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[Kulan] The Lands of Harqual (Updated: Feb 3/2022)
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<blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 1512114" data-attributes="member: 2012"><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>INANNA</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><em>Cronn’s Great Love, Goddess of War, Keeper of the Flame, The Passionate Heart</em></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Greater Deity</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Symbol:</strong></span> Shepherd's staff</p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Home Plane:</strong></span> Arcadia</p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Godly Realm:</strong></span> Heart of Battle</p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Alignment:</strong></span> Lawful neutral</p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Portfolio:</strong></span> War, love</p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Worshipers:</strong></span> Bards, enforcers, fighters, lovers, paladins, soldiers</p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Cleric Alignments:</strong></span> LG, LN</p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Domains:</strong></span> Law, Liberation, Love, Strength, War</p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Favored Weapon:</strong></span> Greatsword</p><p></p><p>Inanna is one of the Old Gods. Older than even the Olympians are the gods of the Sumerian Pantheon. However, as the North Goddess of War, she has been ‘reborn’. At least that is how the Old Gods of the Great Ring view it. She has found true love for the first time in an eon, as the husband of Lord Cronn. So much so that her alignment has shifted and so has her realm. Inanna has left the Sumerian Pantheon completely, unlike Lokun and Hades who still hold ties with their original brethren.</p><p></p><p>Inanna’s Avatar appears a large warrior maiden with long dark hair wearing Bronze Age-style armor. She carries a huge sword carved with magical runes that read “For Love and War”, a +5 flaming burst wounding greatsword. Cronn asked his dwarven friend, Moradin, to forge the blade for his wife as a gift. He gave it to her 100 years to the day from when they first agreed to marry. Inanna never goes to war without it.</p><p></p><p>Inanna’s Avatar sometimes appears riding a massive warhorse, which she calls Heartwind. The warhorse is covered in armor in the same style as its mistress. (A huge-sized heavy warhorse with the celestial template applied with maximum hit points. Heartwind always appears wearing +5 invulnerability scale barding.)</p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Dogma</strong></span></p><p>All is fair in love and war. This phrase gave form to Inanna’s faith when she was still just a neophyte deity. Now, even as the goddess changes, it is still as true today as it was eons ago. However, ‘all is fair’ isn’t as likely to be about retribution against hated foes or humiliation of a former lover, as it is what the laws of war and courting demand. Inanna teaches controlled passion and the concept of accepting the consequences of unbridled actions of lust and mayhem. War is a dance of swords and shields. Love is a dance of hearts and souls. One should never waste a chance to fall in love or make war against evil.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><strong>Clerics and Temples</strong></span></p><p>Warrior poet is the best way to describe a clergy member of Inanna’s church. Most are bard/clerics cleric/enforcers, or cleric/fighters with only the most martial being standard clerics, paladins, or enforcers. Inanna’s church doesn’t allow evil members amongst its clergy. This is quite the change from her time amongst Old Gods of the Sumerian Pantheon.</p><p></p><p>Most of her clergy members are lawful neutral, however. So much so that a special martial arm of the church known as the Fiery Hearts of the Keeper is made up of only lawful neutral members. Many of the group’s highest-ranking members are enforcers whether multiclassed or not. Note that Inanna’s clergy are as likely to be male as they are to be female.</p><p></p><p>Inanna’s worship isn’t as widely recognized as, say Jalivier or Cull, two of the better-known law-aligned North Gods. Still, anywhere where people are passionate and martial in their outlook, you will find a temple dedicated to Inanna. Temples to the Passionate Heart are well-organized places, which seem contradictory in their nature. Dozens of guards rotate at set intervals each day, while a warrior poet wanders through the temple, seemingly at random, reciting love ballads.</p><p></p><p>The largest temple to Inanna is in the Kingdom of Stonn on the Jagged Peninsula. Here, on the peninsula’s southern shore, in city of Avere stands the War College of Inanna. Not so much a temple as a military academy and bards’ college combined into one, the War College, as a institution, is over 500 year old. It is the second oldest active temple on the continent. (The Light of Truth, a temple dedicated to Jalivier, is the oldest.) The War College is made up of a dozen buildings surrounded by a 10-foot high stone wall near the center of Avere. The main building is a four-story stone and mortar structure, which acts as the main temple and training facility. It is surrounded by a large circular grassy field, which acts as an exercise yard for initiates of the academy.</p><p></p><p>Other major temples of Inanna can be found in the Monarchy of Avion, the Kingdom of Navirosov, the Independent Sovereignty of the Qualitian Belt, the Independent Domain of Anoria, and the City-state of Anthmoor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Knightfall, post: 1512114, member: 2012"] [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]INANNA[/B][/COLOR] [SIZE=3][I]Cronn’s Great Love, Goddess of War, Keeper of the Flame, The Passionate Heart[/I][/SIZE] [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Greater Deity[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Symbol:[/B][/COLOR] Shepherd's staff [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Home Plane:[/B][/COLOR] Arcadia [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Godly Realm:[/B][/COLOR] Heart of Battle [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Alignment:[/B][/COLOR] Lawful neutral [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Portfolio:[/B][/COLOR] War, love [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Worshipers:[/B][/COLOR] Bards, enforcers, fighters, lovers, paladins, soldiers [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Cleric Alignments:[/B][/COLOR] LG, LN [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Domains:[/B][/COLOR] Law, Liberation, Love, Strength, War [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Favored Weapon:[/B][/COLOR] Greatsword Inanna is one of the Old Gods. Older than even the Olympians are the gods of the Sumerian Pantheon. However, as the North Goddess of War, she has been ‘reborn’. At least that is how the Old Gods of the Great Ring view it. She has found true love for the first time in an eon, as the husband of Lord Cronn. So much so that her alignment has shifted and so has her realm. Inanna has left the Sumerian Pantheon completely, unlike Lokun and Hades who still hold ties with their original brethren. Inanna’s Avatar appears a large warrior maiden with long dark hair wearing Bronze Age-style armor. She carries a huge sword carved with magical runes that read “For Love and War”, a +5 flaming burst wounding greatsword. Cronn asked his dwarven friend, Moradin, to forge the blade for his wife as a gift. He gave it to her 100 years to the day from when they first agreed to marry. Inanna never goes to war without it. Inanna’s Avatar sometimes appears riding a massive warhorse, which she calls Heartwind. The warhorse is covered in armor in the same style as its mistress. (A huge-sized heavy warhorse with the celestial template applied with maximum hit points. Heartwind always appears wearing +5 invulnerability scale barding.) [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Dogma[/B][/COLOR] All is fair in love and war. This phrase gave form to Inanna’s faith when she was still just a neophyte deity. Now, even as the goddess changes, it is still as true today as it was eons ago. However, ‘all is fair’ isn’t as likely to be about retribution against hated foes or humiliation of a former lover, as it is what the laws of war and courting demand. Inanna teaches controlled passion and the concept of accepting the consequences of unbridled actions of lust and mayhem. War is a dance of swords and shields. Love is a dance of hearts and souls. One should never waste a chance to fall in love or make war against evil. [COLOR=DarkOrange][B]Clerics and Temples[/B][/COLOR] Warrior poet is the best way to describe a clergy member of Inanna’s church. Most are bard/clerics cleric/enforcers, or cleric/fighters with only the most martial being standard clerics, paladins, or enforcers. Inanna’s church doesn’t allow evil members amongst its clergy. This is quite the change from her time amongst Old Gods of the Sumerian Pantheon. Most of her clergy members are lawful neutral, however. So much so that a special martial arm of the church known as the Fiery Hearts of the Keeper is made up of only lawful neutral members. Many of the group’s highest-ranking members are enforcers whether multiclassed or not. Note that Inanna’s clergy are as likely to be male as they are to be female. Inanna’s worship isn’t as widely recognized as, say Jalivier or Cull, two of the better-known law-aligned North Gods. Still, anywhere where people are passionate and martial in their outlook, you will find a temple dedicated to Inanna. Temples to the Passionate Heart are well-organized places, which seem contradictory in their nature. Dozens of guards rotate at set intervals each day, while a warrior poet wanders through the temple, seemingly at random, reciting love ballads. The largest temple to Inanna is in the Kingdom of Stonn on the Jagged Peninsula. Here, on the peninsula’s southern shore, in city of Avere stands the War College of Inanna. Not so much a temple as a military academy and bards’ college combined into one, the War College, as a institution, is over 500 year old. It is the second oldest active temple on the continent. (The Light of Truth, a temple dedicated to Jalivier, is the oldest.) The War College is made up of a dozen buildings surrounded by a 10-foot high stone wall near the center of Avere. The main building is a four-story stone and mortar structure, which acts as the main temple and training facility. It is surrounded by a large circular grassy field, which acts as an exercise yard for initiates of the academy. Other major temples of Inanna can be found in the Monarchy of Avion, the Kingdom of Navirosov, the Independent Sovereignty of the Qualitian Belt, the Independent Domain of Anoria, and the City-state of Anthmoor. [/QUOTE]
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