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The Dark One

KanonKitaplardan resmî bilgiSSGp. 3, 10-13, 16, 19, 21-22, 25, 28, 30SoVp. 10DoTp. 12-13, 174, 183BoDp. 23, 87, 99

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The Dark One is, in the mythology of Teneris, the only god with true creative power. Everything that exists comes from him, and the gods of the Exiled Pantheon are his children. Yet he loves none of it. By nature he prefers absence to being, and the infinite silence of the Void to the noise of the world.1

The creator who wants silence

Divine beings, like mortals, are not created equal, and at the top of their hierarchy stands the Dark One. Before anything else there was only he, alone in the infinite void and in absolute silence, and only he can bring something into being from nothing. There are many gods above and below, but only one with the power to create, and he hates everything he creates.23

The creator of all reality seeks the silence of being alone in the infinite void once more.4

The Greater Gods he made as a conscious decision. Born from his will, they are eternal, and they can never die while the Dark Father lives. Everything else he created without meaning to, in his dreams, and he holds no love for it. The Void itself came into being in those involuntary dreams; it is a purer form of them, so that everything in the material world has its counterpart there.56

When he made the first thing other than himself, Eidar was born with it.7

Legend says he first made Alarath and Amarath as a single being, then split their souls because he feared their power.8

The gods that humans worship are his creations, and ages ago they sided with mortals and prevented utter annihilation. There is no all-powerful, wholly good god in this world.4

His attacks on Teneris

  • The Desolation. At the end of the First Age, the records of the Church of Alarath say, he somehow emerged from the Void and attacked Teneris. Gods and mortals together drove him back, at the cost of dead gods, lost civilisations and the vile desert that covers more than half of Caligran. The church teaches that the gods' living among mortals had left the whole world open to him.9
  • The second threat. Towards the end of the Second Age the scholar Xeratos learned through prophecies that the Dark One would strike again. Through the efforts of Xeratos and his students and the mysterious appearance of the Order of Chain, he was stopped that time without much harm.10
  • Victory Day. At the end of the Third Age, his attack had been so long in coming that even the wisest had forgotten their archenemy. Voidborn appeared again, now led by dark-winged beings who called themselves Heralds. For the first time they bargained with the living, as if the "Dark Father" might settle for less than the total annihilation he calls "silence"; many scholars thought this contrary to his nature and held that the Heralds spoke only for themselves. The Grand Alliance met their forces outside Marble City.11

The Ballad of the Six tells how six Chain Wardens faced the Dark One's grim avatar, and how Balath the paladin struck the final blow.12

The Order of Chain holds the Dark One himself to be its true enemy.13

Servants and enemies

The Voidborn are beings of inexistence born from the Dark One's hatred of existence. Their origin goes back to the first war against him, when they made up much of his armies. Black Void Stones are commonly set in the altars of the Dark One.14

When the Dark One decided to destroy existence, the fey, first created as motifs in the dreams of mortals, left the dream to join the battle across the planes.15

Ages ago, Malachar served the gods as a spy against him, and the experience changed the god of luck for ever.16

His cultists

Finding someone who truly worships the Dark One is almost impossible. He answers to no one, yet some chosen ones can wield his divine power. There are cultists who claim to fight for him, and timeless, immortal servants as well; they are very different from those who worship demons or dragons, and they call their god the Dark Father. To be his priest in the Lands of Exile is outright madness, but a madness fed by a mysterious power. Such people believe, in a twisted way, that once the Dark One ends this flawed creation he will make a new one, without pain or loss, for everyone.3

Beyond him

Not every dark power is his. The Gods of The Void are nameless entities he did not create, and some believe the endless emptiness may hold other beings like him, an idea most scholars find absurd; the truth remains a mystery.17

In 261 AVD the Cult of Void was discovered, led by people who claimed to carry the souls of the Heralds. Its only remains are the ritual massacres it carried out in an attempt to bring back the "Dark Father".18

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Notlar

  1. ↑KitapLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 25
  2. ↑KitapLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 21
  3. ↑KitapBook of Dead, p. 23
  4. ↑KitapLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 3
  5. ↑KitapLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, pp. 21, 25
  6. ↑KitapDesolation of Time, p. 183
  7. ↑KitapLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 19
  8. ↑KitapLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 28
  9. ↑KitapLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 10
  10. ↑KitapLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 11
  11. ↑KitapLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, pp. 12, 13
  12. ↑KitapLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 13
  13. ↑KitapShadow Over Vansreik, p. 10
  14. ↑KitapBook of Dead, p. 99
  15. ↑KitapBook of Dead, p. 87
  16. ↑KitapLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 30
  17. ↑KitapLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 22
  18. ↑KitapLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 16

Kaynaklar

Bu madde şunlara dayanır:

  • SSGLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide(Bad Badger Games, 2024), pp. 3, 10-13, 16, 19, 21-22, 25, 28, 30
  • SoVShadow Over Vansreik(Bad Badger Games, 2024), p. 10
  • DoTDesolation of Time(Bad Badger Games, 2024), pp. 12-13, 174, 183
  • BoDBook of Dead(Bad Badger Games, 2024), pp. 23, 87, 99

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