Unable to hold off Garulian forces after the betrayal of Kyallisar during the First Rebellion, Corwenth faced disaster. Rescue was proposed by the mysterious, twisted Taryn Arkor, who took a small band of CorwenthÆs mightiest heroes and penetrated the Garulian Reliquary, resting place of the Godslayer sword.
But Taryn tricked the heroes. Once they had secured his passage to the Godslayer, he took it for himself, and set about slaying those who had aided him. Of the great heroes of that era, only Mara Valkarin escaped the Reliquary alive.
Having beheld the danger and the power of the Theocrat, and of the religion he intended to embody, she swore that she would live to see his fall.
