Champions of Rajaat

The Champions of Rajaat once were the fifteen greatest human students of Rajaat.

Rajaat attempted to teach his halfling servants magic, however, they were unable to learn any spells due to halflings as a race were from a time before magic.

In the year of Priest's Contemplation of the 177th King's Age, Rajaat sent away all of his students except a handful of humans. Within the Pristine Tower, Rajaat bathed each of these humans in the black-water pool and stood them under the Dark Lens in the Crystal Steeple, turning them into the champions. After exiting the Crystal Steeple, Mannu of Deche went from having less knowledge on sorcery than could fill a single page of vellum to mastery of it. As the Dark Lens channelled the power from the yellow sun into his 15 champions, the sun was altered to crimson.

During the Cleansing Wars, the champions succeeded in annihilating the kobolds, goblins, pixies, orcs, ogres, gnomes, wemics and trolls from the face of Athas. After they had discovered that the Warbringer planned to wipe out humanity as well to bring about the return of the Blue Age, they rebelled against their master and imprisoned him in the Hollow.

The only way to keep Rajaat imprisoned was to transform one of them - Borys of Ebe - into a dragon. To accomplish that, all remaining champions had to perform a ritual through which they began their transformation into dragons. In the end, Borys became the first dragon of Athas and the other champions became the Sorcerer-Kings.

Other Champions

 * Pennarin: "Rajaat’s first champion", charged with cleansing "a long-limbed, big-eyed race".
 * Irikos: A human defiler and "left hand of Rajaat" dutied with destroying the Orc race. Former weilder of the Silencer of Bodach.
 * "Centaur-Crusher": listed alongside the Pixie-Blight (Wyan) and Ogre-Naught when talking about purged races of Athas.