Pelithos

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NOTES

• associate specific titans with the vaultlands
• are there still High Temples to each Domain in the mortal world (like Fireheart / Iceheart)?
• how many languages?

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.

• Pelithine Bestiary
• Pelithine Culture
• Pelithine Organizations

History

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

• Pelithine History

Cosmology

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

• Pelithine Divinity
• Pelithine Fury
• Pelithine Strange
• Pelithine Shadow & Void

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

• Erebus

Inhabitants

Alseids

• Elves, ur-shard-race
• A number of distinct, regional cultures existed, though they spread and blended in many places
  • oreads (synnephian ori), dryads (potamia, cypress coast), neriads (thalassa velos isles), esperides (esperines and western dytikos), limnades (eastern Antolikos, Erimia), auloniades (phidion coast, eastern dytikos, epolosia)
  • Oread and dryad came to refer to the fury-mutated descendants of those cultures.
  • The other terms remain, with Alseid as the blanket term for the species.
• Sub-races
  • Pligian Alseids (Queensplague)
  • Dro-on (Night mutation)
  • Naiads (interbred with / shepherded by Chemaros)

Alseid Ferals

• Satyr (goat)
• Pythians (serpent)
• Harpies (bird)
• Kynokephaloi (jackals)
• Psarikampoi (fish, sharks)

Dryads

• As the Aphxanamos grew, the fey of the dryad culture of Potamia was changed by exposure, becoming plant-like. The term dryad came to refer to the race.
• Sub-races
  • Nightshade Dryads (Night mutation)
  • Pligian Dryads (Queensplague)
  • Dendric Dryads (drank the Elixir of Sleep)

Oreads

• As the Synnephion grew, the fey of the oread culture of Potamia was changed by exposure, becoming stone-like (marble-statue-like, of various colors), larger / stronger / tougher. The term oread came to refer to the race.
  • After the first titanomachia, oreads settled in the kyterian ori and golden waste; through now fairly resistant to fury, they did take on a distinct appearance from its influence, more tawny sandstone and dark basalt and obsidian.
• Sub-races
  • Pligian Oreads (Queensplague)
  • Moonstone Oreads (Night mutation)
  • Lithic Oreads (drank the Elixir of Sleep)

Outlanders

• humans (mostly from acrolonian invasion), orcs, dwarves
• minotaurs (nor feral)
• Demonbloods (interbred with demons; human derived mostly, some derived from alseids or others)
• Azer / Dactyloi (dwarf mutants)

??? Centaur Nyxian Centaurs (intentional Night mutation by the Helm)

Tritons (migration into the Strange Sea) Vathys (Obyrith-warped) Proteans (Fall and Night mutation)

Grimm (stone Nor) Myrmidons (Fall mutation)

Lamia

• interbred with Codex servitors; or maybe this is a type of independent pattern servitor? or hybrid?
• or maybe they are succubus-pythian hybrid infiltrators from the invasion, now a lingering demonic presence

Pelithos stuff goes here...

• 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?)