Caelia Scriptagladii

Patron of Enforcers, Oathblades, Trade Wardens, and Sanctified Contracts

Born into the war-torn region of Ganesia, where guild charters were as often broken as bones, Caelia began her career as a mercenary-scribe drafting contracts in the morning and enforcing them at swordpoint by dusk. She carried two things into every hall of judgment: a folded scrollcase and a sheathed shortblade. Her motto was simple: “Ink before sword — but carry both.” She rose to fame during the Disavowal War, a brutal trade conflict where the city's eight merchant houses voided their guild oaths, plunging the region into anarchy. Caelia, acting on a temple writ from the Grand Clerks of Minos, tracked down and apprehended every Forfeiture responsible, honoring each contract exactly as written — no more, no less. Her restraint was as legendary as her resolve; she once spared a debtor who satisfied a breached agreement by a single copper piece. Caelia’s blade, Justifier, was said to never strike in anger, only in the execution of bound contract or divine ordinance. Her death came not in battle but in silence, after she refused to break a sworn oath to defend a merchant who had once betrayed her. It is said she fell beside the sealed ledger she had sworn to protect, her hand clutching it still.

Her sigil is a quill crossed over a gladius, often inked onto the palms of oath-enforcers or trade wardens. The Oathblades, an order of warrior-monks dedicated to Minos, were founded in her honor.