340 Days.

16 Months.

21 days a month on average.

Months.

Airi (The Stag) 22 Days

Nefer (The Hound) 21 Days

Taibus (The Cat) 21 Days

Biska (The Fawn) 21 Days

Navan (The Salmon) 22 Days

Mero (The Sapling) 21 Days 

Clave (The Hornet) 21 Days

Tyrol (The Rain) 21 Days

Myse (The Flame) 22 Days

Horu (The Moon) 21 Days

Jin (The Phoenix) 21 Days

Famaj (The Panther) 21 Days

Sidir (The Plague) 22 Days

Yris (The Smoke) 21 Days

Urul (The Swarm) 21 Days

Vanik ( The Void) 21 Days

The Elves were the first to mark their days, and qucikly became the standard. Each month that starts a season has an extra day for the solstice or equinox. It’s also a lunar calender, with each first day being the full moon.

Seven days in a week, using the old Norse days. Each Solstice is it's own day, named after the faerie lord/lady who rules that season.

Senhan, Lord of Winter and Sleep

Gyr, Lord of Spring and Delirium

Danva, Lady of Summer and Night

                                                    TENETS

Honor the dead, lest their sacrifice be in vain.

Avoid frivolous crime, it is beneath you.

Let the shadows surround you, and you will always be at home.

Honor your family above all else

The Speaker is the voice of Thazarix, a vessel of the Chill.

The Dark Masses are a church of necromancers that worship Thazarix, an ancient god of cold and death. An outcasted god of the Verdulan pantheon, he followed his people when they were sold into slavery by King Ferondan to the Kraken Lord. Thazarix is believed to be able to inhabit the world of Seaheim, but only as the strange aurora over Dustlight known as “the Chill.” The leader of the church, known as The Speaker is Siri Bleakhall, a female half-elf of Valask ancestry. Although the Valask allow anyone to live is Dustlight and worship Thazarix, only those of Valask descent are allowed to become true priests. Non-Valask, referred to a “ninchka”, or “foreigner.” They may achieve the rank of Toller, or someone who is allowed to ring the sacred bells during one of the five times they are rung during the day. Five is a sacred number to the Masses, as it took five betrayals of their people for them to thrive.

The church is very strict in how it handles things. Every member of the church, whether unarmed or military has to handle recording of their day to day activities. This keeps order in church for the most part, as the church members are usually skilled in magic and thus can often get the truth themselves if they need to. The other reason for this is for when a church member dies, their logs are used to allow the Soulscribes as to which undead caste they will belong to.

                                        UNDEAD CASTES

Patron: The very top of the caste system, these are honored dead who have done great deeds for their house or order and for the Valask in general. The exorcists of the Dark Masses remove the soul of the dead person, and transform it into a ghost that is allowed to inherit a Death Mask, the case of a house patron, or an Heirloom Weapon for a military order patron. These objects allow for the patron to give advice to champions of their house or order. Patrons are at the top mostly because they operate outside of the caste system, putting their cause above all else.

Soulscribe: The next caste are the Soulscribes, given only to the most powerful of magic users that die among the Masses. These are the undead who govern the caste system for the most part, and do the bureaucratic work for the church. They decide who goes to what caste when they die. The process of becoming a Soulscribe is similar to becoming a lich, but done in a way that doesn’t require the souls of the living. This process also turns their log book into a powerful phylactery. 

Arbiter: The upper middle caste are the Arbiters. The ranks of the Arbiters include many former adventurers, and these undead are the backbone of Dustlight’s militia and army. They resemble what they looked like in life, as the corpse is kept in decent condition, but can told apart from the living by the lack of pupils in their eyes. Arbiters gain supernatural endurance in the process of becoming undead. Adventurers who become arbiters often keep abilities they had in life, which helps to keep the peace. 

Runner: Runners are small, agile undead used a couriers and emmisarys. This role is given to those in the Masses who die young. Blessed with supernatural intelligence (relative to their age) Runners have to go through an intense period of training before being allowed to handle documents. The most elite runners are employed by the Senate. These undead handle seriously classified information, and are rewarded handsomely for work, or for bribes from rival senators.

The Sunrise Company is an order of adventurers that seek to map the world. They are led by the veteran explorer, [REDACTED]. The Sunrise Company were the first mortals to use the “Swell Seal” spell, allowing for more permanent homes to be made in the ocean, thus allowing for adventurers to explore further into the world. The main base of the Company is located on a massive Swell that was sealed by the Archmage of the company, and island referred to as The Reprieve. 

A river runs through the heart of Seaheim. Once known as The River Nosca, it has been more commonly known as “The Boiling River” for years now. It’s history is bloody, because underneath the river sits a leyline, a leyline is a remnant of Vemor’s blood when he sacrificed his power to save the mortals of Seaheim. Leylines are pure arcane magic, and radiate power that attracts ambitious humanoids and greedy monsters, who almost always clash with each other in order to sieze the leyline. The most famous of these was a battle between the Fire Giant Emperor named Rosheen Cinderbellow and the Ancient Red Wyrm Vekonolox. 

The two met each other with mighty blows and powerful magic, but found that they couldn’t damage each other through each of their various defensive wards and such, which were amplified by the leylines. Days later, they each succumbed to exhaustion, where a nearby Snakefolk regiment had been lying in wait for the perfect oppurtunity to strike. Weakening them with debilitating poisons, the Pitmaster leading them sliced each other the gargantuan combtants throats, then threw the blade he used to the bottom of the river. The now dead creatures bled for years, the magmatic blood in their veins causing an endless boiling effect.

The clerics of Seaheim worship gods in a way that the gods themselves don’t understand. The divinity sees their clerics as little more than agents in a never ending proxy war. All clerics, regardless of alignment, have animosity towards clerics of a rival god. Usually, terms of peace are laid out, and an uneasy truce is set. However, most clerical orders have a militant branch for a reason, usually containing paladins. The most famous of these are the monster hunter clerics of Kaz, who roam the world hunting down evil with no remorse. Just as well known are the Warpriests of Tynse, who are often more akin to fighters blessed with divine intervention than the usual cleric.

The gods of Seaheim are not dependant on worship. They were here before the mortal races were, and they will exist long after they are gone. The gods do not hesitate to remove the abilities of a cleric that do something that displeases them, nor are they above giving their agents boons as reward for particularly good service.

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