CYDARE

Cydare was born to the elves during the War of the Legion.  At a very
young age, the pure-bred elf was assembled with the forces of King Cormac
against the Rift, and was only in his teens when the war was finally won. 
Many small skirmishes taught him the value of combat in the process of
making a point.  Parents killed in the war, his mentors became the fighters
of his field, and by a combination of luck and skill, Cydare was, among
other warrior elves, a survivor of the endless struggle.  He out survived
all of his peersand began to consider it to be a great loss.  Having a
strong bond with his kind, and a worthy reputation, Cydare founded the Band
of Lye, a small force of six, including himself, with the express purpose of
forcing imperfection, in context to a goal, out of their targets.  After
meeting with failure in drawing demon possession out of many subjects, they
began to turn their animosity towards non-elf populations.  

Cydare's band was made of Ke'tal, Dluea, Han'dorn, Poise, and Es'joban, all
pure-blooded elves of the earliest Shazarazade.  Cydare's independence
became greater and greater the further he operated with the band, and before
even ten years of service, the band answered only to a higher call of
Purity, with no reference point other than the initial oath to obey.  Cydare
began to see other races as having deep corruptions, mutations of the
Cataclysm gone wild, and sought, with the help of his band, means to cleanse
Aabahran and bring all gene pools back to the likeness of the elves.  Even
humans.  

Dluea and Poise began to hesitate after Cydare began to slip into cruel
practice against non-elves in order to discipline them towardspurity, and
the Band of Lye, on the verge of self destruction, met by the grace of fate
to settle their differences with maturity.  They called the meeting the
Great Soul, and avoided catastrophe by relinquishing a measure of their egos
in order to plead at the altars of Purity for guidance.  This was the first
time they went outside of their own idea of Purity and began to consult a
greater force.  

During prayer during that peaceful season, Es'joban and Ke'tal became
suddenly extremely ill and Cydare was forced to hide away with them in Val
Miran.  Many hard times befell them, since it was recent that Cydare and the
Band of Lye had persecuted the relatively diverse peoples of Val Miran. 
Sirant at that time, prior to his fall, rescued Es'joban and Ke'tal in a
freak meeting that caught the band completely off guard, and Cydare was
stolen away and repeatedly killed and resurrected again in the Higher Planes
by rigorous combat with spirits Sirant had been pulling from the Rift in an
attempt to find a bottom or a heart.  

Again, Cydare survived via countless resurrections, but not without scars,
both physical and mental.  Sirant's fall into madness proceeded, leaving
Cydare trapped without a means of returning.  Forgotten in a timeless tear
between realities, Cydare watched and waited for an opportunity to go back
to Aabahran.  Clinging to a tide in the Prime after the destruction of
Rheydin rippled the cosmos, Cydare hurled back to Aabahran on an echo, and
with him all the powers imbued by seeing through from the other side.  While
falling through the portal, Cydare witnessed a vision of Naruthiron
plummeting into the Demonweb Pits, a place he'd earlier glimpsed in his war
towards the roots of the Rift.  

Discovering in Aabahran the Band of Lye and its members long missing, Cydare
has returned to the Castle with great menace towards the affluence and
comfort of the modern age.  Meaning to return Knights to the radical
doctrines of times passed, Cydare has, by great knowledge and a power
monopoly, temporarily taken the reigns of the Castle for himself, and means,
as Sirant once used him, to bludgeon all chaff from the grainwith the
Knights as his flail.