Guide to the Immortals

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the only one of his former allies who has remained faithful to him and who continues with him to seek new immortal candidates from the Nightmare Dimension. Patron: Unknown [presumed Razud] Allies: Harrow Enemies: Mazikeen Classic D&D Stats Followers’ Alignment: Any; clerics must be Neutral or Chaotic Favoured weapon: Dagger (allowed all one-handed small weapons) Clerics’ skills and powers: +1 bonus to Intelligence, +2 bonus to arcane magic, divine magic and alternative magic (not free) D&D 3E Stats Domains: Energy, Chaos, Magic, Trickery Favoured weapon: Dagger Source: IM3 POLUNIUS THE DESIGNER (The Celestial Architect) Patron of the Tritons, Patron of Sculpture, Architecture and Arts Level, Alignment, Sphere: 25 th (Eternal), LN, Matter Symbol: A compass and a hammer Portfolio: Tritons, architecture, arts and crafts, magic, creativity, tradition Worshipped in: Arm of the Immortals (Gombar), Skothar (Tangor), Undersea, all Mystaran seas Appearance: Polunius is an old triton with a head of long white hair, a face lined by a thoughtful expression with intelligent and flashing eyes. He carries a coral bag full of books on a shoulder strap and a coral dagger and other items in a bandoleer across his chest. History: Polunius was a great triton cleric-mage who studied coral for the majority of his life, eventually discovering the secret of their growth and how to interact magically with them in order to shape them to his will. He then taught the tritons how to magically accelerate and shape coral formations, create architectural works of huge splendour, and to produce items and weapons of tough coral for the undersea peoples. His life’s work cemented his dream of Immortality, and he was welcomed among the ranks of Matter by his patron Kagyar in the XV century BC. Personality: Polunius embodies creativity, freedom of thought, the traditional triton values, and crafts and arts in general. He also holds the view that a brilliant builder is a perfectionist. Currently his cult is widespread among the undersea peoples who research harmonic and artistic architectural work, especially among the tritons. Polunius doesn’t have a good relationship with either Gorrziok (whose association with natural devastation opposes the philosophy of Matter) or with Saasskas, who preaches the destruction of aquatic life and beauty and who has oppressed his people from time immemorial in all the waters of the globe. Polunius sometimes collaborates with Kagyar and Wayland, with whom he worked in the past to construct Pandius, the hidden Immortal city in the moon Patera. Patron: Unknown [presumed Kagyar] Allies: Collaborates with Wayland and Kagyar Enemies: Gorrziok, Saasskas Classic D&D Stats Followers’ Alignment: Clerics and followers can have any alignment Favoured weapon: Dagger (allowed all piercing weapons) Clerics’ skills and powers: +1 bonus to Dexterity and Intelligence, +2 bonus to sculpture and construction (not free) D&D 3E Stats Domains: Matter, Law, Magic, Craftsmanship, Arts Favoured weapon: Dagger Source: PC3, WotI PROTIUS (Ahti, Manadyn, Manwara, Nithys, Father Ocean, The Spuming Nooga, Old Man of the Sea) Sovereign of the Oceans and Water, Patron of Sailors, Protector of Marine Fauna Level, Alignment, Sphere: 29 th (Eternal), N, Time Symbol: A blue trident Portfolio: Oceans and marine creatures, water, unpredictability, travel Worshipped in: Alphatia, Bellissaria, Cathos, Cestia, Davania (Thyatian Hinterlands, Izonda, Meghala Kimata), Isle of Dawn (Caerdwicca, Dunadale, Helskir, East Portage, West Portage, Redstone, Trikelios, Westrourke), Pearl Islands, Hollow World (Anathy, Antalians, Milenians, Nithians, Merry Pirate Seas, Traldar), Known World (Darokin, Ierendi, Minrothad, Northern Reaches, Thyatis), Norwold (Autuusmaa, Landfall, Oceansend), Qeodhar, Skothar (Minaea, Zyxl), Undersea, Thanegioth Appearance: The race of Protius’s manifestation form varies based on each type of follower that worships him, but all (human, triton, merrow, etc.) share certain characteristics. He always appears with the traits of a male individual of advanced age, with a beard, moustache, and hair of greenish algae, with a nude body or enveloped by algae that constantly drips salt water, and a trident held in his fist. His face is mercurial: at one time, he is calm and seraphic, then suddenly he is happy, only to get angry the next moment, passing to alternate stages of reflection or determined by his fixed expression. His other manifestation forms are a great dolphin of remarkable intelligence and gigantic whale. History: Protius is one of those Immortals of the so-called First Generation, so ancient that there is no 104
ecord of his mortal form, even if he ever had been one 13 . He has always been associated with water and the immensity of the sea as well as to its awful power. Because of his disinterest in power struggles and his lack of ambition, he has always remained on the margins of immortal society. He is content in his place in the hierarchal scale to the point that he favourably viewed the younger Khoronus’s rise to Supreme Hierarch of Time. Currently Protius is worshipped all over the world by those cultures that have to deal with the seas and rivers, and is often known as the Old Man of the Sea. To demonstrate that his true race is unidentified – each marine culture considers him as a member of their own species. The subaquatic creatures know him as Manwara, and each of the more important races give him a different role in their own pantheon. Manwara for the elves is the Guardian of Time and the Harbinger of Change. For the kna, he is the patron of the diversity of sub-aquatic life, creator of the aquatic races and the kna, to whom he gave the wisdom to earn the talents of all the other races. For the kopru, Manwara is the patron of diversity and chaos, of warmth and of cold, and he is important because he gave them the ability to withstand the cold water and ice and to watch the sources of heat and volcanoes. Manwara commands the other races and because the kopru are his favoured children, he gave them their domination ability that allows them to command others. For the merrow, Manwara is the Creator of all the Oceans and Father of Life. He is present in every drop of water, he has given all aquatic creatures the freedom to travel in the boundless seas, and he allows anyone to use the sea’s resources to enjoy life and to bring balance actually does his, Protius,’ will. For the tritons, he is the Creator of the Sea and Magic, as well as the repository of life’s mysteries, and the one who gave the tritons (the wisest of the aquatic races) the magic knowledge necessary to control the aquatic elements. Finally, for the shark-kin, Manwara created the sea as their hunting lands, and in exchange, they must go regularly onto the mainland and seek information to control the land dwellers, and prevent them from dominating in the kingdom of Manwara. Personality: For millions of years Protius has embodied the sea in all its aspects: beauty, abundance, unpredictability, danger, vastness, riches, and mystery. During the evolution of the species, he has always presided and watched over the oceans; causing storms and calming the oceans at his will in order to make 13 This supplement uses the first written version for the history of Protius from the Hollow World manual. The later version written by Aaron Allston in Wrath of the Immortals, considered reductive for the figure of Protius, can be resolved in this way: Protius was in life the most intelligent specimen of a race of mammals similar to seals living millennia before the appearance of the human species. Being capable of mastering arcane magic, he managed to discover the secrets of time travel, and he is projected into the future of his world… arriving in the past of Mystara! Here Khoronus contacted him and followed his journey, helping him to become an Immortal, after which he remained behind in his time. 105 mortals understand just one thing: that he is the unchallenged lord of Mystaran waters, which effectively is the only thing that matters to him. Protius is a loner and doesn’t particularly love the human or humanoid races; not that he detests them: he simply has no interest in their fate. Usually he receives the prayers of sailors and fishermen, and he either listens to or ignores them depending on his whims. What he truly values and is only interested in are the subaquatic races, animals (including those intelligent ones) and plants. Even so, he can be persuaded to help a land-based human or demihuman if it has performed particularly generous acts towards the sea and the marine beings that Protius protects. Patron: Khoronus Allies: Al–Kalim, Water Elemaster Enemies: Saasskas, rivalry with Calitha Classic D&D Stats Followers’ Alignment: Neutral or Chaotic Favoured weapon: trident (allowed all bludgeoning weapons, harpoon, net and short spear) Clerics’ skills and powers: can breathe underwater (or breathe air if the cleric is of a sub aquatic race) permanently (the ability is innate and cannot be dispelled) and can swim at the same rate as he can walk on the ground, +2 bonus to navigation and sailing (not free) D&D 3E Stats Domains: Time, Water, Animal, Travel, Sea Favoured weapon: trident Source: HW, DotE, WotI, GAZ2, HWR3 RAD Patron of Glantri, Patron of Magic, Lord of Radiance Level, Alignment, Sphere: 22 nd (Empyreal), LN, Energy Symbol: Three semi-circumferences which intersect each other, forming a perfect triangle Portfolio: Radiance, magic, knowledge, order, Glantri Worshipped in: Glantri Appearance: Rad appears to be an elderly man with a long white beard, a gruff outlook, but with keen and piercing eyes, wearing a long robe embroidered with mysterious runes and magical symbols. History: Etienne d’Ambreville was born in the province of Averoigne on the world of Laterre (Dimension of Myth). Last heir to an old tradition of wizards and alchemists, Etienne was always a bit odd but had a real talent for magic. The problem was that magic was widely considered a blasphemous pact with fiendish forces, a heinous crime, and outlawed in his world. Etienne sought for many years a way to escape his world, and he finally was able to create a magical gate that he used to lead his whole family out of Averoigne, fleeing religious persecutions in time. The Ambrevilles arrived in Glantri in AC 728 and immediately gained lordship over a wide area that they
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character’s nature. To establish
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group of innocents without any subt
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AHAMANNI TURTLERIDER Patroness of t
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ALPHATIA (Yao-Lan Zi) Patroness of
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Appearance: Atruaghin usually appea
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Karameikos, an influential senator
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Glantrian lupins came to their aid.
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now the patron of shark-kin and mar
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Classic D&D Stats Followers' alignm
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y a group of Traldars who, escaping
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Appendix 2: ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF I
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Sea giants, water & liquids, alchem
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oceans & marine creatures, water, P
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Appendix 3: HIERARCHICAL INDEX OF I
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Appendix 4: LIST BY NAME OR NICKNAM
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Erda: see Djaea (Helskir, Norwold,
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Kala [CoM]: see Hel (Great Waste, S
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Orcus [ImmSet, M4, WotI]: Shadow Co
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General), Icevale Elves (Donar), Eu
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Appendix 5: LIST BY PORTFOLIO This
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Manipulation: see Deceit Martyrs: M
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Appendix 6: LIST BY DOMAINS This ap
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Appendix 8: CHRONOLOGICAL ASCENSION
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Appendix 9: LIST OF IMMORTAL SPONSO
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Appendix 10: PLAYER LISTS OF IMMORT
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Ralon L or N Razud L,N,C Bunch of g
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Marwdyn L,N,C Hangman's noose Mazik
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DRAGONS Granted powers: You gain a
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Appendix 12: IMMORTAL PATRONS This
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PATURA Patroness of Women and Mothe
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Equality Shaper Eternal Beauty Lorn
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