Piety
| Biological | |
| Full name: | Eramus d'Vanth et Myhraal |
|---|---|
| Born: | |
| Birthplace: | Triangle, Council Wyrm |
| Sex: | Male |
| Race: | Zealot |
| Hair: | Black, dredlocks |
| Eyes: | Black |
| Height: | 6'5" |
| Weight: | 170 |
| Personal | |
| Marital Status: | |
| Family/Relationships: | {{{family}}} |
| Religion: | Bound to the Cult of Null |
| Title: | First of the Zealots |
| Nicknames: | None since the turning. |
| Hobbies: | Ditto |
| Known skills: | All of the abilities inherent to those regressed as Zealots, before the turning Eramus was a model statesman and avid scholar. |
| Favorite color: | |
| Inspiration: | To serve Penance in all things and all ways. |
| Motto: | |
Eramus d'Vanth et Myhraal was born into the Authorian Sect, the most secretive and mysterious body in Triangle culture. He was educated in the ways of the Authorians and privy to all of their secrets, but the elders desired even more power than traditionally bestowed on their station. Even as they groomed young Eramus to one day become an Authorian, they also nurtured his natural talents as an orator and built on his natural charisma.
Being the keepers of all Triangle knowledge, the Authorians stripped Eramus of his Authorian surname and gave him the identity of a clanless groundling -- Armus d'Vanth. From this position of supposed destitution, Eramus used all of the skills given him and refined in him by the Authorians to climb the political ladder, eventually becoming First Speaker, the representative of all Triangle on the Council and second only to the Prophetess in political power.
The Authorians believed they had created the perfect pupped in Eramus, placing a figurehead of their choosing so near to a young, weak Prophetess. Maerius was first induced to bring Triangle to the surface, and then manuevered into what would have been an Authorian dream, and something which had never happened in the history of Triangle -- a marriage between Prophetess and Authorian. Eramus would have been Consort General of Triangle and the Authorians stranglehold on power would have been tightened.
Unfortunately for them, both Maerius and Eramus had their own plans. Maerius named Keaton Error, clanless artist, as Attendant to the Light of the Zone, invoking an ancient right which more or less made Keaton her betrothed without having to go through any sort of approval process (which right would have fallen to the Council and Eramus himself, with Maerius' parents dead) or even Keaton's consent.
Enraged at this oversight, Eramus conspired to have Keaton killed, and sent him away on a web-wide tour as a pretense to be rid of him. In the absense of the Prophetess' Chosen, Eramus went to work again, seeking a power that not even the Authorians dared to imagine. From the ancient Codex he knew of the Anox Vi and the rites needed to summon them, and he took Maerius' blood to do it.
With Anox Vi on the island, Triangle crumbled. Maerius fled, along with as many of the citizens that could fit on the small fleet of dromands the tiny nation possessed, and the remainder settled in to fight a long, hard, war with Artic Kohl as their commander.
Eramus hid for the better part of several years before falling in with Artic. He had finally seen the error of his ways, in the terror wrought by Penance, her lieutenants and the Zealots she created. He sought to repay his debt in any way he could, and eventually he did, giving his life in the defense of Artic's betrothed, Rehn Madiera.
That wasn't the end of Eramus' suffering, though. For his pains, the Anox Vi known as Patience took him and made him a Zealot, without the prior consent of Penance. As a Zealot he retained much of his prior regret over his actions in bringing the Anox Vi, though he also gained an inhuman perspective and a complete detachment from all earthly needs, wants and desires.
No longer a man, though he inhabited the shell that had once been called Eramus d'Vanth et Myhraal, he was given the name Piety, which both man and Zealot came to fear.
