Saint Eligius

### Aliases

Bishop Eligius, Saint Eligius of The Boat, "Our most valued relic" (Drithelm), "Fucker" (The Party)

## Biography

### Occupation

Maverick Tinkerer, Pilgrim, Bishop (formerly), Cleric (formerly)

### Relatives

Unknown (biological father), Unknown (biological mother), Eallsmyth (spiritual parent)

### Status

'Alive'

Saint Eligius is a cyborg artificer in worship of Eallsmyth who attained sainthood through the transcendence of his flesh and breaching of the veil between the material plane and Eallsmyth's plane of Mekhmos. He is responsible for uncovering the mad Demimoon Erichthonius and his construct Linocorpus from the bowels of Vulcan.

## Description

Eligius is a seemingly human man seen in Bishop's robes. Upon meeting him, most notice his unusual gait and range of movement, which is like that of a puppet; with him moving his limbs in strange ways and his facial features not moving at all upon speaking. He is often found tinkering with numerous projects, few of which he completes, and venerating Eallsmyth.

## Biography

### Early Life

Eligius was a mild-mannered human born in the city of Farmastanda, traveller's rest, in Hjarnvöllr, the region North of Glaescer blanketed by snow and ice. It is here that he learned to work precious metals as he trained alongside a moneyer of the city, stamping coins of bronze, silver and gold. Over time as he saw the travellers pass in and out of the city, he was inspired to go on a pilgrimage of self-discovery to approximate a purpose beyond merely making coins for merchants; so, he leapt upon the first merchant ship he could secure passage onto and set off.

### Pilgrimages

On his ventures Eligius visited many a place, from the pyramids hiding among lush jungles in the central archipelagos to the mountain peaks of Durendal Hoardmelter's dwarven empire, performing commissions of beautiful metalworks for various nobles in order to fund his travels. However, what peaked his interest most were the ruins underneath all of this, pervading the world he set out to explore, and full of relics from a bygone time; after discovering a number of these, he made it his life's work to tinker with these relics to not just use them, but understand them. It was at this time he become resolved in the faith of Eallsmyth, Moon of the Neoforge, Logic, Tyranny, and Patron deity of all Constructs.

It was during one of his many forays under Vulcan that this occurred, and it is not sure exactly what happened, as Eligius is sure to keep it a closely-guarded secret, with the majority thinking he merely took meditation in one of these ruins alongside a particularly potent relic, however some believing he was directly coerced by one of Eallsmyth's many, many missionaries under Vulcan; but what is known is that he came back with limbs of metal and a newfound purpose: to spread the word of his god.

### Founding of Hamofarne

After this 'event', Eligius travelled to the edge of King Raedwald's Kingdom in Glaescer where he was granted the landlocked island now known as Hamofarne to build a monastery upon by Winebeald the Bold, likely in order to increase the fervour of the craftsmen who worked on the ships the city made its economy off of.

Subsequently, Eligius miraculously built the monastery from stones of the ground within 7 days, and established himself as its Bishop, making continuous efforts to acquire relics of The Second Age for display in the crypt of the island in order to attract pilgrims of Eallsmyth, who would leave donations and spread the word of the monastery's creation. It is during this period that he also created Drithelm from the sherds of the monastery smiths' discarded crucibles in order to protect the crypt form thieves. Eligius lived as the Bishop of Hamofarne for 12 years until his death, after which his body was translated to an exposed stone cyst for display in the crypt of Hamofarne.

### Sainthood

3 years after his death, Eligius rose. It was at this point that his strange movements manifested, and his contemporaries noted a marked change in his personality, him suddenly becoming sardonic and egotistical. Immediately after his resurrection, he got to work; first summoning an angel of Eallsmyth; a feat few had achieved, and proceeding to tear it apart, reshaping it into the induction forge Windansmithe, venerated as the 'unseen flame' by the monks of the island. His other projects proceeded with more random precision, him making hitherto unseen strides in technology, then abandoning the train of thought at the early stages of his works, like he was stuck in decision paralysis as to what to do.

### The Hamofarne Borehole

Eventually, he settled on a project with grim exactness, holing himself up in the monastery's oculus for months working on something unbeknownst to the rest of the monastery: a massive borehole deep into Vulcan, how deep, nobody knows. The sabotage (or accidental tampering) of this by Duergar raiders is what caused the fires of Hamofarne to erupt and the Burning of Hamofarne to begin, with vengeful Duergar raiders believing Eligius had stolen their relics and opportunistic raiders flooding the island and threatening its security. Eligius was not concerned with this and continued on his project, eventually quelling the fires in the oculus and, alongside the party, peered into the borehole. It was at this moment, on impulse alone, that Lamius shoved the Bishop into the borehole, after whom Aurea flew to catch. In the light of Aurea's wings, they saw what Eligius had uncovered: the mad Demimoon Erichthonius and one of the last of his people, Linocorpus, whose existence had been reduced to a suit of scale-like armour worn by the Demimoon.

Erichthonius proceeded to fly out of the borehole, assess the situation, and demand answers of Eligius, whom he plucked out of Aurea's arms and pinned against a wall. Eligius was exceedingly vague and sardonic, referring to him as a "fellow soul of the amalgam" and expressing amusement towards an episode of confusion Erichthonius experienced as he dropped the Bishop, clutching his head, Eligius further taunting him and asking about the processes "The Overseer" had enacted on him and whether he was speaking to "The Demimoon of Volund" or "one of the souls of A.R.G.O.S.", inquiring further as to how many it had "shove[ed] into that head". Erichthonius then replied, in a different voice, that Eligius had "left us to die on this rock. We'll kill you all" before charging a two-pronged weapon with lightning, aimed at Eligius; however he was interrupted by a massive spear thrown through the wall from outside by another Demimoon, one of Blodcwén, Moon of Violence, Guilt, Blood, and Patron of Slaughter, who proclaimed that she would kill an individual fated to die by the party's hands, and therefore prove her martial worth. As she approached, hefting a massive wooden board with dark glass blades inserted into it, Erichthonius regained his composure, and separated his scale armour, Linocorpus, ordering it to kill the party. In the ensuing fight and destruction, Eligius was forced into a hostage situation by Tulles, who threatened to drop Windansmithe down the borehole if Eligius didn't give answers, he responded with little concern as he was then used as a 'human' shield, soon into which he teleported away onto a nearby hill to watch the fight ensue.

### Current actions

It is unknown what Eligius is doing after the monastery of Hamofarne was destroyed by the blood of the beheaded Demimoon of Blodcwén.