| Saybr was the result of the union between a wandering elf and the human woman that he seduced. By the time Saybr was 3 years of age, wanderlust won out over the other lust in his father's heart, and he and his mother were alone. The village that they lived in was small and friendly, so life wasn't all that bad for them. It wasn't until he was almost fully grown that it dawned upon Saybr how they always had money for food and supplies when his mother never left to work, and why many different men visited with his mother at strange hours.....
Shortly after his 22nd birthday, as it was measured on his world, Saybr left for a few days of hunting. On the day of his return, he noticed smoke pouring from where his village should be. As he neared the clearing, and peered through the trees, he saw a sight that fortunately few have witnessed...humanoid type people that seemed to be made of metal. These invaders were wielding some sort of magical weapons that looked similar to crossbows, but were definitely not of his world. They emitted a type of blue magical fire that caused all they touched to immediately catch fire and burn....including flesh. The invasion was over before it started. Within minutes, the entire village was burnt to the ground, and the sickly sweet smell of charred flesh hung in the air. The strange, metal men entered some type of ship that swam through the air instead of water, to disappear over the horizon. (Saybr would later learn that these invaders were called MECH's, from a different world, who's mission was to assimilate all beings on his world into their own likeness...but that is another story...) Although now Saybr realizes that it was not an act of cowardice, but one of prudence, at the time he felt great shame for not attacking the invaders on sight. Maybe he would have even wounded one or two of them....before he fell... As he buried the still-smoking remains of his neighbors, Saybr vowed to avenge the death of his mother. Though tears blocked his vision, he finished his grisly work, offering what meager prayers that he could. It appears that at least one of the gods from his world was listening... That night, the god of War, Tempus, appeared to Saybr in a dream. He showed him of a group of his followers - a group of warriors named The Soldiers of Light. He saw that this was a group of warriors who did battle for their god to aid those who could not defend themselves from the forces of evil. He was shown the location of their keep, which he journeyed to the following day. They took him in, trained him, and helped him grow into the warrior you see before you today. (He even found and killed many of the MECH's that destroyed his village, but that too is another story...) Eventually he rose in rank and became the Dreamweaver of the Soldiers...and a member of their counsel. One day, while in the basement of the Keep, a strange, magical portal opened up in front of him, and before he knew it, he was through it. When he woke up, he was in Tyr, on Athas (an entirely different world!!!) feeling weak, lacking somehow.... Others fell into similar portals, and though they do not know who acted to put them on this world (even Tempus no longer seems to hear his Dreamweaver on this world), they still remain a tightly bound group. They will fight for the innocent and weak, and help Athas to know another Green Age......... |