Noloth, the Seamster

was an entity purported to be the cosmic answer to the holes in reality associated with the Unnamed. He first came to public attention in the mid-440s A.U., when it was claimed (among other things) that Noloth was the true creator of the Aeldrum Spires and of the Pin-Jump. (Noloth's gender is indeterminate, but most commonly rendered in the Spiran Church as female)
=== The Sacred Texts ===
Noloth was first introduced as a religious figure by Aeldrum's Minister of the Occult Al'Hazred under the Serene Doge Bareth Aefendt administration. Though the administration sought the foundations for a false, state-sponsored religion, Al'Hazred received visions of cosmological truth. His findings were as follows:
#Aeldrum is unique among all known worlds, even Bishant, in that its gates have never drifted with time. Indeed, it is safe to conclude that Aeldrum herself was brought down from the ether into her own pocket dimension by the intervention of some god, because her very soil is heterogeneous, as if taken from multiple worlds, and in no fashion that any tectonic activity could produce. It is clear also that her gates are the artificial result of the Spires. Conclusion: Aeldrum’s place is divinely ordained, she was wrought with intent from her core to her surface, and her commanding position on the lanes is a sacred gift.  Our Serene Duchy came to greatness by unlocking the Seventh Spire, and thereby uniting all the Spires for their original purpose.
#The fashioning of the Spires defies the conventional mode of Baradun. They were grown, not built. In this regard, they resemble the Pin Jump, but differ from the Black Pyramids. While the appearance of the Black Pyramids in the Pantheon War record is known, the Spires are discussed as fixed. It is my conclusion that the Spires and the Pin Jump are of the same ilk, but that the Black Pyramids were created by Baradun in imitation of their greatness. Conclusion: the Spires are not the work of any known god. They, and the Pin Jump as a similar holy site, must be the creation of one or more Elder Gods.
#It is known that the Elder Gods have dissembled themselves into our reality, rather than presiding over it in the manner of the Great Pantheon. They are thus realer and truer to our mortal life than any outside observer deity. Conclusion: the Spires and the Pin Jump are the manifestations of the Elder God(s) who fashioned our beloved Aeldrum and are thus primordial to any Pantheon cult.
#Each Elder God, it is believed, embodied a fundamental aspect of our reality. Benighted and terrible Zulkir is Death, but also Change and the forestalling of entropy. The God(s) which fashioned Aeldrum embodied the ley lines and shaped the ether around them. Their eternal avatars are these great pillars of stability and eternal navigation. Conclusion: the Elder God(s) embodied in Aeldrum were the weavers of the Ley Lines, perhaps the Ley Lines themselves.
#It is clear that Aeldrum is a most sacred and fundamental world to our reality, one which binds together much of Imperial Space, as the Pin Jump holds together Imperial, Naga, and Celestial Space. These are monuments of the Elder Gods which are ordained to bind together the cosmos, and those who live upon them and control their power are similarly ordained to hold together this cosmos through navigation of the great lanes. Conclusion: O Aeldrum, Rule the Lanes.
#(written in excited and nervous hand at the end of a vast typed manuscript) I have striven night and day to learn one final detail before sharing with you my work.  I believe I have at last rendered a proper Aeldman name from the Elder Script which summarizes Aeldrum's sacred function. If our theology is correct, this is the Aeldman name for our Gods, our purpose, the Spires, their maker, all as one. Noloth, “The Seamster”
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