Ouralon

Sovereign of Law and Lore.

Ouralon is served at the desk. He is venerated wherever justice is served, or knowledge is shared, as much as at any Sovereign temple. His followers are voracious for knowledge, and preserve all that they can (though some dark secrets they wisely restrict). He grants them many tools to aid this search: they can perceive the magical against the mundane and pierce the most convincing illusions. They might halt a man for questioning or turn aside deadly magic. He is said to share his highest insights through dreams.

Traditions that teach him: the Dwarven Forgepriest, the Gnomish Iconologist, and the Antiquarian.

His worship day is Sul, the week’s first day. He shares Sul with Nasaar. What dark lore that Ouralon would bind by law and seal, Nasaar’s servants would command by name and rite.

Strictures

Ouralon’s three traditions ask different measures of their followers. Find your own tradition below.

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 and prayer — reading, copying, or reciting what she has read, and praying over what she has learned. On Sul, Ouralon’s holy day, she must read aloud where any may hear and stand to answer whatever is asked of her concerning it, and she may not leave while any still asks. The Sul reading takes at least two hours (12 turns).
• 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.

Gnomish Iconologist

An iconologist of Ouralon abides every stricture listed for the 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 must keep every promise she makes, sworn or unsworn.

Antiquarian

An antiquarian of Ouralon abides every stricture listed for the Gnomish Iconologist above, and further:

• A follower of Ouralon must never speak an untruth, for any cause.

What binds

An oath is a promise made in Ouralon’s name, or upon anything the swearer holds sacred. A promise is any clear verbal commitment made.

Where two oaths or promises conflict, or any cannot be kept, she must go before the highest-ranking of her tradition and ask to be released from one, paying penance as appropriate for her carelessness.

Silence is not a lie. Save for the topic she chooses to recite on during Sul, the antiquarian of Ouralon is not bound to speak - only to be truthful when she does.

She must preserve. She need not publish. The stricture on written works asks that they continue to exist, not that they be read. A follower may keep a book sealed, shelved, unlisted, and unlent for the whole of her life, and Ouralon is satisfied — he asked her not to burn it.

A scroll is written to be spent. A spell is not a book. Loosing the spell a scroll holds is not destroying it — that was its purpose from the first stroke of ink; and a glyph or rune she dispels is a working undone, not a record burned.