Emlek

### Appearance

Adult human woman with long, straight, light brown hair, yellow eyes, yellow and orange clothes, diadem with two kaleidoscopic pink crystals

## Common Knowledge

Amnesiacs seeking to restore their memories may hear about temples to a goddess of memory across Orelisle.

## Powers

As the daughter goddess of Morpheus, Elder God of Dreams, Emlek has a great control over the Dream World and the various magics that can affect it. Outside of this, she exhibits the powers characteristic of a deity of her station, as well as notable proficiency in Celestial and Phantasmal magic. She can also call upon the priests of her temple of memory directly, through the empowered amulets that she granted them.

As the goddess of memory, Emlek’s most powerful ability is total manipulation of the memories of all creatures. In addition to her knowledge of frightening Phantasmal spells, she can directly modify the memories of such beings. The memories of every being short of a deity at her level pass through the Dream World into Emlek’s realm of Thymisi. Emlek organizes these memories dutifully, except in cases where a mind is too disorganized or corrosive, but if she so chose she could simply remove specific memories. When a memory disappears from Thymisi, it is simply gone forever, and the person who owned that memory no longer remembers it.

## Personality/Appearance

Emlek can take any form, but prefers that of an adult human woman with long, straight, light brown hair, light skin, yellow eyes, and yellow and orange clothes. In this form, she sometimes wears a diadem with two kaleidoscopic pink crystals.

In the times before the fall of Old Binturia, Emlek took the form of a light-skinned Pionus girl with kaleidoscope eyes, hair shifting between light brown and dark blue, and swirling marks on her body.

She is generally a kind being, rarely intervening except when called upon or her followers are in jeopardy.

## Relations

Emlek is the daughter of Morpheus, the Elder God of Dreams.

## History

### Creation (> 10,000 B.B.)

Sometime before 10,000 B.B., Emlek was created by Morpheus to be the goddess of memory, as well as his daughter and companion. It took her a substantial amount of time to “grow” into her full power, as Morpheus had unconsciously based her mind and appearance on Pionus children he had seen.

### Thymisi

As Emlek grew, she asked Morpheus to help her create a world that would organize and store every memory ever to exist. Up until this point, memories floated aimlessly through the Dream World. The resulting demiplane, called Thymisi and tethered to both the Material Plane and the Dream World, became the first destination for new memories being created. Emlek spends a great deal of time organizing the memories of this realm, and containing the memories of each individual to their own section.

### Temples of Memory (1,000s A.B.)

Emlek first reached out to mortals some time in the 1,000s A.B., beseeching them to cherish memory and do all they could to preserve information. These ideas were codified into a religion specifically to her. Emlek was also responsible for the founding of the first temples dedicated to this religion, now called the Temples of Memory.

To the priests of these temples, Emlek supplies amulets imbued with some of her own power. This allows the priests to commune with her, perform rites, and use fairly strong memory manipulation magic.

### Disappearance and Return of Morpheus (5,890 A.B., 10,017 A.B.)

When Morpheus was destroyed in 5,890 A.B., Emlek attempted to rule the Dream World as Morpheus had while he was still sane. This task was too intensive and difficult for her to maintain long, however, and she eventually gave up and retreated to Thymisi, disheartened both by her failure and the seeming loss of her father.

Emlek spends time with her reformed father, in the aftermath of his return and subsequent cure of madness by the Binturian Party.

### Barg Temple Amulet Theft (10,017 A.B.)

In 10,017 A.B., when a group of bandits stole the amulets from the Barg Temple of Memory, Emlek spoke to the Binturians after they retrieved them and thanked them for their assistance.

## Current Residence

Emlek presently resides within Thymisi, as she has done for millennia, but occasionally journeys to the Dream World or even the Material Plane.

## Further Information

* Barg
* The Binturian Party
* Elder Gods
* Magic
* Morpheus
* Soul
* Temple of Memory
* Thymisi