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[Kulan] The Lands of Harqual (Updated: Feb 3/2022)
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<blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 1500243" data-attributes="member: 2012"><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>IMMOTION</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><em>Patron of Magic, Goddess of Purity and Cleansing</em></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Intermediate Deity</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Symbol:</strong></span> Crossed longsword and staff surrounded with blue aura</p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Home Plane:</strong></span> Elysium</p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Godly Realm:</strong></span> Soul of Magic</p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Alignment:</strong></span> Neutral good</p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Portfolio:</strong></span> Cleansing, magic, purity, rune magic, spellcasters, spells</p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Worshipers:</strong></span> Bards, elementalists, monks, paladins, sorcerers, warmages, wizards, the gema, any good or neutral arcane spellcaster</p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Cleric Alignments:</strong></span> LG, NG, CG</p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Domains:</strong></span> Good, Magic, Purity, Rune, Spell</p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Favored Weapon:</strong></span> Longsword or quarterstaff</p><p></p><p>Immotion is the North Goddess of Purity and Cleansing and the Patron of Magic. She is wife of Jalivier, North God of the Sun. Her brother Xuar, known as the Jealous Arcane, stole some of her arcane power by attacking her with his spear and drinking some of her blood. It was Jalivier who saved her by raising the Greystone Mountains up to the sky and by using the power of the sun to heal her.</p><p></p><p>Immotion’s Avatar always appears in one of two forms. Either as a huge human female cleric/paladin dressed in silver plate armor wielding a huge +5 spell storing disruption holy longsword or as a medium-sized human or elven wizard/sorcerer wielding a +5 staff of power (no charges required). In either form she is both beautiful and fierce to behold, with long hair, shimmering both golden and fiery red, and silver skin.</p><p></p><p>An aura of radiant blue light surrounds her at all times and her Avatar cannot hide its divine nature from mortals. If Immotion chooses to manifest on the Material Plane it is in the form of either a floating longsword with a blue aura or the audible effect of any well-known spell.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Dogma</strong></span></p><p>Immotion teaches her followers the tenets of purity, magic, and cleaning rituals. Purity of heart is more important than the power of magic. One shouldn’t use magic for evil or destruction even when fighting evil. Purity of body is also important and her clerics must remain chaste until after marriage. Magic is to be protected from those who would use it for evil. She teaches the concept of crusading to capture and destroy evil artifacts, especially those of Xuar. Evil magic is forbidden. [Immotion’s followers may only use the Necromantic spells listed in the Sidebar after the Hades entry (see above), regardless of class or specialty.] Cleansing rituals often involve water but it isn’t required. Cleansing of ones’ magical aura is important in order to keep the magic pure. (Natural running water is best.)</p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Clerics and Temples</strong></span></p><p>Spellcasters of all sorts including both divine and arcane spell-casters worship Immotion. Her clergy is made up mostly of cleric/sorcerers and cleric/wizards. Almost any type of spellcaster can join her church and be considered members of the clergy. Thus, good-aligned adapts, bards, elementalists, paladins, warmages, and most specialty wizards can all be considered ‘clergy’ if members of her faith. However, assassins, blackguards, hexblades, necromancers, and all other evil spellcasters are excluded from her faith, as most of these types of spellcasters worship her dark brother or an Interloper God.</p><p></p><p>Most of her arcane followers are sorcerers and elementalists, as wizards tend to worship the Interloper known as Boccob. Many monks also join her faith, as masters of the cleansing and purity aspects of her portfolio. Immotion has many Paladin Orders across Harqual that pay tribute to her, as well, but these Orders only accept female members. However, most are on good terms with her more mainstream church members and, generally, the Paladin Orders of Jalivier.</p><p></p><p>Immotion is a popular deity in the region known as the Eastern Shores. She has many temples in the lands of Minar, Stonn, the Highlands, Shadowood, Ambra Coast, and the Wind Plains. However, recent changes in the Kingdom of Thallin have brought about the persecution of her followers in that land. (As well as the followers of the other North Gods.) Her temples have either been destroyed or striped of all their wealth and adornments. The new king of Thallin hates arcane spellcasters and is quite mad. He is a devote follower of Nether, the Sword God of Hate and Tyranny.</p><p></p><p>As a result, many of her followers have been killed or managed to escape to one of the other lands in the region. The lucky ones escaped to Minar where good magic is welcomed. (The ruler is a bard.) Near that land, on a remote island of Lake Qualitian, the College of Wizardry, formerly of Fruen, has relocated by magical means. (Fruen is the Kingdom of Thallin’s capital city.) The main structure, known as Mathghamhna, is both a school and temple to Immotion. It is the most famous structure dedicated to her.</p><p></p><p>Japheth Arcane (hm / Wiz9, Guildmage10 / CG) is Mathghamhna’s headmaster and the Chancellor of the Arcane Order. He refused to let Mathghamhna be captured or destroyed by the Mad One of Thallin. Thus, he had the man known as The Sorcerer, Heward Tallinson (hm / Sor10, Wiz 10 / LN), help move the structure to its present location. It is said that Mathghamhna is directly linked to the realm of the goddess.</p><p></p><p>Her realm, the Soul of Magic, is located on Eronia, the second layer of Elysium. It appears different to each mortal that beholds it. To an arcane spellcaster, it is a colossal wizard’s tower made of pure silver and etched with magical runes. To a divine spellcaster, it is a colossal temple also of made of silver and etched with runes. To a monk, it is a beautiful, yet peaceful monastery made out of pure, simple material with dozens of rivers and waterfalls surrounding it. Those that do not worship her or at least pay her homage cannot see nor enter her realm.</p><p></p><p>There are dozens of other unique temples and/or magical schools dedicated to Immotion. However, only a few of these are dedicated solely to her. Most are temples dedicated to more than one magic god or to one type of magic specialty. Regardless, the Church of Immotion never allows its faith to be located in the same place as that of Xuar or Math Mathonwy. The church is less strict about mixing its faith with that of the Elven Gods and the following deities: Apollo, Baravar, Garl, Heward, and Mirella.</p><p></p><p>Temples dedicated both to Immotion and to her son, Kuil, are quite common throughout the lands of Harqual. The largest of these temples is the one that is least known about. The Hall of Magic and Illusion is said to exist somewhere north of the City of Arkhangel, near Calla Island, on the northeastern side of the continent. Those that know of its existence, outside the faith, say it is somewhere between Arkhangel and the Holding of Acheos.</p><p></p><p>Immotion’s church is strong on Calla Island, as well. The Kingdom of Navirosov controls the entire island and the fortress known as Meira Castle, on the western side of the island, has the largest temple dedicated to both the Patron of Magic and, her husband, Jalivier. The castle is the headquarters to an Order of knights known as The Shining Swords of Light and Magic. Many of these knights are paladin/sorcerers, as well as Sky Riders of Navirosov (prestige class).</p><p></p><p>=========================================</p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Sidebar:</strong></span> The name of this goddess and the purity and cleansing part of her portfolio originally come from the AD&D Accessory, College of Wizardry by Bruce Cordell. I have adapted and expanded what is presented in the book (a few lines) to fit Immotion into my World of Kulan campaign setting.</p><p>=========================================</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Knightfall, post: 1500243, member: 2012"] [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]IMMOTION[/B][/COLOR] [SIZE=3][I]Patron of Magic, Goddess of Purity and Cleansing[/I][/SIZE] [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Intermediate Deity[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Symbol:[/B][/COLOR] Crossed longsword and staff surrounded with blue aura [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Home Plane:[/B][/COLOR] Elysium [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Godly Realm:[/B][/COLOR] Soul of Magic [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Alignment:[/B][/COLOR] Neutral good [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Portfolio:[/B][/COLOR] Cleansing, magic, purity, rune magic, spellcasters, spells [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Worshipers:[/B][/COLOR] Bards, elementalists, monks, paladins, sorcerers, warmages, wizards, the gema, any good or neutral arcane spellcaster [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Cleric Alignments:[/B][/COLOR] LG, NG, CG [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Domains:[/B][/COLOR] Good, Magic, Purity, Rune, Spell [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Favored Weapon:[/B][/COLOR] Longsword or quarterstaff Immotion is the North Goddess of Purity and Cleansing and the Patron of Magic. She is wife of Jalivier, North God of the Sun. Her brother Xuar, known as the Jealous Arcane, stole some of her arcane power by attacking her with his spear and drinking some of her blood. It was Jalivier who saved her by raising the Greystone Mountains up to the sky and by using the power of the sun to heal her. Immotion’s Avatar always appears in one of two forms. Either as a huge human female cleric/paladin dressed in silver plate armor wielding a huge +5 spell storing disruption holy longsword or as a medium-sized human or elven wizard/sorcerer wielding a +5 staff of power (no charges required). In either form she is both beautiful and fierce to behold, with long hair, shimmering both golden and fiery red, and silver skin. An aura of radiant blue light surrounds her at all times and her Avatar cannot hide its divine nature from mortals. If Immotion chooses to manifest on the Material Plane it is in the form of either a floating longsword with a blue aura or the audible effect of any well-known spell. [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Dogma[/B][/COLOR] Immotion teaches her followers the tenets of purity, magic, and cleaning rituals. Purity of heart is more important than the power of magic. One shouldn’t use magic for evil or destruction even when fighting evil. Purity of body is also important and her clerics must remain chaste until after marriage. Magic is to be protected from those who would use it for evil. She teaches the concept of crusading to capture and destroy evil artifacts, especially those of Xuar. Evil magic is forbidden. [Immotion’s followers may only use the Necromantic spells listed in the Sidebar after the Hades entry (see above), regardless of class or specialty.] Cleansing rituals often involve water but it isn’t required. Cleansing of ones’ magical aura is important in order to keep the magic pure. (Natural running water is best.) [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Clerics and Temples[/B][/COLOR] Spellcasters of all sorts including both divine and arcane spell-casters worship Immotion. Her clergy is made up mostly of cleric/sorcerers and cleric/wizards. Almost any type of spellcaster can join her church and be considered members of the clergy. Thus, good-aligned adapts, bards, elementalists, paladins, warmages, and most specialty wizards can all be considered ‘clergy’ if members of her faith. However, assassins, blackguards, hexblades, necromancers, and all other evil spellcasters are excluded from her faith, as most of these types of spellcasters worship her dark brother or an Interloper God. Most of her arcane followers are sorcerers and elementalists, as wizards tend to worship the Interloper known as Boccob. Many monks also join her faith, as masters of the cleansing and purity aspects of her portfolio. Immotion has many Paladin Orders across Harqual that pay tribute to her, as well, but these Orders only accept female members. However, most are on good terms with her more mainstream church members and, generally, the Paladin Orders of Jalivier. Immotion is a popular deity in the region known as the Eastern Shores. She has many temples in the lands of Minar, Stonn, the Highlands, Shadowood, Ambra Coast, and the Wind Plains. However, recent changes in the Kingdom of Thallin have brought about the persecution of her followers in that land. (As well as the followers of the other North Gods.) Her temples have either been destroyed or striped of all their wealth and adornments. The new king of Thallin hates arcane spellcasters and is quite mad. He is a devote follower of Nether, the Sword God of Hate and Tyranny. As a result, many of her followers have been killed or managed to escape to one of the other lands in the region. The lucky ones escaped to Minar where good magic is welcomed. (The ruler is a bard.) Near that land, on a remote island of Lake Qualitian, the College of Wizardry, formerly of Fruen, has relocated by magical means. (Fruen is the Kingdom of Thallin’s capital city.) The main structure, known as Mathghamhna, is both a school and temple to Immotion. It is the most famous structure dedicated to her. Japheth Arcane (hm / Wiz9, Guildmage10 / CG) is Mathghamhna’s headmaster and the Chancellor of the Arcane Order. He refused to let Mathghamhna be captured or destroyed by the Mad One of Thallin. Thus, he had the man known as The Sorcerer, Heward Tallinson (hm / Sor10, Wiz 10 / LN), help move the structure to its present location. It is said that Mathghamhna is directly linked to the realm of the goddess. Her realm, the Soul of Magic, is located on Eronia, the second layer of Elysium. It appears different to each mortal that beholds it. To an arcane spellcaster, it is a colossal wizard’s tower made of pure silver and etched with magical runes. To a divine spellcaster, it is a colossal temple also of made of silver and etched with runes. To a monk, it is a beautiful, yet peaceful monastery made out of pure, simple material with dozens of rivers and waterfalls surrounding it. Those that do not worship her or at least pay her homage cannot see nor enter her realm. There are dozens of other unique temples and/or magical schools dedicated to Immotion. However, only a few of these are dedicated solely to her. Most are temples dedicated to more than one magic god or to one type of magic specialty. Regardless, the Church of Immotion never allows its faith to be located in the same place as that of Xuar or Math Mathonwy. The church is less strict about mixing its faith with that of the Elven Gods and the following deities: Apollo, Baravar, Garl, Heward, and Mirella. Temples dedicated both to Immotion and to her son, Kuil, are quite common throughout the lands of Harqual. The largest of these temples is the one that is least known about. The Hall of Magic and Illusion is said to exist somewhere north of the City of Arkhangel, near Calla Island, on the northeastern side of the continent. Those that know of its existence, outside the faith, say it is somewhere between Arkhangel and the Holding of Acheos. Immotion’s church is strong on Calla Island, as well. The Kingdom of Navirosov controls the entire island and the fortress known as Meira Castle, on the western side of the island, has the largest temple dedicated to both the Patron of Magic and, her husband, Jalivier. The castle is the headquarters to an Order of knights known as The Shining Swords of Light and Magic. Many of these knights are paladin/sorcerers, as well as Sky Riders of Navirosov (prestige class). ========================================= [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Sidebar:[/B][/COLOR] The name of this goddess and the purity and cleansing part of her portfolio originally come from the AD&D Accessory, College of Wizardry by Bruce Cordell. I have adapted and expanded what is presented in the book (a few lines) to fit Immotion into my World of Kulan campaign setting. ========================================= [/QUOTE]
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