Kippur

Kippur the Bird is a former knight of Plort.

The Tale of Kippur the Bird
The Book Repairman walked stealthily and warily down the corridors of the castle, the smell of goats following ever after as he passed another scrawling of "CANT" upon the walls. He had spent many weeks in this castle, near a port in El-Jhey, seeking the fragmented stories of Kippur, called the Bird.

Long ago, the Bird had been a knight of Plort, wielding many weapons against the Marizu: Verra, a mighty launcher of enchanted flame; Lorac, the magic wand; and a mysterious weapon marked "C." But best known of Kippur's weapons was a strange siege engine, the Alexander. The Alexander carried strange cloaking magics, which Kippur used to infiltrate many lands, both in Weab and in the Scholars' Empire. Mostly, these were missions of observation, and exploration, but the Bird had not been afraid to wage war on many of the more slovenly states, whether dominated by Marizu or not: most famously, the Inherited Cities.

Many of Kippur's campaigns against the Marizu had departed from this castle; indeed, the Repairman had entered through the storage region for the weapons from those long-ago sieges. They had been largely abandoned, with the remains of the flame-launcher Verra long ago left destroyed, and beyond use. Still, records lived on in small pieces, and the search led the archaeologist into the still-thriving section of the Bird's castle. Here, where the Bird's heraldry of cat, Or, and budgie, vert, still lined the walls, bright and tended, the Book Repairman continued with much caution, for signs of fresh preparation lay everywhere. Kippur was readying her possessions for travel into the lands of Autor permanently, with a newer and more robust version of the Alexander, ready to form a nation of his own.

The Repairman had no desire to intrude, only pausing to find more mentions of the Bird's days as a knight. Even here, where the time of Plort seemed long forgotten, some small signs of Kippur's knighthood yet lingered. And these signs led to yet another wing of the castle, unknown previously, where small memoirs of the knight and her weapons yet lingered. Though these were not the tales of campaigns the Book Repairman had set out to find, he rejoiced! for the statue of the Bird in Wechi could soon be added to, and made larger, that all the denizens of Plort would know more of the tales of Kippur the Knight!