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Gods of Ithia Expanded: Talcor the Guardian of Stars.

Talcor. God of the Sky, the Fates, Balance, and Stability. 

Known across the plane as Talcor, The King of the Fates, The Divine Dragon, The Gemstone Dragon, Guardian of the Stars, The Balance, and the Observer. 

Talcor is the Leader of the Fated Crowns and The Dragon Gods.

Holy Books: The Buch der Kronen, The Book of Crowns, The Tosk og Hal, Gambri nuk Kunn, The Immortal Scriptures, The Book of First Flame, and The Book of Scales.   

The younger of the two brothers, father of the Fates, and Father of the Dragons. He maintains the stability of the plane from all exterior threats. Talcor doesn’t intervene with the mortal coil much since the divine civil war. He has grown reclusive and has withdrawn from all but the other creator gods. He led the Fated Crowns against the Ko’Cai and ensured divine supremacy in this cycle. 

His symbol is the Hand of Kings—the heads of five dragons in Red, Blue, Black, White, and Green form the rough visage of a hand. 

When active on Ithia, which is rare, Talcor’s Influence is marked by the star High Prism which is a multi-colored star that hangs high in the sky. 

Talcor’s Divine Realm is a plane of mirror polished stone, mirrors, and colorful lights emitted through floating gemstone lanterns. It is a place of every color, shade, and tone one can imagine. Colors that not every species can see, shades most will never distinguish from others. Though it sits a top a great mountain where Siger’Alst’s once sat where the ruinous remains of the previous cycles’ divine realms now sit.  

Talcor maintains but one major divine artifact being the Crown of Kings composed of scales layered one over the other in every color possible. It grants the wearer resistance to all forms of energy be it kinetic or heat. They also can breathe under water, levitate, and command the weak-willed or minded. Only those who can find perfect self-balance can use it though. 

Talcor is humble and content. He watches what lies below and beyond, rarely intervening with his children, nieces, and nephews. He believes in divine providence, which has pitted him against his brother since their creation. Most of Talcor’s time is spent on preventing outsider deities from gaining influence over the plane. He grants his divine servants augmented physical and spiritual attributes, auras of terror, breath weapons, flight, and protection against energy. 

Talcor does not conform to the dreams and thoughts of the mortals below. He is a dragon with wings that are said to make up the sky and all the sparkling stars. This cosmic being is covered in glittering scales of every color, shade, and tint. His horns rise from the crests of his skull in mimicry of a crown. 

Talcor is worshipped by a very few outsides of the Dragons. Mostly praised by philosophers, hermits, and those who seek balance in self and pursuit in understanding the world around them. His worshippers do not formally gather he is a god worshipped in quiet moments and mumbled whispers. Followers burn incense in sacrifice helping to find calm and balance in the mind and body. What few shrines exist to Talcor are made of stone melted and shaped by dragon breaths to mark their territory, bloodline, and allegiance to Talcor’s glory. They allow mortals to travel to them in pilgrimage to Talcor. Talcor considers the first generation of Dragons to be his saints. 

Taclor’s values.  

Pillars (Virtues)- Balance 

Columns (Vices) – Imbalance 

Talcor doesn’t maintain any divine orders. 

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