Aureon
Aureon, Sovereign of Law and Lore, I’m not saying I believe in you, but if you’re listening anyway, please keep my facts straight, and my spells stable. And if the Shadow is eavesdropping, kindly tell it to piss off.
Aureon is the Sovereign of Law and Lore, patron of wizards, scholars, librarians, judges, and anyone who believes that knowledge should be organized instead of left to breed in dark corners. He is considered the first wizard, the one who uncovered the principles of arcane magic and then did the dangerous thing: he shared them with mortals willing to study.
In most Host traditions, all Sovereigns are equal, but Aureon is often treated as the guiding mind of the pantheon. Not a king, not a commander, just the one everyone turns toward when the question is complicated and the consequences are worse.
What Aureon Represents
Aureon stands for law, learning, and magic as a tool, not a miracle. He is the promise that the world can be understood, that patterns can be found, that rules can be written, and that power can be made safer through discipline and study.
He is also a cautionary tale in the shape of a god, because knowledge is never purely kind. It is useful. It is sharp. It cuts whoever grabs it carelessly.
Worshipers and Everyday Devotion
Dedicated followers of Aureon are usually wizards, scholars, scribes, librarians, and government officials. Many have at least some training in arcane magic, because devotion to Aureon often looks like study, practice, and the slow accumulation of competence.
Even people who never cast a spell may invoke Aureon in daily life. His name is commonly spoken when swearing to tell the truth in a court of law, and oaths taken under Aureon’s gaze carry a certain weight among Vassals. You can lie anywhere, of course. The question is whether you want your lie to be witnessed.
Family and Divine Relations
Aureon’s relationships are the sort that make theologians very happy and everyone else quietly tired.
He is often said to be the brother of Onatar, which tracks neatly if you think of knowledge and craft as two hands of the same body. His wife is Boldrei, a pairing that makes sense if you accept that law without community is tyranny, and community without law is a brawl in a crowded kitchen.
Then there is the Shadow. The Shadow was once simply Aureon’s shadow, until Aureon’s own magic gave it malign life. This is one of the reasons Aureon is respected and feared in equal measure. Even gods can create consequences they cannot neatly unmake.
Rites and Holy Days
Prayer to Aureon tends to be formal, because this is a god who appreciates structure. Offerings and invocations are often made when seeking knowledge, beginning a difficult study, or asking for clarity in matters of law.
Aureon’s name is also invoked in courts, especially in solemn declarations and oaths. Whether this improves honesty is debatable. Whether it improves the drama is not.
Aureon’s Crown is observed on the 26th of Dravago and is commonly marked with lectures, debates, readings, and the kind of public scholarship that makes non scholars flee to the nearest tavern shrine of Olladra.
Clergy and Temples
Priests of Aureon are typically trained in logic and the laws of their nation. Many serve as bureaucrats, magistrates, advisors, and officials, because Aureon’s faith naturally gravitates toward institutions that run on procedure.
Shrines to Aureon are often found in libraries, academies, courtrooms, and places where records are kept. In larger cities, a hall of Aureon may be both temple and library, because the line between worship and research gets very thin when your god is knowledge.
Myths and Warnings
The foundational myth is straightforward: Aureon was the first to discover arcane magic, and he shares it with those willing to learn. The deeper myths are not so comforting.
One tale says Aureon bound all the evil in his soul and banished it from himself, and that cast off darkness became the Shadow. Another says the world ends when Aureon and the Shadow rejoin, which is the sort of prophecy that makes you wonder if the lesson is “pursue wisdom” or “never trust a wizard, even when he is a god.”
The Draconic Interpretation
Some dragon traditions, especially those associated with Thir, tell a different story. In this view, Aureon is the ascended blue dragon Ourelonastrix. In life, he uncovered the Draconic Prophecy and brought arcane secrets to the giants of Xen’drik, setting in motion the chain of events that led to their destruction. Dragons remember this as kurash Ourelonastrix, “Aureon’s folly,” which is a wonderfully cold way to say, “This is what happens when knowledge is given to the wrong hands.”
