List of Saints

==Aimo and Aire==
===Underground Era===
===='Almië'====
Woman that is married 7 years and widowed (27 at the oldest) so she then informally dedicates herself to the temple, becoming a prophetess. She is waiting for something and is given the gift of enduring in years until she receives it, waiting 80+ in that state, making her over 100 years old at the end of her life.
====Pollas====
An Arcaitian man is dedicated to Salma, but is instructed also in the ways of Dionar.
====Failo====
Early yantasamno (less than 5th) is expelled from his city and sent to work in a stone quarry. While working, the workers get thirsty and their overseers did not provide them enough water for the weather that day. The fallen yantasamno sees a lamb on a hill, goes to the spot it was in, and digs with his pickaxe there. Water gushes out, quenches all the workers, and prompts many of them to convert. The use of magic, a miracle of a forbidden god, the defiance of the allotment of water from the overseers, and the continued spreading of a religion he was already being punished for spreading leads him to be tied to an anchor and thrown in the sea (or large lake). Once a year, on the anniversary of his execution the tide ebbs enough to reveal a supernatural shrine containing his bones.
====Emenaios====
Yantasamno in N. Ellador, library city, one of the first that stood against a growing tide of persecution.
====Abaskhiron====
Soldier of moderate supernatural strength, using magic and might to carry a church from one end of N. Ellador to the other and rebuild/replant it. Mostly forgotten until he appears in a vision to a priest centuries later.
====Manë====
Agatha
An Arcaitian noble girl at 15 takes a vow of celibacy and rejects a match to a lowborn magistrate/prefect. She is ridiculed by him repeatedly for her faith and her parents assent to sending her to a brothel to cleansed of her madness. She proved to be stubborn and intractable so the madam sent her back to the magistrate/prefect and he decides to have her sent to prison. The guards there torture her and tear off her breasts with blacksmith's pincers. The magistrate/prefect visits her and taunts her. She is sentenced to be burned at the stake, but when an earthquake occurs, she is transfered to another prison with the rest of the prisoners. Aimo Aulotera appears to her and heals her, but is not able to return her her flesh or absolve her of her scars. She later dies in prison.
====Eradwë====
Erduan soldier in Arcaitian imperial army. Stands up for his faith and is killed as a part of the punishment dealt to his regiment for all or part of their dissent. Most flee, but more than usual are excuted and the unit is dissolved. Occured in the northern mountains of Chambrey. Two other soliders in the regiment, Alasseo are beheaded, stand up, pick up their heads, walk up a hill 40 paces and then kneel down to pray before lying down and expiring. Many of the captains from this regiment have also appeared to people and have miracles surrounding their remains.
====Losso====
Young man in Gresion (Arcaitian Gretchland) converts to Dionism. One day, a priest is running away from presecution, the man takes him in. Before soldiers arrive, the man switches clothing with the priest so he is taken and put on trial. It is uncovered that he was impersonating a priest and so he is first scourged then sentenced to execution. While on the way to the site of execution, on a beautiful flowered hill, the crowd gathering to watch is blocking the bridge over the river. The condemned man then dries up the river so they can all cross. His executioner throws down his sword, converts, and chooses to be executed along with the man. When on the crown of the hill for beheading, the man prays for water and it flows out of the ground beneath him to quench his thirst. He is beheaded, his head rolls down the hill and where it stops a well springs up. The priest is later captured and stabbed to death. All of these events surrounding the man's death lead the judge to decree Dionism to no longer be punished in that area and for the man to be honored. 800 years later the man appears to a monk in a vision and directs him to dig up the remains of the priest. When they arrive at the spot, healings and empowerment happen all around to those that went, so the priest is disinterred and translated to rest beside the necral relics of the man.
====Lairë====
A mob in Erdu (Ellador) rises up against Dionists during a festival. A deaconess is seized by the crowd and her teeth broken out. She is then made to renounce Dionar or be bruned alive, but instead she leaps into the fire on her own so she will not be forced to confess.
====Erulindo====
A 7 1/2 ft Ashani man, serves the king of Ashan. The man sees that king reveres and makes ritual gestures to a tutelar in that land. The man goes and looks for this tutelar. He comes across a group of bandits and their leader claims to be so-named tutelar. Still unsure if this is a fae spirit in bodily form or man powerful in magic, the servant of the king respects the devil-man's power and decides to serve him above his king. The fiendish man, though, avoids the enchanted symbols of Dionar and Salma, so the serving man leaves the fiend and to go find Dionar. A dionaric hermit instructs him in the way, telling him to fast. Because of his traveling and his cupbearing duties to the king, he cannot fast entirely, so the hermit tells him to serve others with his size and help them cross a strong river nearby. After a while of doing this, a lone child asks the man to take him across the river. While carrying him across, the child becomes as heavy as lead. When the man manages to set him safely on the opposite shore, he complains to the child how heavy he was, as heavy as the entire world. The child then says it was he that made the world and ploughed its fields and he disappears. After this the man leaves the service of his king and travels to a new city. The king their tells him to sacrifice to the gods and gives him two women to tempt him back into it. The man converts the women and many others in the city. The king tries to have him killed many times before he is finally captured and beheaded.
====Laitosto====
A human from minotaur lands is the last of the 7 núro of the capital of Arcaitia after a sweep of executions of church officials. The magistrate/prefect demans that the church there hand over all its wealth. The man distributes as much of it as he can to the poor and when called before the magistrate/prefect presents the poor and crippled as the true wealth of the church. He was baked on a gridiron and then decapitated. A few centuries later, an adar is working to rebuild the church dedicated to the man after it had been attacked and burned down. He and the workers grew hungry and didn't have enough to eat for the work they were doing that day. The adar asked the man to help him and then the adar saw there was a small loaf of bread in his basket, freshly baked and even bearing the lines from being finished on a gridiron. It would not be enough bread for all the workmen, but the adar served it anyway and he was able to keep pulling pieces off of it for ten days.
====Laureloto and Máreharnë====
The family of a young man in Arcaitian Ashan moves to the capital. There the man discovers Dionism and is able to directly read its texts in the library as a part of his noble education. He converts and is baptized by a priest. His father is incensed at word of this and tries to bring his son back into Arcaitian ways. To draw him back to the gods, he sends his son a succession of prostitutes, each meant to find what will attract him. His father then sends two prostitutes at the same time, but the young man resists and vows to retain his chastity. Later in the young man's life, still constantly bothering him to get married, the father arranges for the son to be married to a retired virgin priestess of the sacred flame, still some years his senior. They marry, but he converts her and they live chaste, never touching each other intimately. A lioness enters the city, appears to the wife, and followers her to protect her chastity. They dedicated themselves to converting other citizens to Dionar. The tribune catches up to them and them arrested. The husband's endurance through torture and death was so impressive that the tribune, his family, and all his guards convert. The emperor then has the tribune drowned, his wife hanged, and his sons beheaded. The chaste wife of the saint on the other hand is condemned to stain her past as a priestess by becoming a prostitute. Her lionness helps prevent this from happening, but she is still held captive and is condmned to be sealed in the catacombs with three days food—the punishment for a virgin priestess of the sacred flame breaking her vows during her term of service.
====Ettelewen====
The daughter of a rich Ashani man kept her locked in a tower to keep a virgin before her marriage. She had secretly become a Dionist, but offered other reasons to rejecting an offer of marriage he informed her she had received. Her father was leaving on a journey and was making arrangement around his estate. He ordered for a bathhouse to be added on the side of her tower, asking for two windows. While it was being built, Ettelewen told the workers to put three windows in it. After her father returned, he was confused about there being three windows. Hadn't he given the order for two? When he asks his daughter about it, she reveals she has dedicated herself to Dionar. He draws his sword and goes after her, yet without any powers, the stones of the wall open up for her and she is then teleport to a gorge. Two shepherds see her appear and when her father comes asking after her (for the gorge was the only road out of that area), the first shepherd covers for her, but the second betrays her. He petrifies and all his sheep turn into a swarm of locusts. She was still captured and they had her tortured. She would not relent. Every night a holy light filled her prison cell and her wounds were healed. Miracles surrounded her. Torches went out when they tried to burn her, blades were blunt on her skin but cut those that tested them—increasing everything they tried to hurt her with became ineffective. Her father himself then beheaded her. On his way home from the execution he was struck by lightning from the sky in broad daylight torching him whole. Many say she must have hired hedge mages while she was in prison, but witnesses know the lightning came straight down from the heavens.
====Aprax====
Desert ascetic (monk) from Lota who became a monk at age 20. Evil (fate weaving/reading) tutelar tells him (about) how long he will live, but that only makes him more dutiful because it's less than he thought he would live. He does indeed die in about the time the tutelar predicts.
====Barsanuf====
An urban ascetic/monk who did repentant bowing rituals every day and fasted more than those in the desert religion [Salmism?] around him, so they accuse him of putting ritual curses on judges and Salmic leaders. They tortured him then cut off his head. An etheral crown appears on his head until his body is disdainfully burned. An area of the ground in the shape of the fallen crown remained unburned.
====Misayil====
A man had no children, but when the host a traveling monk at their house, he tells the man if he follows god perfectly he will have a child. The man and his wife then dedicated themselves fully to their faith and they conceive. The boy is orphaned at six, so the boy is raised by the adar. The boy grows up longing for a monastic life and one day leaves to go to another monastery to become a monk. He is trained and becomes an ascetic and hermit (anchorite). Brothers of the associated monastery visit the hermit and he is so thin he looks burned or dead. He is miraculously in perfect health though, perserved in his holy fasting. The hermit has a vision of a famine and warns the adar cryptically, telling him to accept a group of soldiers. The adar knows to buy extra grain. When the govenor is jealous and suspicious of his foresight, he comes to the monastery with a band of men. Soldiers then appear and intimidate and roughly send the governor's men off. One of the soldiers then reveals himself to be the hermit, who had been with a group of other hermits that had taken him in. The hermit then asks the adar to build a church in his name in his home village. A year later he dies.
====Besoy====
Handful of Erduan soldiers who are killed for their faith. One, Besoy, is pierced with a lance, which became sacred and empowered afterward.
====Turiel====
A governor in N. Ellador is a Dionist with an only daughter. Her mother dies while she is still young. At 15 her father wants her to marry a noble, in fact a friend of his, but she declares that she is dedicated to Dionar in a vow of celibacy and asks her father to build her a small house on the outskirts of the city. Her father lovingly obliges and builds here a palace in the wilderness for her and her friends to remain dedicated to Dionar together. She therefore became one of the first nuns and adaresses. The ruler there begins punishing Dionists yet her father initially burns incences for the gods as governer. The adaress sends a harsh rebuke to him and he repents, goes before the ruler and declares his faith in Dionar. He is beheaded. The ruler learns it was his daughter that prompted him to hold on to this religion. He sends soldiers to her monastery and they give her and her friends the chance to repent and turn back to the gods. The adaress curses the soldiers and declares her faith in Dionar. She is put in a squeezing press until she bleeds, then her and her friends, the 40 virgins of the monastery are put in prison. A fae messenger appears to her, touches her body with its wings, and heals all her wounds. She continued to be tortured, but none of the 40 virgins were touched. The soldiers hoped they would grow restless and feel guilty and repent. All 41 were then beheaded and on the adaresses head appeared 3 crowns, one inside the other.
====Máraquestë====
A young southern Arcaitian girl stays with 49 other Dionist in a house when their whole city is ordered by the governor to make a sacrifice to the war god. They are found absent, discovered, and taken in to be tortured for days. They are then sent to the emperor for more punishment. The girl being the youngest was separated from the rest and given harsher torture, such as being put on the wheel. She was then put in arena with lions but the lions just licked their paws and rested. A bear in arena, though, did not hesistate to attack and eat her. Only her torn clothing and head covering remained as relics, though some claim to hold the coprolite of the bear after eating her.
====Kemmótar====
Cemmodor, Kamboras
A southern Arcaitian boy's father, who was an army officer, dies when he is 14 and his mother moves them back to her homeland in Ashan. When of age the man becomes an Arcaitian soldier and is introduced to the emperor, as his father knew him. During his travels with the army, he arrives at an Ashani city being plagued by a dragon. It has nested over their spring and they have to lure it out with an offering of sheep just to collect water. If they do not have sheep, they cast lots for a virgin girl to given to the dragon. One day that the soldier is there, the princess is chosen by lot. The king begs the people to recast the lots, but they carry the princess off to the spring. The soldier pursues them and intervenes, going up against the dragon holy gestures and riding him down with a spear. All the citizens convert to the god of the warrior of Dionar. This did not keep him back from years later being promoted to be the military tribune and made a guard of the emperor. After some time, the emperor, persuaded by a high official, commanded all soldiers to abandon any faith in Dionar and perform rituals for the Arcaitian gods. The tribune refused, but the emperor did not want to punish his friend's son. He gave him all kinds of gifts of land, money, and slaves to persuade him to make a public concession and appease the law. He could keep is faith privately and remain an imperial guard. The tribune refused and denounced the edict in front of all his men and the other tribunes. The emperor then had to condemn him. The tribune was taken and tortured, put on a wheel of swords, passing out three times and being roused again each one. He was then clawed to pieces by wyverns and revived three times before being beheaded. His spear was divinely preserved, though, and became a powerful artifact.
====Mahalmon and Eruntalon of Neyital====
Mahalmon was a doctor and apothecary, studying to be a healing wizard in N. Ellador, healed the sick for free and converted many of those that came to him. He would tell that offense and violation often caused the body to break down. When the emperor was throwing out Dionists, the doctor went east into the desert, abandoned medicine and his wizardly studies, received tonsure, and became a monk. All the while, Eruntalon, a man from minotaur lands who was a high ranked soldier and also acquaintaned with the emperor went to Ashan on a private pilgrimage and then to N. Ellador. His orders took him to the desert where he met the former doctor. He left his military office and became a desert ascetic with the doctor. As the emperor's persecution continued, a Dionist mother, her 15-year-old, 13-year-old, and 11-year-old daughters were captured in the N. Elladoren city the doctor had come from. When they got word of this, the doctor and the soldier went to the city to comfort and encourage them. They knew they could do nothing to prevent their execution, but they did not want the girls to deny Dionar. The officials found out about the men's presence and they were all six taken outside of the city to be beheaded by a winged demon in the employ of the governor.
====Gereon====
A member of Morihelmo's regiment. Escaped to Falken were, in the largest city of the kingdom, he was discovered by a mage sensing for him, debilitated by a headache spell, and captured. He was beheaded in the city.
====Calië====
A noble girl from a major island in the bay off Arcaitia. Her father died when she was 5. Her mother suffered from a bleeding disorder and was worried about her daughter's future without her, so she arranged for her to married to a wealthy young man of her age. But Calië had already made a private vow of celibacy to Dionar. Her mother visits Airë Manë's shrine in hopes of being healed. When she arrives, Manë appears to Calië back at home through a daydream while napping. Calië sees her mother at the shrine and Manë holding a lamp in one hand and resting another on her mother's head to comfort her but she cannot see her. Manë tells Calië she will be the glory of her island and her mother would be cured. When her mother returns, the girl is able to convince her to let her give her dowry to the poor so she can become a nun. Her betrothed report this to the governor of the island who ordered her to burn an offering to the emperor. She refused so the governor sent her away to a brothel. When they came to take her away, no one, not the strongest of the guards, could move her. They piled wood around her and started a fire but she did not burn, not even her clothes caught fire. Then a dagger, full of demonic enchantments and a spirit of secrecy, was brought and when it was plunged at her it pierced her belly. Her death was not immediate, so before she passed, her protection broken, the men gouged out her eyes, which they put in a cup and brought back to the governor. When they are placed on a golden plate for him they imbed themselves in it the plate becomes an indestructible, holy artifact. In repentance for her secret vow kept from her mother, which was her undoing, her plate see into secrets and shines a warm light on the secret keeper, comforting them to have no fear and reveal their potentially dangerous secret.
====Yuliel ====
An Arcaitian girl is bethrothed to a serpentine senator named Fanyarë when she is still a child. Her father won glory in campaigns in N. Ellador and was dedicated to the gods, and the senator was a counselor to the emperor. Yuliel was baptized for Dionar in secret. At 18 it came time to marry—she refused. Fanyarë then became the governor of her city. He proposed again and she revelaed her faith, so had her arrested. She was flogged, hanged by her hair, which was then pulled out. Then the governor himself burned her face with a hot iron and mocked her saying, "Go look at your beautiful face now." He held a mirror up for her when she did not leave the room. She turned away from it, smiled, and said, "At the Resurrection of the Just and Faithful there won't be anymore burns or wounds. Even the immolated will return. I prefer to have wounds of the body, which are temporary, rather than wounds of the soul, which torture you for eternity." Back in her cell, a fae messenger appearing and claiming to be from Dionar appears to her. It advises her to just make a sacrifice to the Arcaitian gods and be set free. She spits on it and the fae is revealed to be Smael himself, who she swats at and chases out of her cell. After this encounter she gained new powers. She is interrogated again and her fiancé governor offers to end the torture and allow her to worship her god, this Dionar, if she would only honor the Arcaitian gods too. She wouldn't even have to be faithful to or devout for them. Dionar could be her chief god. Yuliel is unmoving. They release a drake into the room. She stares it down and offers it the robes of mockery they put on her. The drake chews on the end of it and is tamed. The guards separate her from the drake and remove it, aiming to kill it, but she makes a holy gesture at it and it is empowered to escape. The officials then take her to a public forum for execution. Many said they saw that Yuliel was holding a chain leading a winged demon at the end of it, a captive she had won after besting Smael. That may have terrified them, but they the officials stand Yuliel before a cauldron of molten lead. With one touch it dumps over and spills around the forum floor burning the guards and gleeful audience but not harming her or anyone faithful present. Over 600 people present watching the execution had faith at the sight Yuliel's perseverence and miracles. They rushed down from the stands, the molten lead parting and leaving them untouched where they ran, and they stood by and comforted Yuliel, ready to die with her. All of them were then taken on the governor's orders and beheaded in front of Yuliel before she herself was beheaded. Later Fanyarë was shipwrecked on an uninhabited island not know to any sailor. Lions roamed the island and devoured every last one of the surviving crew.
====Vendea====
Daughter of the governor of N. Ellador capital. A vision of the Boy Without Magic and his mother convinces her to become a Dionist. When the emperor started driving out and executing Dionists, on account of her high status, she went to the emperor and laid into him for his cruel edicts. He then summoned 50 of his best philosophers to debate with her about this Dionar and his Dionism. Not dull of wit and very well educated—not to mention empowered by Dionars helpers—Vendea won the debate with the philosophers. A few of them declared that they must follow this Dionar, that he must truly be a messenger of the gods if not the Highest himself. And why would a servant of the gods not follow the Highest one? Vendea was scourged before the emperor and philosophers and thrown into prison. Even the empress came to vist her in her cell, sway by her words and faith. She along with all the other philosophers and any in the court that converted were tortured with a brief chance to renounce and then killed. Vendea was made to watch all this and then she was tortured longer. With his wife out of the way, the emperor tried a different approach and appealed to Vendea to marry him and become the new empress. She declared she was married to Dionar, so the emperor had her sent to a breaking wheel covered in spikes, but as soon as her body touched it, it shattered. The emperor thus had her beheaded and the matter was over—except 800 fae attendants of Dionar swooped down and caried her body off to the holy mountain where Salma stood. Five hundred years later her body was found to be lying there exposed but incorruptible on the peak of the mountain. Her hair still grew anew, the fae attendants keeping it out of her face and brushing the snow off of her in winter. Healing oil also flowed in a constant stream from all her orifices and the fae attendants offer it to all who make the pilgrimage up the mountain.
====Anneri====
Sixteen years later, the same emperor meets another young noblewoman that in many ways reminds him of Vendea. He knows that she is pious and chaste, a devout Dionist, and he wants to convince her to change her mind. He cannot offer her to be empress as he has already remarried, but he pursues her all the same, offering her more wealth and access to deeper and arcane education. She spurns his advances, so to keep things quiet the emperor exiles her and she lives out the rest of her life in the desert of Ashan.
====Calyindë====
Woman of northern Arcaitia. Imprisoned for being a Dionist and refusing to marry the pagan governor of her city. A fae herald of Dionar freed her, though, and she and her family fled to another city. Calyindë began to perform miracles after the ordeal and the governor of that city then had her captured and executed.
====Varus====
A solider from N. Ellador who was guarding a group of monk waiting to be executed. Varus talked much with the monks and after one dies, he gives his life over to Dionar and asks to take the place of the monk. They were then all crucified as is the custom of that land.
====Alcaratarë====
An Ashani woman who was in N. Ellador and witnesses the execution of Aimo Varus. She takes his remains and buries them at her home in Ashan. She is widowed shortly after and her only son is promoted to centurion, but he dies unexpectedly. She seeks comfort and help from the remains of Aimo Varus. That night she has a dream that Aimo Varus and her son, Mahalmon, are hovering in glory, with blazing white clothing and celestial crowns on their heads. Alcaratarë then take the remains of Aimo Varus and her son, now an Aimo Mahalmon, and builds a church over them, becoming an anchoress of the church.
====Atanvarno====
An adanno of the capital of N. Ellador, he was the main opponent to Anaratandurism. He later became Yantasamno.
===Imperial Era===
====Alkië====
A stable maid of Arcaitia that met Voronwë, a nobleman who had distinguished himself as a soldier. When they met they were wearing identical silver bracelets. Voronwë saw her as his soulmate sent to him by the Highest. They married and Alkië became the mother of the first Dionist emperor, the one that would stop hunting Dionists: Vorindo. But years later, Voronwë divorced Alkië and married the noble Eruanne. Shortly after, Voronwë became emperor. She stayed close to their son Vorindo and remained in obscurity. During this time she made many pilgrimages, traveling further to new holy sites and making new discoveries, bringing back knowledge which she passed onto Vorindo and relics which she cherished in her collection. When he became emperor, Alkië was able to come out of obscurity and live a pious public life. After her peaceful death her son called for her to be decalred a saint.
====Pityon====
Pityon and his sister, who was married, lost their parents. Living in N. Ellador, Pityon then fled into the desert. He found an oasis and went into a cave there, weaving clothes out of palm fronds. He lived off of eating palm and drinking for the oasis for 43 years, when a raven started bringing him a half of a loaf of bread every day.
====Lóto====
A N. Elladoren young man of a wealthy family that, after being orphaned went into the desert as those who had before. He brought his sister with him and they lived an ascetic life with the people there. Lóto sought to become the disciple of Pityon, a hermit he heard had already gone deep into the desert. On his way there he met a centaur and a fae satyr. The fae tried to scare him out of going any further into the desert. The centaur helped him, though, and told him the way to Aimo Pityon. When Lóto and the centaur had subdued the satyr, he asked Lóto for his blessing. So Loto became the disciple of the hermit Pityon and he worked as swineherd. He went further out into the desert than any other ascetics before him and there he fought with the devil constantly, Smael and his demons heckling him, taking away his theological pursuits and the materials of his pastimes, layering him in heavy spells to make him slugish, tempting him with phantoms of women—those he knew and those that would never be possible—all which he overcame. Each time they assaulted him, he drove them back. On one occasion, while running from Smael's demons, Lóto hid in a cave, but he found there were so many little demons in it that he was beaten unconcious. His followers finally found his body, dead, they took it back with them, but when they laid him down at his usual place, he was revived. He sat up and demanded to be taken back to the cave. When he arrived and the host of little demons came at him again, a bright light flashed and they all ran away. Dionar had intervened. Then Lóto looked to the sky and asked, "Where were you the first time?" A voice answered, "I was here, but I wanted to watch and see your battle. Because more than anything else you have fought and maintained your battle well, I am going to make your name spread through all the world." It was after this that one night when breaking bread with Aimo Pityon, after having talked a whole day of Lóto's ordeals, the bread broke down the middle perfectly and gave them equal halves. The next time Lóto went to visit Pityon, he was dead. Two lions helped Lóto dig Aimo Pityon's grave. Another time Lóto found a plate of silver coins just sitting in his path way through the desert. He was sure this was a trick of Smael's, so he called back at him and the whole plate vanished. Again a plate appear this time with gold coins on it. Lóto took it up, made a fire, and then melted the gold in the fire. The plate vanished and he had a vision of the world covered in all manner of traps and snares. He cried out, "Oh, Most High, who can escape from these snares?" Because the ropes were moving closer to him. A voice spoke out, rumbling across the desert sand: "Humility will escape them." He then moved into a tomb, closing himself in and relying on villagers on the outside to open the door and bring him food. Smael followed him their, though, and at first chance got into his tomb and beat him unconcious. When the villagers found him, they carried him to a church where he recovered. After this he moved to a moutain further out in the desert and lived in the ruins of an old fort. Smael assailed him there, sending the beasts of the region and dark fae mocking and taking beast forms to attack him. He laughed at them and his resistance would make them all fade into smoke. Lóto later had the villagers break him out of the fort he sealed himself in and he went to the capital of N. Ellador, hoping to get martyred by being their and talking about Dionar. The governor ordered him to leave the city and he even defied those orders and showed up to the governor to argue with him, but Lóto was not even captured. When the persecution had died down, he returned to his fort. So many visitors came to him though, that he left to go further into the desert. He returned to the capital only to help refute Anaratandurism. When he felt his death was near, he gave all of his things, his blessed possession to become relics to his followers and was secretly buried in an unmarked grave when he died.
====Ammon====
N. Ellador city. Married at 20, but convinced his wife that they should live together celibate. After 18 years of this, they went out into the desert with Aimos Pityon and Lóto. Ammon started a monastery and his wife started a convent.
====Gallican====
An Arcaitian general that fought in the wars with Verkana. He became a Dionist, retired from military service, and returned to Arcaitia. The next emperor banished him to N. Ellador and went out into the desert to join the hermits.
====Abámon====
N. Ellador. Upon seeing Dionists persecuted, he presented himself to the governor as a Dionist. The governor took him without debate, had him hit, had nails driven into his body, had him scraped with iron combs, and had him strung up. He survived all this, so the governor had him sent to the capital to be tortured publicly as an example. A girl in the crowd named Erundilë was inspired by him. She criticized the governor of the capital and preached in the streets against him. For this she was captured and thrown into a fire, which would not burn her, so she was beheaded. The Abámon followed in the footsteps of his hero Dionar and had both his arms cut off before he was beheaded.
====Ilfirin the Immortal====
Ilfirin hadra i-mar.
Lead the conflict against Anaratandurism along with Atanvarno. From a wealthy family in the capital of N. Ellador. Began his clerical career as a child playing at baptism with his friends. Adanno Atanvarno informed him that although because he said the right words and administered the water, the baptisms were legitimate, he should not go around doing that. He was given a clerical education and became a núro before distinguishing himself in the Anaratandurist controversy. Once made adanno of the capital himself, the saga of the Five Exiles began. The first time he came into trouble was for plotting to cut off the grain supplies of Anaratandurists. He was sent to northern Chambrey. When Emperor Vorindo died, he was allowed to return to Ellador. Not long after Voronwë the Sickly ascended to the throne, though, Ilfirin's exile was renewed, and this time he was sent to Arcaitia, from which he travelled around N.W. Odenna. Emperor Voronwë sought to bring down Ilfirin lower than exile, but the Yantasamno stopped him and in fact had Ilfirin's exile repealed. But Ilfirin was not in the N. Ellador capital for long before he could no longer stand the Anaratandurist adanno and went into the desert with the hermits for 6 years. Thus his third exile, was self-imposed. When he returned, there was a new emperor, Nessimon, who tried to have him arrested while at prayer because he wanted to bring back the Arcaitian gods and undo all the Dionists had done. So Ilfirin fled back to Desert Sages. He remained there until the Emperor Alcarion sent him word that he was reinvested as adanno again. But Alcarion died and Anaratandurist emperor Tulk went after Ilfirin again. For his final exile, he fled the his family's tomb outside the capital. He stayed inside the tomb for four months without leaving, eating only what vermin lurked inside the catacomb and drinking what dripped from the ceiling. Divinely sustained, he emerged undying when Tulk offered him a special hearing to be reinvested as an adanno, but Ilfirin instead move to a house in the country. After resisting him and gathering supporters, the emperor was afraid that Ilfirin would start an uprising so returned him to his seat as an adanno. In the course of his travels he had discovered many things, to the envy of emperors, and when he was advanced in years, beyond a hundred, he relinquished his seat and slinked away from the capital and clerical life, but was never reported to have died and has revealed himself, in body, to many people, continuing to watch over N. Ellador, a wise, undying sage of the desert.
====Arno====
Arcaitian adanno influential in his leading and care for church matters and the poor. Organized and established many rules of monasticism. Major player in the fight against Anaratandurism, coming into conflict with Emperor Tulk and his magistrate/prefect sent as messenger. Arno heartily told off the messenger and they concluded that only violence would persuade him. It was most certainly the truth. But Tulk did want to come to violence over this bishop, so he tried to banish him, but Arno did not budge an inch. Tulk was eventually impressed with Arno and turned his support of him around.
====Vanuron====
A blind N. Elladoran with a powerful memory. Had many divine powers in addition. His visions, though foggy and abstract in shape saw deeply into many things. Opposed Anaratandurism. Carved letters into wood to help himself and other blind people to read. Some in his day condemned him and his written works as heretical, so acceptance of his aimohood is mixed.
====Mahalmo Lauranto====
Archadanno in Hamazan from Arcaitian-ruled Ashan. His mother followed the gods of Ashan and his father was a high-ranking military officer that died not long after he was born. Became a lector in a minor order. He then received a pagan and secular education. Afterward he studied in a clerical school elsewhere in Ashan. When he completed his studies he became a hermit in the Ashani desert, living in a cave. At one point, a princess in distress approached him, but he thought her a demon and turned her away. She informed him she was a Dionist and needed shelter from wild beasts in his cave. He allowed her in and carefully made a division of the cave, a side for each of them, but that was not enough to prevent them from lying with each other. The next morning, to hide his failure, Mahalmo took the princess and threw her over a cliff. He then went to the capital of Arcaitia and begged for forgiveness. They did not absolve him, so he resolved that he would not rise from the ground until he was forgiven, crawling around on all fours and eating grass and roots for a duration of years. But one day the princess reappeared, a son in tow. She sat down before Mahalmo, looking like a wild beast, and while she suckled their son, she pronounced his sins forgiven. After this he vowed to not sit or lie down in thanks for his undeserving forgiveness, standing continually for two years and barely sleeping, while memorizing the holy scriptures. His abdomen was permenantly damaged from this so he returned to his hometown where he became a núro a few years later. He moved up to being a priest and arbitrated over many disputes within the church. Spoke out against the wealth and excess of the clergy. On one occasion, upon returning to his city after traveling, the people joyously rioted in the streets, defacing images of the emperor and other government property, proclaiming the imperium of Dionar. He corrected them with the homilies he have following, allaying the crowd and averting the wrath of the emperor. As archadanno of the Arcaitian capital, he stood out from other adannos in his practices, not throwing lavish parties and reforming the clergy. When visiting adars and priests came to see him he told them to go back to their parishes and did not give them gifts like previous archadannos had done. The archadanno of the N. Elladoren capital had the Tall Brothers beaten, but Mahalmo took them in at the Arcaitian capital. He also made an enemy of the empress, who took his denunciations of feminine dress personally and brought him to ecclesiastical trial on theological pretenses. The council found disapproval of the scholars he followed and though they wanted to execute him, decreed banishment instead. There was a riot and the city and when the guards went to seize him and throw him out, there was an earthquake. The empress took this as a sign from god and reinvested Mahalmo as adanno. But when a silver statue of the empress was put up and dedicated in the ceremonial square of the city, he branded it as deifying and rebuked the empress. This time she swiftly exiled him to Hamazan. The Yantasamno protested the banishment, but his plea was not heard. Mahalmo set to financially support monks across the world that were actively destroying the temples and shrines of the old gods. He also wrote letters from Hamazan to his followers back in the Arcaitian capital, which alerted the empress to his continued machinations, though she barely knew the extent, so she had him moved to a farther, more obscure town in Hamazan. On his journey there, though, he died, but was buried in a tomb in the town.
====Valino====
A smuggler of niter in N. Ellador traveling across the desert and learning to survive in the wastes. His parents arranged for him to marry and he did but his wife died not long after their union. His parents died a few years later. Valino then sold all he had and found an elder in the desert to study under. After returning from the desert and becoming a priest, a woman presented herself and said Valino had gotten her pregnant. He knew he could say nothing to defend himself, so he remained silent. Yet when it came time for her to give birth, the baby would not come out until she admitted Valino's innocence. The village felt ashamed, but Valino still returned to the desert. There he gained a reputation with the monks because his face would glow with light in the dark. This property was transferred to his monastery and it was called the Glowing Lantern of the Wilderness. He was banished to a river island for a short time by emperor Tulk, but he soon returned to the desert and lived out the rest of his days.
====Abán====
Corvalen boy with miracles surrounding his life, that he performed at a young age, destining him for the clergy. Traveled to the Arcaitian capital with his uncle. There he demonstrated his powers at warding off danger from persons, beasts, and spirits. He parted rivers during their travels and was a prodigy hydromancer, though he never developed his skills for combat.
====Maruthas and Abdas====
Maruthas was an adanno in Ashan and collector of relics. Abdas was a Verkanan who had been arrested by the court wizards of that country, humiliated, beaten, and subjected to periods of starvation while in prison. Later in life the two went before the King of Verkana. They exorcized the king's son and fought off the demon oppressing him. The king was also impressed with their knowledge of healing and of Maruthas's knowledge of physic medicine. The two were able to negotiate a peace between Arcaitia and Verkana, but Abdas spoke out against the priests of his former faith and fought with the court wizards leading him to destroy a sacred fire in a temple, snuffing it out. The king ordered him to repair the temple at his expense, but he refused, so the king, fed up with Dionists, ordered all churches of Dionar in Verkana to be destroyed. Abdas was still unrelenting and so he and Maruthas along with other adannos, oracles, and leaders in the church were rounded up and killed.
====Deglan====
One of the first Corvalens to embrace Dionar. Traveled to the capital of Arcaitia and made an adanno with the charge to convert more of his kinsman. Meets Aimo Callo when he arrives in Corval.
====Arbin====
King of Aven (Corval), father of Iauron.
====Alassë====
The only daughter of a rich man in the capital of N. Ellador. Her parents longed to have a child in their old age and after they had a monk pray for them, they had Alassë. When she was of age, her father wanted to marry her to a young man from another wealthy family, but Alassë told him she had already dedicated herself to Dionar and could not marry. Her father pressured her, so she disguised herself as a man named Emerald and entered a monastery. She excelled, an eager student of the ascetic life, learning under the very monk who had prayed for her conception, now an adar. Alassë's father came to the adar for comfort after his daughter had run away and the adar offered for him to be comforted by this young monk Emerald. So unrecognized by him, Alassë encouraged and comforted her father. Years later, when she was dying of illness, her father still alive, she summoned for him and on her deathbed revealed to him that this monk was in fact a she, his lost daught who had run away all those years ago.
====Linyenwo====
Born into a wealthy Ashani family, he left everything behind to go into the N. Ellador desert with the hermit there. He then returned to Ashan, to the deserts there and started a monastery, continuing the Elladoren tradition. There he tamed a lion that he encountered. It has a thorn in its paw and he calmed it enough to let him take the thorn out. Linyenwo continued to comfort and teach it to obey him. Thus without any magic beyond that of a priest, without any woodland arts, he made the lion his familiar.
====Grellen====
Corvalen. He baptized a king's stillborn son, bringing him back to life. The then pagan king had the cleric richly rewarded and let him build a church. Grellen acted as a mediary between warring kingdoms in Corval and Fotla. On one occasion, peace was being mediated between two clans and a hostage to be exchanged, but when the hostage was killed they set off to battle. Grellen prayed for a miracle and the earth opened up before the attackers breaking the peace, large chasms opening and swallowing them up before closing back up as if nothing had moved. He was from then on the protector of the winning clan.
====Arallë====
A northern Arcaitian girl named Máronoira left the capital at 17 to escape an arranged marriage. She traveled to an island off the coast of Arcaitia where the sailors and serpentmen called her "outsider", Arallë. She became a núra on the island and gained a reputation for her power to heal, both in heart through speaking and in body through her hands. She was always humble about her abilities, all the great things she did for the island and for those that came from beyond, going to the extent of saying she, in her past and the depths of heart, was the worst person of all. She forsaw her own death and died a glad old healing woman.
====Alúmon====
Ashani adanno. When Hamazan had taken Ashan and was at war with Arcaitia, there were 7000 Hamazani prisoners in Alúmon's town. He assembled and organized his church to feed and care for the prisoners. They sold the gold and silver in their church, much as Mahalmo Lauranto had written of, and made sure the soldiers even had what they needed for when the returned to Hamazan. When they did, they told their emperor of Adanno Alúmon and the tale of his kindness prompted him to end persecution of Dionism in Hamazan (which had persisted since Abdas's provocation). The Hamazani emperor also wanted to meet this Alúmon and the Arcaitian emperor allowed the envoy. His audience with the emperor led to a cessation in the war between Arcaitia and Hamazan.
====Herumo Tarma====
Tarma Savava
From N. Ellador. Adanno in N. Ellador capital. The prefect/governor of N. Ellador, Orontivo, issued new, stricter regulations about mime and dancing shows in the city, which usually got quite out of hand and caused civil unrest with the large crowds that gathered. One of Herumo's students, Hierax, had been sent to read the edict. When the dwarves of the city saw him, they were offended, thinking Herumo had sent them to provoke them. They rioted, going after Hierax. The governor had him arrested and tortured in an amphitheater to satisfy the riot and to send a message to Herumo. He threatened to retaliate against the dwarves of the city and so they made a move first, running through the streets at night saying the cathedral was on fire. Dionists ran out to save the building and the dwarves fell on them, killing them in the streets. Herumo went to delvings, caves, grottos, and temples in the city, rounding up all the dwarves to find the ones who had perpetrated the massacre. He banished most of the dwarves from the city, taking their possessions from them and letting Dionists take what they would. In some parts of the city no dwarves were left, whole quarters left vacant. The governor was upset that such a large chunk of the city's population had been sent away by an adanno overstepping his bounds. Both petitioned the emperor to take their side. Herumo even went as far as to send a full set of the scrolls of the holy scriptures to the governor, implying he was subject to him and the church, but the governor refused to accept the gift and had it sent back. At this, desert monks came into the city and started a riot. They made their way to the governor and attacked him, accusing him of being a pagan. He asured them he had been baptized in the holy waters of Dionar. The other people of the city came to push the monks back, but one monk Ammon threw a rock at the governor's head, so after Orontivo was cured of the wound, he had Ammon arrested and tortured to death in the public square. Herumo wanted to declare him a martyr and make him an aimo, keeping his body in a church, but other adanno's rejected that notion. A few years later, though, Herumo was made yantasamno in the Elladoren capital. Not long after, the pagan philosopher Antánië, a much loved and saught after teacher in the city and friend to the governer was traveling through the streets and a lector named Sardo led a mob that attacked her chariot. He personally murdered her, a wise woman of at least 60 years, and the crowd hacked up her body and burned the pieces outside the city. Some blamed Herumo for sending Sardo and the mob, but he maintained his innocence. The event, though, prompted Governor Orontivo to step down as governor and leave the capital, done with the controversy surrounding Herumo and the collatoral damage of their rivalry. It was around this time the emperor compared Herumo to a "proud elven lord". Herumo was also labelled a heretic by the Tanusian Dionists, over the whether the Great Mother who bore the Man Without Magic should be called such, distancing the Tanusian church from the Elladoren church. Herumo had been sending letters back and forth with Mártulien in Tanus and after they became tense, a council was called in Arcaitia, but the Tanusians were invited only as an after thought so they refused to attend. Mártulien and the Tanusian church were branded heretics by the council, but before it was adjurned, adannos supporting the Tanusians and Mártulienism took over the council and branded Herumo a heretic instead, leading the emperor to call for his arrest. Herumo fled back to the deserts of Ellador and from there sent a hermit named Teleron to start a mob, accompanied by Azazel, the goat demon lord Herumo had captured and bound in chains. They surrounded the emperor's palace and thus the emperor gave in choosing to require Mártulien to stay in Ellador, but he did not allow Herumo to return to the city. Herumo died leaving much controversy behind, the theological fights he championed continuing for years after his death.
====Eruyondo and Alcareru====
Yantasamno in N. Ellador capital after Herumo. Out of theological conflicts, he was exiled by a council to a lake island in southern Hamazan. He died in exile and his successor, Alcareru, though elected by his followers, went into hiding and was yantasamno secretly. After he had the official yantasamno assassinated at the holiest gathering of Dionism, he emerged from the desert as the succeeding yantasamno.
====Laston Tulwëon====
Laston Talmava 'Laston of the Platform', Laston Tulwëon 'Laston the One of the Pillar/Pole', Laston Anwatarma 'Laston the True Pillar' (but also 'the High Pillar')
Ashani boy, the son of a shepherd, entered a monastery before age 16. He was so extreme in his austerity, the other monks did not think he could live a communal life, so Laston asked to leave the monastery. He shut himself in a hut for a year and half, going a stretch of 40 days without food or water. After emerging from the hut, he would stand for durations as long as he could before sitting or lying down. It was not long before he sought out a narrow space in the mountains, finding an outcrop on the slopes where he could live and devout himself to the Highest. There were so many people that came to visit him, asking for prayers and counsel, that he sought a more solitary location. Laston found a pillar 9 ft. high in the ruins of Telenissa nearby, the way it had crumbled forming a sufficient platform at the top. He said, "If I cannot escape the world horizontally, I will escape it vertically". To sustain him village boys would climb the pillar and hand him up bread and goat's milk. Desert drakes also harassed him, climbing up and hoping they could eat the stranded human, but bird of prey, some rather large, would come down and protect Laston. When the desert elders heard about Laston, they wanted to test if his eccentrism arose from humility or from pride. They arrived and told him to come down out of obedience, reverence, and respect for them. They were ready to drag him down to the ground and correct him, but Laston climbed down humbly and so the elders told him to remain there. After some time, the pillar was replaced with a series of pillars, each more adequate or ornate as the villagers saw fit—and each higher from the ground. The final pillar was 20 ft high with a platform atop a baluster. He would often stand with his arms stretched out, in a t-shape, for hours on end and then he would make bend forward as far down as he could 1244 times. The new pillars, though further from the ground, only attracted more pilgrims and spectators. Every afternoon Laston would allow them to put up a ladder and ascend to speak with him. He also addressed the crowds beneath and wrote letters at times, and even arbitrating disputes as landowners moved towards cities and left the countryside judicially unprovided for. Laston did not require of his listeners the same extremity of asceticism that he practiced. Once he got so sick three adannos begged him to come down and see a doctor, but he refused and was soon better. In his old age, a wall was built around the pillar to keep the ever-growing crowds back. Women in particular were not allowed past the wall, Laston telling his own mother, "If we're worthy, we'll see each other in the life to come." She stayed in the ruins and lived a live of silence and prayer. When she died, Laston asked for her coffin to be brought to him. Laston himself died when, after not hearing from him for a few days, a disciple of his found him stiff and dead, bowed down in prayer. In all he lived 47 years on the platform.
====Erufailon Lustion====
Eruno Moiano (Eruf the Ascetic)
Born Lustion in Tanus, his parents were wealthy and he received an elite education in Arcaitian, Elladoren, and Edhellen. He had a sister that he stayed close to. As a young man he travelled to Calenion with a Svachian friend. They joined an hermitage in southern Ashan for three years but then went on to the desert of N. Ellador. Fifteen years later Halmaic Controversy broke out when Archadanno Erumelon issued a letter from his seat in the capital of Erdu, saying that the Most High did not himself take the from of Dionar. Erufailon and the Svachian set out with 300 monks to the capital, but were unable to reach the city and instead went to Hamazan by way of Calenion. There they sought protection from Artatar Mahalmo Lauranto. Erufailon then became a núro serving under the Artatar. It was during this time Lauranto was at odds with the Hamazani Emperor, and when he was exiled, Erufailon went to Arcaitia to speak for him to the yantasamno. He was then offered the opportunity to found a monastery on the coast of Chambrey, first going to Ashan to learn the ways of the monks there, before arriving in Chambrey. It is said that Erufailon's sister joined up with him at this time. He was the first to establish monastic communities of men and women existing side-by-side. He died at his monastery in Chambrey.
====Rauro====
An Arcaitian aristocrat who became a núro known for his opposition to the Tanusian church. Suggested that Erufailon Lustion write a discourse against his heretical Tanusian brethren, so Erufailon in turn dedicated it to Rauro. The Arcaitian Emperor Vëanion sent Rauro to settle a dispute between the military commander Soronto and the magistrate Fánion in Chambrey. While there Yantasamno Enquëa died and and Rauro was unaninmously elected his successor. One of his first actions was to clear up the practice of rituals among the Corvalens in Greta. He burned the books of secret Verkanian sects in Arcaitia. He also rooted out heresy in Tabasaran. In all his actions he galvanized the authority of the Arcaitian yantasamno. As a result he found himself often being called upon to mediate disputes among both sacred and secular authorities. Rauro asserted the primacy of Arcaitia as bearing the true authoritative lineage rather than Erdu. During the expansion of Tabasaran minotaurs Ruaro, known for his ability to settle disputes, arranged to meet with the leader, some sort of negotiations were made, and the minotaurs returned home and ceased their imperial expansion. Arcaitia was attacked successfully by the Falko-Chambresians but under the direction of Rauro, the capital endured and many great buildings and monuments that were in disrepair before the invasion were restored. According to his wishes he was buried in a place as close to Aimo Sarondo as could be found.
====Antúro====
From northern Arcaitia. He had a deep connection with animals. A martima followed him one day when Antúro was going to a secluded chapel he liked to visit. The martima had evil intent, either to cast a spell on him from those dark ones he secretly practiced or merely to attack him. The martima suddenly became so thirsty though that he revealed himself and implored Antúro for help. A roe happened to pass by which the aimo caused to stop, so that the martima could drink its milk.
====Valimon====
Archadanno under Yantasamno Rauro. Born on an island off the coast of Arcaitia. Involved in a lot of church disputes and carried on the legacy of his predecessor Rauro when he himself became yantasamno.
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==== Alcarinquallo [d. 430] ====
Alcarillo of Erdu, often called by his long Eldarin name Alcarinquallo. ...
====Úvatar [mid 500s]====
City of N. Ellador. Parents important Dionists in the city. He and his sister orphaned. Tried to convince her to stay a virgin, go on the path to becoming nun, but he failed, so he went out into the desert to become a monk. Later he become an adar, but he was summoned to Arcaitia by Emperor Failonion and stripped of his adarcy when he would not adopt the emperor's theology. The empress, Eruanne, tried to pursuade Failonion to not do this, but he held fast. Úvatar then returned to the desert and remained a hermit in the community there, not much changing of his life and practice, aside from the loss of official title and sanction.
====Ainimwë [late 500s]====
Aenimwe [blessed]
Influenced by the monastic practices and structure developed by Erufailon Lustion.
[Erusámova (Eldarin) or Tusirak (Ashani) for one known for being raised from the dead.]
[Tekle Haymanot, d. 1313] [<384]
==Name Bank==
Barsan, Barsanufios
Aprax
Misayil
Abra, Abraha
Aburam
Abo
Elvish Root Notes 	 	
panda 'enclosure' 	hahta 'fence' 	yonwa 'border/boundary, fence'
Pandor 	Hahtar 	Yonwo
 	 	
Reste 'field' 	Laire 'meadow' 	Sendapelere 'peaceful field'
loto, lotu, lodion 	malda, malina OR laure, laurea, laurie	Laurelotu
 	 	
Anarata(r) 	Anaratandur 	Anaratandurism
 	 	
'highest one, supreme' {f}	 	
Anarata, Anaratarya 	Antá, Antána, Antáwë, Antánië 	Anorwa; Anorna
==See Also==
*Aimo
==Sources==
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_saints
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronological_list_of_saints_and_blesseds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_early_Christian_saints
http://www.elvish.org/elm/names/a.html
http://folk.uib.no/hnohf/elfnam.htm
http://www.councilofelrond.com/elvishname/letter/search/
http://folk.uib.no/hnohf/affix~1.htm
http://realelvish.net/names/quenya/
http://www.grey-company.org/Circle/language/com2elv.htm
http://www.dragons-inn.org/Ifreann/Tynntangial/eng_elf.html
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/sbook3.asp
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