Elenda of Garrano
Elenda of Garrano, also known as the first vampire and Saint Elenda is the legendary ancestor of the vampires of the Legion of Dusk on Ixalan.[1][2][3]
She is described by Mavren Fein as being nine feet tall with hair like a raven's wings and nails like lightning's edge.[2]
Elenda was born mortal, a warrior nun charged with her brothers and sisters of faith to guard the Immortal Sun in the mountains of Torrezon. The monastery was raided by Pedron the Wicked who killed most of its occupants. Elenda survived and ran outside to fight Pedron, but the Immortal Sun had been stolen from the fiend by a winged beast in the sky. The beast took the Immortal Sun to the west, and Elenda followed it.
In the west, Elenda to dark magic and took on the burden of immortality until the Immortal Sun could be retrieved once again. She searched for centuries and returned to Torrezon to teach her Rite to the nobles so that they could take up the sacrifice and join her in her search. Mavvren Fein was one of her early converts. Long ago, he watched as she sailed back into the west. She has never bee seen since.[1]