Guiding Light of Koria

 

Welcome, weary traveller. You saw our menu and weren't sure what to get? Sure, come right in, sit at the bar and we direct you to one of our tables. You can keep your goods, but please refrain from drawing weapons or weapon-like objects of any kind.

— The Caretaker

The Inquisitor is doing what an Inquisitor does best: knows everything and when he doesn't know it, it might not be worth knowing or he doesn't know it now, but will know it eventually. No secret too dirty, no affair too raunchy, no story too bloody for the Inquisitor. The Inquisitor knows everything.
Meaning: if you want to read everything in the articles and every story in the Tales of Koria, every detail, you take this tour.

The Mortal God is a rank dedicated to the individuals who are diving into the Spiral to slaughter demons, harvest information, loot whatever they can find, be it relics, knowledge or just clothes. A Mortal God is by nature a being with enormous power. Be it in magic or by the craft of the sword. They venture down the dwindling roads, leaving corpses and blood in their wake. Some of them are assigned to other tasks outside of the spiral, no less bloody than the adventures in the spiral.
Meaning: if you want to read about the more gory, bloody details in the articles or the stories in the Tales of Koria, you might want to take this tour.

A Formulist is a special kind of being. A being who is assigned a task, fulfills it and will not talk about it. That can be a scribe to catalogue and document the doings of a dark sorcerer, a researcher, an archeologist or more... discreet affairs.
Meaning: if you want to read more about the raunchy details or to dive directly into the steaming pile of... well, then you might want to take this tour.

The Eternals (Link in the sidebar) are exactly that: Eternal. They embody the concept of Life and Death as a "person". They are the designers of the world, of Koria and nearly every species (except for the Dragonborn and the Underlings) living on this continent. They love each other dearly and are only remembered by the Elves, be it High-, Wood- or Silver Elves. And since they do not depend on whether or not the beings in Koria believe in them, they persists and are Eternal. From time to time they come down to Koria for giggles or to experience life down there from more mortal perspectives.

An Outer God represents a more general, overarching concept. Best example for this is the Goddess of the Forge. She was believed into existence by a lot of people who dreamed about a god or goddess (it appeared to be a goddess for many) of smithing. You see, it is more about overarching concepts, encapsulating the Inner Gods.   The Goddess of the Forge is more often believed by the Dwarves, but hey, they are Dwarves; if they do not believe, who would? So every Outer God like a God of the Wind or Goddess of Sand are general concepts. They might have ethnicity-specific Inner Gods (think about it as a an Avatar of sorts), but are believed to be the embodiement of a general concept.

An Inner God represents a concept which is believed by an ethnicity or group of people, for example the Goddess of Sleep Alicia or Luseus, the God of Healing in Hulwar. Those might have some influence in other realms the moment someone starts to believe in them in a different location, but mostly they are confined to a specific area. Like Greybeard, the main god of the Dwarves, who has many names, but is the same god in every clan.   For example Luseus is believed to be the god of restoration in Hulwar. This means he and his rival, the Bringer of Plagues, are confined to Hulwar and the outskirts of the land itself. If there is a worshipper of him who is going to the Elves or another part of a human nation, the influence and belief of Luseus is traveling with the worshipper and gives the god eyes and ears far away from his working area.