Way of the Warrior Saints/Saint Maggus
Saint Maggus (Hero Class, daring or dangerous adventure, Good Deaths)
Prognostocese: Audiology of Mono-auricles, and The Correct Weights and Measures of a Man in place of a Stone for use on a Catapult.
During a fierce war between two ancient kingdoms, a brave Hero named Count Maggus was besieging an enemy castle. The city was Castle Vonratu, now known as the city of Tarasec. The walls were heavily defended and difficult to overcome, so, Count Maggus decided to catapult himself over the wall and open the gates himself. He landed right into the King’s post and disrupted their strategizing. After a vicious fight, the King overpowered Count Maggus and lopped his left ear off. The Count was then captured. In order to strike fear into the invading enemy, the King decided to hang Count Maggus over the wall for all to see. Maggus was very pleased with the King’s decision because he knew his men would storm the castle in a fury after they saw his corpse and would have a sure victory. Count Maggus was hung with a smile on his face and sure enough his men found a way into the castle and massacred everyone. They claimed a triumphant victory. After the castle was raided, as a squad of men went to release Maggus’ hanging corpse they found the Count fully alive! He had been revived by the Sleeping Father for his courage and daring. From then on the Count was revered as a Warrior Saint.
Followers of his way salute each other by covering their left ear as a sign of the daring sacrifice the Count made to earn his good death. It is said that he often travels Atamara seeking a second death, one better than his first.
Heroes of renown try to emulate his deeds and earn a good death of their own, or a legend of their own. Before they enter into battle or a dangerous endeavor they invoke his might by using the battle cry, “Maggus Invicta!”
Fallen heroes are buried with a noose and have their left ear removed. There are no definite reasons to when this practice began and why this happens. One scholar suggested that perhaps one hero requested to be buried this way hoping a distant grave robber or investigator would find his body as such and mistake it for the corpse of Count Maggus. Nevertheless it has become a common trend leaving ‘Count Maggus’-like corpses all over burial sites and in crypts.
At the time of my findings I had yet to discover the location of the city. In my investigation I had come across a legend that said Count Maggus was at war with an ancient Kingdom whose capital was called Vonratu.
Through deduction, I became determined that this capital must have been the castle Maggus was attacking. It stands to reason that if Maggus had landed in the citadel and confronted the King himself, it could only have occurred in the capital. Where else would the King’s headquarters be? Castle Vonratu must be the nearly impenetrable city that Saint Maggus was said to besiege.
Further queries have uncovered more to this and I now strongly believe that this ancient capital is in our times known as the city of Tarasec.
This Saint was discovered by Hades Ironsides.
