> [!infobox]+ Luxon > > <div class="infobox-coat-of-arms"> > <div style="text-align: center; padding: 5px;"> > <div class="character-name-container"><div class="character-main-name">Luxon</div><div class="character-epithet">the Light of Potential</div></div> > </div> > </div> > <div style="text-align: center; padding: 0.2em;"> > <img src="LuxonSymbol.png" alt="Luxon" style="max-width: 250px; height: auto;" class="internal-image"> > </div> > <table class="infobox-table"> > <tr><td class="infobox-label">Alignment</td><td class="infobox-data">Unknown</td></tr> > <tr><td class="infobox-label">Symbol</td><td class="infobox-data">A <a href="Luxon Beacons.md" class="internal-link">Luxon Beacon</a></td></tr> > <tr><td class="infobox-label">Holy Day</td><td class="infobox-data"><em>None</em></td></tr> > <tr><td class="infobox-label">Type</td><td class="infobox-data">Elder <a href="Deities.md" class="internal-link">Deity</a></td></tr> > <tr><td class="infobox-label">Home Plane</td><td class="infobox-data"><em>Unknown</em></td></tr> > <tr><td class="infobox-label">Divine Champion</td><td class="infobox-data"><em>None</em></td></tr> > </table> ### About The Luxon is an Elder [[Deities|Deity]], one of only two known to have touched [[Aeborhia]], alongside [[Harkon]], and the oldest divine presence the world has known. Unlike the gods of the Pantheon, the Luxon holds no domains, lays down no laws and has never been known to speak to those who revere it. Scholars instead describe it as a vast and raw power, a force of potential able to bend time and gravity, whose essence now rests scattered across [[Aeborhia|the world]] in the crystalline relics known as the [[Luxon Beacons]]. It is worshipped openly in only one place above ground, the [[Elves|Grey Drow]] city of [[Muxnir]] on the southern coast of [[Vangrallag]], where it is revered as an all-knowing and all-seeing light, and where the goddess [[Eilistraee]] is honoured as the prophet who first brought that light to the [[Elves|drow]]. To most people of [[Aeborhia]], the Luxon is little more than a name found in old texts, if they have heard of it at all. ### Depiction The Luxon has never been personified. Having never taken a form, nor walked among mortals as the gods of the Pantheon once did, it is never shown with a face or a body, and its faithful speak of it not as a person but as an all-knowing and all-seeing force. In art and worship it is instead represented in three ways: by the beacon itself, a twelve-sided solid of crystal resembling moonstone, often set within an ornate frame by its mortal keepers; by light, most often white, silver and purple; and by fields of slowly drifting stars, said to mirror the light that turns within each beacon. The great stained glass windows of the Cathedral of Light in [[Muxnir]] show [[Eilistraee]] dancing before a beacon rather than her traditional moon, the tiara of the [[Elvanna Zolarin|Radiant Light]] is set with moonstones cut in the shape of beacons, and the robes of [[Muxnir|Muxnir's]] highest mages are woven with stars that move as if alive. ### Divine Domains The Luxon grants no domains, and no cleric of [[Aeborhia]] has ever been known to receive power from it in the way the gods of the Pantheon bestow their gifts upon the faithful. Its power is instead studied. Those that [[Muxnir]] calls the 'clerics' of the Luxon are in truth established and deeply learned wizards, who have spent years gazing into the [[Luxon Beacons|beacons]] and witnessing the possibilities held within them. From this study comes the art known as Dunamancy, the manipulation of time and gravity, a magic focused above all on the power of potential - of what could be, rather than what is. These wizards are also the faith's theologians, piecing together the history of the Luxon and offering theories of their own, for nothing of its true nature has ever been confirmed. ### Holy Day The Luxon has no holy day. ### Tenets of the Luxon As the Luxon has never spoken to its followers, it has given them no commandments. The tenets of its faith are mortal-made, drawn by the scholars of [[Muxnir]] from what they have witnessed within the [[Luxon Beacons|beacons]] and from the example of [[Eilistraee]], and carried to the faithful by its priests. - Seek what could be, for every moment holds a thousand possibilities. - Guard the light, for each beacon is a fragment of something greater than gods. - Bare yourself before the light, hiding nothing, so that it may see you and reach you. ### History The history of the Luxon itself is largely theoretical, pieced together by the scholars of [[Muxnir]] from what they have seen within the [[Luxon Beacons|beacons]]. The history of its faith, however, is well recorded. - #### Before the Founding The Luxon is believed to have arrived in [[Aeborhia]] thousands of years before the gods of the Pantheon, when the world held little to no life. It is generally accepted that at some point it split itself into the many [[Luxon Beacons]], though why it did so remains one of the great debates of [[Muxnir|Muxnir's]] scholars, who hold a number of competing theories: - **The Seeding Theory** - The most widely held belief. The Luxon split itself willingly, scattering its beacons across [[Aeborhia|the world]] in the hope of being uncovered by sentient beings, so that it might learn from them. - **The Shattering Theory** - The Luxon did not split by choice, but was broken apart, whether by the [[Primordials]] or by something older still. Those who hold this view see the beacons not as seeds, but as wreckage. - **The Dormant Theory** - The Luxon sleeps, its consciousness spread thin across every beacon, and each beacon that is found and studied wakes it a little more. - **The Creator Theory** - The Luxon created all life on [[Aeborhia]], but feeling guilt over the violent and chaotic nature of the [[Primordials]], it split itself apart, to remain hidden until it is found and assembled by more peaceful people. - #### The Age of Founding No record from the [[Age of Founding]] mentions the Luxon or its beacons. While the gods of the Pantheon shaped [[Aeborhia|the world]], battled the [[Primordials]] and divided in the [[Age of Founding|Schism]], the beacons lay hidden and undisturbed, their existence seemingly unknown even to the gods. - #### The Age of Arcanum During the [[Age of Arcanum]], on one of her many quests into the [[Underdark]] against her mother [[Lolth]], [[Eilistraee]] uncovered an artifact unlike anything she had seen before, a beacon holding a power greater than her own, and greater even than that of her parents, the greater [[Deities]] [[Corellon]] and [[Lolth]]. She learned what she could from it, and spread its light to those who followed her. The descendants of these followers, who served both [[Eilistraee]] and the Luxon, became the [[Elves|Grey Drow]], distinct from the black [[Elves|drow]], who descend from those who served [[Lolth]] or who were freed by [[Eilistraee]] without ever knowing the Luxon's light. Later in the age, these followers built a city on a river island on the southern coast of [[Vangrallag]], long before it became the [[Vangrallag|Dead Lands]]. [[Eilistraee]] founded the city herself when she lit its first flame, a purple flame that still burns atop its monument in the city today, and appointed her champion of the time, [[Nilkairn]], as the first king of [[Muxnir]] and the first Radiant Light. - #### The Dawn-War When the [[Dawn-War]] turned [[Vangrallag]] into the [[Vangrallag|Dead Lands]], [[Muxnir]] was spared. The great concentration of beacons held within the city seemed to repel the spread of the corruption, leaving [[Muxnir]] a safe haven in the heart of a dying land. The forces of the [[Betrayer Gods]] that marched upon the city were beaten back by its powerful wizards, assisted by [[Eilistraee]] herself between her campaigns against the [[Betrayer Gods]] elsewhere in [[Aeborhia|the world]]. To the scholars of [[Muxnir]], the city's survival remains the clearest proof of the beacons' power. - #### Post Dawn-War With the [[Divergence]], [[Eilistraee]] left the [[Material Plane]] alongside the other gods, but the faith she founded endured. [[Muxnir]] remained the heart of the Luxon's worship, ruled by an unbroken line of Radiant Lights and guided by the scholars of the Onyx Tower. In Godsnight 3068 PD, the Onyx Tower began excavating a residuum mine in which the priests of [[Muxnir]] had foreseen the presence of a beacon, which [[Dinzar Zaphral]] called "above all, the most sacred prize they could find". At the time of writing, it has yet to be found. ### Modern Worship of the Luxon The Muxnirian faith is the de facto faith of the Luxon in [[Aeborhia]], and one of the least known. Outside of [[Muxnir]] it is not publicly worshipped anywhere above ground, and the average person of [[Aeborhia]] would know nothing of it. Beneath the surface, small cells worship in secret throughout the [[Underdark]], and a handful of [[Underdark]] cities follow the faith as openly as [[Muxnir]] itself. No place is known to worship the Luxon alone, apart from [[Eilistraee]]. It should be noted that this faith differs greatly from the more common worship of [[Eilistraee]] elsewhere in [[Aeborhia|the world]], whose followers dance beneath the moonlight. In [[Muxnir]], the faith centres on the Cathedral of Light, which serves as both temple and royal palace. Within its central vault, which also serves as its prayer room, nineteen beacons are kept. Prayer takes the form of dance: the faithful dance naked around a beacon, as [[Eilistraee]] once did, baring all of themselves so that the light may see and reach them. Where no beacon is available, a brazier takes its place. The faith's clergy is split in two. Its 'clerics' are the wizards of [[Muxnir]], scholars who study the beacons and who are the source of the faith's theories and teachings. Its priests are the storytellers, conveying the words of the wizards to the masses, and the guardians of the beacons, with some travelling alongside the royal family. Beyond the nineteen held in the Cathedral of Light, a number of other beacons are known to exist: - One held by the Onyx Tower in [[Muxnir]], for study. - One within the [[Moonlit Outpost]] on the [[Moonlit Path]], a secret to most. - One held by [[Strixhaven University]]. - Two held by the [[Aekaciran Mage's Guild]]. - One said to be held by the famous adventuring group, [[Group 8274]]. - A number held in royal courts and private collections, where they are treated as royal artifacts. Their owners are often courted by Muxnirian dignitaries. ### Known Worshippers of the Luxon #### Other Worshippers - [[Nilkairn]] † - Champion of [[Eilistraee]], first king of [[Muxnir]] and the first Radiant Light. - [[Elvanna Zolarin]] - Queen of [[Muxnir]] and the current Radiant Light. - [[Viriel Zolarin]] - Prince and heir to [[Muxnir]]. - [[Dinzar Zaphral]] - First Mage of the Onyx Tower. - [[Lilaten Jhalinn]] - Apprentice to [[Dinzar Zaphral|Dinzar]] and heir to the Onyx Tower.