The Legend of Saint Diana

While the full details of the tale of Saint Diana are now lost to time, some facts remain...

Saint Diana was a scion of House Windsor and considered unquestionably fair and with an attitude and manner that endeared her to peasant, priest and prince alike. 

Many say that Diana was not a Windsor by birth. She had married into the house from another minor line (the specific details being one of the most obvious facts to have been lost over time), but all sources agree that the union was not a happy one.

The lady was however ever virtuous and kept to her marriage vows despite the unfair and ungracious treatment she received. It is said that her husband cavorted with his mistress in open ridicule of Diana but still she retained her dispassionate calm.

Many say that her prayers to Saint Maya were near incessant, but some also attribute her stoicism to her ministry, as it was said that she devoted her life to the care of the sick and needy. Some go so far as to claim that she was ordained as an Amalthean priestess.

It is believed that her generosity eventually drew the ire of her estranged husband. Some tales suggest that she spent his fortune on remedies, alms and good works, others that he was of weak character and capitulated under pressure from his mistress to legitimize their relationship. Regardless of the cause, Diana found herself hounded by a gang of iron horse riding ne’er do wells.  As the tales tell they hunted her for miles on end but finally, when they had cornered her, she transmuted by the might of the Pancreator, rendering her mortal form safe from violation and invulnerable to the corruptions of the flesh.

That would have been the end of the story, with Diana had left the world as a sympathetic but otherwise mundane lady. However this was not to be, for it soon became apparent that her transmuted form was a blessing to others. Increasingly tales of miraculous healing and spiritual boons were ascribed to her remains.  Eventually the weight of evidence led first Sanctuary Aeon, and then the Urth Orthodoxy to posthumously grant her recognition as a Saint of the church.

Over the centuries theft and disaster led to the loss of most of her remains, leaving the saint’s holy skull as the only known remnant. Now, after being missing for over thirty years following the Decados invasion of Malignatius, it has been rediscovered and will soon be reunited with it’s guardians of old, House Li Halan.