Saga

Saga is a traveller in the campaign Yeni Dünya ("New World") who arrived at the port of Aquila with no memory of the past. At the harbour registry Saga could not give a name and said only that Saga had been an innkeeper.¹

A traveller without a past

Saga believed to be about forty-five years old, but could recall neither family nor former life. Saga was also able to work miracles. A priest named Trevor took Saga in, paid for two nights' lodging and tried to help, while keeping the matter from the church for the time being: he warned that miracles worked outside it could clash with the church's interests and leave Saga open to being used.²³⁴⁵

Trevor's own attempts to bring back Saga's memory came to nothing. He suggested asking people who could look into a mind or a past, but promised not to do so without Saga's consent.⁶

The errand to the mine

The researcher Miro, looking for help, had Saga followed, and word came that Saga could be found at a tavern called the Kara Kazan. There Finli approached Saga as if greeting an old friend. Once Saga had made sure that the offer had nothing to do with examining that lost memory, Saga went with Finli to look for the guide Fauna and joined the errand to the Alaztaşı mine.⁷⁸⁹

At the mine Saga explained the wish to save the beasts found there less by love of nature than by the wish to help new friends, and passed on the foreman's threat to post crossbowmen at the exits so that no animal could be smuggled out alive. When the adult darkness panther lay badly wounded, healing was offered; magic could have saved it, but in the end the party ended its life.^10111213

Back in the city Saga was present when the party struck its bargain with Sticks and when the professor asked them to bring an object from Fauna's tribe.¹⁴¹⁵

Among the beggars

In the days of waiting before the journey, Saga gave performances and told stories at the inn and handed the money gathered there to the city's beggars, then went at night to the places where they met and sat talking with them.¹⁶

The road to the tribe

On the second day of the journey a column of legion soldiers stopped the party, checked their papers and searched Saga's bag; once again the question of Saga's real name came up.¹⁷

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On the way back with the tribe's object, mages and church knights both laid claim to it and a fight broke out; Saga and Finli were left lying among the bodies. Saga died there of blood loss, and the last words spoken for Saga were that it could have been a beautiful, long journey. Among the six dead counted afterwards were Saga, two mages and three knights.^1819202122

Finli took something of Saga's to remember Saga by; later it was Saga's ukulele that Finli was carrying. Since nobody knew Saga's faith, Fauna led a rite like a local funeral beside one of the sacred stones or totems on the old roads: the body was burned and the ashes were buried in a bundle with flowers.^23242526

After this loss Bruno joined the band. In a shared dream that Finli, Fauna, Sticks and Bruno later lived through, a servant spoke of an old guest called Saga whose clothes and instruments lay in a room, though Saga was never seen; the dream turned the castle into the ruined inn where Saga had died, and when Finli fell from its walls the others saw Saga's wounded body in his place.^27282930