Leath

Leath
 

What’s known irrefutably of Leath’s history is minimal and brutal. He was, in his own words, a one time captive for a cadre of psychotic mages - from a bland hostler’s background in a small wayfarer’s town, he was taken for experiments. Leath wagered he was imprisoned for a few years, and burned, healed, transmuted, restored, terrorized and tortured. Then one day some spell or experiment went wrong and he was teleported to Sjko. Alone.

Leath survived, barely, by drawing on basic techniques, and importantly finding a bow in this abandoned town. He hunted by day, and at night begun to unearth some of the MageGlass marvels this valley holds. He got the MageLights working, a forge and loom, even a disk he could carry heavy goods with. He was almost settled when the Founders came upon him. After speaking to the then leaders, he was convinced to give a formal speech welcoming everyone to his Valley. He managed two words before a Senocastrian ran him through, there on the cart he was using as a pedestal.

Lethan theology however says much more. They believed a series of old myths and proclamations that they would throw down their old lives and wander searching for a new land of their own, and they would find it through a gauntlet of ice and snow where after they would meet a young man of both old and new worlds who would lead them towards Senocaster’s right hand. No one disagrees that Leath was that man - but dead as he is, he’s unlikely to achieve many of the great deeds foretold.

This caused a rough schism in the faith of the Founders. Over time some remained true to Leath, believing he will one day return to fulfil all the prophecies. Others turned back to their old Senocastrian beliefs with renewed vigour, ashamed of straying to believe the tales of Leath, and folding his story into their own theology. And finally some, lead by Johans Joktor, believed instead that the Old and lost Lords of the Valley still lived here in some capacity, and upon hearing someone being proclaimed as a prophet, struck Leath down. And it is they who should truly be worshipped, the Nine Old Gods.