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Devanshi Bijalgrē - the Mother of Matriarchs
Savar - Assassin - Female
Story:
It is a little known fact and one that is kept silent in the north that the founding mother of the nation that would become Savatoga was a savar. back when Felids and Savar worked together to survive. In the years after the Shadow War when darkness ruled and the Undying Lords and Rotters stalked the land, there was a pride of Savar that came to what was in times past the Wolven Myst Highlands. Here they hid along with their Felid-kin attempting to avoid the dark and necromantic menaces which threatened their existence.
After three generations of roaming the land and coming near to extinction, a human came into their midst. He was wise and powerful, offering to cure the plague placed upon them in ages past by the old god Malagant. All he asked in return was their help in gaining him passage to the Stormlands. Devanshi Bijalgrē, who was the matriarch of the savar at the time, a proud and stern figure much beloved by her people, went to speak to her people, as well as her kin: the felid - who had also succumbed to their illness. She claimed that taking up this offer would lead them to prosperity. There was opposition in their ranks, many being filled with distrust for the human who had stumbled upon their hidden home. She was challenged by one of these dissenters and in the honour duel that pursued Devanshi skillfully took her opposition down. The interracial pride then agreed and the mysterious man did as he promised, removing the Plague from those gathered at the time.
All of the Felid were cured and became immune to the plague. The Savar however were a different story. The plague rescinded for several generations, but as the god Daemos gained more power the Plague returned to the savar. These events caused the beginning of the entrenched Caste System which is in place today in Savatoga. Those without the plague multiplied and gained power, especially the cured Felids, while those with the plague were relegated to the lower rungs of society. From these beginnings the Sultanate and ruling classes coalesced
Death: Devanshi passed away peacefully in the forested mountains of the north believing that her people were at last free from the Plague and believing that she was instrumental in acquiring the cure.
Spirit Item Description: The gloves that the interracial pride made for Devanshi, their matriarch, became bound to her soul upon touch and allowed her to be able to resist the darker magics that agitated the savarian plague. They are also said to have increased the potency of her claw strikes.