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Chapter Two: The Gods of Aeliode
of healing an illness. Most worshipers are not long-term
practitioners. Typically Syn’s favor is sought in the hopes of
solving a particular problem. After Syn has aided or ignored
the practitioner, the practitioner tends to cease their devotions. Those who engage in a continual worship of the god
either find themselves called to the priesthood of Syn or
they die as Syn’s corruption manifests.

Tulhesa
Titles: The Deep Mother, The Trembling Earth, The
Bones of Foundation
Portfolio: destruction, land and ocean, cities
Typical Worshipers: all who live on the Issian Peninsula;
high city officials; those in search of power of any kind;
the vengeful
Typical Worshiper Alignment: Any Alignment (most
devoted are NE)
Domains: Destruction, Evil, Madness, Water, Weather
Subdomains: Catastrophe, Demon, Nightmare, Oceans,
Rage, Storms
Favored Weapon: Heavy flail
Minor Ritual: Rubbing a mixture of course sand and ash
across ones face and scalp (causes 1 HP damage) while
keening.
Sample Blessing: “Thy sacrifice quells the fire in Her
blood, may Her everlasting storm encompass another”

Symbol of Tulhesa

Tulhesa was once the lover of Crepus before he became
the husband of Mahte. Before she was slain by the hero of

old, Naxos of Pihriah, her form was that of a two-headed
dragon. Her avatar still appears as such when she wishes.
It is said she was slain earlier, in the time before the
world, by her own spoiled and bitter children. Created
from her, the spawn of Tulhesa were cruel, vicious, and
filled with hate and envy. Her children fed Palatine’s pride
and tricked him into hunting the Great Hind. While he
was gone, the children united and overpowered Tulhesa
and killed her. Tulhesa’s bones became the land and the
mountains, her blood became the sea, and her scales the
stars in the skies. The price they paid for this treachery was
to never find peace with one another again. To this day, her
spawn live lonely lives counting their hordes and protecting
themselves from each other.
Priests: Priests of Tulhesa are among the most socially and
politically influential individuals in the southern Avitian
Empire, much to the rest of the Empire’s dismay. Even
low-level acolytes are highly respected by their community
and are often given the best the community has to offer
for their service to their terrible goddess. Most priests have
come to expect a certain degree of deference being paid to
them by those around them.
There are four major sects within the Temple of Tulhesa. There is no official hierarchy in regards to these sects
and each temple is the final authority in the area where is
it located. Most priests chose membership in one of these
four sects: The Gilded, the political arm whose goal is to
marry into every politically influential family; The Star
Readers, the prophetic arm which deciphers the will of
Tulhesa and perform divinations; The Keening, the teachers of the faith who guide the wrath of the goddess and
unleash vengeance upon the deserving; and The Culling,

the guardians of the faith who purify the world of those
who act against Tulhesa.
Worshipers: Most inhabitants in the Issian Peninsula are,
at the very least, reluctant worshipers of the Deep Mother.
Prayers of placation are offered up to her on a daily basis by
her followers in the hopes that she will turn her insatiable
anger away from them.
Very few worshipers come to Tulhesa motivated by anything but fear; however, there are some notable exceptions.
As temples to the Gods of the Watchful Storm hold great
political power across the southern portion of the Avitian
Empire, all those who wish to hold political office have a
close relationship with the nearest temple honoring Tulhesa.
While these political hopefuls are not necessarily clerics,

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