B'Non il-Anrau
On the plane of Waking Materia, B'Non il-Anrau is remembered as a great First Age hero and one of four founding members of the Sagasingers, an interplanar band of explorers, eco-warriors, guides-for-hire and scholars that would evolve into the modern-day Dreadnoughts. Wielding his mighty falchion, the simply-named Old Reliable, il-Anrau was known to be a swordsman of immense power and skill, perhaps third only to the Dreadnoughts' demigodlike co-rulers, V'Shaat and Galadnock mac-Kenzie. Scattered tales survive of his exploits among the Insurgent Gods in Materia's Early First Age but end abruptly in the Middle First Age: it is possible he was one of many heroic casualties in the First Dragon Wars. This would place him in the pantheon of Departed Gods, alongside fellow Sagasingers R'Ani il-Duat and Hrafnagaldr Fistpoetry.
History
Born on the distant plane of Tassalit, il-Anrau lived his childhood on the streets of Aroane's Gift, eventually forming a then-unnamed band of thieves with a young V'Shaat al-Avra and R'Ani il-Duat. The band grew, and under V'Shaat's tactical brilliance eventually became so infamous it caught the eye of the Gift's Sovereign, an ancient sphinx named Annan the Attentive. The aptly-named Sovereign saw too much potential in the group to simply eliminate them, and so set them to work: B'Non, V'Shaat and R'Ani were taught the secrets of Voidwalking and were set upon more interplanar threats to Tassalit's wellbeing, using their skills in sabotage and spying in service of their small and vulnerable homeworld.
However the trio would eventually come to realize the stakes are higher than their relatively well-managed home plane, and so they went rogue, defecting from Annan the Attentive's service and forming the band anew, this time with wider notions of justice. They continued to steal, spy and sell information, though increasingly focused on what they deemed the great forces of evil: hegemony, tyrrany and inequality. The trio eventually formed a deep partnership with a similar-minded group of sellswords under the leadership of the dwarven skald and monk Galadnock mac-Kenzie, and so the Sagasingers were born.
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