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Saint '''Jaridan the Scholar''' was an exemplar of the path of peace and the
first missionary of [[The Holy Order|Dav's Church]] to the Plains. His tireless service,
physical endurance and willingness to learn from other cultures allowed
this sainted man to make contact with the devastated Charali and found the
first missions in the territory. He was canonized a few years after his
untimely death at the age of thirty seven.

Born in 104SC in the barony of [[Irisum]] to unknown parentage, Jaridan was
taken in by the Church as a child. Raised in a small cloister upon the
church grounds in the lands of the Castillius family, the young acolyte
grew up among the first years of [[Dav]]'s reign. His days were passed in
prayer, attending to the grounds and the cloister's beehives. He studied
canon, scripture and from an early age showed a precocious ability with
languages.

Jaridan took his vows when he reached the age of twelve, adopting the
traditional rejection of personal belongings and swearing himself to the
service of the Church. His years in cloister continued until he was
sixteen. His studies broadened into maths as he helped to manage the
inflow of money from local tithes and the sale of Irisum honey and mead.
At eighteen, he attracted attention from the capitol by writing a series of
commentaries on St. [[Remiel]]'s scriptures.

In Sun Cycle 123, a mere six years after the devastation of the 30 Days
War, the young Lithmorran, now an ordained priest, began his trek to the
Plains. His superiors instructed him to make diplomatic contact with the
clans, but that alone would prove to be difficult. The approach was
blocked by the freshly entrenched [[The Merchants Guild|Merchant Princes]]. The initial defeat of
Dav's forces prompted heightened border and port security, forcing Jaridan
to smuggle himself across the stormy [[Kirulean Sea|Kirulean]] amid the company of bards and
soldiers of fortune.

He trekked across the sub-tropical wine country of [[Capua]] in the company of
a Charalin tracker in the mercenary employ of the Merchants. Jaridan's
honesty, exotic stories and quick grasp of language enabled him to gain the
man's friendship. He acquired valuable information on the horsefolk before
the tracker parted company. On his own, he was able to slip past Merchant
patrols and into the grasslands.

By chance or miracle, he was located by a Charalin patrol. Mystified by the
strange man with no horse, the natives took him into their camp. Over the
course of the next few years, Jaridan began to incorporate himself into
their society and learn their language. Though forbidden by ecclesiastical
law to share the scripture in any tongue other than Lithmorran, he was able
to put important tenets of the faith into the frame of local mythology.
He was also able to document some of the cultural practices and teach them
enough Lithmorran to share the word of Dav.

This important groundwork allowed some of the first missions to start once
[[:Category:Domains of Vavard|Vavard]] was brought to heel.

Though reports of his death vary, his actions in life assured him a place
among the sainted exemplars of Davism. There are rumors that he is even
venerated among the Charali as Jaridan Peacemaker, invoked in mediations
and trade dealings.

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