Ouralon

Sovereign of Law and Lore.

Lore pending

This page carries Ouralon’s strictures and little else. The wider lore of his faith — his courts, his libraries, his clergy, his place among the Sovereigns — has not been written yet. What is here is complete and canon; it is simply not the whole page.

Ouralon is served at the desk. Where Baaldra is venerated at the cooking-fire, Ouralon is venerated over a book: every tradition that teaches him grants the same power, and grants it again and again — Thirst for Knowledge, a voracious appetite for Theology, Collegiate Wizardry, and Knowledge of every kind. His spells are those of seeing truly and of binding fast. Discern Magic and True Seeing pierce what is hidden; Halt Humanoids, Spellward, Dispel Magic, and the Spheres of Invulnerability hold fast what is loose; to his antiquarians he grants Prophetic Dream. Law and Lore are one thing to Ouralon: to know a thing truly is to bind it, and a word rightly spoken holds.

Traditions that teach him: the Dwarven Forgepriest, the Gnomish Iconologist, and the Antiquarian — each asking more of its followers than the last.

His worship day is Sul, the week’s first day, when the law is read aloud before any business is done beneath it. He shares Sul with Nasaar, whose lore is everything Ouralon’s is not: unbound, unrecorded, and unruled.

Strictures

Ouralon’s three traditions ask different measures of their followers, and each builds upon the one before it. Find your own tradition below; it tells you what it adds to those above it.

Dwarven Forgepriest

• A follower of Ouralon must always display a holy symbol of Ouralon somewhere on her person when in public.
• A follower of Ouralon must spend one hour (6 turns) each day in study — reading, copying, or reciting what she has read. On Sul, Ouralon’s holy day, she must spend at least two hours (12 turns), and she must study aloud in the hearing of others: teaching what she knows, or reciting the law where any may hear it.
• A follower of Ouralon must keep every oath she swears, and must swear no oath she does not intend to keep.
• A follower of Ouralon must never destroy a written work, nor suffer one to be destroyed while she can prevent it. She is not obliged to spread what she preserves.

Gnomish Iconologist

An iconologist of Ouralon keeps everything asked of a Dwarven Forgepriest above, and further:

• A follower of Ouralon must submit her own disputes to lawful judgment, where any lawful judgment can be had, rather than settle them by her own hand.
• A follower of Ouralon is bound by every promise she makes — sworn or unsworn, given formally or given in passing. She need promise nothing; but what she has promised, she must do.

Antiquarian

An antiquarian of Ouralon keeps everything asked of a Gnomish Iconologist above, and further:

• A follower of Ouralon must never speak an untruth: not to an enemy, not to spare a friend, not for any cause however kind or needful. She may keep silent, decline to answer, or say plainly that she will not say — but she may not lie.

What binds

An oath is a promise made in Ouralon’s name, or upon anything the swearer holds sacred. A promise is any plain undertaking to do or not do a thing, whether or not a god is named in it.

Neither binds a follower of Ouralon to the impossible. Where two oaths conflict, or an oath cannot be kept, she must go before the eldest of her tradition and be released from one — and the releasing is itself set down in the record, for a broken word unrecorded is a lie.

Silence is not a lie. One bound never to speak an untruth is never thereby bound to speak: she may refuse the answer, refuse the question, or say that she will not say. What she may not do is answer falsely.