First Stand
The friends and first followers of Alexandria, most of whom were witnesses to the razing of Tragidore. Given the name because they stood most closely by Alexandria, literally and figuratively. Though the name might imply a unified front in Her name, in fact the Stand was anything but: conflict and disagreement was commonplace, and they cycled in and out of each others lives over the course of several decades before the final Crusade.
History of the Stand
The widely acknowledged formation of the stand occurred in a long-forgotten (???) port city. As the legend goes, a prophetic holy man addressed a crowded square with a vision of a great evil arising to challenge the Demi-Pantheon and a call-to-arms to aid them. An insolent Peteran merchant-prince Sayid ibn Maimun stepped up and loudly mocked the holy man and the Demi-Pantheon, claiming that true gods wouldn't need the help of mortal man. His blasphemies attracted the immediate ire of the firebrand priest of Tarlos Steros Merroand, who accosted and berated the merchant. The holy man barely averted a fight and challenged the two men to travel to Tragidore and seek the root of his vision. Either for want of adventure or faith, both men accepted, and along with the Sayid's traveling companion the truant Sidhe-Praxen princess Marrwyn Teldandilion, set off to Tragidore.
The rest, as they say, is canon. In Tragidore the nascent Stand picked up Dadtim the Elder and Kivan Elyryn, and set out to rescue Alexandria and the Children of Tragedy from the Black Wyrm. After Alexandria's sacrifice and resurrection and the razing of Tragidore, the stand was virtually complete. At this point, the stand relocated to Madros-on-the-Tinryll to search for the extended families of the orphans. While some were returned to family homes, many remained under the care of the elder Stand members, who adopted and educated individual orphans in their own styles. Alexandria floated between the Elder members, receiving tutelage primarily from Steros and Sayid, but receiving a diverse education from all of the stand members--eventually participating in full-fledged adventurers with their mentors.
Alexandria, obsessed with the Prophecies of Alabar Tremaline, eventually pushed the stand to relocate to Hakan Free City to consult with its Sorcerer-King Antioch. Antioch, who was an expert on the Prophecies, believed himself to be the chosen one they talked about, and under Sayid's council she was happy to encourage this belief. Shortly after their arrival in Hakan, however, the stand divided, when Sayid, Marwynn, Mikos, and several of the Orphans set out for Petera to investigate the recent troubles of Sayid's family. Alexandria, Steros, and the rest of the Stand remained in Hakan to aid the Sorcerer-King and study the prophecies. This marked the end of the united Stand, and it would not reform until the beginning of the Second Crusade.
Shit the stand does in Hakan.
The Prophet's war starts and Alex leaves.
Alex reunites the stand for the second crusade.
Leadership of the Stand
Accepted Members of the First Stand
- Alexandria (both a part of and above the First Stand)
Elder Stand
