The Lady Sagron
by Dave

The Lady, She who Knows, Heart of the Light, and the Keeper of All Wisdoms; these are but a few of the titles by which Mirabelle of Sagron (or Lady Sagron as she became known in later years) is called upon in the prayers of her devotees.

Mirabelle Sagron who came from a landed and wealthy family, forsook her kin, her titles and any betrothals or marriage to follow the Sage Epimetreus as he wandered the land, preaching and prophesizing of the Onset of Darkness. She was the chronicler of most of his speeches, his Acts (All three Books) and the Gnostic Auspices, and their less scholarly and more mundane excerpts known mainly as the Pillars of Protection. The Canticle of Refuge is also attributed to her.

Sagron is mainly revealed through her writing, her concise and even-handed accounts of the dreadful calamities that were Set's Hands among the people, and her unswerving devotion to the Light. As a polymath, very little escaped her keen eye and quick pen.

She lived a spartan existence, living a vegetarian lifestyle and eschewing most worldy comforts, her only weakness being an absorbing passion for reading books of any sort. She was always able to peruse and store away essential knowledge from whatever texts she was able to study, often committing whole chapters, conversations or events to memory until she was able to transcribe and comment them into her extensive Journals later.

She was known for her eidetic and photographic memory. Some of her works on the Study of Animal Behavior, Mathematics, Philosophy and Mental Disciplines are still studied in Landsrue.

Her Precepts of Conceptual Learning are the cornerstone of many a Church school. Indeed, the Sagronian Method of Discourse is often used as a method of qualifying entrants into the higher orders of the Church itself.

Her followers strive to follow the example of unbiased observation, assiduous prosecution of rumor, gossip or myth, and the Lore of Judgment. It is said that the more trained a Sagronian Adept becomes, the less they profess to know, until they are at last relieved of any burdens of concept, context or illusion. This is known as "empty awareness". Many disciples of "empty awareness" (famous lawmakers, mystics, judges and more than a few philosophers and mages) have embraced it to further the cause of Knowledge and Wisdom in the name of the Light.

Sagron was more observer than activist, yet her razor wit and acerbic apporaches to superstition and "common knowledge" are the foundations for a learning that is remarkably open minded about death, sex, religion and the use of authority. A Sagronian accepts nothing at face value, and will often go to great lengths to get at the truth. Sagronian Preceptors are capable of astounding leaps of intuition. Those trained in the Ways of Wisdom (or simply Wisdoms) are shrewd administrators, advisors, village councilors and skilled bargainers. Many of the clerks, scribes and administrators for the Landsrue Royal Court and Church are drawn from the ranks of those passing through a course in her teachings.

Sagronites are honest, penetrating observers who are in the main, nonviolent in their attitudes and habits.

Sagron served Mithras her entire life, carefully recording the string of bitter defeats inflicted upon Man which presaged the eventual victories over Set as he was driven from this plane by the labors of the warrior-sage Epimetreus and his Brethren. Despite having never raised her hand against even "a clever blue-metalled fly of the bar-eyed type" her work was critical to the successful prosecution of Set's Minions and the unbinding of his works.

It is written that She was granted a resting place in the Secret Mountain where she waits in the Halls of Uncreated Light, on her bier, guarded by Phoenixes. It is said that she still writes, distilling words and thought until the Lord of Light shall need her again.