The first eclipse of the year is always marked as the Day of Valen Tyne.

There are a number of variations around the story of Lady Valen Tyne, but the one that seems most widely accepted is that Lady Valen Tyne had been married to a Knight by the name of Amor Tyne.

When news reached Lady Valen that her husband had perished in the war against the Necromancers (in 955), she took his armor he had at home and donned the armor and rode to the battle against the Necromancers.

At the time, women were forbidden to fight in these wars, and knowing this, she’d cut her hair and rarely spoke, refusing to remove her helmet around others.

This is where the it’s unclear what truly happened – it’d been the first eclipse of the year, when the Knights had been backed into a corner, and it seemed as if the Necromancers would win – Lady Valen Tyne, who had lost her sword and shield in the retreat – took off her helmet and charged against the Necromancers alone, with simply her hands as her weapons. Witnesses claimed that they saw that whenever she touched any Necromancer, they simply crumbled to their knees and wept with grief – consumed by the memories of the tormented souls that they’d unearthed – and those who felt Lady Valen Tyne’s touch, released their hold on the undead they’d risen – and turned against their fellow Necromancers.

The Knights, joined by the redeemed Necromancers, charged forward as allies, against those who’d not felt the touch of Lady Valen Tyne, and the battle was won.

This created a change in the Knights, who now welcomed women into their order.

Lady Valen Tyne would die, of natural causes, several years later, on the anniversary of the victory she’d helped ensure.

She was buried next to her husband, who had fallen in battle.

The following year, and every year since, on the first eclipse of the year, a unique rose blooms on Lady Valen Tyne’s grave, that’s rumored to have magical abilities.

It is said, those who pass, and have had true love in their hearts, will also bare the rose on their grave on the day that’s now called The Day of Valen Tyne. Many, who are deeply in love, pick these roses to give to the ones they love.

Bards proclaim that it was no coincidence that Lady Valen Tyne chose the first eclipse – just when it seemed the darkest, she shone brightly – one moon representing the birth of this change, the second moon in memory of her passing.

Planting the flower from Lady Valen Tyne will prevent undead to rise ever again as long as the rose is in place.