This is a second draft, having written most of this between games and added the part on Tobias after having passed through most of the Personal Story. As such some details may appear self-centered but really they were the only way to reconcile events without wholesale denying they ever happened.
Still a work in progress, so to speak.
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Lightbringer,
You requested the full file on one Tobias Trueflight as well as the background we could dig up about his family. Order operatives therefore were dispatched to Divinity’s Reach and Ebonhawke to begin investigation. What was uncovered was interesting, but in and of itself not terribly unique or compelling. We have, as usual, done the tasks assigned to us with prompt timing and attention to details. As there are no particularly kitten ing secrets of the Order present in this file, sealing this is not necessary and left to your discretion.
I shall start at the earliest bit of records we could recover. Tobias Trueflight is the second person bearing that name in the family records we could find, The first person to bear that name was an active member of the Ascalon Vanguard, which as you know ceased to be after the Searing and the exile of Prince Rurik. As few Ascalonian records from before the Searing (1070 AE) remain available we must rely on what we know afterwards.
It is known from consulting records kept at the Ascalonian Settlement in Kryta that Tobias Trueflight (the first) did survive the travel over the Shiverpeaks and was instrumental in several events surrounding what we know are “the Flameseeker Prophecies”. Without firsthand accounts, it is not known what Tobias’ place was within those events but it is known he had at least a small role to play in how they became resolved. He received a citation from Captain Greywind for bravery in the face of a Titan incursion but after that the next mention has to deal with an evacuation during the Battle of Lion’s Arch in 1079 AE.
After that there are records from Ebonhawke telling very little about the older Tobias Trueflight. He was traveling with his wife Cersei Jubari as one of the armed members of the Ebon Vanguard. (She is a native of Istan, but records for her are currently quite difficult to obtain; until a request for further study on her, we have limited our scope of investigation to how she plays a part in all of this.) There were at least three children accounted for, one of whom was Alpheus Trueflight. He took up the practice of being a ranger is his father’s footsteps and served as one of the few dedicated guards for Ebonhawke’s early history. He passed away in 1099 AE during a charr probing attack (aged approximately 39), survived by his widow who died in 1113 AE (age listed as 47).
(Lightbringer’s Notes: This inaccuracy reflects badly on the Order. I will need to weigh this matter and look into matters. Cersei Jubari’s name is known within the records kept during Nightfall and the Kormir Ascension, but it’s not been worth pursuing. I will have to review those files sometine in the future.)
Alpheus Trueflight married an elementalist named Persephone (last name not available in the records) who bore him two children. The youngest son Colin Trueflight (born 1116 AE) proceded to put effort into training as a warrior who specialized in anti-charr activities and gathered his own squad from members of the Ebon Vanguard for an expedition to scout out possible locations for new expansions later. He married a priestess of Lyssa named Tristesse Laron and had one son – Joshua Trueflight (Born 1139 AE). After Colin was lost on patrol in 1145 AE, a warrior named Gerard Harand helped raise Joshua.
After this, there are several generations of descendents and precious little information on what they were up to. However, the residents of Ebonhawke keep decent enough census records. The generations following Joshua Trueflight have very little remarkable to them, and there is ample evidence of plenty of familial offshoots which could be long-distant relations. After the asuran gate was constructed to reach Divinity’s Reach, tracing the genealogy of the family became considerably more difficult. It’s sufficient to say there are two other families who are entwined with the Trueflight family: the Kereminde family which entwined with the Trueflight name with Lorelie Kereminde (born Erica Trueflight, 1112 AE) who married Ezra Kereminde (born pre-Searing and thus lacking a firm birthdate) and thus the family has blood relation to the Trueflight family. There are later instances of intermarrying, and there is evidence they remain closely tied. The second family to show some connections are some Istani expatriates who bear the Therin name. There is only one instance of marriage inside this relationship (Tara Therin, born 1234 AE in Lion’s Arch and married to Tristan Trueflight in 1254 AE.