Thalien Omadithas

## Titles / Honorifics

The Morningstar, her Illuminated Brilliance, Arinyana.

## Synopsis

Thalien Omadithas is a high-ranking elven sage from the segregated elven city Shaeserin. She serves as a member of the Weavers Conclave, as well as the Paragon of the Circle of Divines at the College of Mimrinoth. In secret, she is the leader of the Inquisitors, and is worshiped by her people as a demigod, with the aim of ascending to deity herself.

## History

Thalien was born in Shaeserin, to parents of humble standing. Her parents immediately recognized her as extraordinary, and blessed with innate divine power. The religious authorities of Shaeserin identified her as aasimar - a blessed birth not seen anywhere in Materi for centuries.

From a young age, Thalien was groomed for the role of becoming a sage and leader of the religious devout. As she grew older, her ambitions ascended higher. She began to consider herself as not only chosen of the gods, but as a child of the gods themselves, and believed that it was her destiny to one day ascend to godhood herself.

A sect began to build up around Thalien, founded on this same belief - that she was a deity walking in mortal flesh, and that her ascension must be aided. They worshiped Thalien in this regard, and Thalien quickly discovered that their worship granted her power. It became her mission, and that of her sect of followers, to amass enough worship to ascend to true divinity - a god born in Materi, and as such unhampered by the Divine Gate.

## Involvement With The Inquisitors

Over the years, as the Age of Rest transitioned into the Age of Awakening, and magic began to awaken in Materi, Thalien viewed the rise of the arcane as a direct threat to her ascension, and indeed to all practitioners of divine magic. She embraced a mindset that was prevalent in the Age of Arcana: that divine magic and arcane were in direct conflict with each other, and could not coexist.

Based on these views, Thalien and her sect of followers decided that their best recourse was to work in secret from within the Alviren Empire to suppress the awakening of arcane magic - at least long enough for Thalien to ascend. It was with this aim that Thalien founded the Inquisitors, and also went on to join the Weavers Conclave, as well as the College of Mimrinoth as the Paragon of the Circle of Divines.

## Rune Magic

When the Circle of Rune Carvers was started at the College of Mimrinoth, Thalien was intent on quashing this new form of magic, which she viewed not only as a dangerous new form or arcana, but also as an abominable bastardization of pure divine magic. Through divination magic, Thalien was able to learn the history of Rune Magic, and set out to destroy the surviving bloodline of Avara Wasanthi.

First, Thalien dispatched of Ava Aloro, the great-grandaughter of Avara Wasanthi. Ava had been a Scholar at the College of Mimrinoth, so it was relatively easy for Thalien to wait for the right opportunity to kill her. On an occasion when Ava and her husband were sailing home to Saltcrest, Thalien enacted a plot to sink their ship, killing them both and leaving no remains.

Valania Aloro, daughter of Ava Aloro, was harder for Thalien to find, because she had never met her. Through divination magic, however, Thalien learned that Valania had a bastard son: Gragnok. The half-elf child was easy enough to track down in the ethnically-cloistered city of Hartwell, and Thalien paid Duke Vincent Mason handsomely to send Gragnok and his father Carric Blackburn out into the wilderness at an agreed-upon time. Thalien's servant, Avourel Orion, ambushed the troop in disguise as a necromancer, and summoned undead monsters to swarm them, before making his escape. Unbeknownst to her at the time, Gragnok escaped the ambush.

Thalien now aims to find and kill Valania Aloro and Gragnok, thereby destroying the last surviving descendants of Avara Wasanthi.

## Ascension

In order to ascend to godhood, Thalien is planning on utilizing The Raven Queen's rites of ascension, which are recorded within the Luxturrim Obelisk. To access these rites, she must first acquire the key to the obelisk, which is stored in the crypt of Alusfaen Orion.