Auron Lightbringer

ShadoWhite · Subject: Auron Lightbringer Mon Aug 24, 2009 7:26 am

From the personal journal

The term of hero is a very special and important one to those who live in Solamnia. Hero binds together the measures of the Knightly Order. Loyalty, obedience, faith, heroism, courage, wisdom and justice, to a normal person having one of these in a difficult situation is something extraordinary, but to the people of Solamnia all of them are granted when speaking about true heroes. Unfortunately there are misguided ones even among the ranks of the Knighthood who think that honour and heroic deeds can only be gained on the battlefields and thus act as warmongers. The Gods of Light made the knights as protectors of the weak and that duty includes a lot more than just winning battles. It is a knight's duty to protect those who are in need from famine, cold and diseases just as much as it is to defend them from the influence of evil. I fear that some have forgotten this in these days of war.

My own parents were heroes true to the measures of the Knightly Order although my mother was not a knight. Being a knight is a lot more than having a title or belonging in an Order. Belonging to the Order makes one a Knight of Solamnia, but the true essence of a knight is more than that. One may join the Order, but still lack the attributes of a true knight just as well as one that might have the attributes, but for some reason deciding not to join the Order. Never should a person be judged by his or her titles, for better or worse.

My father was a true knight and he was a part of the Order. As a Knight of the Sword he defended the people of Solamnia in the battlefields and made the ultimate sacrifice in the end. He lived and died with honour against the forces of evil. But evil takes many forms and shapes, and not all can be fought with blades, lances and arrows. My mother never joined the knights although she was from a family of knights like my father. Yet she fought evil just like my father, she took care of those in need. She gave shelter in our mansion for those who needed one, she fed those who were starving and took the best of care of those who were sick. She took care of Solamnia from the inside, protected it. She as well lived and died with honour like my father, she saved me and my two siblings from the mansion one night when it had caught fire. My mother died in great agony due to the burns on her body, but her soul was intact as she looked at her three children alive and well. She showed me that one doesn't need to be a knight to be a good person and in the same time I believe she opened my eyes to the fact that it isn't guaranteed that a person who is a knight is a good person, one should be judged by one's actions, not titles.

When my mother died and my younger siblings were taken by my uncle to be raised with him and his wife, I left for Palanthus. I wished to study the knowledge of the Gods, to learn to know Them and Their ways. Unfortunately my studies were halted when the news of my father's death reached me. I knew my duty to continue my family's name and I joined the ranks of the Knights to defend the borders of Solamnia like my father. But I never had forgotten what my mother had done and I promised to protect the weak inside Solamnia as well from the different forms of evil.

After a coincidence with a person I never would have thought to open my eyes, my eyes are now open. There is corruption within Solamnia and it most likely stretches into the Knightly Order as well. The borders are protected, but the weak have been forgotten inside those borders. But alas, corruption exists so it can be removed and so it shall be.

My family descends from a Knight of the Sword who saved a quadron of knights and soldiers of Solamnia a long time ago when they had been ambushed by a superior enemy. The enemy used supernatural darkness to blind the Solamnics, but asking the strength and wisdom of Kiri-Jolith my ancestor was able to light a path away from the ambush after which the Solamnics were able to regroup and destroy the enemy. Due to this he was called the Lightbringer and given that title, which after that became the honorary family name.

Today Solamnia is sieged by darkness all around its borders and there is a spreading darkness within its borders, but I have faith. Faith in my Gods, in the true knights who serve my country and in myself. I will do my best to honour my parents by living like them and perhaps if it is my destiny, dying like them - as a hero. I will do my best to honour my ancestor, the Lightbringer by bringing the light to the people of Solamnia in these dark times, by giving them hope of better days and in the end showing a path leading away from the darkness. For this I give my word.

Est Sularus oth Mithas.