Lumbařiz

**Lumbařiz** is the god and national deity of the Malendor Supercorporation. His real name was **Lalurambas, nænanir Kôtoxon, vai Vailundranda, vænara Chāthulandronarai**, or just **Lalurambas** in short.

## Appearance

He is depicted as a golden machine made of many spinning wheels.

## History

Lumbariz was once a Thamunzar Celestial who fused himself into a machine, making him into a god. He was ignited on the easterly planet of Kôtoxon, where it was always night.

He was a student of the magician Thangadori, having learned the skills of transmutation from his craft; Thangadori, in turn, was perhaps a student of Odin. At the end of his training, he decided to fuse himself into a great machine that he built for the 200 years of his training as a hobby. Thangadori objected to his ritual at first, but seeing that his student had better intentions, he allowed Lumbariz to transmute his essence into the machine. At the end of his great ritual, an explosion of magic burst from the machine as it was filled with his magical power: someone (presumably one of the Six Powers or the god Ítreksjóð) infused so much magic into him, that the machine became into a being more powerful than his teacher. Amazed by his newfound abilities and the immense light that radiated from his new body, he bowed to his teacher. Some legends add that Ítreksjóð visited Lumbariz in his new mechanical form, explaining to him that his powers were granted to prepare him for a great catastrophe.

It was he and several other Celestials who took away hundreds of grifajes from their enslaved homeworld to a distant planet, where they thrived in a paradise far away from the wars that tore the Celestial Empire apart. Within the lush new planet, these rebel Celestials (known as Konondar, the Masters of Magic) taught the grifajes to build an advanced civilisation. Thangadori established a magical academy where the rescued mortals, known as Saivocharins, honoured the gods, and in turn received their blessings: that academy became the first Grand Temple of the Heavens.

Yet Thangadori would not be around to defend Sadřavan (Novantir) forever, for he had other civilisations to preserve. So he urged his student to select one of the best and brightest inhabitants of the planet: but when hundreds of men showed up at the Grand Temple, he did not choose any of the eager recruits, and all of them returned with heavy hearts and weeping. Days later, as he was wandering across the planet, he stumbled upon a lonely mechanic, who sadly walked after being rejected from many jobs. Surprised by his sudden appearance, the mechanic bowed before the machine-god. Lumbariz offered him to be his personal apprentice, and he accepted.

For a hundred years, Sadřavan thrived in peace, protected from the Anevondir extermination of the Celestial Empire. During that time, Lumbariz ruled the planet as its just and benevolent guardian, continuing to raise them into a sophisticated nation. The southern kings were allowed to remain independent, as they supported his people as allies.

After that, Lumbariz crowned his apprentice, Druvara, as the first king of Sadřavan. For a thousand years, he led his people in defending their homeworld against the powers of the Galaxy. After his reign, Lumbariz called Druvara to come with him, and they ascended to Heaven. He transformed Druvara, his wife, and their five sons into gods, and together they continued to defend their homeworld.

During the Poreseai Empire, Lumbariz was not worshipped. He was almost replaced by Nomnolkron.

## Mythology

Lumbariz is served by six lesser gods in his divine court, and countless wheel-like spirits known as añklantre or añklantar.

His six officials are Välara, Vrämaja, Torilkil, Krönois, Čempos, and Sïlkond.

## Worship

Lumbariz is usually invoked as a protection deity, and to bless machines and vehicles. Malendors hover their hands over the machines they use, chanting prayers to Lumbariz.

His sacred day is the New Year of the Malendor calendar and Mirančrodra: the new year celebrates his birth, and Mirančrodra celebrates the day he ascended to godhood. In Rukthan and formerly on Novantir, Lumbariz's birthday and the Malendor New Year was celebrated with offering the Seven Jellies (made from seven different berries) to his idols and eating them in family dinners.

Gold and blue are his sacred colours, and his symbol is a cog wheel of twelve teeth. The golden lantern, or tarana, is a holy symbol of the Lord of Machines.

Two sacred relics used by devout worshippers of Lumbariz include the tarana lantern and the kilakronto or dalakronto cog-spear. The tarana has holy light that can destroy demons, powered by a blessed crystal and an engine, a mixture of magic and technology. The cog-spear has a disk of cog-teeth that is spun quickly, sharp enough to cut through foes' flesh and armour.

His birthplace of Kôtoxon was later rebuilt and reconsecrated by the Novantirs as a holy site. It was known as Sauraiřesdârä Kôtaksol, the Holy Throne.

In the Novantir religion, Lumbariz should not be addressed as "King of Heaven". That title is for the god-king Aunda and his successors: during Sarmelonid times, that god was Rjon. Odin is sometimes addressed as that title, but more properly as the "High King of Heaven", in which "Asgard" (his kingdom) is sometimes translated as "Heaven". Odin is considered to be greater than Aunda and his successors, and some legends believe that it was he who chose Aunda to govern the Galaxy on his behalf.

Lumbariz is venerated alongside Makravalas and Odin as a divine triumvirate. Throughout the Novantirna civilisation, the three gods are venerated as "The Three Kings".

## Trivia

* "Lumbařiz" is pronounced "LOOM-bah-dreez". "ř" is pronounced as "dr" in Novantirna, but after "t" it is pronounced "kh".
* Lumbariz' real name was a long name, because he was a member of a noble family: Lalurambas naenanir Kôtoxon vai Vailundranda vaenara Chāthulandronarai.
	+ naenanir Kôtoxon - from the planet of Kôtoxon
	+ vai Vailundranda - of the Vailundranda family
	+ vaenara Chāthulandronarai - of the Chāthulandronarai clan
* The author wrote about Lumbariz as he wanted to create a god who is surreal, a counterpart to the bizarre deities in the Konjor pantheon. Lumbariz was also inspired by the Democracy Monument in Bangkok, Thailand.
* The names of Lumbařiz's six lords are derived from the words for "time" in different languages: वेला (velā, Sanskrit), время (vremja, Russian), 時 (toki, Japanese), χρόνος (chronos, Greek), tempus (Latin), and 時 (shí, Chinese).

## See also

* Svarog, another god of technology
* Six Ancient Gods, other supreme deities venerated by the Novantirs