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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(contact)" data-source="post: 480450" data-attributes="member: 41">Interlude:  A Quiet, Still Place of Doubt.When the Flan arrived in Tenh, they brought their Gods with them.  The Tenha built their structures and dwellings around shrines that are as old as anything man-made in the area.  Generations of Flan priests recorded the names of these Gods, and the rites designed to invoke their favor.  Over time, the books themselves became objects of devotion, absorbing the faith of all the clerics who turned their pages over the years.In the mines at Curruth, far from the alleys of Chendl, Tau rises from his cross-legged meditation.  Try as he might, he simply cannot draw his higher-level spells into his mind, a sure sign that Pholtus is displeased.  Despite himself, he wonders how long he will have before he is put to The Question.The thought provokes a small bitter laugh from Tau, as does the realization that he would likely have trained all the clerics sitting in judgment.Tau paces about the small room that formerly served as the study for Suel the Artificer and tries to compose his whirling emotions.  His vision is drawn to the small devotional manual he found in the hidden shrine, and the secret it contains.Tau of Wintershiven was a scholar long before he became an adventurer, and comparative religion was his specialty.  He used to believe that he knew the names, icons and rituals of every deity worshipped in the Flannaes, but now he knows this is not true.The manual is old, ancient even, and he has had to handle it with care lest he crumble its aging pages.  The book is open to a section that describes a traditional Flan deity previously unknown to the Pholtan cleric:  A God of Duty, Order and Law.</blockquote>

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