Arcaneus
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Arcaneus is the god of time and one of the Draconic Gods. His domains are time and knowledge, and his symbol is the hourglass.1 He is a dragon deity.2
The Grand Hourglass
The Great Hourglass of Arcaneus is the place where all the time in the universe is gathered.2
In the Fourth Age, around the time the Cult of Void was uncovered in 261 AVD, events involving Arcaneus and the Grand Hourglass, one of the most mysterious objects in all creation, are known to have taken place. Little else is known of events that should have shaken the universe to its core, and the scarcity of information about them is suspicious in itself.3
Competing beliefs
According to the Empire's dogma, Arcaneus was no more than a god whom Alarath charged with protecting the flow of time and the Grand Hourglass.4
The scholars of the Order of Nus’ar held otherwise. To them Arcaneus, whom they called the "dragon of time", was the only true god; they addressed him by names of their own giving and declared that the only true master was time. The Empire long ago hunted the order as harmful and heretical.4
Many scholars, members of the Order of Nus'ar above all, believe that Arcaneus is in truth a manifestation of Orphus, the very essence of time, and some chained scholars even hold him to be one of the most powerful beings in the cosmos. The Empire and the Church have violently suppressed this belief.2
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BölgeThe EmpireThe human realm at the heart of the Lands of Exile, an absolute monarchy heavily shaped by faith, ruled from Marble City by the unbroken line of the Red Eagle and divided into five provinces under their Sovereigns.ÖrgütOrder of Nus’arA scholarly order once hunted as heretics for holding Arcaneus, the dragon of time, to be the only true god; its members now live out their lives in the White Library as the greatest historians of Teneris.
OlayHourglass ConspiracyA shadowy affair of 261 AVD in which the Cult of Void came to light, touching the god of time and the Grand Hourglass; little else about it is known.KavramDraconic GodsOne of the pantheons worshipped in the realms beside the Exiled Pantheon, made up of Arcaneus, god of time; Praxaclas, god of all dragonkin; and Tyrboxl, god of adaptation and change.KavramGeroni religious traditionThe faith of the Geroni city-states as told in the Yeni Dünya campaign, from an old shared theocracy to a turn towards reason, with gods whose names were erased yet who are still honoured as the Mighty Father, the Merciful Mother and the Wise Child.TanrıPraxaclasOne of the Draconic Gods, the god of all dragonkin, whose domains are magic and honor and whose symbol is a dragon's head.TanrıAgmonThe god of trade, one of the lesser gods loyal to the Greater God Alarath, whom no wise one wants to anger.KavramAuxigonThe proper religious term for divine beings whose portfolios and influence are limited to a narrower concept or a single region, such as nature spirits, gods of the seasons and local deities. Calling them Lesser Gods is thought disrespectful.KavramGod-Spirits of FrazaThe pantheon of the Fran people of the north, made up of the Great Wolf, Skadri, Stagdal, Ursa and Yrmoghl. The northerners do not worship them as the Empire worships its gods, but bargain with them for protection from cold, monsters and a bad hunt.