Sol Lux

### Appearance

Young man with golden-bronze tan, bald head, piercing yellow-hazel eyes. Race varies, usually ifrit-like traits present. Shirtless, muscular, solar flare halo on back. Usually has a weapon

## Common Knowledge

A god of light, the sun, and righteousness whose worship is popular in the dwarven city of Myrdirit. Supposedly the child of an ancient sun god.

## Powers

Sol Lux is a progenitor god of fire, the sun, light, combat, righteousness, and protection. He wields great power over elemental magic and fire in particular, access to the Radiance, and incredible martial prowess with all weapons and even hand-to-hand combat. Additionally, Sol Lux has many of the powers associated with progenitors (such as bestowing blessings or curses, and removing either at will). Sol Lux is also known for being fairly active in the Dream World, and may even be able to travel to other planes if he so chose.

## Personality/Appearance

Sol Lux behaves as a righteous defender of the innocent, and protector of all people from “evil”. Not unlike his “father”, Sol Lux is headstrong, confident, and believes in martial superiority. He also believes that those with strength have an obligation to use it responsibly.

Sol Lux usually takes the appearance of a young man with a golden-bronze tan, a bald head, and piercing yellow-hazel eyes. Though his race varies from appearance to appearance, he usually boasts ifrit-like features such as horns or tougher skin. In such appearances he bears no shirt, instead boasting his muscular body and the solar flare halo on his back. Sol Lux always carries a weapon of some sort on his person, and radiates a dim yellow glow from his halo that intensifies in combat.

## Relations

Though not originally so, Sol Lux is the child of Sol Invictus, the Unconquered Sun. This relation has led to a number of alternate titles attributed to Sol Lux, such as the “Unconquered Son”, “Sol Invictus Junior”, and rarely the “Prophet of Sol Invictus”.

## History

### Origin (4,001 A.B. - C. 6,000 A.B.)

Sol Lux’s worship originally stemmed from a long-forgotten aspect of the ancient sun god Sol, passed down through heretical texts and secret dialogues by the surviving Cult of Sol Invictus in Myrdirit. His worship provided comfort to its citizens, who were afflicted by persistent nightmares for nearly two thousand years. In that time, Sol Lux began to manifest and appear in people’s dreams, actually helping them overcome the night terrors that haunted them. These appearances led to his worship spreading, and the Cult of Sol Invictus at large co-opting him to be a child of Sol Invictus.

In truth, Sol Lux was able to manifest himself in the Dream World of Myrdirit’s citizens far more easily than physically appearing on the Material Plane. Once the night terrors stopped in 5,890 A.B., Sol Lux continued protecting the dreams of Myrdirit’s faithful and expanded his reach to the dreams of others as well.

### Manifesting Physically (6,122 A.B. - Present)

In 6,122 A.B., a passenger caravan en route to Jericho was ambushed by bandits, and its guards slaughtered. The passengers were saved from a grisly fate by a mysterious stranger. Rather than giving their name, the wanderer claimed that they were “Sol Lux”, before retreating into the heat-blasted wastes of the Apotheosis Desert. Word spread about this stranger, this supposed Sol Lux. Two more times that year, the same stranger would appear to help travellers out of dangerous situations, and each time they did so the word of Sol Lux as a protector god spread.

In 6,242 A.B., long after the stranger stopped appearing and after rumors of Sol Lux’s appearances spread throughout Myrdirit and beyond, a passenger caravan en route to Galkador was ambushed by bandits. This ambush was interrupted by a counter-ambush, performed by a man matching the exact description of Sol Lux. This was, indeed, Sol Lux himself intervening, and he continues to appear to unprotected or imperiled travellers in need into modern times.

### Meeting Morgan (10,018 A.B.)

After millennia of traveling both the Material Plane and the Dream World, Sol Lux briefly met the Binturian Morgan, Prophet of Life, before he fought his father. Later, he was approached by a man grieving the loss of his wife. He pleaded with Sol Lux to help him conduct a ritual to bring her back from permanent death. In helping with the ritual, Sol Lux was cast into a region of the Void, which had begun to enter and slowly eat through the Material Plane. Through the intervention of Morgan, Prophet of Life and Elder God of Compassion, the crisis was averted, and Sol Lux had a brief opportunity to meet him before his ascension.

## Further Information

* The Binturian Party
* Dream World
* Incarnation
* Morgan
* Myrdirit
* Radiance
* Sol Invictus