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**Ideolor**, known as the **Creator**, the **Hidden One** or the **One Who Is Hidden**, was the Overgod of the worlds of Icurade. As Overgod, all deities and primordials of the galaxy, even those who also operated in other spheres and planes, were subject to him. To be more precise, only aspects of gods directly connected with Icurade were under Ideolor's power. Towards the end of the beginning of the Universe, while the Aesir did their work, Ideolor disappeared to the edge of the known Cosmos, sensing a presence at the edge of his all seeing eye.

If it were not for Ideolor's involvement in the Avatar Crisis, he would likely have remained unknown to the mortals of Verun. Those he does allow to even known of him is mostly limited to prophets and seers. He often exludes himself from the Verun pantheon, considering himself to be above it.

## Description

Ideolor only took physical form twice, once during the Avatar Crisis. In that instance, he took the form of a being that was 10 feet tall, ageless, with a visage that was not pleasant yet wasn't unpleasant, because it didn't have any remarkable features. He had a white beard and hair, and wore a black robe that could be semi-seen through, with a star-scape arranged in a not-quite-perceptible pattern but which had a beautiful and harmonious feel. The second instance, to which unbeknownst to the mortals of Verun, is of a very Elderly Mage or librarian on the bring of being senile, who is named Ideo the Lorekeeper. He currently lives in a tower in an unremarkable location that to anyone but those he wishes to see, appears abandoned.

## Personality

Ideolor didn't take much of a vested interest what the deities or primordials were doing so long as they upheld their individual responsibilities and did not completely ignore their worshippers. When a deity did something that wasn't accounted for by his or her domain, Ideolor would punish that deity, and such punishments were usually harsh. He could damage deities permanently, or even demote them at will.

Ideolor cared even less for mortals, and some theorized that he didn't want to be known by them. However, when he found worthy mortals, able to uphold the responsibilities of a deity, he promoted them to divinity almost instantly.

## Activities

Ideolor's only job was to ensure deities abided by the rules of the cosmos. He recorded any and all developments within the planes he had sight into that existed within the cosmos. He would report to a being of great power that ruled outside of the normal cosmos.

Another of his roles was to decide which interloper deities were allowed in the sphere of Verun and which mortals could be raised to godhood. If Ideolor didn't allow it, a being could not ascend to divinity, and an interloper deity could not enter the sphere or affect it in any way, regardless of how powerful it was. He was also able to decide which dead gods—gods that had lost their connection with the sphere of Verun—were to be revived or returned to the sphere, and allow such development if he deemed it necessary.

Ideolor established rules concerning the management of the divine. For instance:

* No two gods in the same pantheon could have identical portfolios.
* When two gods clashed, one of three results occurred:
	+ One god faded from the Realms.
	+ Both gods merged.
	+ One (or both) god(s) altered their portfolio(s) sufficiently that both could remain in or join the Verun Pantheon.

These rules were more problematic than they were worth, because they encouraged the gods to battle among themselves for supremacy. After the convergence of Pantheons, he discarded such rules, reassigned duties, and created more flexible rules.

## Powers

Theoretically, Ideolor could do anything he wanted to. He was credited as the creator of the cosmos, and even existed beyond concepts such as alignment and divine rank. He was more powerful than all the gods and primordials of the Universe, even combined. In fact, he had the power to create gods out of thin air, though rarely did he use such powers.

In addition, unlike the gods under him, Ideolor did not need the worship of mortals and did not desire it either, whereas those "normal" gods who did not receive the worship of mortals could die from lack of it. Ideolor initiated this after the Avatar Crisis in order to enforce his will that the gods act as guardians of the Balance rather than kings of mortals.

His powers were limited to the sphere of Verun, however, and he could not control or influence something from beyond it.

## Worshipers

The cult of Ideolor was led by "Magisters" instead of clerics, as these cultists never received any spells from the Overgod. The cult was more philosophical than religious in nature. Sir Pellimore of Highmore was one such magister.

Among the known cults of Ideolor were a cult in Cedrow, and another in Tunim, Marilan. This cult was remarkable for the fact that its ministers could cast divine spells, but in the end it was revealed that those individuals received their divine powers from Verigor and not from Ideolor.

The gods of the established faiths of Verun informed their priests about the fact that Ideolor did not interact with mortals. Because of this, members of other faiths neither feared nor spoke out against the cults of Ideolor.

## History

### Creation of the Universe

There were no exact accounts on how he created the universe, but nonetheless he was credited for the deed. In some traditions, he just created the sphere that covered the Solar System, and the gods Verigor, Ethar and Karai, and they later went to create all the worlds and stars, and other heavenly bodies. In other accounts, it was Ideolor who directly created all that exists, not only their solar system, but also the worlds and heavenly bodies, and even the Astral Sea, using the raw energy of the universe. Few say that it was not Ideolor at all but another being whom Ideolor often recounted events of the Universe to.

### The Sundering

Ideolor watched as Karai's essence was split, by Verigor to create more Divines. This brought about a new pantheon of Gods that idelor began to write up their portfolios. When the Primordials attacked Ideolor was there to battle the Primordial Overlord, unfortunately he couldn't stop the Tearfall, nor did he care much to do so. Infact he believed it could be for the better.

### The Tearfall and the Second Sundering

During the Age of Thunder, when the Bastara were losing their war against the titans, they performed a powerful summoning ritual and released several primordials from their ancient prisons. The gods quickly moved against their ancient foes, and those battles caused the worldwide catastrophes that destroyed the bastara civilization. A primordial known as "Rethnica the World-Shaper", determined to destroy the world if she couldn't control it, threw an ice moon at the planet, creating the Endless Sea. This event was known as the Tearfall, or the "Changing of the Stars".

Before the world was completely destroyed, Ideolor intervened and sundered the original world of Verun into two twin worlds, Missan and Verun, giving the former to the primordials and the latter (the original world) to the gods, ending the conflict. The Tablets of Divinity were created by Ideolor after the Tearfall as a way to maintain the new worlds of Massin and Verun apart, and to ensure a balance between the forces of Law and Chaos, as well as between the gods and the primordials.

### The Ilethlina

When the Ilethlina created the ancestors of the Elven peoples from another world and brought them to TVerun, Ideolor contacted the power being, and invited the Ilethlina gods to manifest in Verun. With help and permission from Ideolor, these deities were able to follow their worshippers..

### The Avatar Crisis

In -3287 PHE, the gods Bellan and Myrkur stole the Tablets of Divinity from Ideolor and hid them in Verun, wrongly suspecting that some of the Overgod's power was derived from these tablets. When he discovered the Tablets were missing he summoned all the deities and asked for those guilty to hand them over. When no one stood forward to admit to stealing thm, Ideolor cast down all the gods from the heavens, taking their divine power in the process including Verigor who was previously tohught to be immune to Ideolor's influence. Ideolor tasked Helm with guarding the Celestial Stairways that would lead the deities back into their divine realms. Ideolor stated the reason for this was primarily that he was displeased with the gods treating the world as if it was for their own amusement, rather than the purpose they were created, though the theft of the Tablets were part of it.

Thumeyar, the exarch of Verigor, who'd already been dwelling in Cedrow as a mortal before the other gods were cast down and had missed these events, believed Ideolor responsible for the gods' turmoil. She informed her friend Taliea of the One Who Is Hidden, but no more than that. Somehow, Arun Selis knew more about him and explained to Taliea that Ideolor had brought order out of chaos so that the world could exist and had assigned the gods their parts in the balance of nature, which were inscribed upon the Tablets of Divinity. However, known to few mortals, the gods had come to neglect their duties and fallen out of favor with Ideolor, leading to dissension and chaos. Later, Thumeyar sighted the Celestial Stairway rising from the Blackwell Mountains and showed it to his friends, declaring it meant someone had or was about to cross between the mortal realm and the planes to the realms of the gods. He wondered if Ideolor had put it there as part of a plan.

Many Mortal Gods killed each other for a chance at another's power, leading to a large gap in the pantheon should it be reinstated.

After valiant heroes (among them the mortals Tileri, Reline, and Heren) recovered the Tablets and returned them to Ideolor, the Overgod himself destroyed the Tablets of Divinity, grinding them into powder as a way to teach the gods a lesson. This act, however, unraveled the laws of Realmspace, beginning the chaotic Era of Upheaval.

Many cults of Ideolor arose after the Avatar Crisis, but disappeared as quickly in the following years. By the Renewal Era, even written records about Ideolor had disappeared, and by the second century all the cults of Ideolor had vanished from Verun altogether.

### The Schism

In the first century of the Renewal Era, Ideolor began the Schism, as a way to restore the worlds of Verun and massin after the events of the Avatar Crisis. During the Schism, he recreated and rewrote the Tablets of Divinity, inscribing the names and purposes of the gods and primordials he chose to serve in a new, inclusive divine reality.

## Rumors & Legends

Some believed that the Book of All, a powerful artifact that had the power to change or even unravel the currents of past, present and future, was related to the Tearfall. It was believed to be located somewhere in Chasm of the Colossal.

Rumour has it that Xanasi'celtigar, the Fateweaver is a corrupt form of Ideolor from another parallel universe who seeks to simply know everything there is to know. Folk believe he killed all the Divines in his universe as well as the being beyond the cosmos and took their power.