Father Aeron

Father Aeron was Lemuel's mentor and a former exorcist under the Fellowship of Gaius.

During the Half-Moon Heresy, he journeyed with adventurers Hudde Glyn and Margaret Park before retiring to act as a master of novices in Ryfall Priory. In spite of his age, Father Aeron is a fierce opponent of the Fifth Crusade and its woes. After speaking for The Dawn's Herald at the trial, the Princess was restored through the sacrifice of High Marshal Reiner Faron, and the Dawn's Herald was made into a formal chivalric order, with Father Aeron as its appointed steward.

Father Aeron maintained the Order as Carmarthen's temporary guard up until the Eclipse, when the Dawn's Herald returned and fought the Black Cardinal. Aeron's revelation of his old enemy, Yorath, came with the dawn of a suspicion that Anselm - once merely an acolyte in Blackbridge, soon after its parish priest, the Bishop of Bregate thereafter and now the newly ascended Archbishop - may be twisting the powers of his position.

It was not long after that the Archbishop threatened Aeron's apprentice, Lemuel, with excommunication should he not acquiesce to the demands of House Thrussell. The resulting confrontation at Carmarthen saw the activation of the Altar of Panacea, Aeron and Anselm's design to cure the plague, revealed to be corrupted into an agent of the plague itself. The corrupted artifact unleashed locusts into the air and Aeron's worst fears were made true. As the situation rapidly escalated out of hand, the principals of the Dawn's Herald escaped from the city and its grim horizons with Calanthe.

Father Aeron has since worked to aid the blind Knight-Commander Lemuel at any cost to himself, yet with his apprentice falling into a crisis of faith, Aeron has only sought the boy's ear to no avail while being forced to serve as the sole spiritual adviser and, for a time, healer to the wounded troupe as they made way for Lagarde.