Amberfern Loyalists

The Amberfern Loyalists were a small group of fighters devoted to Tias I Amberfern, the true Primonarch of Eia during his first and second exile, mostly prominent in the first when Anverse was hunted by The Ignasdiate. Led by Tias himself, the group was unofficially named through lack of consistent alternatives but was never used by the group itself.

The Loyalists comprised mostly of Anversean Pylons under the leadership of The Blind Queen, a devout ally to Tias for his entire life, as well as a number of loyal citizens, soldiers and scholars that neglected the world's view of him. Almost a third of the initial group were inexperienced in combat and would perish in battle within the first two years of its formation.

Their goal, other than to protect Tias' life, was to guide him on his quest to defeat Thraez while the usurper Primonarch, Riven I Staigus, had a significant bounty on his head, dead or alive, and had been hunting him since his deposition of the former Primonarch. Due to the entire world being convinced that Tias was a heretic, traitor, terrorist - to name a few, their goal was constantly pushed farther into the future and harder to reach.

The group began to dwindle as the years went on and Riven's soldiers and seekers hunted them down, causing the group to splinter several times and be picked off across Eia. Tias kept his most trusted allies closest to him in a small group of no more than 25, including Twin, who was officially on Riven's side and long-since deceased, but had been incognito, moving from place-to-place in parallel to the Loyalists, often joining them directly. This small group would eventually be the last of the Loyalists by the Battle of King's Brunt in 1776 ASE, where they were miraculously victorious at the cost of 18 casualties and/or losses. This pyrrhic victory saw the disbandment of the group, not to unite until over a decade later. The few survivors scattered across Eia, making new identities for themselves and attempting to rejoin society unnoticed. Over the ensuing years, 3 of them were discovered by different means and executed/imprisoned. Tias relied solely on his powers to move about the world quickly, which took a detrimental toll on his physical and mental health. Twin, having been gravely wounded at the Brunt, was forced to undergo unsanctioned sentinel augmentation to create a prosthetic arm to replace the one he lost in battle. He would be the undercover seed that grew into the second group of Loyalists gradually over time.