Bearers of The Titans Chain
Restrainers of the Ancient, In Death We All Are As Link or As Bearer
The Bearers of The Titans Chain is the predominant belief of the Fell Islanders, with adherents spread throughout the Fell Islands, The Isle of Mahrn as well as in the settled camps along the coast of the Ashorene.
The faithful of the Chainbearers are known for their wanton indulgence in earthly desires, for life is seen for it's transient nature, passing through for but a brief time before passing on to the next world. In death however, the Chainbearers see no heaven but an eternity of servitude is demanded of the souls who were allowed, if temporarily to sup at the fruits of the Titan's Garden, a world cultivated at the hand of a long forgotten behemoth and that, upon death you join those who keep the Titan who still strains to rise and reclaim the fruits that were stolen from him. Thus, the pleasures of life are but a brief feast before eternal toil.
Those who live richly and well are granted the honor of bearing the chains that restrain him; those who live dully or without joy are not bearers but the metal itself, the mindless links that hold him fast. Their faith teaches that as the Titan grows ever stronger in his prison, more and more Chainbearers are needed with each passing day.
Some sects hold the interpretation that the Aman blight is not a mark of the divine corpse of the Aman, but a the sign of the Titan’s stirring, an intrusion from his heavenly prison into the waking world as a punishment to the Kingdoms of Man whose Sworn Knights defiled the holy lands of Ushrocoran during the Second Crusade for the Fell Islands.
Mythology & Lore
Life & The Titan's Garden
The world itself is the Titan’s Garden, a paradise once cultivated by the Titan a hundred thousand years ago. To the faithful, life is celebration, an act of worship through indulgence, partaking endlessly in the bounty taken from The Titan.
Death & The Eternity of Restraint
Regardless of how one lives their lives, the afterlife is one of an unyielding and unceasing toil where every day heroic demands are made of the highest and lowest born equally. For those who sup well in the Titan's Garden, the blessed are born into the afterlife as the Chainbearers whose eternal struggle keeps the Titan entombed. To those who forsake the garden, they are forged into the very chains which hold it back. Mute, mindless, endlessly wracked in an enduring darkness.
The Titan
It is said by the Elders of the Fell Islands that before the Orcs and the Shoraq claimed the land, before the Aman had arrived to wander, there strode a lone Titan who shaped the world to its liking, making and unmaking continents until its heart was content. The Fell Islands, it is said, were once a vast land before the Titan’s wrath shattered them when the Shoraq displeased him. His fury hurled the earth skyward and fed it to the mountains of the Vales of Horakh-Dhrum.
Ages later, the Titan wandered eastward into the sea, crafting the drifting icelands of the Eastern Expanse and Amal Aiqua. The Titan returned only when O’nor, First of the Aelven Empires, waged the first death war upon the Orcs. His arrival back to the Hunolduran Plains announced with the fanfare of a cataclysmic tidal surge where entire cities were erased beneath its squall. Where the tread the Titan, armies both Orc and Aelf broke under a trembling world.
When at last the Titan slept, it was the legendary hero Verassian and his One-Thousand Knights who rode out. Around his legs they worked endlessly, wrapping chains of some enchanted Shoraqi metalstone for while the titan slept. When at last he woke from his long slumber, the Titan found himself bound. Great were his efforts to break free but the metals, ensorceled by Lizardmen spells would not yield. The bellow it cried was so great, trees from as far away as the Hessian Peninsula were said to be blown over. When at last the Titan roused itself to it's feet, it could not but tumble backwards into a crash which sent waves a mile high out for leagues in every direction with the skull of the Titan landing in Ushrocoran.
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