Champions of the Free a brief history part II
Violet
The first article gave a history of the champions
of the free up until the death of the Magus of the Free a little four years ago
when Violet took over the mantle. Violet had even before her ascension to
the role of champion been active in aiding escaped slaves to reach places of
safety mostly in the north and east in the foot hills of the mountains which
decide the lands of the Kalamarians and the young kingdoms from the Reanaarese
city states.. It was these lands Violet knew well and she knew all the passes
over those mountains and hidden glens where a community of escapees might if
they kept a low profile prosper in secret.
Violets main problem was her very otherness her
appearance her eating habits hardly evoked trust and in the beginning only the
most desperate accepted her aid, many seeing her as just another monster in the
monster infested wild to which they had fled. However Violet persisted and
slowly built up a net of contacts and eventually helpers who could mix with
more normal society. Violet became bolder staged raids on plantation farms
assassinated the crueler slave holders he ranger skills predatory nature often
resulted in one perishing with an arrow in his throat. Even when surrounded by
bodyguards. A child of a demon Violet could be ruthless and she spread fear in
those who where her enemies. At the same time Violet was much more tolerant of
the smaller farmers who held slaves because they always had and where for the
most part seldom cruel to their slaves and often treated them as junior members
of their extended family. These she encouraged to free their slaves quietly and
to employ them as free men instead. Indeed on several occasions she actually
bought slaves from such farmers who had fallen on hard times even if the silver
with which she did this came form the coin boxes of slave traders she had treated
much less gently.
Violet was thus a junior priest in the church of
the Guardian when the call came and she took on the role of champion titling
herself Paladin as this had a ring tom it which inspired the oppressed she
felt. Shortly after receiving the call she met Perkal a young priest of the guardian
who had worked with the Magus but had escaped the ambush where he was killed.
Perkal told her of his old comrades work and this lead Violet to move her base
of operations from the east where in all honesty it was becoming rather
difficult to work as the authorities where hunting her as a bandit by this
point. To the west operating form the Hidden Dell with Perkal as her companion.
Her raids where fewer now but often times much
more spectacular, such as when she raided the house of damson blossoms where
there where literally hundreds of girls being trained as dancers in the harems
of the great and the powerful of Bet Kalamar. Nyasse was one of these girls and
the only one to truly understand the boon Violet and Perkal had given her, however
most of her raids where less spectacular being against the same sort of targets
as she had struck at in the east and for a time all went very well.
Now, Perkal is dead, in a pointless skirmish with
Orks and the evil against which she strives has come to her neighbourhood.
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