Written Collection of Lies
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The “Written Collection of Lies” is an ancient manuscript, dating from –800 AC to +200 AC. The original title of the manuscript is unknown; it was edited out c. 350 AC by unknown scholars. It contains tales of legend, myth, and fiction, from the days of prehistory, regarding the Seven.
One copy of this slim volume is kept in the Annals of Forgotten Ages in Akarat.
Qidra
- Qidra appears as a bald figure of indeterminate age and gender wearing armour made of leaves. He is a sky god and a restless traveller.
- The feeling of solitude and loneliness felt by travellers in mountains, when the weather is stormy and the landscape desolate, are a sure sign that Qidra is near.
- When Qidra travels through the mountains he often assumes the form of a goat.
- Qidria is the lord of the sea, rivers, lakes, storms and winds, he controls thunder and lightning, and conducts the orchestra of natural sounds that fills the countryside with music.
- Qidra’s time of celebration is spring, during the month of September, and his clerics wear items of green and a ring made of tin set with a magnet.
Sahir
- Sahir is the goddess of mysterious magics, hidden crafts, and veiled luck.
- Sahir is noted for her cruelty and for delighting in sucking children’s blood.
- A single tear drop of Sahir can be used to make 1,000 magical potions. A single drop of her sweat can make 1,000 deadly poisons.
Oohm
- Oohm walks Tem as a young man wearing a white cowl bearing a staff, and on his back, the sacred Basket of Life.
- Followers of Oohm can heal any wound or restore any dead being, no matter how long dead.
Jaduu
- Jaduu is the God of Treachery, appearing as both male and female at the same time: namely, a handsome heavily muscled man wielding an earthern staff, having dishevelled hair, red eyes, long lolling tongue, pendulous breasts and a sunken stomach.
- Jaduu wears only a necklace of freshly severed heads, a girdle of severed arms, and infant corpses as earrings. Jaduu’s footprints leave cracks and fissures filled with an eternally-burning flow of lava.
- At night, Jaduu can only be seen by dogs, who bark in terror.
D’Aad
- D’Aad is the Flame Imperishable, the God of Justice and Truth. As the keeper of physical and moral order and protector of oaths, D’Aad appears as a beautiful woman wearing pink robes carrying a scroll.
- D’Aad’s clerics follow the Six-Fold Path: temperance, honesty, modesty, liberty, courage and integrity.
Arawn
- Arawn, the Caller to Sleep, is the wisest of the gods and dwells on an island in the sea that only the Dead can find. The island is guarded by his shadows, which are the whale and the shark.
- Arawn’s clerics go about the battlefield and aid those who are near death to properly reach the land of the here-after.
- Arawn can be summoned by sacrificing 57 of his followers, during the dark of the Moon.
- Plagues, diseases and pestilence originate when clerics of Arawn summon the dead from their graves at night.
Razim
- Razim appears as a man with bright red skin, a beard of flame, hair of fire and a silver right hand.
- Razim is worshipped by those who lust for killing and fighting.
- Clerics of Razim who desert the battlefield are struck dead because Razim does not tolerate cowardice.