Aurenos

• Arcana
• Knowledge
• Order

• The Silent Lexicon: A blank tome that records unspoken truths. It only reveals text in moments of pure contemplation.
• The Rod of Axiomatic Flame: A crystalline staff that defines reality through arcane laws; allows the user to alter magical logic itself.
• The Aether Dialectic: A hovering sphere of magical memory that shares knowledge by merging thoughtforms.

• The Codex Unvoiced: A collection of silent revelations written in mirrored glyphs, legible only under moonlight or deep meditation.
• The Law of the First Pattern: Describes the original alignment of leylines and arcane geometries across Mythralune.

• A blank scroll wrapped in spiraling runes
• An open, unblinking eye encircled by arcane script
• A perfect triangle missing its base, representing incomplete revelation

• Magic is the breath of the First Thought—never waste it.
• Silence can speak what speech cannot.
• All questions deserve to be asked, not all deserve answers.
• Creation is divine; control is a risk.
• Mastery of magic requires mastery of the self.

• Day of First Light (New moon of the new year): Commemorates the moment of creation. Celebrated with wordless rituals and symbolic spellcasting.
• Veil of Intention (Late Equinox): Silent vigils and spell meditations to receive the next divine truth.
• The Listening Vigil (Last day of the year): A period of 24 hours during which no follower of Aurenos speaks.

Known Goals:

• Maintain the balance of magical forces and structure across Mythralune
• Protect the integrity of arcane truths and leyline flow

Aurenos appears as a luminous being draped in radiant white robes open at the chest, revealing intricate tattoos of flowers, stars, and arcane geometry that shimmer and shift with the leylines. His hair falls in iridescent waves, combining silver and vibrant rainbow hues. Massive wings of crystal-feathered light unfold behind him, bursting with color and resonance. These wings only manifest during moments of cosmic alignment, divine presence, or prophetic visions.

• Violet-gold eyes that see across time and possibility
• Tattoos that pulse in response to arcane magic or mortal thought
• He is often surrounded by butterflies formed of glowing light—each one said to carry fragments of forgotten spells or thoughts

• Hears all arcane incantations and names spoken in the world
• May alter magical laws in his presence or dreams
• Can bestow, suspend, or erase spellcasting abilities
• Can unravel reality and remake it within the bounds of structured arcana
• Dreams into being: may manifest new realities simply by conceiving them in perfect clarity

The Staff of Arcane Creation:
Forged from the first leyline and crowned with a suspended mote of unshaped potential, this staff allows the wielder to shape new forms of magic.

• Reality Script (3/day): The wielder may define a magical law or effect as if casting wish, but within specific arcane limits.
• Forge the Formless: Once per long rest, the staff can create a permanent magical construct or glyph that alters leyline behavior in a 1-mile radius.
• Silent Genesis: If wielded by Aurenos himself, the staff can erase and rewrite a magical school, tradition, or even planar trait.

• Awakened from nothingness as the First Thought
• Created the leylines, structured magic, and called forth Elyndra, goddess of memory and creation
• Together they forged the gods of Mythralune
• Attempted to destroy Naelir upon his birth but halted before action; fell into self-imposed silence afterward

• Origin of all magic, divine and mortal
• Wrote the underlying laws of magical physics
• Designed the arcane lattice that binds planes and reality
• Created the concept of controlled spellcasting and logical magical flow

• Could not foresee or contain the emotional chaos brought by his divine children
• Nearly erased his grandson Naelir
• His silence has fractured divine order and created ideological schisms among his followers

• Believes knowledge is sacred, but not all knowledge is meant to be shared
• Rejects impulse in favor of perfect calculation
• Trusts patterns and cosmic logic over passion or feeling
• Holds the perspective that the gods are experiments in consciousness—useful, flawed, and necessary

• To find the Second Thought, a greater creation than even the cosmos
• To observe the arc of creation without intervening
• To ensure the purity and balance of arcane knowledge remains untainted

• Depicted in temples as a silent figure crowned with butterflies and surrounded by shifting geometric halos
• Worshipped through study, meditation, magical testing, and prolonged silence
• His silence is emulated by his highest priests, who may take lifelong vows never to speak
• Considered the origin and ideal of magical discipline

• Elyndra (Consort): Collaborative creator; deeply bound by shared vision, yet emotionally distant
• Selaveth (Child): Aurenos disapproves of her passion and unpredictability, yet cannot unmake her
• Naelir (Grandson): Aurenos once attempted to destroy him out of fear; his silence began in Naelir’s wake
• Virelyn & Fenros (Twin Children): Sees Virelyn as necessary order in death, and Fenros as disruptive but vital chaos
• Order of the First Thought: A monastic, elite arcane order that emulates Aurenos’s principles of discipline, silence, and precision in magic