Pelithos

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Etymology

Discusses the name of the realm and where the name comes from.

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.

Inhabitants

Discusses the inhabitants of the realm.

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original gods of Pelithos and their mantles

The Judge (man)

• The Wreath (Day) - social harmony, charisma
• The Edicts (Pattern) - the templates of form
• The Hammer (Form) - solid

The Mariner (man)

• The Trident (Summer) - heat, fire
• The Net (Autumn) - gathering / migration of souls, literal gravity
• The Beacon (Day) - the sun, light

The Weaver (woman)

• 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)

• The Oboloi (Autumn) - underworld, crucible
• The Jewel (Winter) - stillness, stasis
• The Pyxis (Destiny) - doom, endings, breakdown /chaos of space and time

The Sentinel (woman)

• 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)

• The Spear (Winter) - ice, cold
• The Helm (Night) - domination, selfishness, fear, despair
• The Viper (Pattern) - communication, language

The Huntress (woman)

• The Bow and Quiver (Spring) - vital force, strength, vitality
• The Horn (Night) - the Moon, Night
• The Hound (Summer) - motion

The Dancer (man)

• The Amphora (Summer) - passion, frenzy
• The Mask (Pattern) - mind, memory, reason, logic, instinct
• The White Tree (Form) - flesh/wood

The Witch (woman)

• 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)

• ferals (all from alseids): satyrs, harpies, kampoi?, pythians, centaurs, minotaurs (immigrants?)
• fury mutants (gorgons, kampoi? cyclops?)
  • cyclops could be a race 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

• 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?)

• pelithine: greek
• arcadian: irish