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> From: "Jors" <g_merigo_at_...>
asked about
> Subject: Hon Eel, Elf quest, Maize
Here is some story/background information about those issues.
Alanthor the Destroyer
Raider and Plunderer
Alanthor was an enemy spirit who was enlisted to the service of the Empire.
HonEel conquered him in the Gods War to rescue Dakkasinoda, the Corn God who
had been killed and taken away by Alanthor. HonEel dragged him to the Moon in
psychic chains. Now Alanthor can be summoned and sent against the enemies of
the Empire who deserve to have their crops fail and their people starve.
Worshippers are people who wish harm on others, but want to channel it in a
socially responsible manner. The cult is counted as one of the Old Gods.
Although he receives propitiatory worship from many people, his dedicated
worshippers use ecstatic worship to gain his magic. The cult is small and
specialized, with virtually no dedicated worshippers save those who are
working
towards bigger things. Worshippers wear a bronze slave collar inscribed with
runes and with a length of chain hanging off with a link for each sacrificial
battle he has won, or enemy god he has killed during his work.
HonEel
Maize Warrior
HonEel was born in Doblian during the Seleric years. She orchestrated the
liberation of her homeland from the nomads and boldly presented herself before
the Emperor at Moonson?s reinstallation in Glamour. She proved that she was
his daughter and returned Doblian to his suzerainty. Her imperial blood gave
her some great powers, but her own immortal energy and transformative
consciousness made her great.
She performed too many deeds to name here. Some of the best known are that she
turned the Sylilan Telmori to be full wolves, incapable of turning into
humans.
She went to the Sky and discovered maize and introduced it to the Empire, and
watered her crop with the blood of her foes to replant the trampled fields.
HonEel masterminded the colonization of the lowlands of Oraya. Triumphant
HonEel conquered the enemy kingdom of Tarsh where she integrated the Lunar Way
into the native Earth Goddess?s worship, seduced the king of Tarsh and bore a
child by him. Thus the expanded the Empire in the west with Doblian, east with
Oraya and south with Tarsh. Her mortal body died at the Nights of Horror with
most of the nobles and heroes of the Empire but her soul lived on and is now a
goddess.
HonEel is a woman?s goddess with strong worship in Oraya and wherever maize is
counted as a blessing. Most of her worship is found in eastern First
Blessed and
Oraya. She is also worshipped in Tarsh as the founder of the ruling
Dynasty, in
Doblian as its Liberator, and by dancers and courtesans across the Empire.
Subcults of HonEel
Dakkasinoda and Dakkahoneel
God or Goddess of Maize
HonEel once journeyed into the Other Side and engaged an elf-lover,
Sinoda, who
had been murdered by Alanthor. Her twin children, maize beings, are worshipped
both together and separately. Her son Dakkasinoda and her daughter Dakkahoneel
are the dying and reborn immortal beings who are present in the seeds
that grow
into maize. They, the Bearers of Life, require human blood to live. The
Emperor
once tried to stop the bloody maize rites, but the corn wouldn?t grow. So he
licensed the Dakkasinoda subcult of HonEel to be the only sanctioned
lunar cult
that practices human sacrifice.
HonEel the Dancer
HonEel was famously sexual. She freed Doblian from the horse barbarians
by using
her beauty and dance to instigate fighting between the warlords. Her sensual
conquests only began there. While conquering Oraya she married the Sun
and bore
him twins. In Tarsh, HonEel seduced the king and left him an heir. She even
seduced her father, Takenegi, and established the BashaEel dynasty, including
the infamous ?silver privates? in Silver Shadow. She is worshipped by
courtesans for her seductive beauty and entrancing dance. However, HonEel?s
inevitable blood thirst can interfere with love, and so most courtesans now
worship the much safer Senthera instead.
HonEel the Triumphant
HonEel led the settlement of the Redlands, establishing the Satrapy of Oraya.
This cult is primarily worshipped in Oraya where she is the goddess of
Rule and
Triumph. No Satrap can sit on the Throne of Ears without her blessing.
These are excerpts from *Under the Red Moon.*
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