HISTORY OF JAATÄVA HAVEN
Aleksi Järvinen: protector of the innocents.
Aleksi was an ethical man.
Aleksi was a just man.
Aleksi was a family man.
None of this the Connlaothians had a problem with.Aleksi was a mage.
That, they had a problem with.Aleksi used his power to protect others. His magic was that of illusions. That of cunning and wit. His magic was of life.
Aleksi married Aila, and they had two sons. One died in the Connlaothian army. The other son married, and him and his wife had one daughter.
Her name is Eeva.
None of Aleksi's offspring were born with magic abilities. None except for Aleksi's granddaughter Eeva.
Much to the chagrin of Eeva's parents, Aleksi began teaching her the ways of a true mage. To protect, and to be good. True good. Not to take life. But to nurture it. To help people become the best versions of themselves.
Eeva, delighted, happily learned from her grandfather. Her parents eventually grew to accept it, but not without much turmoil first.
Both Aleksi and Eeva somehow managed to go without being detected by Mordecai for an astonishing amount of time. Their family never said a word to anyone, and Aleksi and Eeva were safe.
Until one day Aleksi was caught. Caught healing a merc that had been ambushed by two mages.
The Connlaothian authorities sentenced Aleksi to death for attempted murder. They tried to find the rest of Aleksi's family.
When Aleksi didn't come home that night, they all fled to the Kilanthro mountains, Eeva circling back to help Aleksi. She almost didn't make it in time, for he was in the midst of being executed.
She managed to rescue him, and via horses, met up with the rest of the family in the Kilanthro mountains.
Mortally wounded, Aleksi used the last of his magic to build a city of refuge for mages like him. And anyone else that needed a place, whether it was the innocents, mages, or the falsely accused.
With his dying breath, he uttered the name of the city, and Jaatäva Haven was born.
"Jaatava, protect the innocent. Protect the ones I couldn't.
Be a Haven. Be a Refuge."