Daycryn Family/Rabisu
Rabisu, the youngest of the sons of House Daycryn, moved to Dwilight upon his twenty-fifth year and joined the realm of Kabrinskia, becoming a knight of Mozyr. He is a devout follower of the faith of the Bloodstars. He has black hair and black eyes, and is of average build. Rabisu is not a renown warrior, famous lord or hero.
In his twenty-sixth year, he wrote a Scroll of Understanding in which he gave his interpretation of prophecy. Not long after he was promoted to the position of Invocator of the Cup, and then Luminary within the Church, making him a full member.
At first a supportive and vocal defender of Grandmistress Allison of Kabrinskia within Sanguis Astroist discussions, he became increasingly less supportive and then critical of her. While preaching in the city of Donghaiwei in the Empire of Morek he was accused by the ruler and judge of Kabrinskia of conspiring in rebellious underground plots. He denied these charges, but nevertheless left the realm to avoid both the dishonor of banishment and conflict with Kabrinskians. He joined Corsanctum then. After some time there, he joined Asylon, and for a short time served that realm during war with Kabrinskia as a knight.
In his twenty-eighth year, he joined the Empire of Morek, and was appointed as Margrave of Caiyun. The Light of the Maddening Star, Chrixian, was demoted to Knight Penitent for a failure to perform any of his duties whatsoever. During the next few weeks the Knight Penitent was not so penitent, and his removal from the position of Light was made permanent. Rabisu then ascended to become the next Light of the Maddening Star, making him an Elder member of the Church. During this time he contended with and spoke out against Allison Kabrinski, to the point of supporting the charges made against her of heresy, though after a lengthy period the Magistratum found her innocent. She continued to speak out against Rabisu, accusing him of being unfit due to inexperience for the position of Light of the Maddening Star. Much to everyone's surprise, however, he appointed her as Luminary of the Maddening Star, and the two have not spoken out against each other since.
By his twenty-ninth year, he was appointed as Duke of the First Temple. During this time he oversaw the marriage of Arbiter Sevastian Guile and Lady Jonsu Himoura in Poryatown - an unusual ceremony for him, involving the sacrifice of several lowly criminals, whose blood he himself shed.
After Allison's conviction by a Magistratum on which he served, Rabisu appointed Jonsu as his next Luminary of the Maddening. Overwhelmed by the burdens of his office, which included continually resisting repeated calls to launch Crusades, he made an odd pilgrimage into the Desert of Silhouettes, and returned having written the Desert Scrolls to find that the successor of the office of Maddening had launched a Crusade. Jonsu, enraged that the Charter had been revised so that Luminaries no longer automatically succeeded their Lights and so been deprived of the office (and also outraged over the apparently frivolous nature of the Crusade in defense of Terran) was now accused of several charges under a new Magistratum, on which Rabisu was called to serve. As with Allison, she was found guilty. Later he was appointed as Light of the Austere Star, a more cynical and bitter man, angered by what he saw as his failure to guide his perceived protege and forced to support a divisive Crusade he did not truly believe in, at least at first.
While Allison eventually died, poisoned in Aurvandil allegedly by her own hand in the death of that realm's king, Jonsu went on to create heretical cults and antagonize the Church, becoming his new arch-nemesis. His last years were spent in political maneuvers, including a revision of the Charter to allow for the creation of a Holy Inquisition of which he was the head, and efforts to find and cast out heretics, who he now suspected in Niselur.
However, Regent Enoch proved to be a heretic himself, working with Jonsu, and when he stepped down and re-admitted her into the faith, proclaiming her the new Regent, he furiously did all he could to punish Enoch, Jonsu, and anyone who supported them. He sent declarations to the Church, absolving anyone of wrongdoing if they opposed Jonsu, and decreeing that anyone who followed Jonsu was automatically a heretic; he argued vociferously with everything Jonsu and her supporters began to say, using reason, passion, even insults in a fury of rhetoric and fiery condemnations.
He set sail from Niselur to return to Morek, his plans unknown. The last people to communicate with him privately are rumored to suggest he had lost all hope, although he sometimes seemed to be taken with a kind of fatalistic righteousness, as if he knew what he had to do, did not want to do it, but was going to do it anyway. But his ship never made it to harbor in Morek, or anywhere else; most likely, it was destroyed in a storm. He was 39 years old at the time of his death.
