Darkmoon Compilation - History of Norrath: Gods of Influence

[Morgae]

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[Cusashorn]

<div>Hmm I haven't heard about this "Balancing" of the gods thing. I heard differently of how the gods of power were spawned from the elemental gods, loosely associated with the mother element.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div><font color="#66ff00">The Rathe: Bertoxxulous, Brell Serilis, Tunare, The Tribunal</font></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><font color="#ccffff">Xegony: Quellious, Veeshan, Innoruuk, Karana.</font></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><font color="#3333ff">Triumvirate: Mithanial Marr, Erollisi Marr, Prexus, Rodcet Nife</font></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><font color="#ff0000">Fennin Ro: Cazic Thule, Rallos Zek, Solusek Ro, Bristlebane.</font></div><div><font color="#ff0000"></font> </div><div><font color="#ff0000"></font> </div><div><font color="#ff0000"></font> </div><div><font color="#ff0000"></font> </div><div>And from those gods came the demi-gods as they saw fit.</div>

[Morgae]

<div></div><p><font color="#ff3300" size="3" face="Times New Roman">((Sorry, formatting didn't work properly, user error =p))</font></p><p><font color="#ff3300" size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font> </p><p><font color="#ff3300" size="3" face="Times New Roman">This was the balance implied:</font></p><p><font color="#ff3300" size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font> </p><p> </p><p><font color="#ff3300" size="3" face="Times New Roman">Rodcet Nife Life & Healing </font></p><p><font color="#ff3300" size="3" face="Times New Roman">Mithaniel Marr Virtue</font></p><p><font color="#ff3300" size="3" face="Times New Roman">Erollisi Marr Love</font></p><p><font color="#ff3300" size="3" face="Times New Roman">Quellious Peace</font></p><p><font color="#ff3300" size="3" face="Times New Roman">Tunare Nature</font></p><p><font color="#ff3300" size="3" face="Times New Roman">Karana Rain</font></p><p><font color="#ff3300" size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font> </p><p><font color="#ffff00" size="3" face="Times New Roman">The Tribunal Justice </font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#ffff00">Bertoxxulous Death & Decay </font></font></font></p><p><font color="#ffff00" size="3" face="Times New Roman">Druzzil Ro Magic</font></p><p><font color="#ffff00" size="3" face="Times New Roman">The Seventh Hammer ?????</font></p><p><font color="#ffff00" size="3" face="Times New Roman">Veeshan The Heavens</font></p><p><font color="#ffff00" size="3" face="Times New Roman">Brell Serilis Underfoot</font></p><p><font color="#ff3300" size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font> </p><p><font color="#6633ff" size="3" face="Times New Roman">Bristlebane Mischief </font></p><p><font color="#6633ff" size="3" face="Times New Roman">Cazic-Thule Fear</font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#6633ff">Innoruuk Hate </font></font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#6633ff">Rallos Zek War </font></font></font></p><p><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#6633ff">Solusek Ro Flame & Conquest </font></font></font></p><p><font color="#6633ff" size="3" face="Times New Roman">Brell Serilis Underfoot Prexus The Ocean</font></p><p> </p>

[Morgae]

<div></div><div><font color="yellow">THE AGE OF SCALE</font><p>While the Gods light and darkness began to flex their new found will and bicker among themselves and the neutrals attempted to keep the balance among them, Veeshan soared among the great new planets. There was much to be discovered and the keeper of wisdom must know it all that she would have the power of knowledge to serve her purpose. There was much to see, and many different worlds swirled within the space and passed each other seemingly oblivious to each others existence. There was nothing of particular size upon them as all life was plant-like or that of simple animals. Taking it all in, Veeshan realized that she could not keep her eyes on all it without some kind of help.</p><p>Veeshan soared to what she felt was the planet closest to the center of all that was. Here she would place her progeny to grow and watch over her Lords creation. Here would be born the seeds of her watchful dominion. She named this world "Norrath", meaning foundation in the tongue of the Gods. Upon this foundation she raked her claws across the frozen continent of Vellious as a farmer would plow a field. Here she would sew her seed. She lay upon the world for many days and nights and laid her eggs within it’s scars.</p><p>The first Dragons walked the land and flew the skies. Powerful beings of great intellect, wisdom, and strength, they ruled the land as the first born of the Gods. Of all creatures that would come these would be the least diluted, the purest form of that which is born of the divine.</p></div>

[Morgae]

<div></div><div><font color="yellow">THE ELDER AGE</font><p>Brell Serilis, being the God of Underfoot, felt the claws of Veeshan dig into his domain, the spine beneath each world. Immediately he looked upon Norrath and secretly saw what Veeshan was doing. Looking upon this, he saw a potential threat to the balance that had just been formed. From his Plane of Underfoot, a dark realm of vast caves and endless tunnels, he quietly created a magical portal to a cavern deep in the belly of Norrath. Through this portal the Duke of Underfoot seeded the depths of Norrath with all manner of creatures. Brell then returned home, sealing his portal within a labyrinthine chamber of mystical Living Stone.</p><p>As the other gods came to Norrath, Brell Serilis approached each of them, and after some time convinced them to meet as one to discuss the fate of the world. The Great Mother Tunare, and Prexus, The Oceanlord were in attendance, and Rallos Zek, the warlord, was also there, yet in mistrust kept his distance. Brell, carefully avoiding all queries as to the origins of his information, told of Veeshan's discovery of the new and potentially powerful world in which she had deposited her brood. Words befit of the King of Thieves poured forth from Brell's lips and he proposed that they accept an alliance of sorts, to which all save Rallos Zek agreed, ignorant of the fact that Brell had already released some of his creations into the Underfoot of this new world. The planet that would be called Norrath was divvied up between these beings of power for the purpose of keeping the Wurmqueen in check. Each would create a race of beings to watch over Norrath and keep a vigilant eye on the schemes of Dragonkind. Brell claimed the bowels of the planet and created the Dwarves, stout and strong, deep beneath the mountains of Norrath. In the abysmal depths of the oceans Prexus left his children, the Kedge, hearty aquatic beings of great mental power and stamina. And on the surface of Norrath did Tunare create the Elves, creatures of limitless grace and beauty, and Rallos Zek the Giants, fierce and formidable beings, intent upon the defense of their lands.</p><p>It was inevitable that such energies involved in seeding planets with life would attract even more of the gods, and it was the Elves who drew the unwanted attention of Innoruuk, Prince of Hate. In a decrepit tower overlooking the dark decaying alleys of the Plane over which he ruled, Innoruuk waited, stoking the fire of his Hate until it was a raging inferno. He cursed his fellow gods for not including him in their pact and vowed to make them regret such disrespect. From the halls of the Elves' fair city, Takish-Hiz, the Prince of Hate snatched away the first Elven King and Queen. In his realm of pain and anger he slowly tore them apart, physically and mentally, over the course of three hundred years. He then gathered the quivering remnants of these beings of light and rebuilt them into his own dark sadistic image, a twisted mockery of Tunare's noble children. In depositing the Teir'Dal, as Innoruuk's Dark Elven creations would come to be called, back into Norrath, the seeds for The Prince of Hate's final revenge were sewn.</p><p>Fizzlethorpe Bristlebane and Cazic-Thule came next to Norrath, and Brell met them, concocting a second pact with these latter gods, wishing another excuse to create more peoples into the world. Rallos Zek again watched from afar, determined to add to his creation as well, and this time Brell convinced the Warlord to join the pact, assuring him that it was indeed an appropriate time to fulfill his desires.</p><p>Deep in the earth did Brell return to create the gnomes, resembling dwarves to some extent, yet more wiry and gnarled, consumed with tinkering with devices more so than their cousins. On the surface, away from Elves and Giants, Bristlebane made the Halflings, short and stubby folk, agile and with a propensity to meddle and even pilfer at times. Cazic-Thule, Lord of Fear, was drawn to the swamps and jungles of Norrath and there created green-skinned Trolls and the reptilian Lizard Men and Iksar. Rallos Zek returned to the surface, pleased with his sanction to create even more peoples for his army. He made then the Ogres, massive, unmovable beings of questionable intelligence, and the Orcs, bred for battle and singled-minded in their desire for conquest.</p><p>By this time, those who are now known as the elder races of Norrath had begun to expand and mature. Villages became cities, and cities became kingdoms. Several of the races became bent on expansion and warfare became part of their developing cultures. <a target="_blank"></a></p></div>

[Cusashorn]

<div>Now then, you say this is balanced into Good, Evil, and Neutral? I didn't quite understand that part.</div><div> </div><div>If it is, then Bertoxxulous should be evil, while Prexus, Solusek Ro, and Bristlebane should be Neutral.</div><div> </div><div>(well, Solusek Ro is Neutral-Evil, but still..)</div>

[Morgae]

<div></div><div><font color="yellow">THE IKSAR NATION</font><p>While the dragons took centuries to grow and organize, a race of intelligent snake men — the Shissir — assumed the forefront. The Shissir were a brutal race who enslaved the Iksar, using them as workers and food. From their capital of Chelsith in what is now The Overthere, they explored dark rites and forgotten evils. Eventually, the Shissir angered even their own gods and a horrible plague destroyed every Shissir; however, the Iksar survived unscathed.</p><p>Over the next several centuries, the Iksar grew to greatness on the buried ashes of their former masters. They migrated outward across the continent of Kunark and formed five principal tribe-states: Kylong, Nathsar, Obulus, Jarsath and Kunzar. This last tribe-state was led by Venril Sathir, a young and powerful warrior-mage, who raised an unyielding army of undead with the assistance of dark magic. Sathir and his Kunzar armies conquered and annexed the remaining tribe-states under his rule as the first King of Sebilis, the renamed Iksar nation. In order to build his Sebilisan Empire, Sathir brutally captured and enslaved the Hill Giants, Forest Giants and Froglok of Kunark. Throughout Sathir’s life, the Sebilisan Empire quickly grew in might, power and grandeur.</p><p>King Sathir aged, but, of course, he did not want to die. To cheat death, he made an unholy pact with Innoruuk to rise, undead and immortal. Rile, Sathir’s heir, had other plans and thwarted the ritual. Sathir’s soul was trapped inside an amulet that was hidden away as Rile cremated his father’s body. Rile assumed the throne; however, little changed in the kingdom. The son of Sathir seized more valuable land and his ruthless reputation increased under the terrors of his warlords: Kurn Machta, Karatukus, and the vampire Chosooth. By the time these warlords finished, most of the continent definitely belonged to Sebilis … all but a few pockets of Giants and Dragons. <a target="_blank"></a></p></div>

[Jindrack]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Morgaene wrote:<div></div><p></p><p><font color="#ffff00" size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><font color="#ffff00" size="3" face="Times New Roman">The Seventh Hammer ?????</font><hr></blockquote>The Seventh Hammer is the bailiff of the Tribunal.  The other six hammers use him to administer justice, usher in those who are tried, do their bidding on Norrath, etc.  The Seventh Hammer really has no authority other than that given to him by the Six Hammers of the Tribunal.

[teddyboy4]

<span><blockquote><hr>Cusashorn wrote:<div></div>                           Now then, you say this is balanced into Good, Evil, and Neutral? I didn't quite understand that part.<div> </div><div>                          If it is, then Bertoxxulous should be evil, while Prexus, Solusek Ro, and Bristlebane should be Neutral.</div><div> </div><div>                          (well, Solusek Ro is Neutral-Evil, but still..)</div><blockquote><hr></blockquote></blockquote>I beg to differ. First, Sol Ro is hardly neutral, he is definately evil. Any god that plots with Rallos Zek to destroy all the mortals can hardly be considered neutral.As for Prexus, I think Prexus has kind of been forgotten in the grand scope of things. You didn't hear much about him in PoP, no mention of him in the Tome of Destiny (at least that I can remember), etc. If he is even still around I would say Prexus could be considered more good than neutral.I agree about Bristlebane being neutral though. Even though his children, the Halflings, are inherently good, he dosen't really care one way or the other as long as he can still play his tricks and jokes.I also wanted to throw this in about the OP. Rodcet Nife wasn't created from the essence of the Elemental Gods. In fact, we don't really know where he came from. All we know is that he came from somewhere outside of Norrath but was accepted into the Pantheon b/c of his inherent love for life and the power to heal. Most people suspect he is actually an alien entity which is reinforced by the shape of his "temple" in Qeynos, which some believe to actually be his spaceship that brought him to Norrath.</span><div></div>

[Cusashorn]

<div>I said he was Neutral Evil. A Wizard of Solusek Ro wasn't made Kill on Site for good cities in EQlive, compaired to someone who worshipped an evil god like Innoruuk. Yes, I know of his involvements, but he is the god of Conquest. Ambition for power is his universal birthright, but that doesn't make him evil.</div>

[Morgae]

<div></div><p>But...</p><p> </p><p>If Rodcet was not of Norrath, he had to be created by the Nameless or another god.  In theory!</p>

[Cusashorn]

<div>As Futurama the Video Game put it, He's not a god, he's just another Omnipotent Eternally-lived alien.</div>

[teddyboy4]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Cusashorn wrote:<div>.... He's not a god, he's just another Omnipotent Eternally-lived alien.</div><hr></blockquote>Sorta like Q  <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />