The Scarlet Rider

The Scarlet Rider is a minor human deity worshipped in parts of Telane and Ama'as. The Scarlet Rider had a peak in popularity following the Edicts of Wrath which formally ended open conflict between the Tel'Caeran Papacy and the Tel'Caeran Ecclesiarchy owing to the god's lack of connection to either and willingness to continue freeing slaves. The Tel'Caeran Ecclesiarchy outlawed worship and waged several crusades against cities that openly supported the Rider. This led to a gradual attrition of the deity's clergy until, by the start of 1148, only three members of the clergy remained.

One of said clergy was Sir Norvan, a Paladin who sought patronage with the fledgling Queen Veruca Darrius in the Queendom of the Ashenbay. Quickly striking an accord, Norvan recruited a few hundred volunteers from the city and trained them into a new clergy base before participating in the Destruction of Tapinek a few weeks later, winning untold glory for his god.

Following the battle at Tapinek, Norvan saw the clergy of the Scarlet Rider once again balloon to number in the thousands. Those freed from slavery in and even many of those who had been free citizens flocked to worship the Rider, and with further support from Queen Veruca the deity was once again on a rise to prominence by summer of 1148.

Liberation
The Scarlet Rider is, first and foremost, a god of liberating those oppressed or enslabed. The Rider's earliest legends pertain to a completely obscured, red-hooded figure on a black horse who struck caravans and convoys that crossed the vast western coastal roads of Telane, freeing the slaves they held with them and often killing those who had most severely mistreated those over which they had power. Clerics and Paladins of the Scarlet Rider are taught to never tolerate an oppressor, and never hesitate to strike the chains off of any slave or innocent captive they see.