected and honorable men in the Known Worlds.
* ''Count Faustus Hawkwood'' -- A veteran Hawkwood general, Count Faustus has become disaffected with the Emperor and is the leader of a nascent Hawkwood nationalist faction on Byzantium Secundus.
* ''Count Alrich Li Halan'' -- Li Halan ambassador to the Imperial Court. Father Domingo may have killed his son.
* ''Baron Eviathan Hawkwood'' -- One of the Questing Knights, Baron Eviathan is the sort of social head of the Company, living mostly on the throneworld.
* ''Duchess Salandra Decados'' -- The Decados ambassador is a beautiful woman of ever-changing face and one of the canniest women in the Known Worlds.

'''Aragon'''
* ''Prince Juan Jacobi Nelson Eduardo de Aragon'' -- Prince of the Hazat.
* ''Consul Dorian De Vatha'' -- Dorian De Vatha is one of Ozul De Vatha's nephews and represents the Hong to Prince Juan's court. He is said to be particularly politically astute.
* ''Baron Benizio Eduardo de Ves'' -- Don Alejandro's father, a minor baron.
* ''Marquis Ramiro Malegant Justus de Salazar'' -- Marquis de Salazar and Warden of the Skyway, Don Ramiro is the architect of the heroes' family's fall from grace.

'''The League'''
* ''Mater Benita "The Fox" Ivankov'' -- Head of the Scravers' Guild, and someone not fond of the heroes.

'''At Large'''
* ''Ricardo Salazar'' -- Bastard son of Marquis Ramiro de Salazar, Ricardo is infamous for his service as a raider in the Hazat navy.

Family and Glory

2011-11-13T21:08:44Z

P: /* Dramas */

The Justus de Castro Salazar are an old, old Hazat family: one of Saint Emanuel's companions, he was given a castle on Aragon that controlled one of the approaches to Castle Furias. With that, the Marquis de Castro Salazar received a substantial income as one of the Wardens of the Skyways, receiving incomes from ships traveling to Castle Furias, but in starting in 4696 the Castro Salazar family was divided; two twin sons were born, and the marquessate was split, with one son becoming Baron de Castro Salazar, ruling the castle and receiving income as a Warden of the Skyway, while the other becoming Baron de Salazar, with the income from Salazar Town and its lands.

For most of their history, the Castro Salazars and the town Salazars coexisted happily as cousins, but in 4953 an attempt to reunite the two branches of the family in the person of the daughter of the Castro Salazars ended when Ramiro Salazar - heir to Salazar Town - got a bastard on Matilde de Castro Salazar several months before they were to be married. Matilde fled with the child, and instead her younger brother Ferdinand inherited. Ramiro never forgave the Castro Salazars, but he did have his revenge until 4994, when he accused - successfully - Ferdinand's son Rodrigo of allowing through inattention the destruction of the atmosphere generator he was assigned to guard at Jericho. With Ferdinand driven mad and committed to the Oubliette by his cousin Ramiro, Ramiro was able to have himself named Marquis de Salazar with the support of Elena de Castenda, whose niece he had married.

== Dramas ==

# [[The Duke and the Emperor]] -- The heroes arrive on the throneworld and become embroiled in politics of both the personal and interplanetary sort. Don Dario becomes a Questing Knight.
# [[The Drowned God]] -- Still on Byzantium, the heroes journey into Drown Town to help a woman rescue her daughter; there, they confront aliens and techno-cultists and ultimately recover an ancient and powerful war machine. In the process, they start a bloody war that ripples across Drown Town.

# [[The House of the Fox]] -- Now sworn to help an Amalthean find a cure for a mysterious disease, the heroes have accompanied her to Tethys, where while she researches they journey into the maw of the beast to recover a stolen Imperial Seal from the house of Scraver matriarch Benita Ivankov in order to improve the slums of New Madrid.
# [[A Cup of Miracles]] -- The heroes track an artifact known as the Mael Cup to a ruined village, and then follow its trail through a band of slavers to an Engineer scientist engaged in bio-weapons research.

# [[Gulag Julka]] -- Now in Malignatius space, the heroes are captured by a Baron Petra Decados and sent to the infamous Atshen Internment Camp on Malignatius' barren moon of Julka. There, they lead a daring escape.
# [[The People of the Sky]] -- On Malignatius, the heroes seek out the Grand Gathering of the Zuranists to protect them from Incarnate air pirates while the Amalthean they are traveling with cures the Zuranists of a deadly plague.
# [[Snow Terrors]]

== PCs ==

* [[Don Dario Benizio Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- A Hazat knight whose family was dispossessed. He is a veteran of the Emperor Wars. (Played by Sean)
* [[Father-Commander Domingo Emmanuel Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- Don Dario's older brother, Domingo is a priest and a former starship commander in the Patriarchal Fleet. (Played by Gavin)
* [[Don Alejandro Plácido Ignacio Eduardo de Ves]] -- A Hazat knight and former crusader who spent 10 years imprisoned in Kurgan space, he is the Castro Salazars' cousin as well as a grand-nephew to Duke Jose. (Played by Reid)
* [[Aurelia Castro]] -- The bastard daughter of Ramiro de Castro Salazar and Dario and Domingo's half-sister, she is householder with unsavory connections. (Played by Vanessa)
* [[Captain Joe Ridek]] -- A Charioteer commander and an employee of the De Vatha hong, he has been assigned to help the Castro Salazars by his hong. (Played by Jeremy)

== Major NPCs ==

'''Byzantium Secundus'''
* ''Emperor Alexius I'' -- Hawkwood Emperor of the Known Worlds and victor of the Emperor Wars.
* ''Sir Chamon Mazarin'' -- The Emperor's cunning dwarf spymaster.
* ''Duke Jose Alfonso Louis Eduardo de Aragon'' -- Prince Juan's brother, Duke Jose is the Hazat ambassador to the Emperor and one of the most respected and honorable men in the Known Worlds.
* ''Count Faustus Hawkwood'' -- A veteran Hawkwood general, Count Faustus has become disaffected with the Emperor and is the leader of a nascent Hawkwood nationalist faction on Byzantium Secundus.
* ''Count Alrich Li Halan'' -- Li Halan ambassador to the Imperial Court. Father Domingo may have killed his son.
* ''Baron Eviathan Hawkwood'' -- One of the Questing Knights, Baron Eviathan is the sort of social head of the Company, living mostly on the throneworld.
* ''Duchess Salandra Decados'' -- The Decados ambassador is a beautiful woman of ever-changing face and one of the canniest women in the Known Worlds.

'''Aragon'''
* ''Prince Juan Jacobi Nelson Eduardo de Aragon'' -- Prince of the Hazat.
* ''Consul Dorian De Vatha'' -- Dorian De Vatha is one of Ozul De Vatha's nephews and represents the Hong to Prince Juan's court. He is said to be particularly politically astute.
* ''Baron Benizio Eduardo de Ves'' -- Don Alejandro's father, a minor baron.
* ''Marquis Ramiro Malegant Justus de Salazar'' -- Marquis de Salazar and Warden of the Skyway, Don Ramiro is the architect of the heroes' family's fall from grace.

'''The League'''
* ''Mater Benita "The Fox" Ivankov'' -- Head of the Scravers' Guild, and someone not fond of the heroes.

'''At Large'''
* ''Ricardo Salazar'' -- Bastard son of Marquis Ramiro de Salazar, Ricardo is infamous for his service as a raider in the Hazat navy.

Family and Glory

2011-11-13T21:08:21Z

P: /* Dramas */

The Justus de Castro Salazar are an old, old Hazat family: one of Saint Emanuel's companions, he was given a castle on Aragon that controlled one of the approaches to Castle Furias. With that, the Marquis de Castro Salazar received a substantial income as one of the Wardens of the Skyways, receiving incomes from ships traveling to Castle Furias, but in starting in 4696 the Castro Salazar family was divided; two twin sons were born, and the marquessate was split, with one son becoming Baron de Castro Salazar, ruling the castle and receiving income as a Warden of the Skyway, while the other becoming Baron de Salazar, with the income from Salazar Town and its lands.

For most of their history, the Castro Salazars and the town Salazars coexisted happily as cousins, but in 4953 an attempt to reunite the two branches of the family in the person of the daughter of the Castro Salazars ended when Ramiro Salazar - heir to Salazar Town - got a bastard on Matilde de Castro Salazar several months before they were to be married. Matilde fled with the child, and instead her younger brother Ferdinand inherited. Ramiro never forgave the Castro Salazars, but he did have his revenge until 4994, when he accused - successfully - Ferdinand's son Rodrigo of allowing through inattention the destruction of the atmosphere generator he was assigned to guard at Jericho. With Ferdinand driven mad and committed to the Oubliette by his cousin Ramiro, Ramiro was able to have himself named Marquis de Salazar with the support of Elena de Castenda, whose niece he had married.

== Dramas ==

'''Byzantium Secundus'''
# [[The Duke and the Emperor]] -- The heroes arrive on the throneworld and become embroiled in politics of both the personal and interplanetary sort. Don Dario becomes a Questing Knight.
# [[The Drowned God]] -- Still on Byzantium, the heroes journey into Drown Town to help a woman rescue her daughter; there, they confront aliens and techno-cultists and ultimately recover an ancient and powerful war machine. In the process, they start a bloody war that ripples across Drown Town.

'''Tethys'''
# [[The House of the Fox]] -- Now sworn to help an Amalthean find a cure for a mysterious disease, the heroes have accompanied her to Tethys, where while she researches they journey into the maw of the beast to recover a stolen Imperial Seal from the house of Scraver matriarch Benita Ivankov in order to improve the slums of New Madrid.
# [[A Cup of Miracles]] -- The heroes track an artifact known as the Mael Cup to a ruined village, and then follow its trail through a band of slavers to an Engineer scientist engaged in bio-weapons research.

'''Malignatius'''
# [[Gulag Julka]] -- Now in Malignatius space, the heroes are captured by a Baron Petra Decados and sent to the infamous Atshen Internment Camp on Malignatius' barren moon of Julka. There, they lead a daring escape.
# [[The People of the Sky]] -- On Malignatius, the heroes seek out the Grand Gathering of the Zuranists to protect them from Incarnate air pirates while the Amalthean they are traveling with cures the Zuranists of a deadly plague.
# [[Snow Terrors]]

== PCs ==

* [[Don Dario Benizio Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- A Hazat knight whose family was dispossessed. He is a veteran of the Emperor Wars. (Played by Sean)
* [[Father-Commander Domingo Emmanuel Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- Don Dario's older brother, Domingo is a priest and a former starship commander in the Patriarchal Fleet. (Played by Gavin)
* [[Don Alejandro Plácido Ignacio Eduardo de Ves]] -- A Hazat knight and former crusader who spent 10 years imprisoned in Kurgan space, he is the Castro Salazars' cousin as well as a grand-nephew to Duke Jose. (Played by Reid)
* [[Aurelia Castro]] -- The bastard daughter of Ramiro de Castro Salazar and Dario and Domingo's half-sister, she is householder with unsavory connections. (Played by Vanessa)
* [[Captain Joe Ridek]] -- A Charioteer commander and an employee of the De Vatha hong, he has been assigned to help the Castro Salazars by his hong. (Played by Jeremy)

== Major NPCs ==

'''Byzantium Secundus'''
* ''Emperor Alexius I'' -- Hawkwood Emperor of the Known Worlds and victor of the Emperor Wars.
* ''Sir Chamon Mazarin'' -- The Emperor's cunning dwarf spymaster.
* ''Duke Jose Alfonso Louis Eduardo de Aragon'' -- Prince Juan's brother, Duke Jose is the Hazat ambassador to the Emperor and one of the most respected and honorable men in the Known Worlds.
* ''Count Faustus Hawkwood'' -- A veteran Hawkwood general, Count Faustus has become disaffected with the Emperor and is the leader of a nascent Hawkwood nationalist faction on Byzantium Secundus.
* ''Count Alrich Li Halan'' -- Li Halan ambassador to the Imperial Court. Father Domingo may have killed his son.
* ''Baron Eviathan Hawkwood'' -- One of the Questing Knights, Baron Eviathan is the sort of social head of the Company, living mostly on the throneworld.
* ''Duchess Salandra Decados'' -- The Decados ambassador is a beautiful woman of ever-changing face and one of the canniest women in the Known Worlds.

'''Aragon'''
* ''Prince Juan Jacobi Nelson Eduardo de Aragon'' -- Prince of the Hazat.
* ''Consul Dorian De Vatha'' -- Dorian De Vatha is one of Ozul De Vatha's nephews and represents the Hong to Prince Juan's court. He is said to be particularly politically astute.
* ''Baron Benizio Eduardo de Ves'' -- Don Alejandro's father, a minor baron.
* ''Marquis Ramiro Malegant Justus de Salazar'' -- Marquis de Salazar and Warden of the Skyway, Don Ramiro is the architect of the heroes' family's fall from grace.

'''The League'''
* ''Mater Benita "The Fox" Ivankov'' -- Head of the Scravers' Guild, and someone not fond of the heroes.

'''At Large'''
* ''Ricardo Salazar'' -- Bastard son of Marquis Ramiro de Salazar, Ricardo is infamous for his service as a raider in the Hazat navy.

Family and Glory

2011-11-13T21:07:16Z

The Justus de Castro Salazar are an old, old Hazat family: one of Saint Emanuel's companions, he was given a castle on Aragon that controlled one of the approaches to Castle Furias. With that, the Marquis de Castro Salazar received a substantial income as one of the Wardens of the Skyways, receiving incomes from ships traveling to Castle Furias, but in starting in 4696 the Castro Salazar family was divided; two twin sons were born, and the marquessate was split, with one son becoming Baron de Castro Salazar, ruling the castle and receiving income as a Warden of the Skyway, while the other becoming Baron de Salazar, with the income from Salazar Town and its lands.

For most of their history, the Castro Salazars and the town Salazars coexisted happily as cousins, but in 4953 an attempt to reunite the two branches of the family in the person of the daughter of the Castro Salazars ended when Ramiro Salazar - heir to Salazar Town - got a bastard on Matilde de Castro Salazar several months before they were to be married. Matilde fled with the child, and instead her younger brother Ferdinand inherited. Ramiro never forgave the Castro Salazars, but he did have his revenge until 4994, when he accused - successfully - Ferdinand's son Rodrigo of allowing through inattention the destruction of the atmosphere generator he was assigned to guard at Jericho. With Ferdinand driven mad and committed to the Oubliette by his cousin Ramiro, Ramiro was able to have himself named Marquis de Salazar with the support of Elena de Castenda, whose niece he had married.

== Dramas ==
=== Byzantium Secundus ===
# [[The Duke and the Emperor]] -- The heroes arrive on the throneworld and become embroiled in politics of both the personal and interplanetary sort. Don Dario becomes a Questing Knight.
# [[The Drowned God]] -- Still on Byzantium, the heroes journey into Drown Town to help a woman rescue her daughter; there, they confront aliens and techno-cultists and ultimately recover an ancient and powerful war machine. In the process, they start a bloody war that ripples across Drown Town.
=== Tethys ===
# [[The House of the Fox]] -- Now sworn to help an Amalthean find a cure for a mysterious disease, the heroes have accompanied her to Tethys, where while she researches they journey into the maw of the beast to recover a stolen Imperial Seal from the house of Scraver matriarch Benita Ivankov in order to improve the slums of New Madrid.
# [[A Cup of Miracles]] -- The heroes track an artifact known as the Mael Cup to a ruined village, and then follow its trail through a band of slavers to an Engineer scientist engaged in bio-weapons research.
=== Malignatius ===
# [[Gulag Julka]] -- Now in Malignatius space, the heroes are captured by a Baron Petra Decados and sent to the infamous Atshen Internment Camp on Malignatius' barren moon of Julka. There, they lead a daring escape.
# [[The People of the Sky]] -- On Malignatius, the heroes seek out the Grand Gathering of the Zuranists to protect them from Incarnate air pirates while the Amalthean they are traveling with cures the Zuranists of a deadly plague.
# [[Snow Terrors]]

== PCs ==

* [[Don Dario Benizio Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- A Hazat knight whose family was dispossessed. He is a veteran of the Emperor Wars. (Played by Sean)
* [[Father-Commander Domingo Emmanuel Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- Don Dario's older brother, Domingo is a priest and a former starship commander in the Patriarchal Fleet. (Played by Gavin)
* [[Don Alejandro Plácido Ignacio Eduardo de Ves]] -- A Hazat knight and former crusader who spent 10 years imprisoned in Kurgan space, he is the Castro Salazars' cousin as well as a grand-nephew to Duke Jose. (Played by Reid)
* [[Aurelia Castro]] -- The bastard daughter of Ramiro de Castro Salazar and Dario and Domingo's half-sister, she is householder with unsavory connections. (Played by Vanessa)
* [[Captain Joe Ridek]] -- A Charioteer commander and an employee of the De Vatha hong, he has been assigned to help the Castro Salazars by his hong. (Played by Jeremy)

== Major NPCs ==

'''Byzantium Secundus'''
* ''Emperor Alexius I'' -- Hawkwood Emperor of the Known Worlds and victor of the Emperor Wars.
* ''Sir Chamon Mazarin'' -- The Emperor's cunning dwarf spymaster.
* ''Duke Jose Alfonso Louis Eduardo de Aragon'' -- Prince Juan's brother, Duke Jose is the Hazat ambassador to the Emperor and one of the most respected and honorable men in the Known Worlds.
* ''Count Faustus Hawkwood'' -- A veteran Hawkwood general, Count Faustus has become disaffected with the Emperor and is the leader of a nascent Hawkwood nationalist faction on Byzantium Secundus.
* ''Count Alrich Li Halan'' -- Li Halan ambassador to the Imperial Court. Father Domingo may have killed his son.
* ''Baron Eviathan Hawkwood'' -- One of the Questing Knights, Baron Eviathan is the sort of social head of the Company, living mostly on the throneworld.
* ''Duchess Salandra Decados'' -- The Decados ambassador is a beautiful woman of ever-changing face and one of the canniest women in the Known Worlds.

'''Aragon'''
* ''Prince Juan Jacobi Nelson Eduardo de Aragon'' -- Prince of the Hazat.
* ''Consul Dorian De Vatha'' -- Dorian De Vatha is one of Ozul De Vatha's nephews and represents the Hong to Prince Juan's court. He is said to be particularly politically astute.
* ''Baron Benizio Eduardo de Ves'' -- Don Alejandro's father, a minor baron.
* ''Marquis Ramiro Malegant Justus de Salazar'' -- Marquis de Salazar and Warden of the Skyway, Don Ramiro is the architect of the heroes' family's fall from grace.

'''The League'''
* ''Mater Benita "The Fox" Ivankov'' -- Head of the Scravers' Guild, and someone not fond of the heroes.

'''At Large'''
* ''Ricardo Salazar'' -- Bastard son of Marquis Ramiro de Salazar, Ricardo is infamous for his service as a raider in the Hazat navy.

Law Courts in the Known Worlds

2011-10-25T02:32:37Z

''This discussion draws from the discussion of legal systems in ''Merchants of the Jumpweb'' and elsewhere.''

The law distinguishes four sorts of people: property, like serfs and slaves, freemen (including the guilders), clergy, and the nobility. Each of these four classes is treated differently under the law.

Property is not, in fact, subject to any sort of judicial oversight, really: it's up to their owners to determine what happenes, and if a slave or serf does harm to another it is their owner (or lord, in the case of a serf) who is held accountable.

Regardless of the crime, members of the clergy are guaranteed a trial before an ecclesiastical court (see 'ecclesiastical courts', below), usually with the local bishop or a panel of priests as judges.

== Local Courts ==

By far most courts are concerned with freeman - these are the local courts, set up by noble overlords to settle disputes among their peasants and free tenants. Local courts run almost exlcusively on a principle of common law, where the judgments of appointed magistrates (in civilized areas, Reeves, or in rural areas a deputized knight or freeman marshal) is made by examining the long rolls of precedent to make a decision. While a particular lord may issue statutes to govern his realm, these are usually exceptional, with most crimes instead being arbitrated by the common body of law that has developed over centuries. This body of law is not limited to a single fiefdom, either - jurists may look to decisions made in other fiefs, or even on other planets to find a precedent to support their decision. It is just this system of common law which makes Reeve advocates so essential, as the time and resources that is required to research precedent is largely impossible for the untrained, much less the illiterate.

This, in fact, is one of the chief advantages of being a member of a guild when it comes to matters legal: the Reeves service is often covered in whole or part by the guild, and consequently guilders have more than a snowball's chance in hell of defeating charges against them.

Another advantage of being a guilder is enshrined in an important principle of common law - the reality that proving a charge can be done as easily by proving that the accused has a criminal character as it can be by proving facts of a case. This is one of the reasons why Ukari and other undesirables are often fingered for crimes, as the mere fact that they are an alien or are unemployed makes them guilty. If, in fact, one can prove that the accused is unemployed, or is an adulterer, or a former deserter, or possesses some other failing, then the case against them is more or less certain to be won. Being a member of a guild, on the other hand, provides an immediate surety that the accused is -not- an undesirable, as he is a member of an accepted trade and consequently has standing and virtue in freeman society.

Now, there is a court of appeal for those judged against in these commoner courts - and that's the court of the ruling noble himself. This is also the court in which any matter involving a noble and a free person is decided, and when we describe it as the 'lord's court' it is just that - the assembled court of the realm, which debates over the trial in the same way that it does over any other social matter. These noble courts do not function upon the principle of common law, as do the common courts they delegate power to - rather, a lord's court is a court of equity, where instead of looking at statute and precedence the lord makes the decision, ideally, based on fairness. As usually appeals for something to be heard in the lord's court are turned down, it is generally only the free elite - wealthy guilders - who are heard before the lord himself, and consequently these courts of equity are as much about politics as they are about fairness. When one party in the dispute is noble-born, politics becomes even more important, to the point where a noble court almost resembles the ancient Anglo-Saxon system where the victor in court is the man who brings more supportors to the trial. In especially large realms - places like the Hub - there is sometimes an intermediate step between the common-law courts of the magistrates and the Court of Count Sharn himself. This lesser court of appeals is also based upon the principle of equity, and is run by some high-ranking official or close relative of the ruling lord. Most commonly, this is the Court of Chancery, ruled upon by the chancellor of the realm.

==Ecclesiastical Courts ==

Some cases, however, are not heard before the nobility or their magistrates: instead, they are heard by the Church in ecclesiastical courts. Two sorts of cases fall into the jurisdiction of ecclesiastical courts. First, any case involving a member of the clergy is an ecclesiastical case, as the clergy (even lay brethren who have not taken orders or vows) are entitled to protection by the Church. This sometimes leads freemen - even serfs - to shakily recite the Omega Gospels or the nomocanon in hopes of being granted clerical exemption.

Second, and more seriously, questions of moral law belong to the ecclesiastical courts. Heresy, technosophy, trafficking in proscribed goods, thought crimes and witchcraft all fall within the ecclesiastical domain - and these crimes take precedence over any temporal crimes a person may be accused of, and are judged first accordingly. While the majority of the accused in Church courts are clergy or freemen, the nobility are subject to their jurisdiction, though they are treated better than freemen and enjoy certain freedoms under the Doctrine of the Privilege of Martyrs and other edicts.

Church courts are presided over by the local bishop or (in some cases) a panel of ordained priests. One of the clergy serves as prosecutor - often, this is a member of the Inquisitorial Synod - and the accused either speaks in his own defense or obtains an advocate. Usually this is a Reeve, but there are occaisons where the clergy have stepped up to defend some poor soul on the docket. Unlike noble courts, the principle of equity has no place whatsoever in ecclesiastical trials, as anyone who is not the Patriarch is not qualified to make judgments in defiance of Church law. Consequently, church courts are heavily dependent upon precedent and canon law, though there is definately room in assigning penance for the court to insert some of its own judgment on the matter.

== Regency and Imperial courts ==

So far, we've discussed cases that involve two freemen, a freeman and a noble, a freeman and a clergyman, two clergy, or the clergy and a nobleman - but we have not touched on how disputes between two of the nobility are settled.

Largely, they aren't. The preferred method to settling a dispute between nobles is the duel, and failing that, war. Courts of law come in a distant third - but they do exist, as sometimes the other solutions are impractical. This court is called the Regency Court, and while there is a permanent set of High Justices on Byzantium Secundus most of the time a particular court is convened on an ad hoc basis with a tribunal consisting of a member of each party's house and then some third party, often a representative of the dominant House on the world or someone else with a claim to power and responsibility.

The Regency Court is a confused mess, which is one reason why the nobility dislike it. Various regents have issued statues over the centuries which affect relationships between the nobility and houses, and in addition the High Justices have ruled one way or another many times since the court was first set up. Add this to the much larger body of lower court decisions, and the weight of statute and precedence is staggering. That is largely no different, however, than the Church court. What makes the Regency Court such a mess is that despite all the legalese, the justices appointed on a case are still expected to use their judgment and conscience in determining the outcome of the matter - though at the same time, they are expected to be mindful of tradition. This means that to win a case in the Regency Court one must not only have legal arguments based on law and precedence to hand, but also compelling oration and moral argumentation to sway the hearts and minds of the justices. What's worse, justices are also instructed to keep the good of the Regency in mind, even up to the Emperor himself (who is the head of the Regency court) and so sometimes, the parties in a Regency Court matter can find them subsumed to some greater Imperial need. This happened notably in the case of the Second Jumpgate on Pandemonium, where the Emperor denied all claims for ownership and instead appointed a joint commission of League, Decados and Empire to monitor it which ultimately is beholden to the throne.

Finally, there is a brand new court - the Imperial Court. The Imperial Court is similar in some ways to the Regency Court, save that because it is so new there is no precedence to be based upon - and, because it does not appoint local judges, it is largely dependent on the Emperor's own word, making it a court of equity. The Imperial Court rules on questions of interstellar trade and other matters, and also serves as an ultimate court of appeal for any of the lesser courts in the Known Worlds. Not many cases are heard before the Imperial Court, but the percieved power of the court gives the Emperor's lictors - the agents of the court - a great deal of political capital, as they are the individuals who relay appeals and issues to the court's attention. As a practical matter, these lictors end up serving as local justices of the court in many ways, or perhaps as subtle ombudsmen - for when they indicate their legal opinion on a matter, the lesser courts listen carefully less their decision be undermined by the matter being passed up to the Emperor himself.

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Gulag Julka

2011-10-25T02:21:15Z

Traveling from Tethys to Malignatius, the heroes run into Ciera Li Halan on Criticorum and hear that the Decados are trying to stop them from getting the Mael Cup to the Zuranists. Sister Jenna arranges for them to meet a famous Zuranist smuggler on one of the ice moons of Arsanerit, a gas giant in the Malignatius system, but when they get there they are ambushed by the Decados.

Sister Jenna escapes with Harrod Ford Gallagan, the smuggler, but the villainous Baron Petra Decados captures them. Don Dario claims his status as a Questing Knight but Rinaldo Salazar, bastard son of Ramiro de Salazar, denies that they are who they say they are and so Petra orders them sent to the infamous Atshen gulag on the moon of Julka.

== Transit to Julka ==

On the way to Julka, the heroes are transferred into a prison barge that divides itself swiftly enough between prey and predators. Captain Ridek gets in good with the so-called "Warriors", while Don Alejandro picks a fight that results in him beating the leader of the Warriors to a bloody pulp. Their initial investigation does, however, reveal the barest details about what awaits them at Atshen: the facility is a former First Republic mine that was then turned into a Second Republic housing facility, and its entrance - the Gate - is controlled by a brutal gang known as the Wardens. Other than periodic food shipments, the Decados are entirely hands-off.

== The Gate ==

As the heroes' batch of prisoners are dumped into the Gate, there is a general run to try and get past the Wardens, who are interested in taking prisoners from the new arrivals. Ridek convinces the Warriors to screen for the heroes, while Don Alejandro leads a flying vee with Aurelia and some of the other prisoners, breaking through the cordon of the Warriors and getting to the broken escalators that lead to lower levels of the giant complex.

Father Domingo, however, is caught, and as the Wardens begin to beat him Don Dario doubles back for his brother; the two have to run for the escalators, pursued by the Wardens as Don Alejandro holds the top of the escalators and Father Domingo limps on, heavily wounded.

== Lee and Ken ==

Finally into safety, the heroes scout Level 2 of the gulag, a sort of no-man's land it seems between the Wardens and the lower levels. They find finally a small group of 'generals' - the ordinary people of the gulag - led by a man named Lee, along with a very slight scavenger named Ken. Lee and Ken give the heroes soup and clue them into the structure of Atshen.

Atshen is divided into roughly three general zones. The Upper Complex is controlled by the Wardens, and is where food and new prisoners enter. The Mid-Complex, from Level 3 to 7, is where most of the 'generals' live; it contains the Settlement on Level 3, an Incarnate stronghold that serves a sort of center for civilization, along with some agriculture and the largest slave market in the gulag, as well as the small Orthodox chapel (also on Level 3) and a band of semi-martial wanderers known as the 401st, who are supposedly remnants of Hawkwood soldiers stranded on Malignatius after the Wars who converted to Zuranity.

Finally, the Deep Complex - starting at Sub-Level 1 and going into the old mines - are home to the Dwellers, cannibal raiders, and possibly even worse monsters. However, the Deep Complex is the source of salvage and other wonders which helps drive the barter economy of the gulag.

== Brother Liu ==

Brother Liu's little congregation - small and relatively poor - is the next destination. He is overjoyed to see Father Domingo, a real priest, and the better part of the next day is taken up by sermons and many, many confessions on Father Domingo's part. As the sermons go on, more and more people arrive, starting to fill up the small chapel - including some people who seem to be members of the 401st. Quiet contact is made and there is an agreement to meet Sergeant Coyote, the leader of the 401st, at the Settlement.

== The Settlement ==

The Settlement is in the former Central Food Center - a water source there has allowed the Incarnates who live within its precincts to grow food, and the 401st sometimes shelters there. The main area is like a multi-level food court, a sort of town square, and there the men of the 401st are eating with Margo Dell, who is the Head of the Settlement. She is a woman in her 40s, a survivor and a shrewd dealer.

Coyote is at first suspicious of the heroes, but an impassioned speech by Don Dario convinces them that they are going to plan an escape. With the help of some scroungers and a 401st hunter, Wulff, the heroes learn of a rumored mining outpost untouched for thousands of years in the Deep Complex; they decide to venture down to find it and hopefully also the power source of the facility.

== Down into the Deep Complex ==

Leaving Father Domingo behind, the heroes penetrate first into the power core on Sub-Level 3, where they discover a huge borehole. While investigating, Captain Ridek nearly falls into the borehole and is almost killed by electrical sparks: Aurelia has to carefully and acrobatically work her way across the ruined catwalks at the top of the borehole to rescue him.

Deeper into the mining tunnels, the company finally finds the rumored ancient mining facility, where Aurelia opens the door and they recover a stock of rebreathers as well as some mining lasers. They also find on an ancient think machine an indication that the miners found a way to the outside world, and the companions discover this exit - a crevasse leading up to the surface - even as their party is stalked by terrible insectine Lurkers in the deep.

== Final Plans ==

Meanwhile, Father Domingo and Sergeant Coyote have been telling people a general assault is soon to begin. The mobs are forming, and at the same time the Wardens are getting anxious in the Upper Complex. When Don Dario and his companions return, it is time to move - along with a hundred or so fighters, the heroes scale the crevasse and make it to the surface of the ice moon, at which point they pick their way towards the Decados base on the surface.

== The Assault ==

The companions rush the base. Aurelia takes the atmosphere generator while Father Domingo and Don Alejandro take the control tower. Don Dario and Captain Ridek take one of the starships on the ground, using it to cut off communications, and then soon enough the rest of the base is subdued. At that point, the air is shut off in the prison to stop the riots - just for a little while - and the heroes begin to ferry ships to and from the surface.

== Escape from Ice Moon Julka ==

Errant communications from Don Dario alert the Decados, however, and the Imperial embassy gets involved, sending a squadron of Archangels to guard the last evacuation from the gulag, even as a force of Decados starships prepare to lay siege. The last set of ships have a fighter escort as they pass under the guns of the Decados corvettes surrounding the moon.

Sergeant Coyote stays behind; with the escape route hidden, he is returning to the gulag to perhaps start another rebellion on another day.

== Dramatis Personae ==
* ''Baron Petra Decados'' -- Ruler of New Sun, Baron Petra is a known Incarnate.
* ''Ricardo Salazar'' -- Bastard son of the Marquis de Salazar, Ricardo's accusations falsely imprison the heroes.
* ''Grigory'' -- A former Kossack, Grigory is the leader of the Wardens in Atshen.
* ''Wulff'' -- A Zuranist former Hawkwood soldier, he is Sergeant Coyote's second-in-command.

Family and Glory

2011-10-25T01:31:18Z

The Justus de Castro Salazar are an old, old Hazat family: one of Saint Emanuel's companions, he was given a castle on Aragon that controlled one of the approaches to Castle Furias. With that, the Marquis de Castro Salazar received a substantial income as one of the Wardens of the Skyways, receiving incomes from ships traveling to Castle Furias, but in starting in 4696 the Castro Salazar family was divided; two twin sons were born, and the marquessate was split, with one son becoming Baron de Castro Salazar, ruling the castle and receiving income as a Warden of the Skyway, while the other becoming Baron de Salazar, with the income from Salazar Town and its lands.

For most of their history, the Castro Salazars and the town Salazars coexisted happily as cousins, but in 4953 an attempt to reunite the two branches of the family in the person of the daughter of the Castro Salazars ended when Ramiro Salazar - heir to Salazar Town - got a bastard on Matilde de Castro Salazar several months before they were to be married. Matilde fled with the child, and instead her younger brother Ferdinand inherited. Ramiro never forgave the Castro Salazars, but he did have his revenge until 4994, when he accused - successfully - Ferdinand's son Rodrigo of allowing through inattention the destruction of the atmosphere generator he was assigned to guard at Jericho. With Ferdinand driven mad and committed to the Oubliette by his cousin Ramiro, Ramiro was able to have himself named Marquis de Salazar with the support of Elena de Castenda, whose niece he had married.

== Dramas ==

# [[The Duke and the Emperor]] -- The heroes arrive on the throneworld and become embroiled in politics of both the personal and interplanetary sort. Don Dario becomes a Questing Knight.
# [[The Drowned God]] -- Still on Byzantium, the heroes journey into Drown Town to help a woman rescue her daughter; there, they confront aliens and techno-cultists and ultimately recover an ancient and powerful war machine. In the process, they start a bloody war that ripples across Drown Town.
# [[The House of the Fox]] -- Now sworn to help an Amalthean find a cure for a mysterious disease, the heroes have accompanied her to Tethys, where while she researches they journey into the maw of the beast to recover a stolen Imperial Seal from the house of Scraver matriarch Benita Ivankov in order to improve the slums of New Madrid.
# [[A Cup of Miracles]] -- The heroes track an artifact known as the Mael Cup to a ruined village, and then follow its trail through a band of slavers to an Engineer scientist engaged in bio-weapons research.
# [[Gulag Julka]] -- Now in Malignatius space, the heroes are captured by a Baron Petra Decados and sent to the infamous Atshen Internment Camp on Malignatius' barren moon of Julka. There, they lead a daring escape.
# [[The People of the Sky]] -- On Malignatius, the heroes seek out the Grand Gathering of the Zuranists to protect them from Incarnate air pirates while the Amalthean they are traveling with cures the Zuranists of a deadly plague.

== PCs ==

* [[Don Dario Benizio Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- A Hazat knight whose family was dispossessed. He is a veteran of the Emperor Wars. (Played by Sean)
* [[Father-Commander Domingo Emmanuel Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- Don Dario's older brother, Domingo is a priest and a former starship commander in the Patriarchal Fleet. (Played by Gavin)
* [[Don Alejandro Plácido Ignacio Eduardo de Ves]] -- A Hazat knight and former crusader who spent 10 years imprisoned in Kurgan space, he is the Castro Salazars' cousin as well as a grand-nephew to Duke Jose. (Played by Reid)
* [[Aurelia Castro]] -- The bastard daughter of Ramiro de Castro Salazar and Dario and Domingo's half-sister, she is householder with unsavory connections. (Played by Vanessa)
* [[Captain Joe Ridek]] -- A Charioteer commander and an employee of the De Vatha hong, he has been assigned to help the Castro Salazars by his hong. (Played by Jeremy)

== Major NPCs ==

'''Byzantium Secundus'''
* ''Emperor Alexius I'' -- Hawkwood Emperor of the Known Worlds and victor of the Emperor Wars.
* ''Sir Chamon Mazarin'' -- The Emperor's cunning dwarf spymaster.
* ''Duke Jose Alfonso Louis Eduardo de Aragon'' -- Prince Juan's brother, Duke Jose is the Hazat ambassador to the Emperor and one of the most respected and honorable men in the Known Worlds.
* ''Count Faustus Hawkwood'' -- A veteran Hawkwood general, Count Faustus has become disaffected with the Emperor and is the leader of a nascent Hawkwood nationalist faction on Byzantium Secundus.
* ''Count Alrich Li Halan'' -- Li Halan ambassador to the Imperial Court. Father Domingo may have killed his son.
* ''Baron Eviathan Hawkwood'' -- One of the Questing Knights, Baron Eviathan is the sort of social head of the Company, living mostly on the throneworld.
* ''Duchess Salandra Decados'' -- The Decados ambassador is a beautiful woman of ever-changing face and one of the canniest women in the Known Worlds.

'''Aragon'''
* ''Prince Juan Jacobi Nelson Eduardo de Aragon'' -- Prince of the Hazat.
* ''Consul Dorian De Vatha'' -- Dorian De Vatha is one of Ozul De Vatha's nephews and represents the Hong to Prince Juan's court. He is said to be particularly politically astute.
* ''Baron Benizio Eduardo de Ves'' -- Don Alejandro's father, a minor baron.
* ''Marquis Ramiro Malegant Justus de Salazar'' -- Marquis de Salazar and Warden of the Skyway, Don Ramiro is the architect of the heroes' family's fall from grace.

'''The League'''
* ''Mater Benita "The Fox" Ivankov'' -- Head of the Scravers' Guild, and someone not fond of the heroes.

'''At Large'''
* ''Ricardo Salazar'' -- Bastard son of Marquis Ramiro de Salazar, Ricardo is infamous for his service as a raider in the Hazat navy.

Family and Glory

2011-10-25T01:24:11Z

P: /* Major NPCs */

The Justus de Castro Salazar are an old, old Hazat family: one of Saint Emanuel's companions, he was given a castle on Aragon that controlled one of the approaches to Castle Furias. With that, the Marquis de Castro Salazar received a substantial income as one of the Wardens of the Skyways, receiving incomes from ships traveling to Castle Furias, but in starting in 4696 the Castro Salazar family was divided; two twin sons were born, and the marquessate was split, with one son becoming Baron de Castro Salazar, ruling the castle and receiving income as a Warden of the Skyway, while the other becoming Baron de Salazar, with the income from Salazar Town and its lands.

For most of their history, the Castro Salazars and the town Salazars coexisted happily as cousins, but in 4953 an attempt to reunite the two branches of the family in the person of the daughter of the Castro Salazars ended when Ramiro Salazar - heir to Salazar Town - got a bastard on Matilde de Castro Salazar several months before they were to be married. Matilde fled with the child, and instead her younger brother Ferdinand inherited. Ramiro never forgave the Castro Salazars, but he did have his revenge until 4994, when he accused - successfully - Ferdinand's son Rodrigo of allowing through inattention the destruction of the atmosphere generator he was assigned to guard at Jericho. With Ferdinand driven mad and committed to the Oubliette by his cousin Ramiro, Ramiro was able to have himself named Marquis de Salazar with the support of Elena de Castenda, whose niece he had married.

== Dramas ==

# [[The Duke and the Emperor]] -- The heroes arrive on the throneworld and become embroiled in politics of both the personal and interplanetary sort. Don Dario becomes a Questing Knight.
# [[The Drowned God]] -- Still on Byzantium, the heroes journey into Drown Town to help a woman rescue her daughter; there, they confront aliens and techno-cultists and ultimately recover an ancient and powerful war machine. In the process, they start a bloody war that ripples across Drown Town.
# [[The House of the Fox]] -- Now sworn to help an Amalthean find a cure for a mysterious disease, the heroes have accompanied her to Tethys, where while she researches they journey into the maw of the beast to recover a stolen Imperial Seal from the house of Scraver matriarch Benita Ivankov in order to improve the slums of New Madrid.
# [[A Cup of Miracles]] -- The heroes track an artifact known as the Mael Cup to a ruined village, and then follow its trail through a band of slavers to an Engineer scientist engaged in bio-weapons research.
# [[Gulag Julka]] -- Now in Malignatius space, the heroes are captured by a Baron Petra Decados and sent to the infamous Atshen Internment Camp on Malignatius' barren moon of Julka. There, they lead a daring escape.
# [[The People of the Sky]] -- On Malignatius, the heroes seek out the Grand Gathering of the Zuranists to protect them from Incarnate air pirates while the Amalthean they are traveling with cures the Zuranists of a deadly plague.

== PCs ==

* [[Don Dario Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- A Hazat knight whose family was dispossessed. He is a veteran of the Emperor Wars. (Played by Sean)
* [[Father-Commander Domingo Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- Don Dario's older brother, Domingo is a priest and a former starship commander in the Patriarchal Fleet. (Played by Gavin)
* [[Don Alejandro Eduardo de Ves]] -- A Hazat knight and former crusader who spent 10 years imprisoned in Kurgan space, he is the Castro Salazars' cousin as well as a grand-nephew to Duke Jose. (Played by Reid)
* [[Aurelia Castro]] -- The bastard daughter of Ramiro de Castro Salazar and Dario and Domingo's half-sister, she is householder with unsavory connections. (Played by Vanessa)
* [[Captain Joe Ridek]] -- A Charioteer commander and an employee of the De Vatha hong, he has been assigned to help the Castro Salazars by his hong. (Played by Jeremy)

== Major NPCs ==

'''Byzantium Secundus'''
* ''Emperor Alexius I'' -- Hawkwood Emperor of the Known Worlds and victor of the Emperor Wars.
* ''Sir Chamon Mazarin'' -- The Emperor's cunning dwarf spymaster.
* ''Duke Jose Alfonso Louis Eduardo de Aragon'' -- Prince Juan's brother, Duke Jose is the Hazat ambassador to the Emperor and one of the most respected and honorable men in the Known Worlds.
* ''Count Faustus Hawkwood'' -- A veteran Hawkwood general, Count Faustus has become disaffected with the Emperor and is the leader of a nascent Hawkwood nationalist faction on Byzantium Secundus.
* ''Count Alrich Li Halan'' -- Li Halan ambassador to the Imperial Court. Father Domingo may have killed his son.
* ''Baron Eviathan Hawkwood'' -- One of the Questing Knights, Baron Eviathan is the sort of social head of the Company, living mostly on the throneworld.
* ''Duchess Salandra Decados'' -- The Decados ambassador is a beautiful woman of ever-changing face and one of the canniest women in the Known Worlds.

'''Aragon'''
* ''Prince Juan Jacobi Nelson Eduardo de Aragon'' -- Prince of the Hazat.
* ''Consul Dorian De Vatha'' -- Dorian De Vatha is one of Ozul De Vatha's nephews and represents the Hong to Prince Juan's court. He is said to be particularly politically astute.
* ''Baron Benizio Eduardo de Ves'' -- Don Alejandro's father, a minor baron.

'''The League'''
* ''Mater Benita "The Fox" Ivankov'' -- Head of the Scravers' Guild, and someone not fond of the heroes.

The Duke and the Emperor

2011-10-25T01:20:15Z

The heroes are summoned to Byzantium Secundus by Duke Jose Alfoso Louis Eduardo de Aragon, where Don Dario embarks upon a grand new adventure - but not before all are embroiled in throneworld politics.

== The Ducal Yacht ==

Father Domingo, Don Dario and Aurelia arrive at the Port Authority to be met by Captain Ridek and Don Alejandro, who take them via motorboat to Duke Jose's magnificent yacht, a protected sea cruiser turned into a floating palace. There, they meet with Duke Jose, who tells them that Don Dario has been selected to be one of the first fifty members of a new Company of the Phoenix created by the Emperor to quest among the stars and right wrongs.

Aurelia discovers that a beautiful woman is the only other guest on the yacht; after a rendezvous with the Duke, she takes off in a black flitter.

== An Invitation; An Uncomfortable Party ==

Returning to the Hazat embassy, the heroes receive an invitation to a party being hosted by Count Faustus Hawkwood. The party is very uncomfortable - it's clear these people are Hawkwood veterans who do not much like the Hazat - but Count Faustus gives the heroes an access pass to visit Jericho, where Father Domingo and Don Dario's brother was killed. Aurelia also makes friends with a young man at the party.

== The Moon of Jericho ==

Traveling to Jericho aboard Captain Ridek's ship, the heroes land near the atmosphere generator Rodrigo Castro Salazar was assigned to guard. Trekking in space suits to the generator, they search the wreckage, finding the ruins of Rodrigo's sword as well as a body: a Hawkwood commando in pristine condition, a blonde woman preserved in space. Imperial Eye troopers swarm the location shortly after, though the party keeps the commando's weapons as proof.

== Enter the Dwarf ==

Investigation will reveal that the sword belonged to a Dame Alice Hawkwood, a Hawkwood commando officer who officially died a year before Jericho. The investigation brings the Imperial Eye down on the heroes, however, where they are interviewed by Chamon Mazarin.

Mazarin tells them that the woman was planted on Jericho - she did not die there - and asks for her sword, as she was close to the Emperor. Dario asks permission to return the sword himself and it is granted, with a meeting to take place after the Questing Knight ceremony.

== A Company From The Ashes ==

Dario and his companions go to the Imperial Palace, where he is raised a Questing Knight amongst 49 others. Speaking with them, it is clear that they are almost all die-hard idealists, many of whom have little political sensibility - but they believe passionately in the Emperor's vision for a peaceful future.

== The Emperor ==

The heroes then meet privately with the Emperor, who confides that Dame Alice was dear to him and that she died in the Holy Terra system in 4993. He asks the companions to keep their ears open for the matter, as it is clear that whatever went on extends past the end of the war.

== Dramatis Personae ==

* ''Duke Jose Alfoso Louis Eduardo de Aragon'' -- The heroes' patron and relative, he is the Hazat ambassador and the most respected diplomat on Byzantium Secundus.
* ''Count Faustus Hawkwood'' -- A Hawkwood general, he is the leader of the anti-Alexius faction.
* ''Sir Chamon Mazarin'' -- The Emperor's spymaster, a cunning dwarf.
* ''Sir Roger Winterbroom'' -- A young man Aurelia befriended at Faustus' party.
* ''Sergeant Arcturus Fawkes'' -- A Phoenix guardsman the players got information about Dame Alice from; he served with her during the Wars.

The Drowned God

2011-10-25T01:19:53Z

While the Questing Knights are sending members of the Company out on quests, a woman comes into the Company's hall exclaiming that the Ukari have stolen her daughter from Drown Town. Don Dario leaps up and swears to aid her.

== The Sluice-Woman's Story ==

"My lords! My lords! They have taken my daughter, and mean to sacrifice her to the drowned god!"

The Sluice-Woman - named Jayn - is sobbing, telling the heroes that her daughter Darla has been stolen from the Ukari. She takes them to the small Drown Town village where she dwells, many feet below the surface, and shows them her hovel: she is the sluice-woman, who controls a sewer-drain from the Imperial Palace kitchens and uses the refuse there to make stew which she barters to the people of her village. She says that a crowd of pale Ukari crept into her hovel and stole her daughter from her; she knew them by the whiteness of their face and their terrible scars, and says they worshipped a "Drowned God."

Others in the village tell the heroes how to find Vo Voshtok, where the local Ukari dwell, and they set off to find Vo Voshtok, navigating along an underground channel filled with Blind Pike as they do. Crossing a water-fall, some of the heroes nearly fall, but they make it at last to the territory of the Ukari.

== Vo Voshtok ==

Vo Voshtok is over-run with the fungus the Ukari cultivate, a wild place of ruined hallways and winding tunnels. At last the heroes are surrounded by Ukari, who demand to know why they are there; after some tension, the leader of the Ukari - Goquan Zohor na Sudrik - arrives, and he and Don Dario have some harsh words. Zohor ultimately denies that they took the girl and directs the companions deeper into the Stygriat, where they say the cult of the Drowned God dwells.

== The Great Fall; The Dweller in the Black ==

The Ukari directions are down a three-hundred-foot waterfall known as the Great Fall; Captain Ridek stumbles and falls as the heroes make their way down, rousing in the black pool at the bottom a terrible Dweller whose tentacles wrap around him and begin to drag him down. Fearful for their friend, the rest of the company leaps to the bottom of the falls; Don Alejandro's shield fails, wounding him sorely, but Don Dario, Father Domingo and Aurelia strike the beast like lightning and drive it back into its hole.

Recovering Ridek and Don Alejandro, the heroes pause to recover and then make for a small side-door the Ukari had told them about.

== The Cult Complex ==

The door leads into what appears to be an ancient Second Republic facility that Captain Ridek is able to identify as a military research base from faded logos on the walls. After cutting through a few cultists, the heroes learn the location of the Drowned God itself and hurry there, hoping to rescue Darla from being sacrificed.

== The Chamber of the Drowned God ==

The Drowned God itself is a giant golem - ten stories tall - submerged up to a catwalk at the level of its ears in dirty water. Several score of cultists wander around that catwalk level, and their priests are preparing to sacrifice Darla - it appears there is a door at the Drowned God's ear, and it repeats "ACCESS DENIED" each time the cultists touch it. They hope the girl's blood might open the Drowned God to them.

Battle ensues; the radiation leaking from the Drowned God has Changed the cultists, and some spit acid, have terrible screams or wield fiendish tentacles. Swordplay, gunfire and plasma grenades clear out the cultists, however, even as ferocious sword- and hammer-work by Don Dario, Aurelia, and Father Domingo rescue the girl. At last, the cultists on the run, the heroes approach the Drowned God itself and Captain Ridek is able to gain access.

== "I am your god!" ==

Inside, the Drowned God is an advanced war machine: designed to be controlled by a single man, it is capable of flight even in the Void or in the depths of the sea and carries terrible weapons, including blasters and nano-factory produced missile batteries, all within the control of its pilot. Upon stepping into the pilot's field, Captain Ridek can only exclaim "I am your god!" - a testament, perhaps, to the rush of power such a device brings.

Debate occurs over what should be done with the device: Don Alejandro argues that it ought to go to the Hazat, to be deployed against the Kurgans, while Father Domingo claims it for the Church as forbidden technology. Don Dario is conflicted, but at last decides it will go to the Emperor, at which point Captain Ridek blasts an exit through the tube in the ceiling and sends it up through the ocean and into space, flooding the complex behind it.

== Fealty ==

In orbit, some tense conversation with the Imperial Navy ensues, but Sir Chamon Mazarin ultimately negotiates with Don Dario. Mazarin wants the machine sent to a secret facility, but Don Dario instead orders Captain Ridek to land it at the Port Authority, where Admiral John Syngen-Wilkes - First Lord Admiral of the Imperial Fleet - is waiting. Captain Ridek has the Drowned God kneel in an expression of fealty to the Emperor, at which point the company disembarks and returns to the Imperial City - though they are sure to tip off Duke Jose about their plan, so that the Hazat can get some credit for the affair as well.

== Aftermath ==

A return to Drown Town leads the heroes to fear that rising waters may wipe out some villages, and so they warn the people down there of the rise. This provokes rising panic, as the dwellers in the Stygriat arm and prepare to fight for higher ground. Concerned for their own safety, the companions flee, warning the Imperial Palace that the disturbance may boil out into the streets.

== Dramatis Personae ==

* ''Duke Jose Alfoso Louis Eduardo de Aragon'' -- The heroes' patron and relative, he is the Hazat ambassador and the most respected diplomat on Byzantium Secundus.
* ''Sir Chamon Mazarin'' -- The Emperor's spymaster, a cunning dwarf.
* ''Lord Admiral John Syngen-Wilkes'' -- First Lord Admiral of the Imperial Fleet.

Family and Glory

2011-10-25T00:54:21Z

The Justus de Castro Salazar are an old, old Hazat family: one of Saint Emanuel's companions, he was given a castle on Aragon that controlled one of the approaches to Castle Furias. With that, the Marquis de Castro Salazar received a substantial income as one of the Wardens of the Skyways, receiving incomes from ships traveling to Castle Furias, but in starting in 4696 the Castro Salazar family was divided; two twin sons were born, and the marquessate was split, with one son becoming Baron de Castro Salazar, ruling the castle and receiving income as a Warden of the Skyway, while the other becoming Baron de Salazar, with the income from Salazar Town and its lands.

For most of their history, the Castro Salazars and the town Salazars coexisted happily as cousins, but in 4953 an attempt to reunite the two branches of the family in the person of the daughter of the Castro Salazars ended when Ramiro Salazar - heir to Salazar Town - got a bastard on Matilde de Castro Salazar several months before they were to be married. Matilde fled with the child, and instead her younger brother Ferdinand inherited. Ramiro never forgave the Castro Salazars, but he did have his revenge until 4994, when he accused - successfully - Ferdinand's son Rodrigo of allowing through inattention the destruction of the atmosphere generator he was assigned to guard at Jericho. With Ferdinand driven mad and committed to the Oubliette by his cousin Ramiro, Ramiro was able to have himself named Marquis de Salazar with the support of Elena de Castenda, whose niece he had married.

== Dramas ==

# [[The Duke and the Emperor]] -- The heroes arrive on the throneworld and become embroiled in politics of both the personal and interplanetary sort. Don Dario becomes a Questing Knight.
# [[The Drowned God]] -- Still on Byzantium, the heroes journey into Drown Town to help a woman rescue her daughter; there, they confront aliens and techno-cultists and ultimately recover an ancient and powerful war machine. In the process, they start a bloody war that ripples across Drown Town.
# [[The House of the Fox]] -- Now sworn to help an Amalthean find a cure for a mysterious disease, the heroes have accompanied her to Tethys, where while she researches they journey into the maw of the beast to recover a stolen Imperial Seal from the house of Scraver matriarch Benita Ivankov in order to improve the slums of New Madrid.
# [[A Cup of Miracles]] -- The heroes track an artifact known as the Mael Cup to a ruined village, and then follow its trail through a band of slavers to an Engineer scientist engaged in bio-weapons research.
# [[Gulag Julka]] -- Now in Malignatius space, the heroes are captured by a Baron Petra Decados and sent to the infamous Atshen Internment Camp on Malignatius' barren moon of Julka. There, they lead a daring escape.
# [[The People of the Sky]] -- On Malignatius, the heroes seek out the Grand Gathering of the Zuranists to protect them from Incarnate air pirates while the Amalthean they are traveling with cures the Zuranists of a deadly plague.

== PCs ==

* [[Don Dario Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- A Hazat knight whose family was dispossessed. He is a veteran of the Emperor Wars. (Played by Sean)
* [[Father-Commander Domingo Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- Don Dario's older brother, Domingo is a priest and a former starship commander in the Patriarchal Fleet. (Played by Gavin)
* [[Don Alejandro Eduardo de Ves]] -- A Hazat knight and former crusader who spent 10 years imprisoned in Kurgan space, he is the Castro Salazars' cousin as well as a grand-nephew to Duke Jose. (Played by Reid)
* [[Aurelia Castro]] -- The bastard daughter of Ramiro de Castro Salazar and Dario and Domingo's half-sister, she is householder with unsavory connections. (Played by Vanessa)
* [[Captain Joe Ridek]] -- A Charioteer commander and an employee of the De Vatha hong, he has been assigned to help the Castro Salazars by his hong. (Played by Jeremy)

== Major NPCs ==

'''Byzantium Secundus'''
* ''Emperor Alexius I'' -- Hawkwood Emperor of the Known Worlds and victor of the Emperor Wars.
* ''Sir Chamon Mazarin'' -- The Emperor's cunning dwarf spymaster.
* ''Duke Jose'' -- Prince Juan's brother, Duke Jose is the Hazat ambassador to the Emperor and one of the most respected and honorable men in the Known Worlds.
* ''Count Faustus Hawkwood'' -- A veteran Hawkwood general, Count Faustus has become disaffected with the Emperor and is the leader of a nascent Hawkwood nationalist faction on Byzantium Secundus.
* ''Count Alrich Li Halan'' -- Li Halan ambassador to the Imperial Court. Father Domingo may have killed his son.
* ''Baron Eviathan Hawkwood'' -- One of the Questing Knights, Baron Eviathan is the sort of social head of the Company, living mostly on the throneworld.
* ''Duchess Salandra Decados'' -- The Decados ambassador is a beautiful woman of ever-changing face and one of the canniest women in the Known Worlds.

'''Aragon'''
* ''Prince Juan'' -- Prince of the Hazat.
* ''Consul Dorian De Vatha'' -- Dorian De Vatha is one of Ozul De Vatha's nephews and represents the Hong to Prince Juan's court. He is said to be particularly politically astute.
* ''Baron Benizio Eduardo de Ves'' -- Don Alejandro's father, a minor baron.

Gulag Julka

2011-10-10T20:19:19Z

P: New page: Traveling from Tethys to Malignatius, the heroes run into Ciera Li Halan on Criticorum and hear that the Decados are trying to stop them from getting the Mael Cup to the Zuranists. Sister ...

Family and Glory

2011-10-10T19:40:45Z

P: /* Dramas */

The Justus de Castro Salazar are an old, old Hazat family: one of Saint Emanuel's companions, he was given a castle on Aragon that controlled one of the approaches to Castle Furias. With that, the Marquis de Castro Salazar received a substantial income as one of the Wardens of the Skyways, receiving incomes from ships traveling to Castle Furias, but in starting in 4696 the Castro Salazar family was divided; two twin sons were born, and the marquessate was split, with one son becoming Baron de Castro Salazar, ruling the castle and receiving income as a Warden of the Skyway, while the other becoming Baron de Salazar, with the income from Salazar Town and its lands.

For most of their history, the Castro Salazars and the town Salazars coexisted happily as cousins, but in 4953 an attempt to reunite the two branches of the family in the person of the daughter of the Castro Salazars ended when Ramiro Salazar - heir to Salazar Town - got a bastard on Matilde de Castro Salazar several months before they were to be married. Matilde fled with the child, and instead her younger brother Ferdinand inherited. Ramiro never forgave the Castro Salazars, but he did have his revenge until 4994, when he accused - successfully - Ferdinand's son Rodrigo of allowing through inattention the destruction of the atmosphere generator he was assigned to guard at Jericho. With Ferdinand driven mad and committed to the Oubliette by his cousin Ramiro, Ramiro was able to have himself named Marquis de Salazar with the support of Elena de Castenda, whose niece he had married.

== Dramas ==

# [[The Duke and the Emperor]] -- The heroes arrive on the throneworld and become embroiled in politics of both the personal and interplanetary sort. Don Dario becomes a Questing Knight.
# [[The Drowned God]] -- Still on Byzantium, the heroes journey into Drown Town to help a woman rescue her daughter; there, they confront aliens and techno-cultists and ultimately recover an ancient and powerful war machine. In the process, they start a bloody war that ripples across Drown Town.
# [[The House of the Fox]] -- Now sworn to help an Amalthean find a cure for a mysterious disease, the heroes have accompanied her to Tethys, where while she researches they journey into the maw of the beast to recover a stolen Imperial Seal from the house of Scraver matriarch Benita Ivankov in order to improve the slums of New Madrid.
# [[A Cup of Miracles]] -- The heroes track an artifact known as the Mael Cup to a ruined village, and then follow its trail through a band of slavers to an Engineer scientist engaged in bio-weapons research.
# [[Gulag Julka]] -- Now in Malignatius space, the heroes are captured by a Baron Petra Decados and sent to the infamous Atshen Internment Camp on Malignatius' barren moon of Julka. There, they lead a daring escape.

== PCs ==

* [[Don Dario Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- A Hazat knight whose family was dispossessed. He is a veteran of the Emperor Wars. (Played by Sean)
* [[Father-Commander Domingo Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- Don Dario's older brother, Domingo is a priest and a former starship commander in the Patriarchal Fleet. (Played by Gavin)
* [[Don Alejandro Eduardo de Ves]] -- A Hazat knight and former crusader who spent 10 years imprisoned in Kurgan space, he is the Castro Salazars' cousin as well as a grand-nephew to Duke Jose. (Played by Reid)
* [[Aurelia Castro]] -- The bastard daughter of Ramiro de Castro Salazar and Dario and Domingo's half-sister, she is householder with unsavory connections. (Played by Vanessa)
* [[Captain Joe Ridek]] -- A Charioteer commander and an employee of the De Vatha hong, he has been assigned to help the Castro Salazars by his hong. (Played by Jeremy)

== Major NPCs ==

'''Byzantium Secundus'''
* ''Emperor Alexius I'' -- Hawkwood Emperor of the Known Worlds and victor of the Emperor Wars.
* ''Sir Chamon Mazarin'' -- The Emperor's cunning dwarf spymaster.
* ''Duke Jose'' -- Prince Juan's brother, Duke Jose is the Hazat ambassador to the Emperor and one of the most respected and honorable men in the Known Worlds.
* ''Count Faustus Hawkwood'' -- A veteran Hawkwood general, Count Faustus has become disaffected with the Emperor and is the leader of a nascent Hawkwood nationalist faction on Byzantium Secundus.
* ''Count Alrich Li Halan'' -- Li Halan ambassador to the Imperial Court. Father Domingo may have killed his son.
* ''Baron Eviathan Hawkwood'' -- One of the Questing Knights, Baron Eviathan is the sort of social head of the Company, living mostly on the throneworld.
* ''Duchess Salandra Decados'' -- The Decados ambassador is a beautiful woman of ever-changing face and one of the canniest women in the Known Worlds.

'''Aragon'''
* ''Prince Juan'' -- Prince of the Hazat.
* ''Consul Dorian De Vatha'' -- Dorian De Vatha is one of Ozul De Vatha's nephews and represents the Hong to Prince Juan's court. He is said to be particularly politically astute.
* ''Baron Benizio Eduardo de Ves'' -- Don Alejandro's father, a minor baron.

The House of the Fox

2011-10-10T19:38:14Z

P: /* Dramatis Personae */

The heroes are on Tethys, having promised to help Sister Jenna Relari - an Amalthean - find the Mael Cup, a relic from the Age of Miracles that she believes will help cure a plague spreading among the Zuranist nomads of Malignatius. While she searches the archives in the Our Lady of the Weeping Blood Cathedral, however, the companions have several weeks to help a local Imperial administrator with a problem.

== The Vice-Governor's Problem ==

The companions are invited to dinner by Lord Renton Hayes, the Hawkwood son of Baron Hayes of Delphi, who is a man in his late twenties posted as Vice-Governor for New Madrid. He explains that Emperor Alexius has asked him to help the Imperial Housing Authority clean up the Nuevo Madrid slums known as the Crawl, but that they have been experiencing opposition from the Scravers. This is perhaps not a surprise; Benita Ivankov, Senior Dean of the Scravers Guild, keeps her official residence on Tethys and the Ivankov family is one of the 'Three Sisters', the guilds who control much of the world.

Two months ago, a presumed Scraver hit team broke into the Imperial Housing Authority and killed half a dozen people, including the gangland execution of Rogier Madrid, the freeman Imperial Housing Administrator - and they took his prismium seal, used to seal official documents. Now, when the IHA tries to enforce fair living conditions and rents on Scraver-controlled housing, the Scravers are showing up with signed and sealed documents using the stolen seal.

Ordinarily, Lord Renton would just have to swallow this insult; the Scravers are powerful, and if he were to invalidate the seal they would be able to renegotiate every IHA contract and would succeed at legalizing their current usurious rents. The Scravers expect that their forged documents are merely the cost of doing business, though that cost comes at a high price indeed to the people of the Crawl.

However, the presence of the Emperor's new order of Questing Knights leaves Lord Renton asking if this is the sort of the problem inside their charter: normally, the people of the Crawl would lose, because they have no power, but the Questing Knights exist to protect the powerless. Sir Dario, mindful of this, agrees to look into the matter for Lord Renton.

== Into The Crawl ==

The Crawl is as bad as Lord Renton made out. These people are not beggars and criminals, like in other slums; instead, they are the factory workers, and the Scravers Guild has made deals with the weaponsmithing guilds that their rents are payable directly to the Scravers, leaving the workers never seeing the coin and not having enough to feed their families.

Sir Dario buys several food carts to ease the suffering somewhat, and Father Domingo speaks to the Amalthean mission in the center of the Crawl, confirming the dire straits of these people - dire straits that the Empire is somewhat complacent in, as it is under Imperial seal that the direct payment of rents occurs.

More investigation reveals that the keeper of the stolen seal is probably in the Scraver-controlled city of Tulasca - a Pietr Ivankov, Chief Counsel for Tethys Affairs. Before the heroes head to Tulasca, Lord Renton gives them name of his Imperial Eye contact in the Scraver city, a Morticus Guild baker named Lucas Ledeaux.

== Neon Lights of Tulasca ==

Tulasca is a city of vice; the heroes accept an invitation from Carmen Ivankov, Benita Ivankov's lieutenant, to stay in Kennedy House, the old Alecto palace said to date back to the First Republic. They meet her - a disagreeable woman - and Aurelia learns the location of Pietr Ivankov's offices, a public office in the East Wing and a private office above a Scraver striptease called the Tiger Club.

The companions meet Lucas Ledeaux, who tries to dissuade them from recovering the seal; he is concerned that Imperial action will anger the Scravers, and does not believe that it is in the Emperor's interests to pick a fight over some slums. Undaunted, the companions continue their investigations, as Aurelia searches for an entrance to the secret passages honeycombing the walls of the Kennedy House and Sir Dario, Father Domingo and Captain Ridek plant a bug in Pietr Ivankov's office.

== Plans Are Formed ==

The bug reveals that Ivankov likely keeps the seal in some sort of secret office behind his private office, while Aurelia learns that the gangers in the Santos District - Blight Town - know of guarded entrances to the Kennedy House tunnel system. Aurelia and Captain Ridek go to meet some gangers; while Bernardo of the Santos Saints believes that she is a Scraver informant sent to test him, Darla of the Spiders parts with the location of the tunnel entrances for a few 'birds.

The companions return to Lucas Ledeaux, who again tries to talk them out of their plan. He admits that the Eye hasn't taken the slums issue seriously, and asks them to give him a few months to try to work out a solution. They refuse, and reluctantly he gives them directions to navigate the "Second Palace" of Kennedy House.

== Into The Breach ==

Following the gangers instructions, the heroes find the entrance to the tunnels, guarded by two Scravers. Captain Ridek distracts them, acting drunk, and then the companions subdue them and gain entry into the Second Palace. Following the Imperial Eye instructions, they begin to quickly navigate the tunnels.

As they take a jog down a corridor, Captain Ridek is spotted by a Muster response team, who open fire on him after a failed attempt to deceive them. His shield drops under assault rifle fire, but as Aurelia, Father Domingo, Don Dario and Don Alejandro hurry back to help him the Muster are driven to a retreat under the assault of the companions' swords and hammers.

Eventually, the companions make it to Piotr Ivankov's office; Aurelia overrides the keypad on the door with some help from Sir Dario and then sets about cracking the safe in Ivankov's inner office as the heroes watch him have a conversation outside through one-way glass.

== Endgame ==

Piotr Ivankov then moves to enter the office; the brothers de Castro Salazar subdue him quickly, force him to open the safe, and then recover the seal, some coin, and a data crystal.

Some careful negotiation leads Piotr to order guards away from the companions' escape route while Sir Dario promises to return the data crystal once he is safely back in Nuevo Madrid, and the companions make their escape. As they lift off, they receive a communication from Carmen Ivankov, who is entirely unamused by the recovery of the disk: she suggests to Sir Dario that future interventions of this sort by the Questing Knights will not be tolerated by the Scravers.

After the conversation with Carmen is done, Lucas Ledeaux also contacts the heroes; upon learning about the data crystal, he expresses a desire to copy it. Sir Dario tells him he can't give it to the Eye, but intimates that he would look the other way if an Eye operative copied it under some ruse.

== Aftermath ==

Landing at Nuevo Madrid, Sir Dario reneges on his vague promises to the Eye, taking Don Alejandro's advice that to help the Eye out would make this seem a political act, rather than something done to help the poor. He returns the data crystal to the Scravers, the seal to Lord Renton and the coin taken from Piotr Ivankov is given to the Amalthean mission as a donation in Piotr's name.

Several weeks later, Don Dario receives a handwritten note from Benita Ivankov herself: in a simple, flowing hand, it says "You get one for free. Benita."

== Dramatis Personae ==

* ''Lord Renton Hayes'' -- Vice-Governor of Tethys, Lord Renton is an honorable Hawkwood with a desire to make life better for the inhabitants of the Crawl but the chains of a political officeholder. He is vindicated at the end of the drama, having recovered his seal and helped the people of Nuevo Madrid.
* ''Carmen Ivankov'' -- Benita Ivankov's number two, Carmen is an icy woman and a Scraver consul. She is left upset at the end of the drama.
* ''Piotr Ivankov'' -- A shady advocate, Piotr is the Scravers' Chief Counsel for Tethys and a Scraver director. The events of the drama leave him not only upset but also damaged in prestige.
* ''Lucas Ledeaux'' -- An 'Old Guard' Imperial Eye field coordinator, Ledeaux is nomainally the manager of an industrial bakery for the Morticus Guild. He only reluctantly aids the heroes, and - with his cover in some danger - is likely to be reassigned following the drama.
* ''Sir Rolf Torenson'' -- A Torenson gadfly in Tulasca, Sir Rolf is in fact an Imperial Eye agent and was the heroes' contact on several occasions.

A Cup of Miracles

2011-10-10T19:34:51Z

P: New page: Sister Jenna Relani - the Amalthean who is searching for the Mael Cup, a relic she believes will help cure a plague on Malignatius - has located the "Village of Roland", where it is said t...

Sister Jenna Relani - the Amalthean who is searching for the Mael Cup, a relic she believes will help cure a plague on Malignatius - has located the "Village of Roland", where it is said to have been taken during the age of miracles. The village is in fact named Temsin Urtiz, and it is in the northern part of the continent of Avalon, several hundred miles south of Menoket and about a thousand miles from the island continent of Airvaya Vego, home to the Imperial RAID research labs.

== Ruins of Temsin Urtiz ==

Temsin Urtiz is in ruins when the heroes arrive; after poking around the ruins, they determine that it has been probably ten years since it was destroyed, likely during the Emperor Wars. A reliquary in the half-crumbled chapel seems to have once held a cup, but it - like everything else in the village - has been looted.

In the rectory, however, the ancient records of the village church are discovered, confirming that the Mael Cup was there, and using those records the heroes go to a neighboring village where they determine that some refugees from Temsin Urtiz might have made it to Menoket.

== Denizens of Menoket ==

The city of Menoket is run by a Reeve administrator, who is of limited help to the heroes, though he fills them in on the conflict: Menoket was held by the Hazat during the Wars, and Muster forces hired by Alexius ultimately took the peninsula and then the city. Ridek and Don Alejandro speak to the Muster, who provide them with some information about the Muster companies who were engaged in the action.

At the Menoket cathedral, the old chartophylax takes the records from Temsin Urtiz and directs Father Domingo towards the Church of St. Lextius out in the West Side, the slums of Menoket.

St. Lextius' is a huge church the size of an indoor basketball court, built for soldiers a millennium ago when the Gesar controlled the planet. Over the course of the centuries, worshippers have made tiny, home-made icons of saints, which now cover the walls as offerings and hang from the rafters. Father Rybor, the priest, connects the heroes with Brother Jose, a gangster from the west side, who in turn connects them to Hadrian Temsin, who was the miller's boy and fled Temsin Urtiz.

Hadrian tells the heroes that a set of slavers moved through the village when the fighting was done, looting and taking everything, and identifies the head slaver - a man with coal-black skin and a glowing orange Chainer tattoo who travels in a fiery orange Wagon of Paulus. Don Alejandro's friend at the Muster Hiring Hall identifies the slaver as a Chief Acco Phren.

== Acco Phren Visits Nuevo Madrid ==

Chief Acco Phren is based out of the slave market in Tulasca, but given the heroes' issues with the Scravers there they instead ask him to meet them in Nuevo Madrid. He is reluctant, but Captain Ridek negotiates a 100 fb fee for him to appear, at which point Don Dario interviews him about the raid on Temsin Urtiz.

Phren is not that forthcoming, but he finally admits that an Engineer named Vizex XIX - part of his entourage at the time - looted the church and then left his service. He believes that he is now employed by Imperial RAID.

A call to the Imperial RAID commander - Brigadier-Commander Ashara Cameton - reveals that Dr. Vizex's research was shut down by Imperial decree; she won't communicate more via the wireless, but the heroes take wing for Delos, the port city of Airvaya Vego.

== RAID Headquarters / Dunking in Delos Bay ==

Commander Cameton reveals under some pressure that Dr. Vizex was engaged in bio-weapons research, and that she believes he has continued his research privately since the Emperor cut off his funding. She expresses some concern that he is engaged in dangerous plague research, and offers to connect the heroes to some of his former researchers.

While she is talking to Don Dario, however, Father Domingo notices Acco Phren's distinctive flitter making a visual fly-by of the tower, and immediately questions start being asked. Phren is operating under an old license from Dr. Vizex's now-shutdown program, and so the Imperial RAID authorities order him to land - but first, he dumps some cargo into the bay, likely slaves.

Phren refuses to give up any information on the landing field, so Don Dario takes him up in the RAID Commander's flitter to the place where the cargo was dumped - and then he pushes Phren into the water, where Phren begins to sink. He hauls the slaver up just a little and begins questioning him, upon which he reveals that Vizex has resumed research on an island lab of the northern coast of Airvaya Vego.

The companions "borrow" Phren's flitter and head to the island, intent on confronting Vizex XIX.

== The Island of Dr. Vizex ==

The island lab is basically a pinnacle of rock; the heroes land, subdue the Muster guards who come to meet them, and then enter the facility. They come upon Dr. Vizex in his lab, at which point Father Domingo hits him with a hammer and Captain Ridek shoots him in the knee.

Quickly enough, they discover that Vizex has been working on a plague that spreads swiftly and causes terrible aggression in its patients - the sort of thing to drop in an enemy encampment and swiftly devastate it, with a high enough mortality to not spread too far. He has been restraining the worst effects of the plague through an amplification device surrounding the Mael Cup, with help from a Leaguehim engineer named Storolf. Don Alejandro believes the Cup is beginning to fail, however, and in general Vizex believes that if it is removed from its device the afflicted will start attacking those in the lab.

Don Dario calls the Imperial Eye for backup and then the Muster in the facility start to tie down the afflicted; then, when the cup is removed from the device, Sister Jenna begins to theurgically heal all of the plague-ridden she can. She heals almost all of them before she collapses into a coma, at which point the heroes leave with Dr. Vizex's research - to be given to the Amaltheans - and the Imperial Eye slags the facility from orbit.

== Dramatis Personae ==

* ''Acco Phren'' -- Muster slaver with an unsavory reputation and a glowing orange tattoo.
* ''Sister Jenna Relani'' -- Amalthean healer trying to cure a plague on Malignatius.
* ''Vizex XIX'' -- Engineer engaging in bio-weapons research.
* ''Brigadier-Commander Ashara Cameton'' -- Commander of the Imperial RAID Research Labs.

Family and Glory

2011-10-09T20:32:53Z

The Justus de Castro Salazar are an old, old Hazat family: one of Saint Emanuel's companions, he was given a castle on Aragon that controlled one of the approaches to Castle Furias. With that, the Marquis de Castro Salazar received a substantial income as one of the Wardens of the Skyways, receiving incomes from ships traveling to Castle Furias, but in starting in 4696 the Castro Salazar family was divided; two twin sons were born, and the marquessate was split, with one son becoming Baron de Castro Salazar, ruling the castle and receiving income as a Warden of the Skyway, while the other becoming Baron de Salazar, with the income from Salazar Town and its lands.

For most of their history, the Castro Salazars and the town Salazars coexisted happily as cousins, but in 4953 an attempt to reunite the two branches of the family in the person of the daughter of the Castro Salazars ended when Ramiro Salazar - heir to Salazar Town - got a bastard on Matilde de Castro Salazar several months before they were to be married. Matilde fled with the child, and instead her younger brother Ferdinand inherited. Ramiro never forgave the Castro Salazars, but he did have his revenge until 4994, when he accused - successfully - Ferdinand's son Rodrigo of allowing through inattention the destruction of the atmosphere generator he was assigned to guard at Jericho. With Ferdinand driven mad and committed to the Oubliette by his cousin Ramiro, Ramiro was able to have himself named Marquis de Salazar with the support of Elena de Castenda, whose niece he had married.

== Dramas ==

# [[The Duke and the Emperor]] -- The heroes arrive on the throneworld and become embroiled in politics of both the personal and interplanetary sort. Don Dario becomes a Questing Knight.
# [[The Drowned God]] -- Still on Byzantium, the heroes journey into Drown Town to help a woman rescue her daughter; there, they confront aliens and techno-cultists and ultimately recover an ancient and powerful war machine. In the process, they start a bloody war that ripples across Drown Town.
# [[The House of the Fox]] -- Now sworn to help an Amalthean find a cure for a mysterious disease, the heroes have accompanied her to Tethys, where while she researches they journey into the maw of the beast to recover a stolen Imperial Seal from the house of Scraver matriarch Benita Ivankov in order to improve the slums of New Madrid.
# [[A Cup of Miracles]] -- The heroes track an artifact known as the Mael Cup to a ruined village, and then follow its trail through a band of slavers to an Engineer scientist engaged in bio-weapons research.
# [[Gulag Julka]]

== PCs ==

* [[Don Dario Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- A Hazat knight whose family was dispossessed. He is a veteran of the Emperor Wars. (Played by Sean)
* [[Father-Commander Domingo Justus de Castro Salazar]] -- Don Dario's older brother, Domingo is a priest and a former starship commander in the Patriarchal Fleet. (Played by Gavin)
* [[Don Alejandro Eduardo de Ves]] -- A Hazat knight and former crusader who spent 10 years imprisoned in Kurgan space, he is the Castro Salazars' cousin as well as a grand-nephew to Duke Jose. (Played by Reid)
* [[Aurelia Castro]] -- The bastard daughter of Ramiro de Castro Salazar and Dario and Domingo's half-sister, she is householder with unsavory connections. (Played by Vanessa)
* [[Captain Joe Ridek]] -- A Charioteer commander and an employee of the De Vatha hong, he has been assigned to help the Castro Salazars by his hong. (Played by Jeremy)

== Major NPCs ==

'''Byzantium Secundus'''
* ''Emperor Alexius I'' -- Hawkwood Emperor of the Known Worlds and victor of the Emperor Wars.
* ''Sir Chamon Mazarin'' -- The Emperor's cunning dwarf spymaster.
* ''Duke Jose'' -- Prince Juan's brother, Duke Jose is the Hazat ambassador to the Emperor and one of the most respected and honorable men in the Known Worlds.
* ''Count Faustus Hawkwood'' -- A veteran Hawkwood general, Count Faustus has become disaffected with the Emperor and is the leader of a nascent Hawkwood nationalist faction on Byzantium Secundus.
* ''Count Alrich Li Halan'' -- Li Halan ambassador to the Imperial Court. Father Domingo may have killed his son.
* ''Baron Eviathan Hawkwood'' -- One of the Questing Knights, Baron Eviathan is the sort of social head of the Company, living mostly on the throneworld.
* ''Duchess Salandra Decados'' -- The Decados ambassador is a beautiful woman of ever-changing face and one of the canniest women in the Known Worlds.

'''Aragon'''
* ''Prince Juan'' -- Prince of the Hazat.
* ''Consul Dorian De Vatha'' -- Dorian De Vatha is one of Ozul De Vatha's nephews and represents the Hong to Prince Juan's court. He is said to be particularly politically astute.
* ''Baron Benizio Eduardo de Ves'' -- Don Alejandro's father, a minor baron.

Family and Glory

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Family and Glory

2011-08-30T08:02:01Z

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The House of the Fox

2011-08-30T07:58:56Z

P: New page: The heroes are on Tethys, having promised to help Sister Jenna Relari - an Amalthean - find the Mael Cup, a relic from the Age of Miracles that she believes will help cure a plague spreadi...

The heroes are on Tethys, having promised to help Sister Jenna Relari - an Amalthean - find the Mael Cup, a relic from the Age of Miracles that she believes will help cure a plague spreading among the Zuranist nomads of Malignatius. While she searches the archives in the Our Lady of the Weeping Blood Cathedral, however, the companions have several weeks to help a local Imperial administrator with a problem.

== The Vice-Governor's Problem ==

The companions are invited to dinner by Lord Renton Hayes, the Hawkwood son of Baron Hayes of Delphi, who is a man in his late twenties posted as Vice-Governor for New Madrid. He explains that Emperor Alexius has asked him to help the Imperial Housing Authority clean up the Nuevo Madrid slums known as the Crawl, but that they have been experiencing opposition from the Scravers. This is perhaps not a surprise; Benita Ivankov, Senior Dean of the Scravers Guild, keeps her official residence on Tethys and the Ivankov family is one of the 'Three Sisters', the guilds who control much of the world.

Two months ago, a presumed Scraver hit team broke into the Imperial Housing Authority and killed half a dozen people, including the gangland execution of Rogier Madrid, the freeman Imperial Housing Administrator - and they took his prismium seal, used to seal official documents. Now, when the IHA tries to enforce fair living conditions and rents on Scraver-controlled housing, the Scravers are showing up with signed and sealed documents using the stolen seal.

Ordinarily, Lord Renton would just have to swallow this insult; the Scravers are powerful, and if he were to invalidate the seal they would be able to renegotiate every IHA contract and would succeed at legalizing their current usurious rents. The Scravers expect that their forged documents are merely the cost of doing business, though that cost comes at a high price indeed to the people of the Crawl.

However, the presence of the Emperor's new order of Questing Knights leaves Lord Renton asking if this is the sort of the problem inside their charter: normally, the people of the Crawl would lose, because they have no power, but the Questing Knights exist to protect the powerless. Sir Dario, mindful of this, agrees to look into the matter for Lord Renton.

== Into The Crawl ==

The Crawl is as bad as Lord Renton made out. These people are not beggars and criminals, like in other slums; instead, they are the factory workers, and the Scravers Guild has made deals with the weaponsmithing guilds that their rents are payable directly to the Scravers, leaving the workers never seeing the coin and not having enough to feed their families.

Sir Dario buys several food carts to ease the suffering somewhat, and Father Domingo speaks to the Amalthean mission in the center of the Crawl, confirming the dire straits of these people - dire straits that the Empire is somewhat complacent in, as it is under Imperial seal that the direct payment of rents occurs.

More investigation reveals that the keeper of the stolen seal is probably in the Scraver-controlled city of Tulasca - a Pietr Ivankov, Chief Counsel for Tethys Affairs. Before the heroes head to Tulasca, Lord Renton gives them name of his Imperial Eye contact in the Scraver city, a Morticus Guild baker named Lucas Ledeaux.

== Neon Lights of Tulasca ==

Tulasca is a city of vice; the heroes accept an invitation from Carmen Ivankov, Benita Ivankov's lieutenant, to stay in Kennedy House, the old Alecto palace said to date back to the First Republic. They meet her - a disagreeable woman - and Aurelia learns the location of Pietr Ivankov's offices, a public office in the East Wing and a private office above a Scraver striptease called the Tiger Club.

The companions meet Lucas Ledeaux, who tries to dissuade them from recovering the seal; he is concerned that Imperial action will anger the Scravers, and does not believe that it is in the Emperor's interests to pick a fight over some slums. Undaunted, the companions continue their investigations, as Aurelia searches for an entrance to the secret passages honeycombing the walls of the Kennedy House and Sir Dario, Father Domingo and Captain Ridek plant a bug in Pietr Ivankov's office.

== Plans Are Formed ==

The bug reveals that Ivankov likely keeps the seal in some sort of secret office behind his private office, while Aurelia learns that the gangers in the Santos District - Blight Town - know of guarded entrances to the Kennedy House tunnel system. Aurelia and Captain Ridek go to meet some gangers; while Bernardo of the Santos Saints believes that she is a Scraver informant sent to test him, Darla of the Spiders parts with the location of the tunnel entrances for a few 'birds.

The companions return to Lucas Ledeaux, who again tries to talk them out of their plan. He admits that the Eye hasn't taken the slums issue seriously, and asks them to give him a few months to try to work out a solution. They refuse, and reluctantly he gives them directions to navigate the "Second Palace" of Kennedy House.

== Into The Breach ==

Following the gangers instructions, the heroes find the entrance to the tunnels, guarded by two Scravers. Captain Ridek distracts them, acting drunk, and then the companions subdue them and gain entry into the Second Palace. Following the Imperial Eye instructions, they begin to quickly navigate the tunnels.

As they take a jog down a corridor, Captain Ridek is spotted by a Muster response team, who open fire on him after a failed attempt to deceive them. His shield drops under assault rifle fire, but as Aurelia, Father Domingo, Don Dario and Don Alejandro hurry back to help him the Muster are driven to a retreat under the assault of the companions' swords and hammers.

Eventually, the companions make it to Piotr Ivankov's office; Aurelia overrides the keypad on the door with some help from Sir Dario and then sets about cracking the safe in Ivankov's inner office as the heroes watch him have a conversation outside through one-way glass.

== Endgame ==

Piotr Ivankov then moves to enter the office; the brothers de Castro Salazar subdue him quickly, force him to open the safe, and then recover the seal, some coin, and a data crystal.

Some careful negotiation leads Piotr to order guards away from the companions' escape route while Sir Dario promises to return the data crystal once he is safely back in Nuevo Madrid, and the companions make their escape. As they lift off, they receive a communication from Carmen Ivankov, who is entirely unamused by the recovery of the disk: she suggests to Sir Dario that future interventions of this sort by the Questing Knights will not be tolerated by the Scravers.

After the conversation with Carmen is done, Lucas Ledeaux also contacts the heroes; upon learning about the data crystal, he expresses a desire to copy it. Sir Dario tells him he can't give it to the Eye, but intimates that he would look the other way if an Eye operative copied it under some ruse.

== Aftermath ==

Landing at Nuevo Madrid, Sir Dario reneges on his vague promises to the Eye, taking Don Alejandro's advice that to help the Eye out would make this seem a political act, rather than something done to help the poor. He returns the data crystal to the Scravers, the seal to Lord Renton and the coin taken from Piotr Ivankov is given to the Amalthean mission as a donation in Piotr's name.

Several weeks later, Don Dario receives a handwritten note from Benita Ivankov herself: in a simple, flowing hand, it says "You get one for free. Benita."

== Dramatis Personae ==

''Lord Renton Hayes'' -- Vice-Governor of Tethys, Lord Renton is an honorable Hawkwood with a desire to make life better for the inhabitants of the Crawl but the chains of a political officeholder. He is vindicated at the end of the drama, having recovered his seal and helped the people of Nuevo Madrid.
''Carmen Ivankov'' -- Benita Ivankov's number two, Carmen is an icy woman and a Scraver consul. She is left upset at the end of the drama.
''Piotr Ivankov'' -- A shady advocate, Piotr is the Scravers' Chief Counsel for Tethys and a Scraver director. The events of the drama leave him not only upset but also damaged in prestige.
''Lucas Ledeaux'' -- An 'Old Guard' Imperial Eye field coordinator, Ledeaux is nomainally the manager of an industrial bakery for the Morticus Guild. He only reluctantly aids the heroes, and - with his cover in some danger - is likely to be reassigned following the drama.
''Sir Rolf Torenson'' -- A Torenson gadfly in Tulasca, Sir Rolf is in fact an Imperial Eye agent and was the heroes' contact on several occasions.

The Drowned God

2011-08-27T23:28:30Z

P: New page: While the Questing Knights are sending members of the Company out on quests, a woman comes into the Company's hall exclaiming that the Ukari have stolen her daughter from Drown Town. Don D...

While the Questing Knights are sending members of the Company out on quests, a woman comes into the Company's hall exclaiming that the Ukari have stolen her daughter from Drown Town. Don Dario leaps up and swears to aid her.

== The Sluice-Woman's Story ==

== Into the Sewers ==

== Vo Voshtok ==

== The Great Fall; The Dweller in the Black ==

== The Cult Complex ==

== The Chamber of the Drowned God ==

== "I am your god!" ==

== Fealty ==

== Dramatis Personae ==

Family and Glory

2011-08-27T23:24:18Z

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The Duke and the Emperor

2011-08-27T23:23:01Z

P: New page: The heroes are summoned to Byzantium Secundus by Duke Jose, where Don Dario embarks upon a grand new adventure - but not before all are embroiled in throneworld politics. == The Ducal Yac...

The heroes are summoned to Byzantium Secundus by Duke Jose, where Don Dario embarks upon a grand new adventure - but not before all are embroiled in throneworld politics.

== The Ducal Yacht ==

Father Domingo, Don Dario and Aurelia arrive at the Port Authority to be met by Captain Ridek and Don Alejandro, who take them via motorboat to Duke Jose's magnificent yacht, a protected sea cruiser turned into a floating palace. There, they meet with Duke Jose, who tells them that Don Dario has been selected to be one of the first fifty members of a new Company of the Phoenix created by the Emperor to quest among the stars and right wrongs.

Aurelia discovers that a beautiful woman is the only other guest on the yacht; after a rendezvous with the Duke, she takes off in a black flitter.

== An Invitation; An Uncomfortable Party ==

Returning to the Hazat embassy, the heroes receive an invitation to a party being hosted by Count Faustus Hawkwood. The party is very uncomfortable - it's clear these people are Hawkwood veterans who do not much like the Hazat - but Count Faustus gives the heroes an access pass to visit Jericho, where Father Domingo and Don Dario's brother was killed. Aurelia also makes friends with a young man at the party.

== The Moon of Jericho ==

Traveling to Jericho aboard Captain Ridek's ship, the heroes land near the atmosphere generator Rodrigo Castro Salazar was assigned to guard. Trekking in space suits to the generator, they search the wreckage, finding the ruins of Rodrigo's sword as well as a body: a Hawkwood commando in pristine condition, a blonde woman preserved in space. Imperial Eye troopers swarm the location shortly after, though the party keeps the commando's weapons as proof.

== Enter the Dwarf ==

Investigation will reveal that the sword belonged to a Dame Alice Hawkwood, a Hawkwood commando officer who officially died a year before Jericho. The investigation brings the Imperial Eye down on the heroes, however, where they are interviewed by Chamon Mazarin.

Mazarin tells them that the woman was planted on Jericho - she did not die there - and asks for her sword, as she was close to the Emperor. Dario asks permission to return the sword himself and it is granted, with a meeting to take place after the Questing Knight ceremony.

== A Company From The Ashes ==

Dario and his companions go to the Imperial Palace, where he is raised a Questing Knight amongst 49 others. Speaking with them, it is clear that they are almost all die-hard idealists, many of whom have little political sensibility - but they believe passionately in the Emperor's vision for a peaceful future.

== The Emperor ==

The heroes then meet privately with the Emperor, who confides that Dame Alice was dear to him and that she died in the Holy Terra system in 4993. He asks the companions to keep their ears open for the matter, as it is clear that whatever went on extends past the end of the war.

== Dramatis Personae ==

* ''Duke Jose'' -- The heroes' patron and relative, he is the Hazat ambassador and the most respected diplomat on Byzantium Secundus.
* ''Count Faustus Hawkwood'' -- A Hawkwood general, he is the leader of the anti-Alexius faction.
* ''Sir Chamon Mazarin'' -- The Emperor's spymaster, a cunning dwarf.
* ''Sir Roger Winterbroom'' -- A young man Aurelia befriended at Faustus' party.
* ''Sergeant Arcturus Fawkes'' -- A Phoenix guardsman the players got information about Dame Alice from; he served with her during the Wars.