The Crown of Starlight - Celestial Citadels in the Heavens

The Crown of Starlight - Celestial Citadels in the Heavens is a book that was gifted to Fonteyne by Lysiphoia upon their visit to Chalimar Palace.

## Description

Bound in red leather with a decorative gold-leaf seal and text, the Crown of Starlight is a text written upon high quality parchment.

## Research

### Completed by Fonteyne Howell

*It is widely accepted that the sun and the moon are indeed the bastions of two of the Sixteen that make up the Ahlusian Pantheon. Occupied by Taranis and Emes respectively, each granting the Principal Races the knowledge that they are forever watched over, in both day and night. It was Taranis who first started the passage between the two, his one-eyed gaze becoming the sun above - from this he earned his alternative names of the Watcher, the Morning Light and the Burning Eye. So that the Principal Races would not feel they were abandoned come nightfall, his brother Emes granted them light in the form of the moon when he created an echo of Taranis' eye, and within it makes his home.*

*Light has forever permeated the heavens, a speckled presence of amber and gold upon the canvas of black and blue. Within these lights live the fourteen others of the core Ahlusian Pantheon, housed along with those that have pledged themselves in service - all manners of angels and other beings divine. The paths that they create around their celestial castles to guide in those true believers are from where the constellations are formed, each serving as a road to their domain. Any change to the nature of these locations is surely a great omen of times to come - although whether it is great or grave is oft spun in differing directions by mortal minds. One such example was the comet that bisected through the constellation of Tohmos months before the collapse of the Empire of Raq in 876AG, but there is no definitive agreement on whether the faltering of the nation was a good or bad thing.*

*The celestial bodies associated with the core Ahlusian Pantheon are as follows:*

***Divinus** - God of Destiny (Arcana, Knowledge & Order Domains), Keeper of Lost Pasts and Looming Futures, King of the Nychthemeron, The Three-Eyed Light - Lawful Neutral*

***Depiction**: Represented by the symbol of an eye with a star-shaped pupil.*

***Holy Day:** Augur, taking place on the first day of the new year, is the Holy Day of Divinus. It is customary for the people of Ahlus to muse on the year past and look forwards to the year coming. Offerings are made at the shrines to Divinus during Augur, some intended as proof of the pledges made, others as bribes for good fortunes to come.*

***Commandments:***

* *Do not stray from the path of fate. Trying to throw off the chains of your destiny will only cause chaos and suffering.*
* *Uphold the sanctity of knowledge from the past, build upon it to further your goals.*
* *Seek out those that would spread disinformation, quell their lies before they can spread*

*Divinus taught the Ahlusians the secrets of magic, with which they would be able to create, shape and manipulate the world around them. Of particular sanctity to Divinus is the school of magic to which he grants his name, and the Three-Eyed Light is held in high regard by the two Colleges of Magic that focus on the study of Divination - the Guild of the Seventh Lily and the Guild of the Fallow Aster.*