Guide to the Immortals

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NOTES ON THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION I started this mainly to finish off the Immortal descriptions that Marco hasn’t got around to, but one thing led to another and I’ve ended up translating both volumes of the Tome. Hopefully the translation will be of some use to those, like myself, who cannot read the Italian original. I’ve mainly used the online services of Babelfish and WordReference.Com in addition to the Freelang Dictionary (which you can download at www.freelang.net as well as a couple of Italian/English books. I would also like to thank all those who gave their suggestions when I got struck. I have also used the English translations of various Immortals that Marco posted on the Wizards of the Coast message boards and I would also like to thank him for his original work. Additional thanks go to the guys who have kindly proofread the results, and turned the garbled mess Babelfish sometimes produced into readable English: CmdrCorsiken, Val.S, and anyone else who commented either on the WotC or Piazza Mystara forums. Not forgetting, of course, Agathokles, LoZompatore, and others for their help with the original Italian. Apologizes to anyone I’ve not mentioned but one of my hard drives, lost some data, amongst which was a list of contributors. If you get in touch, I’ll happily add your name to the list. I would also like to add the following forum to the couple Marco listed above. It is (as I write) much more popular than the Mystara board on the Wizards of the Coast site. This is the forum I can most likely be found on, under the username – Mortis. So if anyone has any questions I can be found there, or I have also included my email address below http://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewforum.php?f=3 (Mystaran Forum on the Piazza site) GARY DAVIES 06/09/2011 iii
THE GREAT COSMIC CYCLE Life doesn’t end, or begin. There are only cycles, the eternal and endless change that permeates all of the Multiverse. Long ago Chaos filled the universe and it established the natural order of things. The Immortals then were different: the four Spheres of Matter, Energy, Thought and Time comprised part of Entropy that encompassed the Multiverse, and as such they were opposed to the Sphere of Integration (also called Sphere of Life), since they are afraid the order that will bring in Chaos sovereign. However, Life was the legitimate daughter born from the primordial Chaos, and for this Chaos is hated and feared, because know that will one day enslave its own father and conquer the universe. And when at last Life prevails over Death, the domination of Chaos was reversed and established the supremacy of Order that still today governs the Multiverse. The majority of Immortals who belong to the Sphere of Integration together reformed the four Spheres of Matter, Energy, Thought and Time allied with Order, while those who remained faithful to Chaos constituted the Sphere of Entropy. Those Immortals who aligned with neither of the two fronts became instead deprived of a great part of their own powers and became the Faerie People, condemned to a lesser form of Immortality until Order rules the Multiverse. For now Entropy is a single Sphere that is opposed to the other four representatives of current cosmic Order. However, as is logical, from order derives stagnation, and from it finally Death. Here since the four Spheres now combat Entropy (the Sphere of Death) and fear: it is become their daughter, although Order was born from Chaos, and know that eventually the fates will again reverse. As the daughter Life has prevailed over the parent Chaos, as the daughter Death prevails over father Order, and the wheel continues to turn. Chapter 1 THE IMMORTALS & THE SPHERES OF POWER WHAT ARE THE IMMORTALS Within the Multiverse where the planet Mystara (Official setting of D&D) is found, there exist creatures of supernatural power that govern the lives of mortals. From the Outer Planes in which they live 1 , they interfere in a more or less direct way with the events of the Prime Plane (the common universe of player characters). These beings are the Immortals, the divinities worshipped, feared and loved (or hated) by the inhabitants of Mystara and by the majority of sentient creatures in all of the Multiverse. The Immortals have various specific aims that differentiate them, and different dictates that signify to their faithful that which the Immortal judges to be the true path and nature of existence. All, however, have a common Quest: gaining power (or better Power Points), which allows them to improve their own position and prestige within the hierarchy of the Sphere to which they belong. In order to gain power, an Immortal must explore and expand the Multiverse and pursue the objectives of his Sphere. He will seek to increase the prestige of his own Sphere, maintain the balance between the powers and hinder the actions of all the other groups of power (in particular those of the opposing Sphere). [For more details see the following section, Spheres of Power and the Immortal Hierarchy.] Many of the Immortals begin their existence as (more or less) mortal creatures of various species (either of the 1 For further details on the Inner and Outer Planes refer to the Companion and Master sets, Rules Cyclopedia and Wrath of the Immortals supplement. 1 Prime or of the other planes of existence), who during their life distinguish themselves in some particular way. Whether by their personal magical and intellectual capacity, by their audacious and impossible deeds, or for their dedication to a particular cause or people they become legendary leaders and heroes or infamously ruthless and blood-thirsty mercenaries. Thanks to these qualities, they successfully discover the means to seek Immortality [see the paths of Immortality described in the section Paths of Immortality, as well as the manual of Wrath of the Immortals for further information on the rules for becoming Immortal and playing a PC Immortal], effectively abandoning their own empty mortality to be reborn in body and spirit as eternal and quasi-omnipotent divinities. Some Immortals however, have never been shackled to a mortal existence. These beings belong instead to the so-called First Generation of Immortals, born at the dawn of time, when death had still to make its appearance in the Multiverse. The origins of other Immortals remain totally obscure and if any of their fellows know more, they choose not to share. In many cases, these Immortals will occupy the highest posts of the Immortal hierarchy, but they are not considered superior to other Immortals simply by right of birth. Any Immortal can aspire to achieve the zenith of power within the hierarchy of the Celestial Spheres, should he successfully accumulate enough power to do so. Though they have enormous power, the Immortals are, nevertheless, neither omniscient nor omnipotent. They
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Appendix 2: ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF I
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Appendix 3: HIERARCHICAL INDEX OF I
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General), Icevale Elves (Donar), Eu
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Appendix 8: CHRONOLOGICAL ASCENSION
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Appendix 9: LIST OF IMMORTAL SPONSO
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