Adalna, the Loregiver

is one of the gods of the Great Pantheon, commonly known as the "Mage Patron" and the "Charitable Goddess." She was the patron deity of the Mage Princes for much of their history, and the schism of the Mages over their worship of her led to the collapse of the Mage Imperium.
Adalna's influence has been absent from the cosmos ever since the Seer Crisis at the fall of the Mage Imperium, although the cause and exact nature of her absence is not completely understood.
== Summary ==
Adalna provides her followers with the (carefully censored) secrets of the cosmos, so that they may reshape it in her name; not unlike Idolmar's healing, she offers technology as a gift to the faithful. However, where Idolmar wishes for pure, simple and humble mortal followers, Adalna demands greatness. Her gifts are to be used as fully as possible to leave a mark on the universe: cloistered scholars are acceptable if disappointing -- Adalna reserves her truest support for sorcerer-kings, men and women who can rally the masses to love her as the purveyor of all the comforts and glories of their society.  
== History ==
=== Pantheon War Era ===
In this time, Adalna has not yet mastered etherics, nor learned the secrets of psionics to create the Seers: her angels shared knowledge by more direct means, as welcome partners and mentors. Of course, Adalna did not share all her knowledge: there were always some hidden details to keep mortals dependent on her, and those who tried too hard to decipher those would find the angels far less accommodating. Some of the strange magics Adalna taught her followers have even been re-written by her in such a way that to understand them completely is to go mad; a final, terrible insurance. Her followers, of course, commanded a limited knowledge of Elder Script, often carefully curated phrases and incantations limited to shield their minds: a priest of Adalna might have spent his life mastering the use of one word of power -- a truly great sorcerer might have had a vocabulary of a dozen words which he could combine to terrible effect: in a pre-Partition Cosmos, those words could have a meaning and a power that would awe even the most jaded occultist. To share knowledge, in the eyes of Qualos, is to cheapen it (in some literal sense, Qualos believes this to be true), and at the very least it means more competition: thus, he and Adalna were often bitter rivals.
=== Post-Partition and Mage Imperium Era ===
The Covenant with Adalna in () laid the foundations for the Mage Imperium, a vast cosmic empire built on the leadership of the Seers of Adalna, psionic oracles who communed with Adalna for guidance.
The Mage Imperium collapsed some 2,000 years later in part due to the sudden disappearance of Adalna, known to history as the Seer Crisis.
=== Modern Era ===
Adalna is not unknown in the modern era and is still worshipped by some groups despite her apparent absence, such as the Church of Adalna-Volune and the Cult of Adalna.
=== Fate ===
The discipline of Revelationism holds that the gods of the Great Pantheon all made pacts in the Partition which amount to a series of sequential contracts, giving specific gods dominion over specific periods of time. It is believed by many that Adalna's absence in the modern era is simply due to her time of power having elapsed.
An alternative (or perhaps supplemental) possibility is that Adalna was killed or consumed by The Unnamed.
Category:Major Gods