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Poseidon is the god of darkness

a large, otherworldly, winged serpentine creature.

Achlys: Means "death-mist, mist-over-eyes" in Greek. In Greek mythology Achlys was the
personification of misery and sadness as well as daemon of the "death-mist", i.e., the clouding
over of the eyes preceding death.

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Poseidon - God of Darkness

Aphrodite - Goddess of Happiness
Apollo - God of Animals
Hermes - God of Naughtiness
Artemis - Goddess of the Sky
Persephone - Goddess of Money
Athena - Goddess of Lost Items
Hades - God of the Elements

Cult of the Feathered Serpent:

Son of Poseidon Feathered Serpent Nyktelios - He of the Night

Protector of graves, Friend of the dead, Patron of Secrets
Minor Chthonic Deity
- Death, Purification, Mist, Underground, Sleep, and Secrets

Purification -> Water

- Domains: Death, Nature, Spirits

Endroit

Fterotés (Fe-ro-tes)
Born from Poseidon's tears

Achlys, the maddened priests - A title given to a rare few individuals. They’re are tasked
to fulfill a divine duty given to them by Nyktelios / Poseidon. In their quest, Nyktelios
aids them with a gift of prophetic visions. But that gift comes at a cost. It manifests as a
small fog that gradually spreads over the eyes. If the fog consumes the eyes before the
task is complete the priest unveils to the truth of the world and goes mad.

Allisa

Elderly woman bound in linen bandages. The next day during the night he can hear her
speaking - ask her what she says → and only you knew and she said it →

the last two days were a dream state that you awoke from
Deep within the jungles of Endroit lies
Lore

Planetes: Mother of Poseidon, Depicted as a Feathered Serpent,

Elderly women in rags, the goddess who holds her finger to her
lips for silence's sake. Wanderer.

- Patron of Secrets, Guides the dead to the underworld.

- Minor Chthonic Deity
- Death, Silence, Fate, and Secrets
- Symbols: Feather Serpent, Elderly woman in rags with the silence
gesture, Spiders, Theta (a cross within a circle), Poppies, Butterflies,
- Domains: Spirits, Grave, Death, Silence, Arcane, and Knowledge.

Planetes is a long-forgotten god. Often depicted in two manners, one as a large

feathered serpent tearing swaths through armies and the other as an elderly woman in
rags who wanders from the edges of the earth.

In this is the age of peace after the draconic conflict this god has been pushed into
obscurity in favor of Persephone and her association with peace and plenty. The world
however cannot gorge itself forever and the inevitable truth that all shall meet the
wanderer will hold true.

Creation Myth:
- Confer with the gm

Birth of Poseidon:
- Confer with the gm

The Cult of the Feathered Serpent, Acolytes of the Planetes

- The worshippers of Planetes are few and far in between. On divine missions to

Main Place of Worship:

★ Island: Endroit
★ City Name: Elis (E-lis)
★ Location: Endroit, Far Northwest of Turnel Cul De Sac
★ Landscape: Rainforest, Jungle
★ Climate: Tropical
★ Demonym: Elean(s) (E-lyns)
★ Leader of Ellis: Nagini
★ Population: 45
★ Races:
1. Common:
- Goblins/Hobgoblins: 25%
- Changling ( Elean Variant): 40%
➔ Eleans can communicate telepathically with each other.
Believed to be a gift from the lady.
➔ Their true skin is deathly pale white, and they dont have a
face. They're typically thin and gaunt, and their hair is usually
silvery with an occasional green or pink tint.
- Human: 15%
- Green merfolk: 10%
➔ Green merfolk generally have yellow chests and pale green
faces, shading to dark blues and purples on their backs and
limbs. The patterns on their skin suggest the colors of the
tree frogs common in the rain forest, as do their eyes of
orange, lime green, or sky blue. Their fins are relatively short
and thick. They climb trees with ease, move through
undergrowth unhindered, and often wield magic to shape
vines and branches to their will.
2. Uncommon:
- Aasimar: 2%
➔ The Aasimar are a rarity among the Eleans. Believed to be
descendants of the lady herself and occupying most of the
position of power.
➔ Their bodies are covered with scale-like iridescent feathers
and their eyes resemble that of a serpent.
➔ They too have the ability to communicate telepathically.
- Yuan-ti Pureblood: 4%
➔ Similarly regarded as children of the Serpent Lady.
➔ While not feathers Yuan-ti native to Ellis have iridescent
scales covering their bodies.
- Lizardfolk: 4%.
★ Languages:
 1. Common: Common, Goblin, Merfolk
2. Uncommon: Celestial, Primordial (Aquan)
3. Rare: Draconic, Abyssal, Infernal
★ Iteams & Iteam Rarity:
- Because of the way the society is structured most iteams that would be on
sale would be either commonly enchanted magical iteams or potions.
Various magical / herbal remedies are found within this town as well.
- Jewelry and various such iteams can be found as well. Usually made from
gold and jade.
- Weapons are commonly foged by the Guci Family for generation. They
run a small forge on the outskirts of town. Their family consists of mostly
human currently run by Draco Guici. Common weapons forged are the
Xiphos and the Urumi. They are also in charge of creatting the barrier
tattoos to protect the warriors and general inhabitants of the town if they
so wish.
1. Xiphos
- The xiphos (plural Xiphe) is a double-edged, one-handed
straight shortsword used by the ancient Eleans. It was a
secondary battlefield weapon after the javelin. The blade
was generally about 45–60 cm (18–24 in) long. The xiphos
sometimes has a midrib, and is diamond or lenticular in
cross-section. It was a rather light weapon, with a weight
around 450–900 g (0.99–1.98 lb). It was generally hung from
a baldric under the left arm.
2. Urumi:
- Urumi is a sword with a flexible, whip-like blade. The urumi
hilt is constructed from iron or brass, complete with a
crossguard and frequently a slender knucklebow. The typical
handle is termed a "disc hilt" from the prominent disc-shaped
flange surrounding the pommel. The pommel often has a
short decorative spike-like protrusion projecting from its
centre. The blade is fashioned from flexible edged steel
measuring three-quarters to one inch in width. Multiple
blades are often attached to a single handle. The weapon
can be dual weilded.

Name Cost Damage Weight Properties

Urumi 2 gp Xd4 (X depending on the number 3 Ibs Light, Finesse, Reach

of blades) slashing.
Xiphos 15 gp 1d8 slashing / piercing 3 Ilbs Light, Finesse,
-In addition the Aasimar and upper echelon of the city of Ellis wear
Serpetine Scale Armour which are made out of thousand of iridescent
scales or Minthral Armour which are imbued with Planetes Iconography in
tomb jade.
★ Protectors:
- Name: Fangs of the Lady
- Numbers: 15 in total
- Lead by an married couple. A female Hobgoblin Chu'mana and a female
Lizardfolk named Havu.
- Apart from the leaders who wear Serpent Scale Armour most instead have
barrier tattoos (uncommon) inscribed on their bodies that take shape in
froms of coilling serpents around their bodies
★ Monuments:
1. Temple of the Muted Dame
- A circular temple with a stairway on its east side. A small tunnel-like
entrance in the stairway leads to an innermost chamber called the
Belly of the Serpent, while the stairs lead to a platform where the
main Shrine of Silence resides. The top of the Temple is where
most announcements and public ceremonies are held, while the
innermost chamber is used for more private ceremonies.
Marriages, Funerals, and weekly vigils are conducted within.
Behind the altar that resides inside the temple, there is a staircase
that leads to the Viper Memories. A mazelike library underground.
Here the Acolytes reside and are taught the ancient knowledge that
lies within these walls. The Temple is made of white, Satin spar
soft, sparkling gypsum, called feather gypsum. The rings of the
building have ziose carved into it, in the outline of feathers. Ziose is
a rare mineral that flashed three different colors depending on how
the light refracted through them or at what angle they were
viewed—purple, blue, and red. Meaning during the day, the
structure will change color, creating an ethereal effect.

- The entire Temple is decorated with statues and carvings of

Planetes and her Iconography made out of Tomb Jade and gold.

- The temple walls have been enchanted with permanent silence and
Unseen Servants which perform simple tasks that a human servant
could do, such as fetching things, cleaning, mending, folding
clothes, lighting fires, serving food, and pouring wine.
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 2. The Hushed Lady
- A statue amidst graves. The hushed lady is a human-sized statue
out of tomb jade. She is depicted with tattered rags, with a hood on
and no face, and two Beljuril gems slotted where they should be
eyes. Her posture is hunched and she is doing the silence gesture.
On her neck a feather winged serpent is coiled. Around the Hushed
Lady is where the dead are buried. The tombstones are staffs with
charms to help them find the hushed lady. The staff is a stick
carved with a truth about the individual that resides underneath and
on top of is the symbol of the Hushed Lady etched in Chrysoberyl.
The Statue has also been enchanted with permanent silence.
Although curiously only encompasses the perimeter of the
graveyard. Every time a body is added the radius grows with it.
Unseen servants are notices keeping the graveyard clean.
3. The Serpents Eye & Soul
- An open lake that is in the middle of the biggest river in the region.
In the middle of the lake is a giant island. Nicknamed the Serpents
Soul. This houses the city of Ellis.

★ Artifacts:
- Deep within the mind of the serpent lies artifacts of bygone times.
- Some artifacts are common knowledge while others only known by those
who are avid followers of Planetes.
- Known by everyone:
➔ Storm Petrel Gift
- The Gift given by the Storm Petrels founder Gidu as a token
to remember her by to Achlys.
- The location of the artifact is only known by the founder and
leaders of the temple but people of ellis know of it’s
existence.
- The actual gift is a disabled flying steel defender (uses the
steel defender stats at lvl 20 artificers and has 40ft of flight
speed and flyby). It hasn’t been active for generations.
Rumoured to be only activated by those of Gidu lineage.
- Known only by the Acolytes of Planetes:
➔ Serpent Fang of Certain Death
- Belived to be the divine weapon that slaied Tumulus. The
Serpent Fang of Certain Death is one of the priced
posseions of the Acolytes of Planetes.
- Weapon Rare: Uses longsword stats but has 15ft of range
 - In addition, Its hilt changes shape to adjust to the grasp of
any creature that picks it up. The weapon deals an extra
1d10 poison damage to any target it hits and can't regain hit
points until the start of your next turn.
- Sword:

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- Hilt:

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➔ Ladies Wings
- When Achlys corpsed was wrapped in a cloak it said that the
cloak transformed into wings leadin Achlys soul back home
to our Lady Planetes.
- Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)
- While wearing this cloak, you can use an action to speak its
command word. This turns the cloak into a pair of iridescent
bird wings on your back for 1 hour or until you repeat the
command word as an action. The wings give you a flying
speed of 60 feet. When they disappear, you can't use them
again for 1d12 hours.
 ➔ Gem of Seeing
- Carved from tomb jade with the symbol of Planetes herself.
- Wondrous Iteam rare (requires attunement)
- This gem has 3 charges. As an action, you can speak the
gem's command word and expend 1 charge. For the next 10
minutes, you have truesight out to 120 feet when you peer
through the gem.
- The gem regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn.

- Known only by Achlys:

➔ Amulet of Devout +3
- (Very rare) (Requires attunement by a cleric/palldin)
- Worn by the original Achlys it was said that imbued with his
wisdom and devotion upon his death.
- This amulet bears the symbol of a deity inlaid with precious
stones or metals. While you wear the holy symbol, you gain
a bonus to spell attack rolls and the saving throw DCs of
your spells. The bonus is determined by the amulet's rarity.
- While you wear this amulet, you can use your Channel
Divinity feature without expending one of the feature's uses.
Once this property is used, it can't be used again until the
next dawn.
- Know only to the Founder/Leader of Ellis:
➔ Tome of the Stilled Tongue
★ Wondrous item, legendary (requires attunement by a cleric)
★ This thick leather-bound volume has a desiccated tongue
pinned to the front cover. Five of these tomes exist, and it's
unknown which one is the original. The grisly cover
decoration on the first tome of the stilled tongue once
belonged to a treacherous former servant of Planetes,
keeper of secrets. The tongues pinned to the covers of the
four copies came from other spellcasters who crossed
Planetes. The first few pages of each tome are filled with
indecipherable scrawls. The remaining pages are blank and
pristine.
★ If you can attune to this item, you can use it as a spellbook
and an arcane focus. In addition, while holding the tome, you
can use a bonus action to cast a spell you have written in
this tome, without expending a spell slot or using any verbal
 or somatic components Once used, this property of the tome
can't be used again until the next dawn.
★ While attuned to the book, you can remove the tongue from
the book's cover. If you do so, all spells written in the book
are permanently erased.
★ Planetes watches anyone using this tome. She can also
write cryptic messages in the book. These messages appear
at midnight and fade away after they are read.
★ Trivia:
- A flying snake is a brightly colored, winged serpent that is native to the
region in which the Eleans live and hence been domesticated. The
domesticated flying snakes serve as messengers that deliver scrolls
wrapped in their coils. They're considered sacred to Eleans.

- The Eleans often trade with the neighboring tribes. As long as the
neighboring tribes believe/ accept Planetes they offer their clergy services,
healing, and education in return for tradable goods aka food, spices,
clothing, etc. This has prompted many of the neighboring tribes to hold the
Eleans in high regard.

- Those who study as Acolytes learn how to speak read and write in
Celestial. The Wanderer's home tongue. They also are able to learn
Draconic although those who understand it fluently on the island are rare.

- It is said those who desecreate and steal from the temple will either lose
their tongue in the process or a truth will be revealed about them that will
forever tarnish them in the eyes of society. While the second one is hard to
prove the first one has come to pass when a clan of goblins tried to raid
the temple. Their tongues seem to fall of one by one for each damaged
cause and are encased in amber and on display as a warning for those
who dare harm the ladies holiest cite.

Elis Founding Myth and the First Dreamer Aeneas Achlys:

- On the Sea of Dismission, Aeneas Achlys and his fellow Eleans flee from their
home city of Nekripoli, which has been destroyed by civil war. They sail for
Ephrit, where Aeneas is destined to found Elis. As they near their destination, a
fierce storm throws them off course and lands them in Giu Dice. Dido, Storm
Petrel's founder, and queen welcome them. Aeneas relates to Dido the long and
painful story of his group’s travels thus far.
Aeneas tells of the sack of Nekripoli that ended the Betrayer War after ten years
of warring faction siege. The Betrayer war started with a disagreement over
beliefs. The traitorous Eleans started worshiping the Three Mistresses and
planned to forcibly convert the remaining Eleans who in response rebelled. In
the final campaign, the Eleans were tricked when they accepted into their city
walls a wooden horse that, unbeknownst to them, harbored several enemy
soldiers in its hollow belly. He tells how he escaped the burning city with his
father, Anchises; his son, Ascanius; and Planetes that represent their fallen city.
Assured by the goddess that a glorious future awaited him in Ephrit, he set sail
with a fleet containing the surviving citizens of Troy. Aeneas relates the ordeals
they faced on their journey. Twice they attempted to build a new city, only to be
driven away by bad omens and plagues. Harpies, creatures that are part woman
and part bird, cursed them, but they also encountered friendly countrymen
unexpectedly. Finally, after the loss of Anchises and a bout of terrible weather,
they made their way to Giu Dice.

Impressed by Aeneas’s exploits and sympathetic to his suffering, Dido, Monray

princess who fled her home and founded the Storm Petrels after her brother
murdered her husband, falls in love with Aeneas. They live together as lovers for
a period until Planetes reminds Aeneas of his duty to found a new city. He
determines to set sail once again. Dido is devastated but ultimately acceptant of
his departure gives Aeneas three gifts. A lingering kiss, a small contraption that
could seemingly fly on its own, and a pact. The Storm Petrel will stand with the
Eleans in their time of need. In return, Aeneas gave his three gifts. He returned
the kiss, gave a tomb jade with the symbol of Planetes carved into it and a
lingering whisper. The Eleans will guide the Petrels to safety no matter where
they are.

As the Eleans make for Ephrit, bad weather blows them to Novaomus, where
they hold funeral games for the dead Anchises. The women, tired of the voyage,
begin to burn the ships, but a downpour puts the fires out. Some of the
travel-weary stay behind, while Aeneas, reinvigorated after his father visits him in
a dream, takes the rest on toward Ephrit. Once there, Aeneas descends into the
underworld, guided by Planetes herself, to visit his father. He is shown a pageant
of the future history and heroes of Elis, which helps him to understand the
importance of his mission. Aeneas returns from the underworld, and the Eleans
continue up the coast to the region of Latium.

The arrival of the Eleans in Ephrit begins peacefully. Chieftain Latinus, the ruler
of Ephrits largest tribe, extends his hospitality, hoping that Aeneas will prove to
be the foreigner whom, according to a prophecy, his daughter Lavinia is
supposed to marry. But Latinus’s wife, Amata, has other ideas. She means for
Lavinia to marry Turnus, a local suitor. Amata and Turnus cultivate enmity toward
the newly arrived Eleans. Meanwhile, Ascanius hunts a stag that was a pet of the
local herdsmen. A fight breaks out, and several people are killed. Turnus, riding
this current of anger, begins a war.

Aeneas, at the suggestion of his father, sails north to seek military support
among the neighboring tribes. During this voyage, his mother, Planetes,
descends to give him a new set of weapons, wrought by Ancient Magic. While
the Elean leader is away, Turnus attacks. Aeneas returns to find his countrymen
embroiled in battle. Pallas, the son of Aeneas’s new ally Evander, is killed by
Turnus. Aeneas flies into a violent fury, and many more are slain by the day’s
end.

The two sides agree to a truce so that they can bury the dead, and the leaders
discuss whether to continue the battle. They decide to spare any further
unnecessary carnage by proposing a hand-to-hand duel between Aeneas and
Turnus. When the two leaders face-off, however, the other men begin to quarrel,
and the full-scale battle resumes. Aeneas is wounded in the thigh, but eventually,
the Eleans threaten the enemy tribe. Turnus rushes out to meet Aeneas, who
wounds Turnus badly. Aeneas nearly spares Turnus but, remembering the slain
Pallas, slays him instead.

After Turnus falls, Eleans claim the island the tribe inhabited. Aeneas begins
building what he witnessed in his dreams. Building monuments to encompass
Planetes glory, sending priests to spread the great lady bidding, and conquering
the local tribes. As time grew by however Aeneas grew deathly sick, his dreams
plagued by horrible nightmares. A dying Aeneas looked out into the Elean
countryside, to where battles had been fought, sieges laid and bodies trampled
and broken beneath boots. "I feel a terror and dread, lest someone should one
day give the same order about my own native city" This was Aeneas' final truth.

- Achlys dying words are etched within the Shrine of Silence. At the base of
the
- Eleans still remember their brother's betrayal. They honor it with a faux
sacrifice. They build a replica of the wooden horse and set it on a raft
adrift on a full moon. Then at midnight, an archer sends a fire arrow flying
setting the whole structure ablaze. Let only ash be given to the three
impostor mistresses.
- There is a theory that the worshipers of the Three Mistresses were the
precursors to the Disciple of the Moon Water. The Mistresses warred
 using their followers over who is the most important. In the end, Murax
prevailed and with her newfound power bound her remaining sister in their
moons and claimed all the water in the world as hers. Whatever the case
may be the close intimacy with the moon the Disciples have put them on
bad terms with the Cult of the Feather Serpent and vice versa. The Cult's
blatant disrespect of Murex warrant most believers to vocally berate it and
the zealots to actively hunt the destruction of the cult. This has been made
significantly easier with the war that happened fifty years ago prompting
worship to be banned in most cities affected by the war or have a strong
Moon Water presence.
- The storm petrel has a long history with the cult of the feather serpent as
both existed for approximately the same amount of time

Achlys (The Burdened):

- Named after the First Dreamer, The Achyls or The Burdened lead relatively
normal lives until the eventful day when they are chosen by Planetes. They enter
a dream state in which Planetes bids them a trade. A truth about themselves in
exchange for their servitude. Planetes has long become forgotten, her icons are
destroyed and recarved for the rest of the Pantheon. She longs for influence
once more. For this, she will reveal a truth to the Burdened. The truth can be
virtually anything so long as the burden is unaware of it. From that point forward
the burden is inflicted with terrible dreams. The result of secrets forged decades
ago. Secrets that will move and shake the world, the burdened lives, secrets
forged millennia in the future. Secrets forged outside the burdened plane of
existence all are valid since Planetes has wandered from its beginning to its end.
However, with each dream comes a price. Each dream will in some way affect
the burdened in a way they are entirely unaware of.
- Their minds are also a prison to safeguard her ladies secrets. Achlys are able to
cast Thought Shield without spell components once every long rest.

Sibylla the current Achlys:

Sibylla led a relatively normal life. Both her mother and twin brothers are priests of the
church. Her mother is a rare child of the hushed lady and so are both of her brothers
which means Sibylla was raised in prestige with less restriction than her brothers which
isolated her from them. She became very close to her father as a result who taught her
how to commune with the spirit and draconic. He was one of the few scholars within the
temple and also one of the few rare individuals outside the upper echelon of the
priesthood that understood draconic. They lived a relatively peaceful and quiet life until
at the age of ten her father contracted a fatal disease. The temple tried everything they
could but the Lady seemed to already have claimed his life. On his deathbed, he
whispered a truth to Sibylla which sent shivers down her spine. She decided to become
a healer. Throwing herself into learning medicine so she could protect the rest of her
family even if she isn't as close to them as she was with her father. She was and still is
incredibly inquisitive which means she would often ask the spirits for guidance in finding
new innovative ways of healing.

Until one faithful day, Sibylla admitted a woman to her. She came wrapped in bandages
any skin that could be observed under them was a map of deep lacerations. Achlys
could swear she could hear her whispering but was unable to make it out at first but as
it continued the whispers rang in her ears like brass bells. Sibylla awoke in a cold sweat,
there was no trace of a woman wrapped in bandages who had entered her care, there
were no records, no one had seen come or go. Sibylla realized in a sense of dread they
had been burdened with truth, the first of many.

With this trembling revelation, she walked to her mother who took one look at her and
signed. She knew. A farewell ceremony was held the next day. Bidding farewell to the
new Pilgrim of Planetes. She was given all that she needed to survive on her divine
journey and two gifts from her family. Her mother gave her half-plate armor. Said to be
an heirloom passed down in her family for generations since the time Aeneas walked
the earth. Her brothers gifted her a shortsword, a Xiphos. The handle was emblazoned
with a feathered serpent. She accepted the gifts and with one final look she set off to do
her Ladys bidding.

Second Place of Worship:

Mountains of Novamous
East side of Novamous