Jay Burrow

Jay Burrow the Eternal bishop of Xaburya is a Ryzani figure that is a well-known name amongst Syltör for his loyalty to his country and service as the military general of the United crowns of Syltör and Aurlunor-Ryzan before that. Jay Burrow is the founder of the underground city of Xaburya and leader of its military religious order.

Jay Burrow is currently an oathbound armor after they were transformed after his death in the battle of Carthyan Resistance

Early Life
Born during a turbulent time in the Tsardom growing up in the Ryzani city of Carthya to a relatively well-off family of Ryzani cheese makers during the Third Tsardom of Ryzan. Growing up Jay burrow his family unable to find a teacher his parents would settle for schooling him themselves in the Carthyan Library where he would read books and would grow a fascination with the history of Syltör with the many stories about the dwarven holds that once resided in the golden hills particularly intriguing him.

Upon reaching adulthood during the second republic Jay Burrow would continue his family’s business of making Ryzani cheeses growing a personal fortune of his own. Eventually he would be drafted into the ryzani join the Ryzani army choosing to donate his cheese factory to the city as common land as he left.

Time in the Ryzani Army
Jay Burrow would serve in a handful smaller battles with very little to note besides him rising to the ranks to sergeant in the army. The major event that would define his time in the military would be witnessing the brutality that was the raids on Volkoregrod firsthand. surviving the slaughter as the foreign bandits entered the city and slaughtered many citizens and soldiers alike. With some friends and comrades dead racked with survivors guilt would retire from the military and return to his home in Carthya a shell of who they were before.

Religious Enlightenment
Returning home from their tenure in the military they would settle down back into civilian society mourning the failures that allowed so many innocents to die. For months he would begin wandering the ancient ruins southwest of Carthya. around until one day returning from one of their regular walks Jay Burrow would return home unusually optimistic and reinvigorated. claiming to have found a new purpose in life claiming to have spoken to the ancestors and been enlightened with a fresh purpose.

Jay burrow would begin calling for radical change in Ryzani culture in order to adapt to harsh times befalling the country calling for the abandonment of the old crumbling religious institution that is the Tossanist church in favor of returning to the ways of ancestor worship in order to truly learn from the past. Over the next few months he would begin proselytizing around Carthya the city of Carthya growing a moderate seized cult that would go on to form the backbone of Xaburyan Spiritualism or known internally as Avimir’s Acolytes.

Founding of Xaburya
noticing the degradation of republics power with bandit raids and destruction filling ryzan cities as the end of the Second Republic grew near. Learning of the location of a long abandoned he would set out with his followers to excavate the ruin seeing the practicality of an underground fortress city His plan was to build a place safe from the banditry and chaos of the surface and to create a safe place for business and trade in the freehold of Carthya. the spending his entire fortune he would fund what would go on to be called the great dig with all his followers including himself disappearing into the caves under ryzan for several decades while the city was excavating.

Post Second Republic
While the second republic was collapsing the under the weight of a Bardonia invasion the Jay burrow would order the diggers to hastily seal themselves underground waiting out the Bardonian invasion. Though he would mourn the losses of the many who fell during the great dig event in battle or to the hunger he and his followers would pull through forging them into the militarist order in opposition to the creatures of the dark.

The Forth Tsardom of Ryzan
The Xaburyans would exit from their isolationism in the waning days of the fourth Tsardom returning to the above ground to find ryzan once again in a conflict with Bardonia. With the bishopric mostly self-sufficient by this point, Jay Burrow would join the limited loyalist forces becoming close friends with Geo Shan the interim president of the forth Tsardom joining them in their resistance against the Bardonian-supported Ryzani Empire.

Resistance Against the Empire of Ryzan
The first battle he would join is the second battle of Slouttawa rallying at the city of Welstone planning to march east to retake the city from the Bardonian forces occupying it. Heading west he would spot Bardonian forces out of position outside the southern wall though due to a failure in communication loyalist troops would head in the wrong direction eventually meeting the full brunt of the Bardonian army and routing.

The Second battle he would join in was Geo's final stand in Castle Liberium with just him and the Interim President of the Tsardom of Ryzan Geo holding the fort against the Bardonian and Astroite forces. Enemy forces would end up storming up the mountain fort blowing through the wall and in the mayhem Jay managed to escape down the mountain unharmed as the enemy forces were preoccupied with capturing and then proceeding an execution pf Geo officially ending the civil war through Carthya still remained de facto independent without a Bardonian mayor.

The Final battle he would take part in during this time period was the battle of Carthyan Resistance which started after the Bardonian government attempted to seize the mayor-ship of Carthya from the ever-popular Lord of the city Darrow Aasimar.

Hours before the battle Carthyan citizens got word of Bardonian troops coming to seize direct control of the city from lord Aasimar. Hearing this news Jay Burrow and one other Carthyan loyalist would hastily put up defenses and make a final stand in the Carthyan Library barricading the building and firing down at the attacking Bardonian forces before they would storm the building. breaking through the library's defenses he and his ally would try to retreat further down though in the commotion his ally would be slain leaving him alone as he went further down into the catacombs under the library. Inside the catacombs, Jay Burrow would make a last stand there slaying one Bardonian soldier before being stabbed in the chest and dying in the city of his birth.

Resurrection and transformation
After his death in Carthya his family would begin their search for his spirit contracting several spellweavers to track him down eventually finding him in the small cave west of Xaburyans sacred forest. His spirit found the Burrows would tether his soul down to the shrine before beginning the gruesome binding ritual fusing his spirit into a set of netherite armor. For the next three months, he would undergo the painful metamorphosis growing into the armor itself becoming the first recorded oathbound armor in Xaburya.