The Martyrdom of Saint Yvainn-Abound-In-Chains

Saint Yvainn (often referred to as Saint Yvainn-Abound-in-Chains or 'the Maid of Chains') was executed as a heretic by the priests who served the old, Hubraic Raskvaerii religion, because of the horrific visions that plagued her in the final months of her life. These visions were later recognised by Throwback Cedomir Ilyuhkin as a warning from the true Saints of the Raven's impending treatchery. Specifically, they were a warning of the Great Confiscation, which swiftly followed the murder of the cthonic-godess, the Phoenix.
When the Holy Chorus of Saints was established as the new religion of Raskvaeric, Yvainn was one of the first figures from the Hubraic Era to be crowned a Saint. In modern times, she had largely faded into obscurity - until now.

Early Life

Born somewhere between 834-6HE, Saint Yvainn identified herself in her heresy trial as the daughter of Iosef Pyatosin and Ylvannia Yanovna. Her family were serf farmers from the Solneryol region, owing fealty to a lesser lord, Krasimir Surepin.
When she was fifteen years old, Yvainn claimed to hear voices coming from the soil that she and her family worked. As she never disclosed the nature or content of these spirit visitations, they are either dismissed as a fabrication to further the heresy accusation, or portrayed as the first communication by the gathering Saints.

Visions and Martyrdom

The Saint had been struck by a fever that had rendered Her body unconscious and subjected Her mind to a terrible prediction of the future. She had dreamed of the Phoenix’s demise and the terrible massacre the Raven would enact on those with Power in their blood. When the Saint’s parents would not believe Her fevered ramblings, the woman had made a desperate journey to Latharin, hoping that Her terrible premonition would be believed by the the Karr. And yet, in each temple She slept, Yvainn would wake at night, screaming, to see figures hanging from beams and lying discarded across the floors. It was a terrible promise of the slaughter yet to come.
By the time She neared Latharin, Yvainn was being pursued by the Oprikarr – or whatever its fledgling form had been. They captured Her and tried Her inside the temple at Nrovatin, where She had been found guilty of spreading heresy, and burned for Her crimes.
It was only after the Raven syphoned off mankind’s Power for His own needs that the Saints-Servants of Nrovatin recognised the truth in Yvainn’s words. Of course, by that point, the Hubraic Wars had broken out across the Saeric Basin. While humans were busying themselves with putting their old gods to the sword, the Saints-Servants in Nrovatin uninterred what little could be salvaged of the Saint’s body. They did not stop to consider whether the woman they were intent on honouring might be the kin of the creatures they now despised.

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