Minor Figures of the Sancturi Imperium¶
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This page is named in two open questions: Legion garrisons in Dalmar, for the legion of Ariharu at Haddensfield, and Fall of Sanctorum, for the Araxian Overlord NIkee.
People of the Sancturi Imperium in the Fifth Age: its reigning Empress and the God-Emperors of its founding remembered in the early chronicles, and the officers, priests, sages and legionaries met in the Riven frontier and in occupied Brusau during the Sancturi Campaign of 704 SM. The Imperium's institutions are described under the Imperial Government and the Sancturi Clergy. Riven figures are on Minor Figures of the Rivenlands.
Entries are alphabetical by personal name, titles set aside.
Aes'Ekhi¶
God-Empress Aes'Ekhi, left to rule "over the theocracratic Sanctum Imperium" when God-Emperor Aes'Solk ascended into heaven in 550 SM. The note that gives these dates is marked by its author "Timeline is WRONG!"; the newer timeline names no God-Emperors (see the Sancturi Period).
Sources: S132.
Aes'Solk¶
God-Emperor Aes'Solk, who in 550 SM "ascends into heaven, leaving the God-Empress Aes'Ekhi to rule". As with Aes'Ekhi, the dating is the early note's.
Sources: S132.
Amano Martin¶
A Sancturi investigator of the Arbitori Bannerguard at Kurano, whom the sewer-master called the Hooded Man wanted killed.
Sources: S169.
Ariharu¶
Commander of the 3rd Cohort of a Nightshade Legion, which took and held the fortified temple of the Verdant Knights at Haddensfield in occupied Brusau, holding its master and a knight prisoner. A later record calls Ariharu "General of the 3rd Legion", with a cohort of 30 Arbitori bannerguard, 160 legionaries and 10 centurions, and a command staff of thirty. One session gives the legion as the VI Nightshade, the next as the III.
Sources: S191, S190.
Cava¶
Senior Runeblade, a woman, one of the three Dae'Venari witch hunters who came with Venator Trakin to hunt the witch Zaela.
Sources: S162.
Cullin¶
Namakan High Priest at the defiled Aquitanian Temple of Seth'Arax in the mountains north of Alghert, where Namakan priests carried out "Dread (Umber) experiments until they lost control".
Sources: S177, S176.
Diasamu¶
Warlord to whom General Yutoshi of the III Nightshade Legion reported from occupied Altandon.
Sources: S189.
Falko Horst¶
"Falko Horst of House Arvumas is the Prefect over the Horst Prefecture", the example by which the Imperium's political structure explains how prefectures are named: "If another Prefect with the same last name exists, there will be a First Horst Prefecture and Second Horst Prefecture, etc."
Sources: S323.
Fugoro¶
Abbot of the Penitus at Tennerau Abbey in occupied Brusau.
Sources: S189.
Garhil¶
Elite Slayer, a man fighting with axe and shield, the third of Venator Trakin's Dae'Venari witch hunters.
Sources: S162.
Hana Puscavit¶
"High Priestess of Namaka, Principate & Grand Seer of the Arbitori." Scrolls in her hand found at Kurano report an Eldritch soulcrux found ("Please expend and and all effort to identify it"), ask for "additional sacrifices for our experiments. A dozen or so should be sufficient", and pass on Brother Agard's report from a dig site nearing "the Barrow". Her black and gold Namakan garments with a golden cincture, an onyx and diamond holy symbol and a soulcrux, "one of the 12", were taken from her chest.
Sources: S169.
Harukata¶
Temple Master of the Sancturi Sages, a Runeblade of necrotic power, who with a dozen sages seized the Great Library of Altandon in Brusau. Under him "many of the old monks have been killed", the mystical section was "entirely torched" after a few Namakan rune tomes were removed, and the divine section was "being aggressively sorted (destroyed)."
Sources: S190.
Heikama Naru¶
"Lord Heikama Naru of Haddensfield", named in the account of occupied Haddensfield.
Sources: S191.
Hiroie¶
Brother Hiroie, a Penitus monk, "Telekinetic Runeblade Warrior ... Spellbreaker", one of two Penitus investigating the escape of the Great Library's monks through a hidden portal; he was left alive.
Sources: S190.
Imai¶
A Sancturi sage with whom books from the Great Library of Altandon "went south" before they were retrieved.
Sources: S190.
Inaba¶
A warrior monk of the sages who held the Great Library of Altandon.
Sources: S190.
Iris Yuloka¶
A Sancturi ranger "of House A", one of the Sancturi scouts in Altandon. She bought a large house in the merchant ward with six slaves, among them two followers of Arcantus, and was killed.
Sources: S189.
Kagara¶
"Old Fellow ... (speaks uncommon). Namakan Runeblade", who offered the party a place in a "Sancturi task force to kill Amer" and said he would be in Brusau.
Sources: S180, S179.
Kawada¶
A neophyte of the Sancturi sages at Altandon, a researcher, who defected with Toki.
Sources: S190.
Naiyo Dlorea¶
"Imperial Runebinder" at the village of Haras near Kurano, who took a sash from one of the party.
Sources: S169.
NIkee¶
The Thur'arax Dread Overlord who led the Araxian onslaught that took Sanctorum in 904 SM: "Historians mark the end of the Sancturi Age in 904 SM when the capitol Sanctorum fell to an Araxian onslaught led by the Thur'arax Dread Overlord NIkee, throwing the already besieged Sancturi Empire into complete chaos that led shortly to its fragmentation." See the Araxians.
Sources: S112.
Okora Sancturi¶
Empress Okora Sancturi, "The Glory of Elysium", "the spiritual leader of the empire and head of the judiciary". She "technically has veto power over all legislative and executive actions, though it is very rarely ever used (once in the last quarter century)", guides the Great Council without a vote, and breaks its ties. Her succession "is a religious matter and the Empress is considered a God in a mortal form. When that mortal form dies, the God finds residence in one of the other chosen", whom the Qeokrati name unanimously in conclave. "Disagreeing with or disrespecting the decision of the emperor is Blasphemy". She "generally seeks to maintain a balance within the empire and regards an overly powerful house as a threat to the empire itself." See the Imperial Government. A later account of the clergy speaks of the office only as the Emperor's (S321).
Sources: S323, S321.
Raiden¶
Arbiter of the Magisters of Tennerua at Altandon.
Sources: S189.
Sadau¶
Principate of the Onyx Order of the Arbitori Bannerguard, overseeing "the assimilation of the natives" of occupied Brusau.
Sources: S189.
Toki¶
A neophyte of the Sancturi sages at Altandon, a researcher, who defected with Kawada.
Sources: S190.
Tolac¶
God-Emperor Tolac, under whom, in 516 SM by the early timeline, "the rise of a new human faction ... begins to push back Myrkan and Fae, starting in the ruins of Sanctorum." The newer timeline has rebels "organized around a new faith" retake Sanctorum in 522 SM without naming a leader.
Sources: S132, S326.
Toshidae¶
"High Consallon of the Onyx Order (Arbitori Bannerguard)", "charged with responsibility to recover the Eye", the Arcane Eye that the party carried.
Sources: S189.
Trakin¶
High Venator Trakin, a priest of Necatus and leader of three "very experienced witch hunters" of the Dae'Venari who came with a brigade of Arbitori Bannerguard to hunt the witch Zaela: "a brutal man with a reputation for effectiveness and heavy handedness. Led a force that cleared a tier 2 Hollow, but purged most of the population of the surrounding area as well."
Sources: S162.
Yamana¶
Sister Yamana, a runepriest of the Penitus, investigating with Brother Hiroie at the Great Library of Altandon.
Sources: S190.
Yutoshi¶
General of the III Nightshade Legion, "in control of the city" of Altandon after the treaty that made Brusau a Sancturi province, reporting to Warlord Diasamu.
Sources: S189.