R'Ani il-Duat
On the plane of Waking Materia, R'Ani il-Duat 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. A powerful wind sorceress and a genius with thrown knives, il-Duat was only less feared than the Dreadnoughts' demigodlike commanders, V'Shaat al-Avra and Galadnock mac-Kenzie. Scattered tales survive of her exploits among the Insurgent Gods in Materia's Early First Age but end abruptly in the Middle First Age: it is possible she was one of many heroic casualties in the First Dragon Wars. This would place her in the pantheon of Departed Gods, alongside fellow Sagasingers B'Non il-Anrau and Hrafnagaldr Fistpoetry.
History
Born on the distant plane of Tassalit, il-Duat was born to a military family in the nation of Aroane's Gift, eventually distinguishing herself as an inquisitor of the the Gift's Sovereign, an ancient sphinx named Annan the Attentive. She was assigned to infiltrate and monitor a notorious band of brigands under the leadership of V'Shaat al-Avra and B'Non il-Anrau, but the trio's friendship would become so deep and genuine R'Ani would defect from the Attentive's service, later becoming one of the founding members of a group of interplanar explorers and eco-warriors known as the Sagasingers.
The band 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 thus the Sagasingers were born.
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