Writing Worlds with Words

Gods of Ithia Expanded: Tal Sok the Shadow Bright.

Tal Sok: God of Moths, Butterflies, Silk, Gemstones, Sky Lights, Pigments, Dye, and Paint. 

Known across the plane as Tal Sok, The Dancing Lights, The Bejeweled, The Shadow Bright, The Great Moth, The Painted One, The Glimmer, The Peacock Moth, The Sky Aura, The Everdyed, The Beauty, The Painter, and The Paint Blooded. 

Tal Sok does not serve any factions. 

Holy Books: The Book of Suns. 

Tal Sok is color, beauty, sparkle, glimmer, colorful flowers, rainbows, sparkling stars, and polished gemstones. He is all that is color. He is the butterfly, the parrot, the cardinal, and the jay, the dragon, and the serpent. He is the son of Eur Chara and Tal Seir. 

His Symbol is the Dyed Lights – A skull encircled by a rainbow of circles; a moth sits over its nose. 

His celestial body is the Lights of Sok a series of bright colorful stars in the basic shape of a moth. 

Tal Sok’s divine plane is a place of color, towering crystals, and floating prisms that defuse rays of light from a star of every color hovering in the sky. Flowers, plants, and animals flourish in brilliant colors to mark their poison or delicate camouflage to hide. Tal Sok finds beauty in the intricacies of the peacock down to the simplicity of the thrush, for all colors are wonderful to him. He lives in a home made of crystal bricks, more of an art studio than anything else. He carves statues of the hardest jade, paints with natural pigments, and writes music so wonderfully that those who hear it can feel the world he loves. 

Tal Sok maintains no artifacts. 

Tal Sok is a tall, lanky silhouette in a great, shadowy cloak. Long black antennae rise and arc down before his head. All the color one can see is his bright blue eyes. When he spreads his wings, he fills the world with color. His wings are dozens of layers of color, and his movement sends them in waves and flashes. He shifts and moves, creating intricate designs in the air and expressing art in movement. He often has a following of fae and insects captured by the beauty and lights of his glowing wings. 

Tal Sok is a lord of silence, choosing not to pursue the fleeting sound but the beauty that lasts when words have faded. He expresses himself in color, shape, movement, and his art. He speaks with his hands, wings, and dance, flavoring movement with shifting wings and displays of color. He enjoys the visual, the scent, the vibration, and the texture of life. He grants his divine servants the power to change the color of an object, create magical pigments of the purest, most vivid, and long-lasting pigments, paint, and dye that never run or fade. They can create physical copies of images in their mind and, from others, create bright flares and flashes to draw attention, blindness, and disorientation. Create skylights and soundless fireworks.  

Tal Sok is worshipped by artists, painters, enjoyers of natural beauty, and those who do not speak. He developed the sign language used across Ithian cultures. He is seen as one of the patron Gods of art, and all who value color give him some degree of praise. He is worshipped in every stroke of the brush, tap of the chisel, and grinding of mortar to make pigments. He is worshipped by small idols in studios, museums, and places where art is made, inspired, or displayed. He accepts sacrifices of unwanted ar,t which he treasures in his personal gallery and library.  

Tal Sok’s Values.    

Pillars (Virtues)- Art, Beauty, and Nature. 

Columns (Vices)- Practicality, Monotony, and Poison.  

Tal Sok has no divine orders. 

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