(1499 - 1552)
Born in 1499 CE, the so acclaimed Son of Aster (known by name as Morlon of Toffia) is the definitive central messiah of the Asterist religion. Born in a raider tribe, Morlon was captured and sold off in slavery at a young age. He became a capable soldier-slave during his teenage years, turning into a proficient officer between the ages of 16 and 19. It is said his company, wearing nothing but furs and munitions armour, managed to climb to the top of Mount Kosciuszko at over 6km of altitude preparing to assault a nearby mountain fortress. Morlon had an epiphany at the mountain peak though. The sole member of his unit who could read and write, Sergeant Oryn, later wrote:
"In this mountain I do not know if the gods of daemons have taken our commander. His eyes shine with a strong crimson glow, unlike the amber eyes he possessed mere minutes ago. The weather has passed from clear skies to untamed blizzards. He screams in what appears to be agony and the essence of his spirit, a wind of his soul, circles through the mountain and our soldiers. His presence is that of no mere man, of our kind or otherwise. I do not know who this person is."
Later on, after losing half of the unit in this event, Morlon assaulted the fortress.
"We marched towards the stone bastions and prepared to assault with ladders, with uncertainty of our future. The commander, be it my brother Morlon or whoever had taken his soul, lead the attack from the front. An arrow pierced his eye in a shot of unholy luck. Unholier was that man, who pulled out the long bolt like a mere flower thorn. The presence above mankind he had before returned, the snow's force became a harder enemy to fight than that in front of us. We did not see it with our own eyes, but our commander stood with a sword and crown of heavenly precedence. The titanic fortress which had stood in our way was no more. A steaming path had been carved between his figure and the fortification, which I presume was connected to the melting slag that was the fortress wall. The enemy surrendered immediately and our commander showed mercy to them. We took them into our unit. His eye, once mauled from the overwhelming strength of a Ferozen longbow, was as if he had just been born."
Writings are not that detailed from then and on, but it is known that this psychic proclaimed himself prophet of the deity known as Aster, quickly becoming a dominant military, political and religious figure. Several campaigns were waged for religious conquest. It appears the Son of Aster's social, intellectual and physical abilities practically exploded after the event on Mount Kosciuszko from those of a peasant soldier to a Herculean savant. Religious dogma says the Asterist Crusades he started were to purge demons from the Earth, a story that organisations aware of psychic presence or anomalies partially believe. The legend says the wars were not against the other Ferozen lords or aboriginals, but rather against the great deceiver Culhun. They were just on the way. It is known that the Son of Aster was mortally wounded in the forest of Lake Jupiter. The official story says it was aboriginal guerrillas, but a worryingly familiar story in most of the country is that Culhun himself triumphed in a duel on his own territory. After that Morlon of Toffia retreated to a mountain monastery for a few weeks, where he wrote over 5000 pages of religious, scientific and medical tomes before succumbing of his wounds. The physicians of the time say these wounds were "oozing with a purple substance which drained the soul and poisoned the body with no mercy to the agonizing victim".
Morlon's writings, collectively known as the "Wordly Reflections", set a foundation for the scientific, industrial, agricultural, architectural, cultural, medical and military advancements of the Ferozen peoples in the middle-to-late Oceanykan medieval era, which gave them dominance until the aboriginal world began importing foreign technologies and knowledge.