Addamar

Addamar is the fifth deity of the Raelin lineage, and creator of humanity. He is also the god most associated with cities and bureaucracy, and watches over sailors and explorers. His progenitors were Aurioch and Karnos, who were told under no uncertain terms by the other gods that should the Xalin ever escape their prison more than the extant races would be needed to combat them. They had no love for the task, however, and Karnos was still grieving for his first child, so Addamar was created quickly and given little guidance and no love from either divine parent. Even his name, which is derived from "Adat" (Quick in old Vahan) and "Amaruh" (bitter or poison in old Vahlan) marked him as a tool and weapon in the eyes of the other gods. His personality developed along unstable lines as a result. He is cruel, arrogant, ambitious, and ultimately self-isolated and in constant psychic pain. The last he heard from Aurioch, before being abandoned in the void of space to work out his designs on uninhabited worlds, was "If the Xalin escape the Plane of Blood only a Blood Tide will wash them back. Build up that tide of blood." So, he created humans, who breed quickly and take to war like birds to the sky. He mingled in them the elements of his own creation, including as many paradoxes as he could to increase their aggression. He made them long for the sea, but gave them no gills and made the frightened of the creatures that lived in its depths. He made them to feel most alive and free in the dark, but gave them eyes too dull to see in it and made their bodies rejuvenate best from sleep in darkness. He made them love magic, but also fear it, so that their disproportionately high number of magical births compared to other races could produce those as alone in their power and terrible in their anger as himself. Then he shaped their souls from himself. He gave them his drive, his ambition, and most of all his loneliness. This is why humans more than any other species feel "alone in a crowd" and why their zeal for connection forces them to create and destroy cultures and each other rapidly, breeding and killing on and on forever. When Annarion was lost and Dorhaun rose, he tried several new variations on the theme. He created variations on humanity such as the Grey Folk and the Firbolg, and others longer forgotten, but none succeeded like those he had first perfected and placed on Annarion. His worshipers say to have a care when praying to him. He will not interfere generally in mortal affairs, with the exception of occasional meddling to alleviate the tedium of eternity, but once invoked, he will not stop working his will in the life of a follower until and unless they and all they have ever known lie dead. He will raise kings, or raze empires, as he believes the situation demands. He answers humans first, but no one of any race save the Xalin is beneath his notice if they call attention to themselves.
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