Lore:Makela Leki

, also known as the Saint of the Spirit Sword, was an   warrior, a known worshipper of the God of War  , and one of the most famed heroes in   history. She is best known for her sacrifice at the Battle of   in the  , where she and her five companions were responsible for routing an invading   army led by King Joile of  .   

Early Life
Makela grew up in a noble Redguard family, with three brothers and a sister. Her father was a swordmaster and Ansei warrior many years before he settled down to raise a family. Much like her father, Makela possessed the unique qualities that allowed her to form a   - a mystical blade made of pure thought. Indeed, her natural affinity towards the Shahai was such that it's said she could form the Shehai as an infant. 

At the age of eleven Makela was enrolled into the Hall of the Virtues of War to become a  , and joined a small band of Maidens of the Spirit Sword. Although she had a natural ability towards the Shehai, seldom was it substantial enough to be used as a weapon. Despite this, Makela was still the first student from her local hall to have the ability to call forth the Shehai in two generations, thus was named as an Ansei warrior. 

As the years passed, Makela and her band of five maidens mastered the Way of the Sword and completed their training, eventually returning to their hall to serve as instructors. Makela also married and started a family of her own. 

The Breton Betrayal
In  , the joint forces of   led by King   and Sentinel launched an attack on   that resulted in a thirty year siege of the city. Although King   was allied with the Redguards, he betrayed them during the campaign in   and killed  , a famed swordsmaster and contemporary of Makela. Joile then executed his plan of invading Hammerfell through the region of  .    

During the night of the  , Makela received word of the betrayal and the invading Breton army from the north. Makela and her band of maidens rushed to the   where Joile's forces had slain the stationed Redguard forces and were about to breach the mountain pass. Makela and her band defended the pass against his army, but eventually all of them fell, except Makela. In desperation after her father's sword broke in her hand, Makela was able to summon her spirit sword in earnest, which allowed her to single-handedly defeat the Breton army and even slay King Joile himself. Although Makela was successful in repelling the invasion, she was gravely wounded. 

Before death, she recorded her thoughts and memories of her life and the final battle into a magical  .  Although details of the battle were preserved for later generations, Makela deeply regretted not preserving the memory of her immediate family, resulting in them being lost to history. 

Legacy
Shortly after her death, Makela's memory stone was found in the Bangkorai Pass. Its contents secured Makela's status as a legend, and her victory over the Joile was preserved and was celebrated by Redguards thereafter.  It is said that because of her selfless sacrifice, the Breton armies never reached Sentinel.  Her body was laid to rest in the sacred  .  However, some scholars believe her final resting place to be in a nondescript cave in western Bangkorai. 

Centuries after her death, Makela's memory stone was stolen by an exiled   warrior named Ulbazar Thief-Lord.  He fled Hammerfell and sought refuge in  , only to die after being imprisoned in the city's crypts. In the mid- , as a favor to King  , High King   sent a detachment to retrieve Makela's stone from the crypts and return it to the Impervious Vault in  . 

In the mid-Second Era,   encountered the spirit of Makela in the Hall of Heroes, where she granted them her blessing and entry into the Chamber of Passage. 

According to some sources a lock of Makela Leki's hair was preserved inside small, exquisitely carved jadeite box and kept as a relic. It could be found in  . 

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