History of The Order of The Ring of Truth

At the winter's end, the brothers managed to raise a small army to their cause. A summit was held, in order to prepare the troops for the coming campaign. A plan was hatched to siege the city of Ioskos, in order to get King Deretrides to simply give the ring up. It was also decided that the army would travel over the Silver Mountains, so they could remain hidden from border guards, or any eyes that could spark a war between Tiberoa and Alabast. The newly dubbed 'Crusaders of Truth' also reasoned that they could recruit any Goblin Tribes or wayward bandits on the way to bolster their force. As the summit came to a close, the crusaders marched towards the Silver Mountains.

In the final days of First Rain, in the year 733, the high courts of Dorlais called upon The Order of The Ring of Truth to aid them in the judgement of a man suspected of being a wanted murderer. Unable to prove his guilt, the high court of Dorlais held him prisoner for a fortnight until the order arrived and was able to extract the truth from him. In a single hour, the order was able to use the ring to extract the admission of 36 murders. The next morning, the murderer now known as Gregor the Butcher was executed. His death was generally seen as a good omen, gifted by the order.

The Greenwood Witch Hunt was an event organized by several local Dorlesian thegns who had been petitioning The Circle of Alabast to take action against a coven of witches who had made their home in Greenwood Fen, upon claims that they were the cause of a growing famine. Though the circle did not take action, they granted the thegns approval to raise a fyrd of men to meet their ends; this action superseded a refusal of this request by the then Duke of Lisieux. The Duke of Lisieux, Eadred the Peaceful, successfully pressed the circle to solicit the oversight of The Order of The Ring of Truth, to ensure that the witches were truly at the heart of the famine. In the late fall or Arkantis, the order arrived with Astav at the helm of their campaign. He quickly dispelled the notion of greed and deception and helped the fryd carve a bloody path through the woodland. After 20 days, Astav finally uncovered the source of the famine from a witch, whom he slew out of anger soon after. This anger in part to the length in time it took to learn this information as well as the fact that the several fyrdsmen has been taking advantage of the local Dyr. Nevetheless, Astav tracked down the night hag coven responsible for the famine and cut their hearts from their chests and damned them for all eternity. When he returned to the Circle and to the Duke of Lisieux, he ousted the fyrdsmen who had committed crimes against the Dyr and they were promptly imprisoned or executed, depending on their crimes. While absolved by the circle, the duke, and the order, Astav was forever haunted by the horrors he let go unchecked.