Crisillyir

**Capital:** Alais Primos

**Government:** Ecclesiastical elective monarchy

**Heads of State:** Prime Cardinal Morgan Cipiano (succeeding Savina Tullius, succeeding Tito Banderesso), Arch Secula Natalia Degaspare

**Official Language:** Common

**Common Races:** Human 85%, gnome 7%, dwarf 4%, other 4%.

Crisillyir is ruled by the hierarchs of the Clergy, the religion that freed the nation from demonic rule a millennium ago. Today, Crisillyir is a rich land, its fields bountiful, its coffers full of colonial gold. Centuries of divine rituals have turned its great cities into beacons of enlightenment and magical research, though this prosperity seems to attract attention from supernatural threats. Elaborate aqueducts feed water from the snowcapped Enfantes Mountains throughout the nation; it is said that each column in the aqueduct system is engraved with one chapter from the Clergy’s holy book, acting as a massive ward against the ancient evil that still lurks in the land.

In Crisillyir, the power of the church is supreme, but not unquestioned. While the grand summoners conjure forth tortured specters from the Bleak Gate to cow their flocks into piety, collegial arcanists debate conceptions of the cosmos that do not match church dogma. Fat merchant lords pay lip service to the faith, sell weapons and ritual components to eladrin assassins, then purchase indulgences to absolve themselves. And though the inquisitive gold-mantled *geneu credetos* (“spirits of belief,” or more commonly “godhands”) are tasked with guarding the nation from unholy, fey, and undead influences, criminal organizations nevertheless manage to smuggle in contraband and use resurrections to extort even the dead.

## Notable Cities

* Alais Primos
* Sid Minos
* Vendricce
* Nalaam
* Terenz

## Colonies

After the eladrin empire fell in the Second Victory, Crisillyir and the other conquering nations established garrisons within the collapsing eladrin nation, and divided the land into several colonies. Despite the great wealth these colonies provide, they are a thorn in Crisillyir’s side; intermittent rebellions and acts of terrorism target the colonial governors and their allies in the homeland. At least once a decade, a spree of assassinations strikes, shaking the complacency of the nobility, and frightening the common folk.

The largest colonial city is Santi Simone.

## Campaign

The party visited Nalaam, Sid Minos, and Vendricce via the Avery Coast Rail in Adventure 4, encountering Ashima Shimtu at Sid Minos and an Obscurati gathering in Vendricce. They would later pass through Crisillyir in Adventure 7 in search of Leone Quital, and again through Sid Minos and Alais Primos in Adventure 8 in search of Kasavarina's memories.

Following the planar shift in Adventure 9 the Obscurati assassinated a number of Clergy leaders and Savina Tullius ended up in power, contested by the Family. Ashima Shimtu leaked the secret of the Sacrament of Apotheosis to Aulus Atticus as a test of Crisillyir and its corrupt state, knowing that Savina would eventually start the god trials with it.

In Adventure 10, the party traveled to Alais Primos upon Gatria's summon by Morgan Cipiano for both a surprise wedding to Antonia Cipiano and the god trial for Triegenes featuring Morgan Cipiano as avatar as a political maneuver by the Family. The move succeeded when the party helped win the trial, putting Morgan in position to become Primarch after Savina's arrest for mass murder. During the same trial it was revealed that Triegenes never ascended to godhood against traditional Clergy beliefs, prompting a need for the people of Crisillyir to re-examine their faith.