Heroes from History: Jashbireth the Adventurer

Back in the late 1400s, the world was organized into the World of Metal, focused around wolf manors, and the World of Grass, made of all the animals that thought the World of Metal was for losers. Within the World of Metal, most serious craftsanimalship was done by two groups: the fox organization Leafwork; and the raccoon organization One Stream. Both vied for wolf patronage in peaceful competition that, slowly, finally, stoooopped being peaceful by any measure at all.

Which pissed the wolves off, let's be fair! These guys were getting paid rich food and in return they were supposed to be making them cool toys. But now they were using those toys to kill one another? Unacceptable! So the wolves were all "We should just absorb those two guilds and ruin their autonomy" which made Leafwork and One Stream real uncomfortable.

So like a third of Leafwork ditches the World of Metal and goes Grass, while One Stream instead uses their wolf connections to secretly build massive armories to ensure their independence. And this whole time, Leafwork and One Stream are still fighting and stealing technology from one another, and with the wolves sticking their noses in and getting into scraps with both, the entire World of Metal was collapsing in a mess of infighting.

Then in like 1500 on the nose comes this fox named Jashbireth. This is THE Jashbireth. We don't even bother to remember what the original Fox Saint Jashbireth did or was--whatever adventures he had just weren't as good as Jashbireth the Adventurer's. We don't even think most of the stories are true, but, as any weasel knows, truth is subjective. But still, there is like, a century's worth of adventures attributed to him. And a lot of historical fanfiction. But we have ideas about at least the big events that we know are true!

We know that Jashbireth had companions, the earliest of which were Spring the weasel and Sil-Yim the mouse. Sil-Yim kept dying, but it was ok, because she'd reincarnate with all her memories into another mouse. Basically everyone agrees Spring and Jashbireth were like, a couple. Like some high-level romance going on there.

Among Jashbireth's more verifiable adventures was negotiating the Truce of the Skies. Yes, that's right! The very same thing that keeps falcons from eating you TODAY was written by Jashbireth 1,235 years ago! The Truce of the Skies has seen little change since its original conception, surviving nearly unchanged through the Great Society and the Society of God and straight on through to the modern day.

We also know for a fact Jashbireth crossed the Great Sea and ruined Leafrot's day. I know not everyone today believes in Leafrot but there's a LOT of evidence that these hairless magic cultists of decay were an actual thing and you're kind of ridiculous for not believing in it.

Although he's not one of the x fathers, Jashbireth is basically considered a member of every race. For the stoats, his relationship with Spring made it clear he at least Gets It. For mice, his Truce of the Skies was enough for him to become their #1 racial hero, even though, you know, fox. For cats, he is the only non-cat ever to be recognized as an Eternal Dreamer, even though the circumstances of that was kind of maybe a con. For bears, his contributions to philosopoetry has earned him a recognition alongside other bear greats. Falcons equally respect him for the Truce of the Skies. Crows for some reason are convinced he had an actual crow soul that got misplaced into a fox. Probably so they can brag about him as one of their own. Foxes, of course, think only of Jashbireth the Adventurer when they hear the name, and don't even remember what the original saint did. He's not held as in high esteem by most ferrets, wolves, or raccoons, but most of them will agree he was still pretty cool.

Jashbireth fought tirelessly to heal the collapsing social order, but the conflict between Leafwork and One Stream grew too violent for even he to curb. In the end, Jashbireth found himself in the middle of a three-way battle between a "strange raccoon weapon" (accounts differ so strongly on what it was other than it being strange, raccoon-made, and a weapon); Smoke Foxes (the fox-assassins made of smoke who were either temporarily aligned with Leafwork or were Leafwork members in disguise); and Estocille of Hanging Fruit, Jashbireth's once-wolf-patron now turned Pelted Saint Donellis and declared master of all races.

Jashbireth and all his companions were killed in the great battle, but Sil-Yim's 13th reincarnation later forced herself down Saint Donellis' throat and choked him to death with her own corpse. It was a spiteful victory, and the world almost collapsed without a coherent answer to the conflict.

Of course, that's when Second Father Eiden stepped in, so we also have to remember that Jashbireth basically cleared the path for the Great Society. Good going, Jashbireth!