World of Ulos

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====== Eye of the Starlit Door ======


A secretive cult group researching the ancient mysteries of Nalos, whose goals may run counter and directly against the crown.

>//"The Eye watches over us all.”// - [[gimlix|Gimlix]], Taron's Trophy (RPA-ADV2)


Concerned more with the balance of the [[planes|planes]] than they are with the fight between the [[king_s_guard|King's Guard]] and the [[dragul|Dragul]].

>//Mowla traces the shape of an eye on your forehead. When done, she smiles and says, “You are now an Ascendant in the Starlit Door. Welcome!”// (RPA-ADV9)

Membership in the Starlit Door is restricted and hierarchically stratified. Known ranks within the organization include: full initiate, full member, and “Ascendant.” A higher ranking member performs the initiation rites by tracing the shape of an eye on the member's forehead (RPA-ADV9). Some members also mark their foreheads or arms (RPA-SQ1) with the eye either with black ash (RPA-ADV7) or purple tattoos (RPA-ADV5). 

There are members of the Starlit Door at [[kulbak_prison|Kulbak Prison]]. Some, like [[fervid|Fervid]], seek [[khathandor_s_horn|Khathandor's Horn]]. (RPA-ADV5).

Secret greeting: place three fingers under the right eye.

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===== Notable Characters =====

  * [[cavelli|Cavelli]]
  * [[fervid|Fervid]]
  * [[gimlix|Gimlix]]
  * [[giselle|Giselle]]
  * [[gonk|Gonk]]
  * [[uulog_gorpip|Uulog Gorpip]]
  * [[bertram_hoogna|Bertram Hoogna]]
  * [[julius|Julius]]
  * [[masik|Masik]]
  * [[minthrok|Minthrok]]
  * [[Mowla|Mowla]]
  * [[nuk|Nuk]]
  * [[rose|Rose]]
  * [[shortep|Shortep]]
  * [[zerith|Zerith]]

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===== History =====

In the year 2000, a group of occultists gathered in Nalos to discuss preparations for [[azema|Azema's]] return. Over the coming years, they devoted themselves to the study of ancient sites and artifacts with the goal of being in possession of six key artifacts by the year of Azema's eventual return. 

The Dwarf woman who tends the Pit in Undercity reveals that an attack by the radical Starlit Door is the reason for the most recent conflict between Nalos and the [[dragul|Dragul]];

>//"The Dragul invaded us, I know, but they did not start the war. Their homeland was destroyed by those citizens of Nalos who call themselves the Starlit Door.”// - Dwarf Pit attendant, Outbreak in Undercity (RPA-ADV3)

With a Starlit Door victory at the battle of [[brizoor_waal|Brizoor Waal]], a chaotic age across [[ulos|Ulos]] is begun;

>//The Starlit Door has thrown the gate of Brizoor Waal wide open, overriding all mechanisms of control. In the gate, there is now an always morphing confluence of the planes. Every pathway to every reality is always open.//

>//At the center of all this flux and fusion lies Ulos, and in Ulos the Starlit Door rules over all. Nalos and the Royal Council have been dissolved, as have each of the Dragul City-States and their council. Instead, there is only the Door, which rules not by law or decree, but by shifting the fabric of reality to make whatever adjustments they please.// - Gate of Brizoor Waal (RPA-ADVF)

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===== Operations =====
The Starlit Door does not abide by the same conduct the [[king_s_guard|King's Guard]] or the [[dragul|Dragul]] follow; instead, the Starlit Door does whatever they want to find the answers they seek, by any means necessary.

One such instance is Rose setting off the explosion at [[taron_s_arena|Taron's Arena]] in [[sabek|Sabek]] as a distraction to recover one of the interplanar artifacts held in the castle. (RPA-ADV4)

The Starlit Door are trained in powerful [[magic|magics]], evidenced by their binding of the [[demon|Demon]] [[elsifor|Elsifor]] to the [[giant_mangrove|Giant Mangrove]] of [[bogroot_swamp|Bogroot Swamp]];

>//You recall the meaning of the runes and decipher them. This is an ancient holding spell that binds one physical form to another, and it is marked with the Eye of the Starlit Door.// - Bogroot Demon (RPA-ADV6)

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===== Equipment =====

Many members of the Starlit Door bear the mark of the cult on their person - an eye-shaped insignia - in one form or another. It may appear as a piece of jewelry or a tattoo.