Saint Leopold

Early Life
Leopold of Muddah was a Muddite holy man and Tribal Elder during the collapse of the Chagyar Khanate. In his infancy, he was taken as tribute by the Chagyar Khan, to act as a captive and prevent the Heartlanders from rising against the Khan. He was raised as one of the Khan's own sons and taught the language and customs of the Mokosh people. After the old Khan died, his eldest son (Leopold's adoptive brother) became the Khan.

Flight to the Heartlands
When Leopold began showing interest in the plight of the Heartlands, his brother became irate. Eventually, Leopold left the court to learn his people's customs, angering his brother. After spending many years in isolation in the Heartlands, Leopold returned to the Khan's court and demanded that the Khan end the punitive tributes that were starving the Heartlanders. The Khan grew furious and cast Leopold out of his court, and branded him a fugitive in the Khanate.

Years later, the Khan brought a search party to the Heartlands, to find Leopold. By this time, the infant Samson the Great had been born, and the Khan sought to kill him as well, to put an end to Leopold's claims that the young boy would bring the downfall of the Khanate. When the Khan arrived at Muddah, he demanded that the Muddites surrender Leopold and the infant Samson to him. The Muddites refused, and as the Khan drew his sword to personally slay Leopold, two Heartlander Lions pounced on him and one of his retainers. The other riders fled, and the Khan lay dead in the fields outside of Muddah.

Later Life & Prophecy
During his life in Muddah, Leopold led the tribe through several ceremonies to honour the Paternal Spirits who had cursed the tribe for their previous leaders' impiety. In his sleep, in the eighth year, he had a premonition that one of the tribe's women would become pregnant in the next year, and that her child would become a great warrior, sent by the Spirits to free the Heartlanders from their bondage under the Mokosh khanates.

This child became Samson the Great, who Leopold took as his ward. Leopold had a difficult time convincing the tribe to adopt Samson as their Bannerlord when he came of age and wasn't able to until Samson had reached the age of 20. After he was appointed, however, Samson proved to be a very capable leader, and just as Leopold had foreseen, led the Heartlanders to expel the Mokosh from their lands in the 30s AS. After Samson's disappearance in 64 AS, many individuals began theorising as to what happened to him, and many speculated that he was a divine being sent by the Paternal Spirits to free their people. Leopold's prophecy was the basis of this idea which would eventually morph into the Samsonist religion after St. Alger founded the Cult of the Bannerlord, which eventually became the Imperial Unitarian Church.