Boghegd and Griolor

Where is Griolor?

On the southern third of Tachamund where the continent begins to stretch east-west rather than north-south, just south of the warmest forest in Tachamund and on a spit of land broken up by the eroding waves of the sea, is tucked Griolor.

How is Griolor classified?

Griolor is considered to be a benevolent theome. Boghegd uses Fate more as a very advanced geomancer would than as a land god would, but he uses that protectively... albeit greedily. Boghegd might be the most monetarily corrupted land god on Theoma. At the same time, he has encouraged a heavy urban development of his land, and standard protections can be purchased from him at affordable rates.

Notably, Griolor is considered a benevolent theome of fate skeptics. There is very little default Fate manipulation, and people generally have only the Fate effects from Boghegd that they've actively purchased from him. There are rumored to be shrines to the cursed in many of the Pantheon rooms of the houses in Griolor.

What kind of population and economy does Griolor have?

Griolor is a very heavily developed port city-state. The government is run by Boghegd's state shipping corporation and it is run in a way that is very friendly to all forms of long-distance trade and travel. There is a very, very large library of Querent-Querent in the city, dwarfing the local temple to Uttermost Dark, because Uttermost Dark is a localist meta-faith whereas Querent-Querent aligns more with how Boghegd sees the world.

Outside of the main city of Griolor itself, there is some rural development (mostly farms and small ever-quarries), but Griolor is usually known for its titular city. Without the extensive Fate protections that most benevolent land gods provide, the theome has a bad reputation for being unlucky, as grievous accidents have been known to occur the way they do in Missing Theomes. This has tended to concentrate development in Griolor itself, where protections against accidents can be purchased from Boghegd for reasonable rates.

What is Boghegd like?

Greedy. Boghegd plays mortal games from an advantaged position. He is running his shipping company and his theome like a for-profit venture overall. Even though he could create fantastic wealth by fiat, he enjoys being a merchant lord and refuses to "cheat" by using the land god's local omnipotence to give himself unlimited wealth. Countless blessings are for sale from him, and rich geomancers seek him out to buy spells from him. Getting spells from Boghegd is both easier and harder than getting them from other landgods. Easier, because they only cost money. Harder, because they cost quite a bit of money. A he is very bribable, he is considered to be quite a corrupt ruler, although he does seem to have many ethical restrictions that limit the ends to which he is bribable for. For instance, he will not sabotage people.

Although he is very definitely still a land god (and so does things like never sleeping or tiring), Boghegd's attitude against cheating extends to many self-limitations on himself that he has seemingly self-applied. In fact, he has very extensive limitations on his ability to see Fate, which he really does only see as a very advanced geomancer would see. For this reason, he's called "The Blind Judge". The other land gods represent him in art as one who has blindfolded himself.

Boghegd's avatar usually appears to be a Myrghon, but they are so rare on the surface that he is commonly mistaken for an exotic custom avatar. Many of the land gods do appear to be creatures not otherwise found on Theoma. Unlike other land gods, Boghegd almost never knows of events that happened away from the literal senses of his avatar. Boghegd disagrees with the other land-gods that he's actually his theome. He insists that he is his avatar, who merely has vast power over the landscape.

Some of Boghegd's competitors complain bitterly about the one "cheat" that Boghegd does grant his business ventures: free terraforming and construction. When Boghegd needs new buildings for any venture, he can sculpt the land and make the new buildings build themselves very rapidly. He does this freely and greatly enjoys it. He makes this service available to others only for a price (he is Griolor's most prolific construction worker as a result of people buying this service), but for his own ventures it is free to him. This spares him what is otherwise a very considerable expense of large-scale business endeavors. Likewise, he can create real estate for himself, even if he has to raise it from the sea or modify other buildings to extend them. His competitors insist that the way he gives this advantage to himself for free is making up for deficits in his actual managerial expertise and keeping his shipping company on top unfairly. They might be right.