The Wayfinder

Shana Luhas, The Wayfinder, founded and leads The Old Way.

She is a powerful Warlock.

Patron
Shana's Patron is a hexblade called Dawn. Dawn requires a blood sacrifice everytime a crime is committed, and it is this requirement that led to the establishment of The Old Way.

The old way was founded by Shana Luhas. She is a warlock who’s patron is a hexblade, that confers power, but asks that she harshly punish each crime she possibly can with blood sacrifice. Dawn promises Shana that through this strict moral code, order can be restored to the Shield, and only through order can the chaos of Umbara be overcome.

Dawn was once a queen of a beautiful elves land. As she aged, approaching 500, she became increasingly obsessed with order and controls and with full immortality rather than long life. She became obsessed with the idea that bloody could be added to the elves chalices to improve their longevity. She established the laws that the old way follow. As her followers turned on her, she became a dictator and increasingly reliant on magic and power to maintain her control. Eventually, her cruelty was noticed by a shadow mage - an ancient order of mages - who sealed her and himself inside the shadowfell. Inside the shadowfell they fought, in an evenly matched sporadic battle lasting 50 years. Eventually, the madness of the shadowfell and its spectres became too much for the mage, and Dawn felled the mage in one final battle. She poured over his books and texts, and eventually gained enough mastery of the shadow arts to manifest back in the material plane. Since, she has blessed warlock after warlock, gaining power, but only now is she a legitimate force.

Shana grew up in Baramis, a city of pure chaos - a city only recently captured from the dwarves, an industrial city, a city on the edge of the dragon kingdoms.