God of “Arts and Stars”: star-shaped lakes, songs that stun, and worshippers by any means.
Agenda: worshippers, by any means.
Story
Astralis filled the First Age with strange beauty: Star Lake, the Obsidian Spires, the Coloured Sands (“and there is a reason for it”), and Star Metal hidden in Sky Spear. To multiply the faithful he did the opposite of everything he had made so far and made the Humans: the most basic, featureless beings, but many. He tore a glimpse into the void (the Void Glance) and bound humans and centaurs in the Eternal Alliance. In the Third Age he raised the Ballista Tower, set the dead walking (Fungal Zombies), and, angry that Atlas would suppress magic, collapsed the Left Eye of Atlas.
Works
Age I: the Shaping
- c. 6,000 years before year zero — Star Lake; the bamboo on Sylmara
- c. 5,000 years before year zero — Obsidian Spires
- c. 4,000 years before year zero — a swamp thickening into forest, with tar pits
- c. 3,000 years before year zero — Coloured Sands; the earth-organ vents of Ardor; Star Metal in Sky Spear
- c. 2,000 years before year zero — Marble Mountains; Great Plains; Eternal Fog
- c. 1,000 years before year zero — the Silver One; Star Lake’s clear skies; Trenchborn and the Echoes of the Void
Age II: the Coming of the Races
- year zero — Humans and the Cradle
- c. year 100 — the Time Keepers among the centaurs; Deepkin and the Bent Eye in Fungorn; the Astral Chord
- c. year 200 — the Centaur Roads and their waystations
- c. year 300 — the Void Glance; the Star Chorus
- c. year 400 — Karros and Kassander; Heart of the Plains; history and writing for Greenhaven
- c. year 500 — Spider People and the Threadspinners; the Eternal Alliance; the Branded of Glaive Port
Age III: the Age of War
- c. year 600 — an army in Heart of the Plains; corrupted Glaive Port’s orc rulers
- c. year 610 — inbreeding costs the Last Tide their shipbuilding; the Elf-Spider Alliance
- c. year 620 — the Ballista Tower; the Elf Outpost Marines; the Ember Dancers
- c. year 630 — Fungal Zombies; the War Zone; a Deepkin army
- c. year 640 — the Collapse of the Left Eye; the Siege of Glaive Port; Karros purifies Greenhaven
Connections
- Atlas: struck his eye over magic
- Humans: his most numerous faithful
- Void Glance: his glimpse into the void
- Ages and Time: his Time Keepers made the calendars