Astrid Stador

The first female Pendragon of Slayer Dragons, and the first Pendragon to take up the sword after Uther's death. She was annointed under her predeccessor, Jayce Spearlock, in A.Y. 1102, and was also the very first Pendragon to be annointed and take up the sword under the newly-formed Slayer Dragon Count, which she championed and supported.

Despite all of her accomplishments, Astrid is perhaps unfortunately best known for popularizing Heart's Day, a holiday that would come to be celebrated all over the Alliance. Curiously, despite encouraging a holdifay about true love, Astrid was life-long single, and is not known to have had any romantic interests.

Even in her own lifetime and throughout much of the Golden Age, whe was the subject of numerous vicious rumors regarding her sexuality and personal life. Most notably the idea that she suffered from Objectum-Sexualism, and was intimately in love with the sword. A brief summary of her life reflected the idea: she began training for The Trials at a young age, became a Slayer Dragon young, and essentially lived her entire life within the order.

As the Second Age dawned and the history of the Golden Age was finally catalogued and published, many of the rumors and lies passed into fact, and for over 2,000 years, Astrid was held with little regard.

It was not until the famous writer and historian Herbet Patric Galactis published a biography of her in the very early years of the Fourth Age that her good name was finally restored. Having recieved special permission from the order to review and copy Astrid's diaraies, Galactis told the story of a life filled with adventure.

Astrid was not an oddity, as she was made out to be in the Secnd Age, but a heroin. A fearless adventurer, dedicated to the ideals of the Slayer Dragons and to doing good in the world. Her lack of preocupation with men stemmed purely from inner strength and self-aculalization. And though she never took a lover or courted, it was not for lack of trying. Her diary spoke often of a desire to find someone with whom she could share her adventures, but "that such a man no longer walks the earth."

Though the full text of her diaries were never published, Galactis went on in the Accepted Histories to explain that he believed Astrid was comparing every man she met to Uther. Obviously no man could compare, so she spent her life alone. This was not such an uncommon thing, though the key difference was that Astrid refused to settle.