Pelithos
Etymology
Pelithos (from Pelethine "pelagos" (the sea's surface) and "lithos" (stone/earth), the "realm of sea and stone", or "realm of stones amid the sea") 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
- Thalassa Velos
- The Boreal Archipelago
- Maelstrom
- Southern Isles
- Antolikos
- Potamia & The Cypress Coast
- The Aphxanamos
- The Opagos
- The Erimian Wild
- Synnephion Ori
- Polla Vasileia
- The Dragon's Tail
- Calcaria
Inhabitants
Discusses the inhabitants of the realm.
- Alseids (Elves, ur-shard-race)
- Pligian Alseids (Queensplague)
- Dro-on (Night mutation)
- Alseid Ferals (Anyot's Curse)
- Satyr
- Pythians
- Harpies
- ??? Kynokephaloi
- Psarikampoi
- Dryads (long-ago fury mutation??? god-made by early influence of a Mantle?)
- Nightshade Dryads (Night mutation)
- Pligian Dryads (Queensplague)
- Dendric Dryads (drank the Elixir of Sleep)
- Oreads (long-ago fury mutation??? god-made by early influence of a Mantle?
- Pligian Oreads (Queensplague)
- Moonstone Oreads (Night mutation)
- Lithic Oreads (drank the Elixir of Sleep)
God-made
- Naiads (interbred with / shepherded by Chemaros)
- Lamia (interbred with Codex servitors)
Fury Mutants / Monsters
- Glacial Satyr
- Azer / Dactyloi (dwarf mutants)
- Outlanders
- humans (mostly from acrolonian invasion), orcs, dwarves
- minotaurs (nor feral)
- Demonbloods (interbred with demons; human derived mostly, some derived from alseids or others)
???
Centaur
Nyxian Centaurs (intentional Night mutation by the Helm)
Neriads
Tritons (migration into the Strange Sea) Vathys (Obyrith-warped) Proteans (Fall and Night mutation)
Grimm (stone Nor) Myrmidons (Fall mutation)
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- 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
Cults
- the power a Primarch has to invest in heralds and exarchs is more fungible for Imitheoi. They create cults with different manifestations and distributions of power, A new bearer may take over an existing cult, or seek to reapportion power according to their own knowledge / understanding / desires / instincts. This can leave residual cults from older bearers, who may even be antagonistic to the new bearer, who might want to reclaim the mantle's power from the current holders to reassign.