Dawncaller Sabitha Champion Lore
The Cult of K’Leth has hidden itself away for more than two centuries, since the Sacred Order stormed the Catacombs of Narbuk a second time during the Age of Treachery. In this time it has made gains and suffered setbacks, but its members have always believed that they would one day become strong enough to overthrow the world’s powers. It is a dream spread and encouraged by Losan K’Leth – the Cult’s leader — himself, and for many decades he has worked and planned to make it real.
One method K’Leth has expended great energy on is the establishment of a specialist warrior order, one made up of highly skilled individuals capable of being symbols of hope his followers would need to endure the hardship a revolution would entail.
This, as well as many other plans, were greatly upset by the Sect of Siroth. This breakaway group, led by Bystophus, turned against K’Leth to worship the Shadow God. Though the Sect was ultimately destroyed and its few surviving members captured or scattered, the harm it has caused the Cult will be much longer lasting. Perdition, the Cult’s floating island fortress, has lost contact with scores of cells and hideouts. Hundreds of Knights Revenant and even more cultists have been slain.
This has called for emergency measures. K’Leth knows he must re-establish control quickly. To do that, he has deployed elements of his elite warrior order much earlier than he planned.
This order is the Dawncallers. Most were orphans, kidnapped or offered shelter, and raised by the Cult. They were the neglected, abused, and bullied — now given training, discipline, and purpose. The crimson of their armor reflects the enemy blood that will be shed and the blood of loyalists that will have to be sacrificed for the Cult to gain the ascendancy it deserves. The halo and flare designs around their helms and double-headed spears evoke the image of the rising sun and the coming of the dawn. They symbolize a new, bloody beginning for the Cult.
Hundreds of Dawncallers have been sent all over Teleria to restore Perdition’s outreach, boost morale, and root out spies, traitors, and naysayers. Thousands more are in training. They are master orators and warriors, gaining their skills under the tutelage of such Knights Revenant as Rector Drath and Giath the Truthshield. The latter devised their multiple intricate spear-katas, including the Way of the Darting Ray, the Glarethrusts, and the Movements of the Solar Flare. To fight a Dawncaller is to face a warrior and spear in constant motion, making it all but impossible to predict where the next strike or thrust will come from, as well as to land even a cursory blow.
Sabitha is not one Dawncaller’s true name. It was given to her by the Cult before she could walk. As far as she is concerned, service to K’Leth is all there is and ever will be. Being a part of the vanguard of her master’s great revolution is a point of solemn pride and she brooks no dissent from the Cultists she has been sent to supervise and galvanize. This devotion has brought Sabitha unparalleled love from the Cultists she leads. In the underbelly of Velyzar, a place of destitution and rampant crime, this is a powerful asset for the Cult. The Faceless who serve her have recruited scores off the back of her deeds: the breaking of murderous gangs and the taking in of the many sick left to die on the street. Diamant Coppercoin, kingpin of Velyzar, may not have heard of Sabitha yet, but doubtless he will soon.