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[[Category:Realms]]
[[Category:Realms]]
[[Category:Shards]]
[[Category:Shards]]
[[Category:Pelithos]]


{{Breadcrumbs Pelithos}}
{{Breadcrumb Pelithos}}


=NOTES=
* how many languages?
** Enchiridian (truly universal), cultural languages, furytongue, foundertongue/supernal, imperial nortongue,
Hellenica Name Generators
* https://github.com/kalyptein/gametools/tree/main/tables/nomicon/hellenica


=Etymology=
=Etymology=


Discusses the name of the realm and where the name comes from.
Pelithos {{lang|Elftongue|ˈpɛlɪθoʊs|\ˈpɛlɪθoʊs\|sea and stone}} is the shard realm home to the fey. Lore about Pelithos comes from its own mortal scholars as well as its demigods, the imitheoi.


=Lore=
=Lore=


Discusses how lore of the realm came to be known by the inhabitants of the Integrum.
Discusses how lore of the realm came to be known by the inhabitants of the Integrum.
* [[Pelithine Inhabitants]]
* [[Pelithine Bestiary]]
* [[Pelithine Culture]]
* [[Pelithine Organizations]]


=History=
=History=


Discusses the history of the realm through the major ages of the universe.
Discusses the history of the realm through the major ages of the universe.
* [[Pelithine History]]


=Cosmology=
=Cosmology=


Discusses the nature of realm in relation to the cosmology of the universe.
Discusses the nature of realm in relation to the cosmology of the universe.
* [[Pelithine Divinity]]
* [[Pelithine Fury]]
* [[Pelithine Strange]]
* [[Pelithine Void]]


=Geography=
=Geography=
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Discusses the physical layout of the realm, included regions, terrain, and other features.
Discusses the physical layout of the realm, included regions, terrain, and other features.


=Inhabitants=
* [[Pelithine Geography]]


Discusses the inhabitants of the realm.
* Thalassa Ephilios/The Ephilion Sea
** The world sea extending beyond Pelithos


* [[Dytikos]]
** The Esperines
** Aletheia
** The Aplos
*** The Avigian Barrens
** Phidion Ori & The Phidion Coast
** Epolosia
** The Vale of Chemaros
** The Golden Waste
** Kyterion Ori
** ???eastern coast


* [[Tria Archipelaga]]
** The Boreal Archipelago
** Maelstrom
** Southern Isles


=Pelithos stuff goes here...=
* [[Antolikos]]
** Potamia & The Cypress Coast
** The Aphxanamos
** The Opagos
** The Erimian Wild
** Synnephion Ori
** Polla Vasileia
** The Dragon's Tail
** Calcaria


* [[Erebus]]


 
=Pelithos stuff goes here...=
* Pelithine gods come out of the Shattering broken into Mantles. The Dancer, Sentinel, etc were the shard gods within the Timestorm, but sacrificed themselves to keep Pelithos whole.
 
 
 
original gods of Pelithos and their mantles
 
The Judge (man, Pattern)
* The Wreath (Day) - social harmony, charisma
* The Edicts (Pattern) - the templates of form
* The Hammer (Form) - solid
 
The Mariner (man, Summer)
* The Trident (Summer) - heat, fire
* The Net (Autumn) - gathering / migration of souls, literal gravity
* The Beacon (Day) - the sun, light
 
The Weaver (woman, Destiny)
* The Loom (Destiny) - fate, beginnings?, order time and space
* The Sickle (Autumn) - killing, entropy, harm, disconnection of the soul
* The Cornucopia (Spring) - the wellspring, fertility, multiplicity, growth, the rains and rivers
 
The Keeper (man, Death)
* The Oboloi (Autumn) - underworld, crucible
* The Jewel (Winter) - stillness, stasis
* The Pyxis (Destiny) - doom, endings, breakdown /chaos of space and time
 
The Sentinel (woman, Day)
* The Aegis (Day) - courage, altruistic protection, hope
* The Caduceus (Spring) - birth, uniting soul with body, fending off entropy, healing
* The Owl (Destiny) - travel, farsight, prediction, traversing / perceiving time and space
 
The Reaver (man, Night)
* The Spear (Winter) - ice, cold
* The Helm (Night) - domination, selfishness, fear, despair
* The Viper (Pattern) - communication, language
 
The Huntress (woman, Winter)
* The Bow and Quiver (Spring) - vital force, strength, vitality
* The Horn (Night) - the Moon, Night
* The Hound (Summer) - motion
 
The Dancer (man, Life)
* The Amphora (Summer) - passion, frenzy
* The Mask (Pattern) - mind, memory, reason, logic, instinct
* The White Tree (Form) - flesh/wood
 
The Witch (woman, Form)
* The Eye (Night) - cruelty, hate, social discord
* The Wand (Form) - fluid
* The Shroud (Winter) - apathy, ennui, depression, dispassion
 
 
* The Key is a piece of founder-tech, not a mantle, it's not even particularly tied to the realm of Pelithos
 
 
* Pelithos local godswar as the oppositional gods fail to cope with
* loser in the godswar used the Key to free a top-of-food-chain usable titan as a revenge strike, a Kronos or Typhon being for Pelithos
* First Titanomachia, it kills the remaining gods
* rampages leaves fury seeded across the land, the beginning of the vaultlands (it's trying to pry open the vaults to eat the titans inside, leaves the vaults weakened, leading to the leakage and vaultlands), cults, monsters, etc
* eventually subdued and sealed in carceri by the Lords / Immortals




* original pelithine shard race = alseids (or just "fey" at this time)
* original pelithine shard species = alseids (or just "fey" at this time)


* ferals (all from alseids): satyrs, harpies, kampoi?, pythians, centaurs, minotaurs (immigrants?)
* ferals (all from alseids): satyrs, harpies, kampoi?, pythians, centaurs, minotaurs (immigrants?)
* fury mutants (gorgons, kampoi? cyclops?)
* fury mutants (gorgons, kampoi? cyclops?)
** cyclops could be a race of giants slipped out into the Avigian Vaultland
** cyclops could be a species of giants slipped out into the Avigian Vaultland
* strange mutants (crazy people (maenads?) or obyrith flesh-twisted mutants)
* strange mutants (crazy people (maenads?) or obyrith flesh-twisted mutants)


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* limited shadow magic among the tanari darkstargazers
* limited shadow magic among the tanari darkstargazers
* solipsis / monadic
* solipsis / monadic
* The Dro-on / Night Elves are a major part of the population of the former Acrolonian Hegemony.  The Hegemony did nothing to protect the populace from the Long Night, so lots of Dro-on.  The bent toward evil helped colonize the locals, and they began staffing the ranks, which led to increasing exposure to and assimilation with demons.  As imperial humans died or fled the Reconquest, the Dro-on hermit crabbed their way into ruling the ex-Hegemony lands of Aletheia and Calcaria.
** So there are non-demonic Dro-on, slowly fading, and there are demon-corrupted Dro-on, who are genetically fucked until further notice.


* eventually strange scholars realize there are 7 uncolonized Loci in the strange, they believe they can take then and ride out the Fall.  it doesn't go quite as expected
* eventually strange scholars realize there are 7 uncolonized Loci in the strange, they believe they can take then and ride out the Fall.  it doesn't go quite as expected
* elemental form mutations happen in the Fall: neriads / naiads, dryads, oreads, (air nymphs?)
* elemental form mutations happen in the Fall: neriads / naiads, dryads, oreads, (air nymphs?)
* pelithine: greek
* arcadian: irish
The Judge (man, Pattern)
* The Edicts (Pattern) - the templates of form
The Mariner (man, Summer)
The Weaver (woman, Destiny)
* The Loom (Destiny) - fate, beginnings?, order time and space
The Keeper (man, Death)
* The Oboloi (Autumn) - underworld, crucible; lead coins (gravity)
* The Sickle (Autumn) - killing, entropy, harm, disconnection of the soul
The Sentinel (woman, Day)
* The Aegis (Day) - courage, altruistic protection, hope
* The Owl (Destiny) - travel, farsight, prediction, traversing / perceiving time and space
The Reaver (man, Night)
* The Helm (Night) - domination, selfishness, fear, despair
The Huntress (woman, Winter)
The Dancer (enby, Life)
* The Caduceus (Spring) - birth, uniting soul with body, fending off entropy, healing
* The Cornucopia (Spring) - the wellspring, fertility, multiplicity, growth, the rains and rivers
The Witch (woman, Form)
* The Wand (Form) - fluid
* The White Tree (Form) - flesh/wood
* The Wreath (Day) - social harmony, charisma
* The Hammer (Form) - solid
The Mariner (man, Summer)
* The Trident (Summer) - heat, fire
* The Net (Autumn) - gathering / migration of souls, literal gravity
* The Beacon (Day) - the sun, light
* The Jewel (Winter) - stillness, stasis
* The Pyxis (Destiny) - doom, endings, breakdown /chaos of space and time
* The Spear (Winter) - ice, cold
* The Viper (Pattern) - communication, language
The Huntress (woman, Winter)
* The Bow and Quiver (Spring) - vital force, strength, vitality
* The Horn (Night) - the Moon, Night
* The Hound (Summer) - motion
* The Amphora (Summer) - passion, frenzy
* The Mask (Pattern) - mind, memory, reason, logic, instinct
* The Eye (Night) - cruelty, hate, social discord
* The Shroud (Winter) - apathy, ennui, depression, dispassion
==WIP==
jewel
* value, craft, solidity - judge
* wealth - keeper
edicts
* law - judge
* message - dancer
caduceus
* medicine - sentinel
* healing - mariner (life)
* anti-death - keeper
* hermes - dancer
amphora
* revelry - dancer
* liquid - judge
* vitality / revelry - mariner (life)
* Judge/Architect/Builder/Demiurge (form) - hammer, edicts???, ???chalice, ???bell
** hammer /gavel (solid)
** key
** ???chalice (liquid) ???jewel
** ???bell ???edicts (gas) ???white tree
* Mariner (life) - trident, cornucopia/amphora, ???caduceus
** trident
** cornucopia
** ???caduceus ???sextant
* Weaver (destiny) - loom, pyxis, owl
** loom
** owl
** pyxis
* Keeper (death) - oboloi, sickle, ???caduceus
** oboloi
** sickle
** ???caduceus (death power against death - medicine / healing) ???jewel (pluton)
* Sentinel (day) - aegis, wreath, ???
** aegis
** wreath
** ???caduceus ???white tree
* Reaver (night) - helm, viper, spear???
** helm (tyrannical)
** viper (treacherous)
** spear (merciless)
* Huntress (summer) - bow, horn, hound
** bow
** horn
** hound
* Dancer (pattern) - mask, white tree, wreath??? caduceus??? edicts??? amphora??? lyre???
** mask
** ???lyre ???caduceus ???amphora (in vino veritas?  wine as gift to the poets?)
** ???white tree (appropriate to be pattern)
* Witch (winter) - jewel/orb, veil/shroud, wand - white witch vibe
** ???eye
** veil / shroud
** wand

Latest revision as of 22:16, 28 June 2025


Template:Breadcrumb Shards > Pelithos


NOTES

  • how many languages?
    • Enchiridian (truly universal), cultural languages, furytongue, foundertongue/supernal, imperial nortongue,

Hellenica Name Generators

Etymology

Pelithos (Elftongue \ˈpɛlɪθoʊs\ for sea and stone) is the shard realm home to the fey. Lore about Pelithos comes from its own mortal scholars as well as its demigods, the imitheoi.

Lore

Discusses how lore of the realm came to be known by the inhabitants of the Integrum.

History

Discusses the history of the realm through the major ages of the universe.

Cosmology

Discusses the nature of realm in relation to the cosmology of the universe.

Geography

Discusses the physical layout of the realm, included regions, terrain, and other features.

  • Thalassa Ephilios/The Ephilion Sea
    • The world sea extending beyond Pelithos
  • Dytikos
    • The Esperines
    • Aletheia
    • The Aplos
      • The Avigian Barrens
    • Phidion Ori & The Phidion Coast
    • Epolosia
    • The Vale of Chemaros
    • The Golden Waste
    • Kyterion Ori
    • ???eastern coast
  • Antolikos
    • Potamia & The Cypress Coast
    • The Aphxanamos
    • The Opagos
    • The Erimian Wild
    • Synnephion Ori
    • Polla Vasileia
    • The Dragon's Tail
    • Calcaria

Pelithos stuff goes here...

  • original pelithine shard species = alseids (or just "fey" at this time)
  • ferals (all from alseids): satyrs, harpies, kampoi?, pythians, centaurs, minotaurs (immigrants?)
  • fury mutants (gorgons, kampoi? cyclops?)
    • cyclops could be a species of giants slipped out into the Avigian Vaultland
  • strange mutants (crazy people (maenads?) or obyrith flesh-twisted mutants)

lamia could be a secrety society / cult of the Viper, pattern heralds, using their powers to be dark muses

  • used anyot's curse and local telar to become serpentine intentionally? or they could all just be wereserpents? could be a cult from Pythian days
  • demons
  • obyrith
  • Lost
  • heralds
  • fury sorcerers
  • hidden form mages (from acrolon)
  • limited strange (lost, obyrith, early students)
  • limited shadow magic among the tanari darkstargazers
  • solipsis / monadic


  • The Dro-on / Night Elves are a major part of the population of the former Acrolonian Hegemony. The Hegemony did nothing to protect the populace from the Long Night, so lots of Dro-on. The bent toward evil helped colonize the locals, and they began staffing the ranks, which led to increasing exposure to and assimilation with demons. As imperial humans died or fled the Reconquest, the Dro-on hermit crabbed their way into ruling the ex-Hegemony lands of Aletheia and Calcaria.
    • So there are non-demonic Dro-on, slowly fading, and there are demon-corrupted Dro-on, who are genetically fucked until further notice.
  • eventually strange scholars realize there are 7 uncolonized Loci in the strange, they believe they can take then and ride out the Fall. it doesn't go quite as expected
  • elemental form mutations happen in the Fall: neriads / naiads, dryads, oreads, (air nymphs?)
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