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'''God of Tyrrany and Vengeance'''<br>
 
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(About the God)
 
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==Makorynite Orthodoxy of Liminal==
 
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The Makorynite Orthodoxy began in the great city of Liminal, an outgrowth of its proximity to the Eternal Hells themselves, thanks to the imbricate nature of that city, which provides access to the very domains of the Talion gods. For the most part, most Makorynite temples in Rinhony belong to the Orthodoxy.
 
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The orthodox theology of the core Makorynite faith holds that tyranny and vengeance are sins. It is the duty of the faithful to be watchful for signs of those afflictions, both in themselves and others. Power is the great temptation, and must be a tool for an ends, rather than the ends themselves. The sinful will be cast into the Hellshards in the afterlife, to suffer at the hands of Makoryn's iron devils.
 
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It is the duty of the priesthood to work against tyrants and those who would subvert or pervert justice to their own ends. Though this sounds very benevolent, the fact is there is something in the Makorynite faith which thrives on suffering and pain. The faithful who are dispatched to deal with tyrants and the wicked do so with terrible brutality, often making the suffering of their targets long-lasting and very public, as a warning to others.
 
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The Makorynite priesthood also teaches that imprisonment is a holy endeavor. It is the very purpose of the Talion gods, and Makorynites often criticize the priesthoods of other Talion gods for not taking that duty more seriously. The Makorynite faith teaches that pain is purification, and that suffering leads to enlightenment, as well.
 
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Among other things, Makorynite temples are always constructed to include dungeons, or at least a basic gaol. The priesthood makes it very clear to the powers that be that their services as gaolers may be invoked at any time, and many rulers do take advantage of those services, rather than bothering with their own dungeons or jails.
 
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The patriarch of the Makorynite faith is called the '''Iron Hierophant''', who is clad in dark black leather robes, with a great crown of jagged iron, inset with garnets. The Iron Hierophant always considers the Iron Gaol in Liminal's Hellsward to be his home temple, and an entire section of that mighty temple is set aside for his use alone. Despite this, he is rarely in residence, spending much of his time in the Talion Court of Makoryn.
 
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Beneath the Iron Hierophant is the '''Iron Collegium''', an elite order of potent high priests of Makoryn. The great burden of keeping the church as a body operating lies with the Iron Collegium. They are given "dominions" over which they are responsible, either geographic territories or conceptual areas of interest to the church.
 
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Beneath the Iron Collegium are the individual high priests of temples, called the '''''Atera'''''. This title is derived from an old term that means "one who subjugates," and refers to the priest's duty to subjugate the desire for power out of his congregation.
 
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==The Iron Fist Heresy==
 
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==The Sudmunari Sect==
 
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A relatively minor sect of practice within the faith of Makoryn, the Sudmunari Sect is based out of Sudmunar, one of the Holandi Cit-States in the southern reaches of Rinhony. The tradition is only about sixty years old, making it one of the youngest of the Makorynite sects, but it is a vibrant and growing one. The Orthodoxy of Liminal has expressed concern over the Sudmunari theology, but has not yet spoken out against the growing sect.
 
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The Sudmunari teach that only the faithful of Makoryn can truly discern tyranny. They spring from the Liminal Orthodoxy, so they do hold tyranny to be sinful. Rather than seeking it out and destroying it, as the Liminal Orthodoxy would have, the Sudmunari maintain that the surest method of destroying those who would wield undue power over others is to themselves seize up the reins of power and use them righteously. The Sudmunari preach a theology of acquisition and conquer, a philosophy the sect put into practice sixty years ago in the Holandi city-state of Sudmunar.
 
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The head of the sect is called the '''High Watcher''', and he currently serves as priest-king of the Sudmunar city-state. While he pays ritual and liturgical fealty to the Iron Hierophant in Liminal, everyone in the faith is aware that it is a technical obeisance at best.
 
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The High Watcher maintains a small council called the '''Chained Ones''', high priests of the faith who tend to various needs of the sect. At current, there are two Chained Ones, one in charge of running the Makorynite temples under the Sudmunari banner, and the other whose responsibility is visiting other Makorynite temples near Sudmunar and convincing them to turn to the sect's practices. Other than this, the Sudmunari hold to the Liminal Orthodoxy's rankings; indeed, technically the Chained Ones hold the rank of ''Atera'' in the Orthodoxy, and the High Watcher is part of the Iron Collegium.
 
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The Sudmunari maintain a single knightly order associated with their sect, the '''Order of Iron and Bone''', a gathering of knights and paladins sworn to defend the city of Sudmunar and the person of the High Watcher.
 
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==The Hellshards (Domain)==
 
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* '''Domains:''' Tyranny, Vengeance
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* '''Channel Divinity Feats:''' Power of Amaunator, Bane's Instructive Stratagem, Tiamat's Bitter Vengeance, Righteous Rage of Tempus
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A loud, clanging realm of eternal noise and a thousand-thousand sharp iron edges, the Hellshards were crafted to eternally cut at the flesh of the primordial Vabrosyn, a great web of eternally-reshaping flesh and sinew. Those who abused their power over others, or threw over justice in favor of vengeance are banished here, to be painfully tormented and hunted by the iron devils of Makoryn.
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|Status=Lesser God of Tyranny and Vengeance
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|OtherTitles=''The King-in-Iron'', ''Father of Tyrants'', the ''Iron Lord''
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|SymbolImg=[[Image:Makoryn-seal.jpg|center|250px]]
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|Domains=Light, War
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|Tenets=Makoryn is the god of ''tyranny'', ''imprisonment'', ''punishment'', and ''torture''. His powers and those of his servants are concerned with concepts of misused authority, fear, intimidation and the lust for power.
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|Depiction=Makoryn is most often depicted as a tall, lordly figure, clad in leathern robes set with rivets and clasps made of cold, dully grey iron. His garments are set here and there with dark, blood-red garnets, and he wears a mask-crown made of tall, sharp edges, with only pure void staring out of the eyeholes in the mask. He wields a long-handled mace crafted of cunningly interwoven iron shards, similar in design to his mask-crown.
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|Symbols=Makoryn's ''holy symbol'' is an iron pendant, diamond-shaped, depicting a jagged-headed mace-scepter. The faith's other symbols include jagged, sharp iron or iron chains, iron masks that limit vision, hearing and breath, garnets of all kinds, and web-spinning spiders (due to their imprisonment and torture of their prey). Makoryn's favor is sometimes shown by a ruddy, maroon radiance.
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|Origins=The sun goddess Khoro crafted Makoryn when she seized up the ever-transforming essence of the primordial Vabrosyn, and imprisoned it in iron and leather restraints which she imbued with divinity and fashioned into the King-in-Iron. He imprisons the eternally transforming and growing flesh-elemental Vabrosyn by slicing away all of his changes and growths, keeping him stagnant and in one shape forever by virtue of containment.
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|Hell=A loud, clanging realm of eternal noise and a thousand-thousand sharp iron edges, the Hellshards were crafted to eternally cut at the flesh of the primordial Vabrosyn, a great web of eternally-reshaping flesh and sinew. Those who abused their power over others, or threw over justice in favor of vengeance are banished here, to be painfully tormented and hunted by the iron devils of Makoryn.
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|Sects=The [[Almanni Theocracy]], the [[Iron Fist Heresy]], the [[Makorynite Orthodoxy of Liminal]], the [[Sudmunari Sect]]
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==The Faithful==
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===Worshippers of Makoryn===
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===Paladins of Makoryn===
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==Orders & Locations==
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===Known Temples===
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===Known Cloistered Orders===
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* '''The Order of Saint Ilithra:''' The Order is something of an outside faction, practically a sect in its own right and for good reason: they forbid adherence to the hierarchy or tenets of any single Makorynite sect, but teach that there is a vital truth to be found in all of them. They have a reputation as wandering scholars and are generally welcome in most places where Makoryn is worshipped, even in the monasteries of the Inquisition (although not in its temples or public places).
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==Favored Servants of Makoryn==
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* '''Devils:''' A number of devils serve Makoryn, as any of the Talion gods. In particular, Makoryn favors '''vizier devils''', occasionally sending them to advise the faithful and '''pain devils''' to administer his holy torments. His noted favored servants among devilkind, however, are the ''kytons'', the so-called '''chain devils'''. The Hellshards are administered by a cohort of '''pit fiends''' called the "Masters of Clangor."
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* '''Spiders:''' In the Hierophantine Codex, there is a vision in which one of the Iron Hierophants - ill with a prophecy-plague contracted during a visit to the Eternal Hells - describes seeing Makoryn's robes open. Within the vast expanses of his holiness, there beats a glistening, slithering, twisting heart-thing that is all that remains of Vabrosyn. It is bound up in jagged iron webs, spun by a thousand-thousand spiders that dwell in the darkness of Makoryn's being. Spiders and the patterns of their webs have often been the source of omens for Makorynite prophets, and the god himself has on more than one occasion sent great demon spiders to do his bidding.
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===Saints of the Makorynite Church===
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* '''Saint Ilithra Illuminator:''' An ancient scribe and scholar of the early Makorynite priesthood, Saint Ilithra taught that some of Makoryn's faithful must simply watch and discover information - the more closely guarded the better. He swore an oath of neutrality and was largely trusted by all facets of the early church, a trust that continues to be extended (however guardedly) to his sworn followers today.
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* '''Saint Chobinn the Manacled:''' Also called Saint Chobinn the Merciful, Chobinn was a wandering ascetic of Makoryn driven by a single purpose: to see that the imprisoned were cared for. He embodies the "cruel mercy" of some Makorynite priests, who hold that those who ought be suffering must be shown compassion and healing, that their souls might be purified by the suffering they experience during life. In short, the longer they live, the more they suffer, and so a little compassion is holy and needful. He often broke into prisons and dungeons to feed and heal those within, but never freed them. He was captured and starved to death within the dungeons of a tyrant in what is now one of the portions of the Empire of the Nine.
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* '''Usmanax the Sainted:''' Terrifying but wise, Usmanax is said to be a great spider of immense size that dwells in a cavern in the Ilandor Mountains. This cavern is a place of pilgrimage for some powerful servants of Makoryn, for Usmanax understands more about the nature of Makoryn than any mortal or devil in existence. Those who show themselves to be merciless, powerful and yet humble may find wisdom and power given to them by the great Sainted Spider. Those who fail to measure up in his eyes are eaten.
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* '''Saint Dovis of the Mace:''' The patron saint of the ''Brotherhood of the Scepter'', Saint Dovis was a powerful dwarven paladin and master of mace combat and guerilla tactics. According to the Hierophantine Codex, he died in the war against the Great Tyrant, the founder of the Iron Heresy, his death serving as warning against the power of that terrible warlord who would have come to rule all of Rinhony.
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* '''Saint Erithania the Pilgrim, the First High Watcher:''' Only canonized within the Sudmunari sect, Erithania was a warrior-priestess of Makoryn who received a vision of how to properly destroy the tyrants of Sudmunar and prevent others from taking their place. She is revered as an oracle and a great general, who raised an army not by money or political power, but by the power of her words and the justice of her cause.
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==Other Info==
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* [[Makoryn4e]]

Latest revision as of 06:57, 2 February 2015

Makoryn
Lawful Evil
Lesser God of Tyranny and Vengeance
Also called The King-in-Iron, Father of Tyrants, the Iron Lord
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Cleric Domains
Light, War
Tenets of Makoryn
Makoryn is the god of tyranny, imprisonment, punishment, and torture. His powers and those of his servants are concerned with concepts of misused authority, fear, intimidation and the lust for power.
Depiction
Makoryn is most often depicted as a tall, lordly figure, clad in leathern robes set with rivets and clasps made of cold, dully grey iron. His garments are set here and there with dark, blood-red garnets, and he wears a mask-crown made of tall, sharp edges, with only pure void staring out of the eyeholes in the mask. He wields a long-handled mace crafted of cunningly interwoven iron shards, similar in design to his mask-crown.
Symbols
Makoryn's holy symbol is an iron pendant, diamond-shaped, depicting a jagged-headed mace-scepter. The faith's other symbols include jagged, sharp iron or iron chains, iron masks that limit vision, hearing and breath, garnets of all kinds, and web-spinning spiders (due to their imprisonment and torture of their prey). Makoryn's favor is sometimes shown by a ruddy, maroon radiance.
Origins
The sun goddess Khoro crafted Makoryn when she seized up the ever-transforming essence of the primordial Vabrosyn, and imprisoned it in iron and leather restraints which she imbued with divinity and fashioned into the King-in-Iron. He imprisons the eternally transforming and growing flesh-elemental Vabrosyn by slicing away all of his changes and growths, keeping him stagnant and in one shape forever by virtue of containment.
The Hellshards (Hell)
A loud, clanging realm of eternal noise and a thousand-thousand sharp iron edges, the Hellshards were crafted to eternally cut at the flesh of the primordial Vabrosyn, a great web of eternally-reshaping flesh and sinew. Those who abused their power over others, or threw over justice in favor of vengeance are banished here, to be painfully tormented and hunted by the iron devils of Makoryn.
Sects
The Almanni Theocracy, the Iron Fist Heresy, the Makorynite Orthodoxy of Liminal, the Sudmunari Sect

The Faithful

Worshippers of Makoryn

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Priests of Makoryn

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Clerics of Makoryn

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Paladins of Makoryn

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Orders & Locations

Known Temples

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Known Cloistered Orders

  • The Order of Saint Ilithra: The Order is something of an outside faction, practically a sect in its own right and for good reason: they forbid adherence to the hierarchy or tenets of any single Makorynite sect, but teach that there is a vital truth to be found in all of them. They have a reputation as wandering scholars and are generally welcome in most places where Makoryn is worshipped, even in the monasteries of the Inquisition (although not in its temples or public places).

Known Knightly Orders

x

Known Sacred Sites

x

Favored Servants of Makoryn

  • Devils: A number of devils serve Makoryn, as any of the Talion gods. In particular, Makoryn favors vizier devils, occasionally sending them to advise the faithful and pain devils to administer his holy torments. His noted favored servants among devilkind, however, are the kytons, the so-called chain devils. The Hellshards are administered by a cohort of pit fiends called the "Masters of Clangor."
  • Spiders: In the Hierophantine Codex, there is a vision in which one of the Iron Hierophants - ill with a prophecy-plague contracted during a visit to the Eternal Hells - describes seeing Makoryn's robes open. Within the vast expanses of his holiness, there beats a glistening, slithering, twisting heart-thing that is all that remains of Vabrosyn. It is bound up in jagged iron webs, spun by a thousand-thousand spiders that dwell in the darkness of Makoryn's being. Spiders and the patterns of their webs have often been the source of omens for Makorynite prophets, and the god himself has on more than one occasion sent great demon spiders to do his bidding.

Saints of the Makorynite Church

  • Saint Ilithra Illuminator: An ancient scribe and scholar of the early Makorynite priesthood, Saint Ilithra taught that some of Makoryn's faithful must simply watch and discover information - the more closely guarded the better. He swore an oath of neutrality and was largely trusted by all facets of the early church, a trust that continues to be extended (however guardedly) to his sworn followers today.
  • Saint Chobinn the Manacled: Also called Saint Chobinn the Merciful, Chobinn was a wandering ascetic of Makoryn driven by a single purpose: to see that the imprisoned were cared for. He embodies the "cruel mercy" of some Makorynite priests, who hold that those who ought be suffering must be shown compassion and healing, that their souls might be purified by the suffering they experience during life. In short, the longer they live, the more they suffer, and so a little compassion is holy and needful. He often broke into prisons and dungeons to feed and heal those within, but never freed them. He was captured and starved to death within the dungeons of a tyrant in what is now one of the portions of the Empire of the Nine.
  • Usmanax the Sainted: Terrifying but wise, Usmanax is said to be a great spider of immense size that dwells in a cavern in the Ilandor Mountains. This cavern is a place of pilgrimage for some powerful servants of Makoryn, for Usmanax understands more about the nature of Makoryn than any mortal or devil in existence. Those who show themselves to be merciless, powerful and yet humble may find wisdom and power given to them by the great Sainted Spider. Those who fail to measure up in his eyes are eaten.
  • Saint Dovis of the Mace: The patron saint of the Brotherhood of the Scepter, Saint Dovis was a powerful dwarven paladin and master of mace combat and guerilla tactics. According to the Hierophantine Codex, he died in the war against the Great Tyrant, the founder of the Iron Heresy, his death serving as warning against the power of that terrible warlord who would have come to rule all of Rinhony.
  • Saint Erithania the Pilgrim, the First High Watcher: Only canonized within the Sudmunari sect, Erithania was a warrior-priestess of Makoryn who received a vision of how to properly destroy the tyrants of Sudmunar and prevent others from taking their place. She is revered as an oracle and a great general, who raised an army not by money or political power, but by the power of her words and the justice of her cause.

Other Info

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