Saint Oswald Blaec
| Saint Oswald Blaec | |
| Full name | Oswald Blaec |
|---|---|
| AKA | Saint Oswald Blaec |
| Physical information | |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Hair color and style | Blond |
| Eye color | Blue |
| Skin color | White |
| Biographical information | |
| Date of birth | 62AJ |
| Place of birth | West Grinstead, Nova England |
| Date of death | 129AJ |
| Place of death | Southern Border of East Moorland |
| Nationality | Nova English |
| Allegiance(s) | Nova England |
| Occupation | Missionary of the Church of the Holy Lance |
Saint Oswald Blaec is a Nova English warrior saint canonised by the Church of the Holy Lance.
Early Life
Oswald is thought to have converted to Nova English Christianity around 110AJ following a long career as a soldier. He had been a veteran of the numerous campaigns against the southern Asiatic city states and believed that subject to conversion to the one true God they could be reformed.
Capture and Miracle
Following his baptism he embarked on a journey to the Asiatic states to preach the word of God and convert them to the Church of the Holy Lance. He had made some progress in outlying villages, which brought him to the notice of local lords. Seeing him as a threat to the establishment they sent soldiers to capture him and make a public example of him to dissuade any further dessent.
Rather than go into hiding or flee back to Nova England, he willingly allowed himself to be arrested. Upon capture he was brought to a public square in the city state of Kulim and tied to a post where he was flogged and left for three days and nights. Despite the pain he remained stoic and neither cried out or flinched at the strike of the whips, much to the disappointment of the lords. After the three days they cut him down expecting him to be dead or dying and were shocked to find that despite being somewhat delirious he was very much alive.
Irritated they forced him to a fighting pit and gathered a crowd to watch him be killed. Armed with nothing but his hands they set loose a number of fierce dogs on him. As the dogs tore through the dirt, Oswald called on the Lord's strength and entered a blood lust hitherto un-witnessed by the watching lords. With his hands and teeth, he tore out the throats and eyes of the dogs leaving the creatures in a withering pile of bloody flesh. Bloodied and wounded, Oswald stared into the eyes of the lords placing the fear of God himself into them. In anger they released a pair of leopards to take down the defiant Oswald. The creatures sleek and strong, with teeth and claws like daggers, circled him awaiting their time to strike. Oswald locked eyes with them and roared, bearing his chest and challenging them. The leopards paused, suddenly the will to attack having melted away.
Oswald turned back to the lords and called for them to release him before the Lord Almighty set upon them with wraith. Two of the lords stood up from their stalls and hurled abuse at him, within moments of this the leopards jumped the walls of the pit and savagely tore them apart. The remaining lords shrieked in terror, some falling prostrate to the floor in subjugation while others tried to escape only to be set upon by the fierce creatures. The surviving lords ordered their guards to release Oswald and do him no harm lest they invoke the fury of his God.
Oswald later returned to Nova England along with a small retinue of converts from the Asiatic south, where he established a small monastery on the outskirts of Detsab.
