Seekori’s origin is remembered as the meeting of two castaways. Setian, a caravan guard from a persecuted human town, and Koriatir, a scholar-priest from a non-human mountain enclave, were both fleeing the same slaver war. Legend says they were guided by Elbog through a black winter pass where every road was watched by raiders and every valley held the bones of the taken. They reached the same ruined shrine, where neither trusted the other at first. They shared water, then maps, then grief. On the third night they found the shrine’s buried oath-stone and swore to unite their peoples so that none would be hunted for blood, shape, or birthplace again. The first Seekori warband was not born in a palace but in refugee camps, freed pens, and hidden forest routes. Their earliest members were farmers, smiths, scribes, healers, and soldiers from many races, bound together by rescue work and mutual necessity. The watershed moment came 112 years after founding, during the Ashen Convoy Siege, when the order had a choice between preserving their fortress or saving twelve thousand captives trapped behind enemy lines. They split their forces, lost half their veterans, and still succeeded in bringing the captives home. That victory made Seekori beloved across the world, but it also created the hardline doctrine that now troubles them: the belief that mercy must be enforced decisively, even at great cost.