The First Warden (concept)
The First Warden is a somewhat enigmatic figure despite the long shadow his legacy has cast over Sarradonian history. Born sometime in the mid third century, the man who would later become the First Warden seems to have worked as a merchant and local bureaucrat on the Eastern Isle until he came to the attention to the island's overlord, the warlord Arachas.
The First Warden wrote four lengthy books which have made it into the Wardenite canon, and his authorship is attributed to almost a dozen other documents and tomes which are considered apocryphal and rejected be one or more sects within the Wardenite faith. The four books which most Wardenites accept are: The Book of Days, The Pillars of Virtue, The Marginalia, and The Visions. The Record of the First Warden's Court, while having been written by scribes and compiled after his death, is also counted among the Wardenite canon as it contains verbatim records of many of the Warden's rulings and legal pronouncements.
The First Warden died of natural causes in 332, and despite the hopes of his Ritualist enemies that his faith would lose purpose with his passing, it only served to galvanize Wardenism, cementing it into the faith it has become today. Leadership was passed into the hands of his lieutenants, the Mamur who would successfully lead the faithful in achieving a dominant position across all of Sarradon.
Aliases: First Warden