Hands of Salyrene

Hands of Salyrene

Hands of Salyrene are the chosen paladins for the Salyrene, the Goddess of Magic. Unlike most Hands who labor with significant dogma derived from their patron god’s principles, the Hands of Salyrene are largely left unguided. Their principal objective is simply to push the boundaries of what is possible.

Hands of Salyrene, because of their unguided state, are outliers from the usual Pantheon paladin behavior. As many have lived like wealthy kings, rather than like monastic warriors. “[Q]uite a few,” Hands of Salyrene have also been “put down” by the hands of other gods in the past, for running astray from moral principles. These occurrences are somewhat different than, say, the typical strife between Hands of Avei and Hands of Sorash, or between Hands of Avei and Priests of Khar, which is simply a mortal extension of the conflict between the representative gods.

The lack of moral guidance given to Hands of Salyrene culminated in Magnan the Enchanter. Magnan was a clever and gifted sorcerer, causing him to be called as the Hand of Salyrene in the first place. He created modern enchanting power, enabling non-wizards to use arcane workings. He created a prototype which was the basis of the Imperial Rail system. He also created the first assembly line. His genius also extended to weapons production, building both the modern lightning wands and Mag Artillery. His genius ran amuck when it extended to the building of the Enchanter’s Bane, a nuclear-bomb-like weapon which devasted Athan’Khar, killed most of the Orcs on a genocide level, poisoned the land and all people present, and ultimately killed Orc God Khar. Even though Magnan himself did not actually launch the weapon, he campaigned for its use and production. The event shocked the world, overthrew the Archpope and Emperor, started a continent-wide series of wars, and cause Salyrene to withdraw from the world from grief and guilt.

Hands of Salyrene are selected for intelligence, skill, and curiosity to push boundaries. As a group they are known to be arrogant and strut, even those who do not live it up as wealthy inventors or, in earlier days, powerful wizards. Salyrene apparently gifts her Hands with an enormous well of arcane magic in addition to their access to the divine magic. All Hands of Salyrene are skilled practitioners, rivalling Blue Dragons, and apparently the Goddess would, in ages past, assist the Hands in perform skills beyond their level.

Ampohrenon the Gold described the Hands of Salyrene as difficult to deal with. Princess Yasmeen of Calderass described them as “only intermittently useful to the cause of protecting humanity” because of the Goddess’s dedication to advancing knowledge at the cost of everything else.

Known Hands of Salyrene

-Magnan the Enchanter

-Andior Caladaan

-Andronimus the Spellblade