Alu'nsu-Ro

Glyph of Punishment

## Statistics

Alu'nsu-Ro at Caan

**Alu'nsu-Ro** is a neutral evil divine power that is closely associated with the Warring Triumvirate.

## Description

In his most common appearance, Alu'nsu-Ro is an androgynous figure with long hair, pale white skin, and bloody red lips.

## History

### Creation

According to the Bynod, the holy text of the Warring Triumvirate, Alu'nsu-Ro was the first mortal being created by the god Atavius and the deity Ashtar. He was given the name Onio'nomen, which in the old Eten-naunish means "The First Named". Satisfied with their creation, they made for him a companion named Prisawel. With her, he understood the essence of the world and began to name all that he would see. The two explored the raw magical power of the world. He would walk with the gods and through them he would learn even more about the nature of the world, the cosmos, and the greater multiverse beyond. With them, he stood at the center of creation and watched as the Elemental Chaos was tempered to form its core aspects of Air, Earth, Fire, and Water.

### The Hierophant's Tongue

Alu'nsu-Ro mastered magic in such a powerful way that he could shape reality itself. Despite this immense power, he displayed the one trait that is most commonly associated with humanity: ambition. In this, he wished to have the power and prescience of his creators. To do what he had planned, he asked each of the gods in secret to meet with him in Kasmacalau, the place he called home. When the two came together in the same place, their oppositional nature was put to the fore and Alu'nsu-Ro captured the divinity that flowed out from them as they clashed. He focused this raw power into a solid stone, called the *Blaghmendghu* or Heirophant's Stone. With this stone, he was able to focus divine will into himself, granting him the power of a god and creating the first of the Powers.

The gods learned of his treachery and together decided to punish him for it. A stranger god came to the divine duo and suggested a course of action, which they accepted. They stripped Onio'nomen of most of his divinity and bestowed it upon Prisawel, who became the goddess Aluein. They used the dichotomies of each of themselves to create the first Glyph of Divine Punishment, which created the Law of Death, the first of the Rules of Mortality. He was given the name Alu'nsu-Ro, the meaning of which being words of punishment in the Words of Creation, and then placed in the Plane of Shadow to reside there until the end of time.

### Hidden in Death

For much of the early era of creation, Alu'nsu-Ro existed in the Plane of Shadow as its master. His continued efforts to usurp true divinity from his creators continued. In this, he created a means of circumventing the Law of Death in the form of Undeath. This can be explained as life hiding in death in one way or another, such as the body being allowed to die and the soul to continue to exist on Urz, or for the soul to pass on into death and the body to be raised as a mindless undead. For these transgressions, the Warring Triumvirate fought amongst itself to determine if this perversion of the Law of Death could be punished and correct. Atavius saw the efforts of Alu'nsu-Ro as a process that was engaged within the bounds of the Law created and an application of Chaos in what was considered the natural order. Ashtar saw Good in the ability to defeat death and allow those who were truly loved to be brought back to the world and understood the Evil implications of those who would selfishly remain in the world to avoid this divine judgement. And Aluein saw that it did redefine Life and Death to be more overlapping than separate. So, Alu'nsu-Ro reigned in Death in the Plane of Shadow despite Aluein being the Goddess given power over it in the Material Plane.

### War of the Gods

Due to the fracturing internally and outside of each of the gods due to Alu'nsu-Ro's efforts to twist the rules of existence towards his own ends, the gods began to war amongst themselves. In this time, many powers were formed outside of the gods themselves. The first of these to be brought to the fore were the children of the gods created before Alu'nsu-Ro, collectively known as the Nine Bastards. The other powers formed were wholly created by a single god instead of a joint effort by multiple, and they were keen on forming conflicts with their brothers from the same god. The most notable of these conflicts is the Eternal War that is waged between celestials (Good powers) and fiends (Evil powers) in the Astral Sea.

### Howling at the Moon

Alu'nsu-Ro found the Edge of Creation within the Plane of Shadow and from that place contemplated what was outside the Spiralspace, what the Darghian Rift truly was, and his place in the grand scheme of all of reality. A convergence between the Plane of Shadow of Spiralspace and a dying sphere allowed him to see into a Dread Realm within. There he saw the torment of the moon of the destroyed prime material and the echoes of the world's destruction. He called out to the moon, who replied with a cry for help. Alu'nsu-Ro used his magic and his power to pull her from the dying world, bringing shattered remnants of it into the Plane of Shadow. She was most gracious, but desired to no longer be bound in Shadow as she was a divinity that above all else desired freedom and liberty. Alu'nsu-Ro allowed her to leave, but he would later send Thorn Stacianodel, her greatest champion, into the Material Plane.

### Current

Alu'nsu-Ro sits as the ruler of the realm of Ayareath, a Dread Realm in the Plane of Shadow that itself is a shadow of Shadow itself. It holds a border with the Edge of Creation, allowing Alu'nsu-Ro access to the Astral Sea, the Feywild, the Elemental Chaos, as well as the Far Planes.

## Appendix

Alu'nsu-Ro has existed in the campaign setting since its inception as a variation of the character of Adam of the Abrahamic religions, but with an internal temptation rather than an external one from the Serpent.

### 4th Edition

**Alu'nsu-Ro**

*Neutral Evil Power*

***Gender.*** Male

***Sphere.*** Death, humanity, sorcery, undeath

***Dominion.*** Ayareath (The Plane of Shadow)

***Priests.*** -

***Adjective.*** Marydian

***Pantheon.*** The Vitas

***Domains.*** Arcana, Death, Grave, Trickery

Alu’nsu-Ro is the God of undeath, black magics, parasites, murder, and many other horrific subjects in an unexplainably vile portfolio. He is regarded as a rebel deity according to the Vitas, a pantheon derived from human beliefs and one of the most popular religions in E’yané. The teachings of Alu’nsu-Ro are drawn from a sacrilegious text known as the Writ of Önio’nomen. It is believed by his followers that he was in fact the first mortal being and that he stole divinity from the gods that spawned him. He is known as Aluein Ex Magare, the Ruined, He Who Sits In Darkness Eternal, Master of the Dark Winds, Onio’nomen, Soul-weaver, and countless other titles and names. It was he who fought against the Gray Order in an attempt to shatter that which is known. It was he who caused the destruction leading up to the Age of Gods. It was he who has been to blame for many of the problems leading up to the current age. He is now worshiped only by cults and dark nations. He commands his followers thus:

**♦ You are your own god.**

**♦ The only purpose of creation is to serve.**

**♦ The righteous do not understand what they protect, nor do they truly know the virtues to which they cling. Reveal these truths to them.**