Dame Sajse Thyph

Born to the noble House Thyph in Luneanz, Dame Sajse Thyph was the eldest of seven and from an early age proved herself very gifted in both the martial and the fine arts. Despite this, the noble title of her house was to pass to her brother, youngest of seven and notoriously dissolute (cf. Lord Juster Thyph, the Decadent Baron), with Sajse to be married to cement an alliance. She instead renounced her noble house and gave herself over to the Jaegers, becoming an accomplished hunter and guide despite the intense opposition she experienced.

This led to her association with the Inquisitors, and she eventually became a lay sister of the church, with both investigative and prosecutory power–all this, as well, before the age of forty years. It was expected that she might, by her very ableness and skill, reform the Inquisitors and become the first female High Inquisitor since the days of the Omen Mother. History was to have other plans.

After a party of Jaegers did not return upon searching for a wayward pilgrim who had wandered up Mount Tadulasz, Dame Sajse ordered a second party to find them. When the second party did not return, she led the third relief herself. No one from any of the three groups was ever seen again, but Sajse did manage a final communication via a carrier pigeon, which arrived at its destination grievously wounded, falling stone dead moment later. In the bloodstained note, Sajse tersely reported that all the Jaegers were dead, and that she had discovered a secret upon Mount Tadulasz that was too dangerous for mortals to know. The note ended with the line “I will kill any that approach.”

In the decades since, there have been several reports of a woman lurking near the summit of Mount Tadulasz–a young woman in the garb of a Old Jaeger, both seemingly untouched by time or the elements. She will reportedly shout a single warning before engaging, and none who have stood their ground have lived.

High Inquisitor’s Note:
Dame Sajse was before my time; I was but a boy when she disappeared, not yet sworn to the Church. But her legend has, still, attracted many theories from idle and curious minds about the nature of what she is guarding. Her seeming agelessness has led some–notably Père Juster the Younger–to speculate that she guards the secret to immortality or eternal youth itself. I find Sister Leanna the Lesser’s explanation more convincing, namely that Sajse has taken an evil spirit into herself and intends to starve it from this world. Save from her own mouth, I doubt the truth will ever be known.

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