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Cults, Sects, and Orders of Sunstealer (Tenebraeth; Soul of Darkness)
Posted on July 18, 2023 in Steel-Realms
Soul of Darkness; “Tenebraeth”
– This is the dominant order of the faith. It has common Group/Institution elements.
Cleric, Paladin – These are archetypes dedicated to serving and representing the faith in iconic roles as part of their function; Others may be available as Followers at GM discretion – serving as institutional officers, community officers, or simply through Conviction and shared liturgical beliefs.
The Common Face of Faith: Like most Faiths of the Steel Realms, there may be a multitude of denominations that make up Cults, Orders and Sects of Sunstealer. These share the common Workings of Faith, promoting worship to prove the truth of the Divine Principal's ideals and tenets, and allow Followers a means to prove worthy to wield power and secure a place in the promised afterlife. Sunstealer has a Dominant Presentation of their faith, clergy, and institutions that the folk of the realms look to.
Options for PC’s in the Steel Realms
i20™ Faith Details
Clerics in service to the faith have the callings (subclasses) of Death, War, and Trickery; Others may be available at GM discretion or through other cults, sect, or orders. Paladins in service to the faith have the callings (subclasses) of Vengeance; Others may be available at GM discretion or through other cults, sect, or orders.
iCore™ Faith Details
He is known by many names, including that of “Shuustak” by the more savage and primitive creatures like Lizardfolk and Troglodytes.
Tenebraeth the The Dream Thief
The most common sub sect or cult of Sunstealer is Tenebraeth. Some say it is a child of his, other an avatar, some a fiend or spirit bound to the god. It is even said that this is just a made up name, so that those seeking to gain power from it do not have to use his name among the Dark Trinity. Regardless of its specific manifestation, it is synonymous with the god. He is the stealer of dreams, and despoiler of rest. Tenebraeth replaces dreams with nightmare, and traps those that he/it curses in a mind-prison of their own thoughts. There is no way to summon Tenebraeth in the light – the light of truth destroys the dark thoughts that surround Tenebraeth.
Through corrupted elemental magics, captured Stone Colossi (giants), and Orrish breeding and unholy sacrifices by priests of Sun Stealer, there are more of the Twisted Colossi (formorians) than there should be in the Dark Lands.
Lilylands of Bar-Innis/Dunstrand)
Posted on July 11, 2023 in Steel-Realms
The Lilylands (Lily Lands, “Lilyalndz”) of Dunstrand are mostly the lands bordering Dwindor Swamp and The Black Coast – the Earldom of Bar-Innis in the south and the earldom of Richfield to the north. More than anything, they share a culture and a way of life that centers around a lot of agriculture and resources they pull from Dwindor Swamp. They are named after the spring white lily bloom in Dwindor, Scar Flow, and along the Black Shore coast (as well as Calibans Slurry).
The real events that bind the Lily Lands together are the annual festivals.
Nanford River of Dunstrand
Posted on July 3, 2023 in Steel-Realms
The Nanford River flows through the original Vale of Dunstrand. From the east heights of the T’Yendi Hills, it flows a normal color, carrying silt and minerals down from the heights. Originally, it met the mountains and flowed south along what is now The Black Shore, into the Loamwold Cut (now Hoolip Coast), where it flowed out to the sea into ColdStream Inlet (now Coldstream Channel). When the shelf on which the Aragratep Chain of mountains sank in a cataclysm, Westmarch sank and Scar Flow took its place. Dwindor Swamp was created and it created a muddy delta and The Black Shore.
Defining Moment: All of the Riverdans were devastated when, in CY 7950-7986, Nanford River changed course during the Storm Times and Dwindor Swamp became a living things itself and gained the appellation of “Mighty Dwindor”.
The headwaters of this river some from two spurs – one in Broken Feather Hills to the north, and the Valewall Hills to the south.
The Nanford Accord was named after the river, which divided the duchy into trade zones and governed transport.
Small Mark (village of Bar-Innis)
Posted on June 13, 2023 in Steel-Realms
Part of the ‘Lowland League’ (of the lowlands of Bar-Innis)
At its eastern edge of The lowlands of Bar-Innis there’s drainage are and in the high dykes, dams, and bulwarks that a chamomile like plant grows of nearly the same species as Willows Edge Tea, harvested from the burned wreckage of the Censure and developed so that the druids could declare it a separate species and not converted under the Censure. It’s not sold outside of bar-innis.
Lowlands of Bar-Innis
