Alexander

"When I return, I shall be king; until then, you must spread the mandate of peace to all who bear the banner of men. Only under Hynethe can our realm prosper."

- Alexander in The Scriptures Alexander was the illegitimate son of Hynethe and the central prophet in the Hynethist faith. He represents the values of chastity, candour, wisdom, and justice. In Brythonian Hynethism, he additionally represents the values of diligence and masculine strength.

History
In the Age of Petty Kings, the tyrannous Theophylact ruled over the realm of Sassyar with his sister-queen, Hynethe, now exalted as the central deity of Hynethism. Theophylact was reputedly cruel and suffered from bouts of lunacy, potentially due to the successive inbreeding of his family. Regardless, the Sassyari kings and queens were viewed as gods and goddesses in their own rights by the people of Sassyar: a belief that had been held since the days of slavery and Cares the Wealthy. When it came to light that Hynethe had bore a bastard child, Theophylact had her whipped through the streets naked before beheading her. He had the child, Alexander, exiled to the Kingdom of Hetzburg, where he was trained in the art of war by the House of Dornay.

Sixteen years of rebellions plagued Theophylact until he became mad with anger. He rode his chariot through the streets of Lyzentos, killing all of those in his path and drenching the streets in blood (giving a name to the Red Road). During the chaos, Alexander returned, claiming that he had been enlightened by a vision of his mother, pleading him to return to the capital. With a golden sword, he slew Theophylact in his tracks and brought justice to Lyzentos at last.

When hailed as a hero and begged by the common people of Lyzentos to become the new King of Sassyar, Alexander refused, citing that he would only be king in his second life. Regarding this claim, it was a heavily held belief in later centuries that Somnar the Great was Alexander reborn.