Eregar

## Information

Very little was known about Eregar until Ilea and her allies in The Meadow Accords managed to pass through a barrier he had put in place inside Eregar's Haven below Viscera. It was after getting through this barrier that they encountered a projection of Eregar conjured with a Varitan sphere, who revealed that his actual name was Erik Anderson.

Before the revelations in Eregar's Haven, he was mostly known as the mysterious founder of the Shadow's Hand. He is eventually revealed to be the second founder of the Golden Lily aside from Maureen.

## Description

Early on we did not see the actual Eregar, but a projection of him was described as a man in layered robes, broad pants and thick boots. His hair was long and with a slight wave to it, and even a bit messy and unkempt. His beard was not too long and had small braids added into it, mostly leaving his neck exposed. On his neck one could see the hint of a scar.

When the real Eregar turned up later he was described as an old man around the age of sixty to seventy and the wrinkles to go with it. His hair was gray and bound in a single scruffy braid down to his lower back, while his beard covered half his face and had various braids interspersed in it. Some of those braids were adorned with colored string. His eyes radiated bright arcane power with blue pupils. He wore a dark blue cotton robe with a white shirt and thick leather boots.

## Eregar's Haven

> *“It’s a place below Viscera. I’ve not been there but I hear it’s massive. A magically constructed landscape all the elders and many members of the Hand have been working on for centuries. Eregar was one of the first Elders of the order and expanded the cave system to start the whole thing. Beasts were brought down and whole ecosystems grew. I assume we’ll be seeing some of the monsters in our monster knowledge class at some point.”*
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- Claire to Ilea during the early days

The Haven was a mystery to everyone for thousands of years. It was an immense magical space located under Viscera that was mostly used to arrange training, fights and tournaments among the Shadows, though it eventually was repurposed to grow large amounts of food and shelter people. The haven was supported with highly advanced Ascended runes and filled with beasts and plants that formed complete ecosystems. Eregar himself revealed through his projection that it was set up to maintain the balance of the realm, by putting a **Source** (the sun of the realm that the Olym Arcena of the Ascended originally stole) out of the reach of the elves, dwarves and Ascended.

He came into possession of the **Source** because an unknown Ascended who disagreed with taking it, came to him with a plan to counteract some of the effects and hide it from the other Ascended. The creation of the Haven took decades, and Eregar spent a lot of effort on keeping it a secret. The purpose of the Haven was also to keep further changes from happening to the realm, as Elos was on the way to complete destruction before the power of the Haven stopped the changes entirely.

> *“You are in the place called Eregar’s Haven. A quite pompous name, but it seemed reasonable at the time of construction, to choose it. Within this facility, deeper down and shielded by several layers of the most powerful barriers that you will likely find within this realm, is what is known as a Source. The concentrated power of our third sun, taken by the Ascended of Kohr. And here it remains, protected within human lands where neither elf, nor dwarf, nor Ascended, should expect its presence. And here, it must remain, for the balance of this realm, and for all the creatures living near our remaining human lands, and those beyond.”*
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- Eregar's projection speaking to Ilea and the others after getting through the barrier

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 876
2. ↑ Chapter 877
3. ↑ Chapter 895
4. ↑ Chapter 90
5. ↑ Chapter 792