True Name: Septriss.
Persona Name: Septriss.
Other Personas: Halkot
Creator God of Magic, Time, Knowledge, and the Moons Maroon, Saffron, and Azure.
Excerpt: ‘Time is movement. Talcor was the fourth creator god to form, and yet he had always been there. He, with the power of the True Mother, formed the stream of time on which the new Cycle was built.’ The Book of Crowns: Creation of Ithia.
Known across the plane as Septriss, The Lord of Moons, The Crescent King, The Lord of the Font, The Timekeeper, The Whispered One, The Night Light, The Skin Scribe, The Ascension, and The Ink Skin.
Holy Book: 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 Leader of the Gods of Magic.
Septriss’s holy symbol is the Trinity of Knowledge – An Opened Book for all that is known, A closed scroll for all our ignorance in its crease, and a Quill resting across it for all that can yet be changed.
When active on Ithia, which is whenever magic is being used on Ithia, he is represented by his two remaining moons, Saffron and Maroon. The black scar on the Skyveil where Azure fell from seems to still hold some influence.
Septriss’ divine realm is a great spiraling library that rises in a cone, each layer shrinking till it reaches the point, which is his personal study. Endless shelves of books, scrolls, stone slabs, and arcane artifacts stretch downward seemingly on an infinite stretch. Here, every book ever written is kept, including those from previous cycles, other worlds, and phases of existence. His study is full of strange, indescribable instruments: clocks, hourglasses, sundials, and the three moons, suspended from the ceiling to form a triangle.
Septriss maintains one major divine artifact, the Staff of Three Moons.
-The Staff of Three Moons is a gnarled wooden stave that branches into three twisting arms, each of which holds an orb resembling the three Moons. The Stave holds unimaginable power and is one of the only means to manipulate time.
Septriss has many holy artifacts collected by mortals, including the three Moonstone Staffs, The Veil of Ancients, The Moonlit Cloak, The Seven Wands, The Sword of the First Son, The Robes of the Three, and the Thirteen Staffs of the Archmage, and The Hat of Arcana are but a few of the most powerful and sacred.
Septriss views Corvids, Dragonflies, and Frankincense as sacred.
Septriss does not conform to the hopes and dreams of mortals below; he is a tall, muscular man with skin as dark as chocolate, but it appears even lighter as lines of Words of Power are scribed in gold ink across every sliver of skin in tiny, cramped runes. Violet cloth spirals up his powerful form, laced together in a robe with golden wire. The Cloth itself is trimmed in mithvalt and silver. Those who can pierce the veil and look upon the words inscribed upon his skin may ascend towards divinity, lichdom, or raving madness. Septriss shaves his head, face, and body clean, leaving him with no visible hair.
Septriss is a brilliant God, stoic and reclusive; he dwells in his divine realm, studying research notes, pondering questions, and otherwise seeking to record all knowledge he can. He is the font of all magic; arcane power flows directly from him to the mortal world below, while divine magic flows through him and then through the god, gifting the divine power. He leaves all mortal affairs to his Avatars.
Septriss does not maintain clergy; his servants are arcanists of all forms.
Septriss celebrates when all three moons would have aligned each year. It is celebrated in different ways but generally involves fireworks, parades, masks, and festival foods.
Septriss is worshipped by almost all arcanists, intellectuals, philosophers, teachers, and students. Few cultures and Gods set their people and followers against Septriss’ followers, as most people believe those who control the magic control their people.
Septriss holds sacred rites on the movement of the moons. His servants pay close attention to the phases of the Moons, their position in the sky, and the brilliance of their light.
The act of sacrifice for Septriss is both physical and mental; the followers of Septriss burn incense, clear their minds of all distractions, and seek to open their minds to the depthless mind of Septriss. It is a clearing of thoughts, a decluttering of the mind, and a communion with Septriss.
Septriss’ Values
Arches (Goals) – Septriss is a god of simple desires. He wants to record all the knowledge from every place he can reach and ensure that time is not meddled with in Ithia.
Pillars (Virtues) –
Knowledge, Truth, Skepticism, Intellect, Magic, and Peace.
Columns (Vices) –
Ignorance, Deceit, Blind Loyalty, and War.
Septriss is worshipped with every Word of Power spoken, every spell woven, and every ounce of magical might obtained. He is worshipped in classes and by tutors, in the grandiose Halls of Magi, in small schoolhouses, and in the workshops of Masters teaching apprentices. He has no formal temples or shrines, but his people maintain several formal institutions for learning.
Septriss has several Avatars, the most renowned being the Avatar of Knowledge Witherward, as well as the Avatars of Magic Kelmskir and of Time Silvan.
Septriss has no Coelestis.
Septriss has no demi-god species.
Septriss has the Septrinian as his mortal species.
Septriss has several saints, including Markov Hybori, The Enchantress, Hagane Kotoba, Mortum Selkie, Casimiro Cigno, and all the Scribes of the Hall of Heroes.
Septriss has no formal religion, and those who do so tend to be related to arcane Orders.
Septriss has no clergy to wear vestments.
Septriss doesn’t maintain any holy orders but does have many Arcane Orders with a few being the Philosopher Kings, The War Poets, The Order of the White Star, The Order of Iron, The Order of Steel, The Order of Azure, The Order of Saffron, The Order of Maroon, The Truth Seekers, The Unspoken, The Guardians of the Tower, The Order of Septriss, The Legion of Karo, The Spellbane Order, The Paceri Order, The Sisterhood of the Beashar, The Guild of Arcana and Chemistry, The Order of Archivists, The Colleges of Arcana, and The College of Arts.
Septriss has no parents and is the mate of Fal Milly. They have one child, Sekivar, who was once King of the Septrinian.
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