Magnus Maevis

Magnis Maevis is the founder of the Maevisine Paladine and father to all individual paladine, including Eclaire Maevis, as well as close confidant and ally to the Emperors of Alberea. He used to be tactical genius in military strategy, though is unable to fight himself due to scoliosis.

Magnus has been alive for more than a century, a fact which still confounds all paradigms of modern science and philosophy. Magnus was 21 when Solidor I, founder of the Alberean Empire, started the coalition known as the Alliance of the Red Rose in 1298 to overthrow the old Great Houses of Alberea. As a greatly ambitious man leading his small noble house as patriarch, Magnus saw himself reflected in Solidor I, and was seen the same way in return. The two became good friends and trusted allies during the campaign of the Red Rose, as Magnus pledged his loyalty to the young emperor-to-be as one of the first in all of Alberea.

The Paladine
Roughly 8 years after the campaign of the Red Rose, Magnus would marry Augusta, a young warrior that fought with the Alliance. Together, they raised multiple children. It would not be until 1320, however, until Magnus and Augusta realised that all of their children were magically gifted as they reached puberty. Cursing their fate, afeared that they would be apprehended as witches, Magnus hid them from the outside world. However, when the word did come out, Solidor I, now emperor of Alberea, lauded Magnus and his family and proclaimed that heirs were gifts sprouting from their devotedness to the Faith of the Chant! Moreover, it was a sign that their causes were just and noble.

During the decades that followed, Magnus would notice that he himself was also not without strange gifts. Though he could not produce magic, he aged incredibly slowly for a human, living more closely to elven standards of age. Magnus would go on to sire an incredible amount of offspring with multiple wives throughout the century. All of these children would be trained and lauded as Maevisine Paladine, and bred for combat in the Empire's military as knights of great renown.