Fantasy adventures in the wilds and settlements of the Empire of Thelea.
Primordial Gods
Origin stories can vary throughout the Empire, but the ancient story reflected in Thelean cosmology introduces the gods as representations of the physical realities of existence. Throughout the history of settling and colonizing the central body of water, known as the Sea of Thrennum, the gods as physical manifestations have been mapped over several indigenous cosmologies to create an overarching worldview in the Empire, and so many cultures have different names for the same primordial manifestations. The primordial gods embody the various aspects of creation that are made manifest into life and reality. All reality is thus thought also to contain a spiritual essence, the remnants of the hands of the primordial gods. The primordial gods consist of the ancients, who are the timeless gods, and their children, who consist of the Outcasts and the Wyvernborn Princes. People across the Empire perform numerous rituals and rites throughout each year in recognition of each of the primordial gods and their permanent presence in the fabric of existence.
The Ancients
Manifestations
Bailiea
Sunlight, day, warmth, and growth
Thrennum
Movement and time, and more recently the god of order, civilization, laws, gold, and of Thelea
Ithera
Water, ocean, and waves
Reast
Earth, stone, and mountains
Syluk
Air, breezes, wind, and flight
Usk’eche
Fire, change, temporariness, and combustion
Vallicast
Moonlight, night, cold, and shadow
The Outcasts
Manifestations
Supernal Progenitors
Heilleat
Storm clouds, pressure, and obscurity
Vallicast and Ithera
Joghath
Falling and inversions, and more recently the god of the halfhollows
