Editing Sirokos (section)

==Echoes of the First Age==

Sirokos' original exaltation was known in the First Age as The Corundum Drake Rampant In The Sun's Ruddy Dawn.  Back then, his Solar circle was allied with the Dragon King [[Knopsen Dhul'tek]] and claimed [[The Dream of the Sun-Baked Young]] as a Manse.  His guns, [[The Incandescent Arbiters as They Sit Upon an Earthen Throne]], were forged during this age by the Soulsteel Alchemical Exalt [[Mordant Custodian of the Unbalanced Scale of Justice]], before the Alchemical Exalt disappeared into the East.

The Corundum Drake was a skilled marksmen with the guns bestowed upon him, showing much Valor in battle though his lack of Temperance and Compassion often found him estranged from those he fought for.  When Mordant Custodian of the Unbalanced Scale of Justice, who taught him how to shoot, departed into the Wyld of the East The Corundum Drake stayed behind to guard the rest of Creation from the aberrations that spawned from its edges.  

During The Corundum Drake's journeys his brash nature caused him to enter headlong into a drawn out battle with [[Lady Hecubus]], a Waning Moon Lunar Exalted blamed mistakenly for the bewitchment of a township in the northeastern reaches of Creation.  Once they finally realized the other was not responsible or a threat to Creation, they banded together to take down the Fey Lord and his cadre of bound spirits responsible for feeding off the will of the townsfolk.  This marked the beginning of a long partnership between the two, with Hecubus acting as a calming voice of reason to reign in many of The Corundum Drake's...eccentricities.

Ultimately, the Usurpation saw the downfall of The Corundum Drake as it did most other Solars of the age.  Losing contact with his circle one by one as they were isolated and slain by the Terrestrials, he turned to Knopsen to safeguard his prized weapons and left to find out what had become of his long-missing partner and lover, Lady Hecubus.  Swearing he would return for them, he departed to check in on rumors from the East.  It was not long into his journey when at last the Terrestrials cornered him.  The wizened Anklok recorded the story and images of the explosions seen on that crimson dawn, a day which marked the end of The Corundum Drake and his pursuers.  Lady Hecubus was never found.