The Suns of Couros Chapter was founded by an unnamed Highborn benefactor shortly after the conquest of Reikos and the founding of the Haros settlement in 56YE. The story goes that The Founders life was saved by a draughir servant named Brother Sitva and funded the foundation of the chapter to acknowledge and reward that debt.

The Chapter’s founding aim was to provide a safe haven for draughir so that those who were given up, cast out or unwanted could find refuge with others like them and pursue Virtue in meditation and isolation from the world that rejected them. It was named the Suns of Couros in reference to the benefactor’s stated aim to ‘Let the Winterborn shine in Virtue like the Summer Sun’.

The chapter house sits either side of the river Couros with the main crossing guarded by their walls and gates. Haros itself has good trade links not just with the rest of Highguard using the river but also with the Urizen, Dawn and Navarr via Imperial roads. However, despite the growth and bustle of Haros as a trading hub in Reikos, the Suns was a secluded chapter only really known to some informed Magisters as having an extensive library of Winter realm lore and several mana crystal sites nearby.

For most of its history the Suns of Couros was run and overseen by non-lineaged Exarchs and, despite its founding aims, it slowly became over the years less of a safe haven and more of an institution where the draughir were coddled in routine, seclusion and introspection.

Sadly, despite the generally well meaning Exarchs and carers, many draughir residents, contained and unable to use their abilities and express their true natures, inevitably went mad.

When the draughir madness approached, the tradition within the Suns has been for the affected to voluntarily isolate themselves outside the chapter in a nearby cliff cave complex called the “Cliff of Eyes” waiting for death to claim them. Walled in their cell in the cliff face overlooking the chapter the affected would ring a bell if any threat approached before death claimed them. Meals and care would still be provided but few draughir lasted long in such conditions. When the affected died they would be buried within their cell with full religious ceremony.
Ten years ago the chapter found itself on the frontline of the fighting after the loss of Reikos. The first surprise attack on Haros was defeated by magic performed by the last non-lineaged Exarch of the Chapter, Magister Caiphas, and his coven who sacrificed themselves to power an unknown ritual to wither the attackers. To this day Haros has withstood raids but more recently has come under intermittent siege. Many of the human defenders of the Chapter have fallen and it is now largely thanks to the draughir that the Chapter is still running at all.

Several of the draughir residents, having spent year’s studying and understanding their nature by learning the secrets of the Winter realm finally had a practical way of expressing their true nature and embraced the conflict over Haros by using their magical knowledge to great effect. Others found outlet taking charge of the defence of the Chapter and settlement or healing and caring for those injured.
The Chapter knows Haros cannot hold out forever and its Council is now seeking support from the rest of Highguard and the other Nations for the settlement and the reclamation of Reikos.

Vigilance and Loyalty have always been the Chapter’s chosen virtues. Before these were for the individual to study in meditation and introspection, now they are a crucial part of Haros’ daily defence.