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Gods of Ithia Expanded: Tal Syll the Kingkiller.

Tal Syll: God of Omens, Regicide, Chemistry, Shaman, Crows, and Forgotten Places. 

Known across the plane as Tal Syll, Lord of Ravens, The Kingkiller, The Reactor, The King of Crows, The Lord of Lost Places, The Gravitas, The Shadow Twins, and The Son of Shadows. 

Tal Syll is one of the Leaders of the Gods of Omens and is a member of the Gods of Shadows and the Gods of Magic. 

Holy Books: The Book of Suns. 

Tal Syll is the twin brother of Tal Sai and together they rule over Omens, Forgotten things, and certain Magic. He is the son of Tal Seir and Agis Katar. 

His Symbol is the Albino – A White Crow with black eyes and a sunburst of black and blood red. It forms a half circle to be bound with his twin sister’s.   

Tal Syll when active on Ithia, is represented by the White Crescent; a pearl white moon forever stuck in its crescent stage. It rests with his sister’s Black Crescent in opposing directions forming a circle like a cat’s eye. The two are always active together.  

Tal Syll shares his divine plane with his sister. They live in a place of black and white stone with a marble palace, and a great slate keep. A series of towers have been built upon each other building up and up towards the blood red sky that casts no light. Grim clouds pour forth silent rain, and flashes of silent lightning flood the world in pure white or absolute black for moments.  

Tal Syll has no relics. 

Tal Syll is tall, handsome, beautiful, a mighty warrior with a softer nearly feminine face. He is a waking dream with a smile that can melt knees. He has long shadowy hair, eyes like mirrored silver that those who see themselves in their mirrored gleam see their perfect selves. Shadowy crows form a crown with their wings flourished and bearing stars as sparkling gemstones. Tal Syll is beautiful youth never quite fully a man, he radiates the dangerous, but not too dangerous, aura that makes women want to try and change him and he is always ready to give a marvelous smile. The Twins are almost always together. 

Tal Syll is polite, collected, reserved, and radiates a since of danger and intrigue. He is the plotter, the veiled vizier, the suave vampire inviting you into his humble home; he is the sweet poison that lulls you to eternal dreams. He is often poetic, faux compassionate, and delightful. He is gravitas, he is gaslit control, and when all else fails, he is sudden, brutal, and merciless violence. Those who do not yield to the charm often feel his wrath. Tal Syll grants his divine servants the power to read omens, meld or divide substances, infuse ingredients with extra power, boost potions and poisons, summon shadowy crows, and access the Dourdetari the plane of Lost and Forgotten places where all places lost to mortal knowledge congeal… sometimes the gods replaces them with new things but they can be otherwise torn from Dourdetari by being found once more in the real world. 

Tal Syll is worshipped by alchemists, chemists, shaman, and those caught up in his cult of personality. He works his way into the hearts of his worshippers and makes them feel as if he is the world and at least in their eyes their dark God feels the same. He accepts sacrifices of anything that holds value to a worshipper, a way to make him feel ever more important in your eyes.  

Tal Syll’s Values.   

Pillars (Virtues)- Dedication, Power, Reaction, and Loss. 

Columns (Vices)- Self, Weakness, Stagnation, and Remembrance.  

Tal Syll maintains several Holy Orders from the Order of the Crow to the Worshippers of the Crescents. 

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