Celestians

Celestians were a race of being that were brought to Pannithor via the Scrying Star from year -1095 until -902. A total of 60 Celestains arrived before the Scrying Star was destroyed. They ate Sahlirian Fruit which gave them immortality, which was grown from a Sahlirian Tree which is native to their original homeworld.

Celestians
Race(s)	Celestian Shining Ones Wicked Ones
People
Leader	Mescator (Celestian)
Notable Members	Arkira Arlan Belkon Carnesus Eoswain (Celestian) Fotia Fulgria Hermanas Indra Kyron Liliana Neron Orso Oskan (Celestian) Shakara The Green Lady Valandor

By year -170, less than 54 Celestians remained when the smashing of the Fenulian Mirror occured, splitting them in half into Shining Ones and Wicked Ones with only 1 Celestian remaining (Katrinna)

Background

Way back in Pannithor, there were three great civilizations. These were the Kingdoms of Elves, the Underlands of the Dwarfs, and the Republic of Primovantor. Apparently there weren't any orcs or demons around and things were good. These three kingdoms also worshiped the same pantheon of gods; the Celestians. The Celestians might have been gods or might have been ancient aliens, no one really knows, but regardless they aided the three great races by guiding them and teaching them to build sweet stuff like great cities and stargates.

So everything was great, but then trouble came to Pannithor. High honcho elven mage Calisor Fenulian was busy going on adventures (guess they were still having adventures somehow even though there weren't any monsters around) when he met a beautiful human woman named Elinathora. He tried his best charm check, but that failed, so he went to do what any elf would in such a situation, namely mope around feeling sorry for himself.

While he was wandering around feeling sorry for himself, Calisor happened upon a Celestian named Oskan. Oskan suggested he Calisor create this artifact called the Fenulian Mirror made with god tears and other weird shit. He was sure if Elinathora looked into this mirror everything would work out great, for you see this magical mirror would show her the future. I'm sure nothing bad could come from doing something like that. To be fair, Oskan did give one of those vague, half-assed warnings that gods and elves seem to love giving.

So Calisor went on this epic quest outlined in about a paragraph and made this mirror. He had Elianthora look into it. She saw that they would make a great couple, have great sex, and make a bunch of kids. So far so good. However Calisor had ignored those vague warnings and got so caught watching the show that he didn't turn the thing off when Elianthora died. After her death she saw Calisor banging a bunch of other chicks and mucking up the whole world before finally being killed by his own children. This didn't look good, so she smashed the mirror.

As one would expect who plays these sort of games, smashing the Fenulian Mirror caused reality to start shaking up. Most of the Celestians were killed outright while apocalyptic earthquakes and floods covered the world. A total of 37 Celestians survived, but they were torn in two; a good half and an evil half. These became known as the Shining Ones and Wicked Ones, respectively. The history of Pannithor was from then on shaped by these two forces and their allies.

Oskan absorbed the shining half of himself. while Green Lady is made up of the Shining and Wicked halfs of 2 Celestians. This brings us too 32 Shining Ones and 33 Wicked Ones. The God war resulted in the death of a few of the Shining Ones and Wicked Ones, and 27 of the Wicked Ones are currently trapped in the Abyss.

Notable Celestians

Note: Some of the characters described below are 'true' Celestians, others are the Wicked and Shining aspects that were created when the Celestians were split. The nature of some of them is not entirely clear in the lore, and this is possibly due to the fact that stories and legends of their deeds have been passed down over thousands of years, with details and facts not entirely consistent. Some Celestians seem to have retained their original name for both of their aspects when they split in two, others got new names.

It is unclear as so why this was the case, but their names may be just how they are known to mortals and different races and cultures may might have had their own naming conventions.

There were 37 Celestians who were split in two when the Fenulian Mirror broke but only 36 Shining Ones and 36 Wicked Ones as the Green Lady managed to use the power of nature to not split, remaining Celestian.

Celestians arrived to Pannithor in 3 waves of 20. The first 20 arrived in -1095, second lot of 20 in -995 and the final 20 in -902. A fourth attempt occured -702 however this failed and a deformed Carnesus was brought through.

Celestians, Shining Ones and Wicked Ones

First Wave arrived in -1095
Original Celestian Name		Shining One Half				Wicked One Half
#	Celestian	Name	Status	Worshipped By	Created	Name	Status	Worshipped By	Created
01	Mescator	Mescator, God of Justice		Basileans
02	Valandor	Valandor The Great	Deceased			Ba'el	In The Abyss
03	Fulgria	Fulgria, Goddess of White Fire		Dwarfs		Ariagful			Abyssal Dwarfs
04	Liliana	Light Liliana	Absorbed into Karinna	Basileans	None	Dark Liliana	Absorbed into Karinna	None	None
05	Belkon	Belkon of the Forge		Basileans		Garkan the Black	In The Abyss	Riftforged Orcs	Orc, Goblin, Riftforged Orcs
06	Oskan	Oskan (Shining One)	Absorbed by Oskan Father of Lies	Basileans		Oskan Father of Lies	In The Abyss
Second Wave arrived in in -995
Original Celestian Name		Shining One Half				Wicked One Half
21	Kyron	Brave Kyron	Alive	The Herd, Basileans		Dark Kyron			Orc, Minotaur, Satyr
22	Karinna	Karinna refused to split combined the halfs of Liliana to become the Green Lady.	Alive	The Herd	Forces of Nature	Karinna refused to split combined the halfs of Liliana to become the Green Lady.
Third Wave arrived in -702
Original Celestian Name		Shining One Half				Wicked One Half
41	Shakara	Aurora		Basileans		Winter	In The Abyss
42	Hermanas			Basileans
44	Eoswain	Eoswain		League of Rhordia, Basileans		Zbortan	In The Abyss
Unknown Arrival
07	Domivar	Domivar the Unyielding		Basileans
08	Fotia	Fotia (Shining One)		Basileans		Prykagia
09	Yet to be confirmed	Kurilia		Basileans
10	Yet to be confirmed	Beraphael		Basileans
11	Yet to be confirmed	Irdima		Basileans
12	Yet to be confirmed	Mariatara		Basileans
13	Yet to be confirmed	Galena		Basileans
14	Yet to be confirmed	Suspintara		Basileans
15	Yet to be confirmed					Talus		Riftforged Orcs
16	Yet to be confirmed					Durunjak, Dark God of Death
17	Yet to be confirmed					Akshun’arha, Carrion-Goddess
18	Yet to be confirmed					Ju’bilex
19	Yet to be confirmed					Barglurath		Riftforged Orcs
20	Yet to be confirmed					Vraz’zt
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55	Yet to be confirmed	Deceased before the Fenulian Mirror event, died before in -876
56	Yet to be confirmed	Deceased before the Fenulian Mirror event, died before in -876
57	Yet to be confirmed	Deceased before the Fenulian Mirror event, died before in -876
58	Neron	Deceased before the Fenulian Mirror event, died in -876
59	Arkira	Deceased before the Fenulian Mirror event, died in -876
60	Orso	Deceased before the Fenulian Mirror event, died in -876

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