The Broken Hourglass Site Update

Planewalker Games’ official website has been updated with information about Arithaan and Uulix, two of the game’s Tolmiran gods. Uulix sounds more interesting:

Shortly after the gods were brought into being they were gathered before Fire and Water and asked to select an area of influence, one aspect of the world over which they would have complete dominion. Thieron went first, choosing wisdom, followed by Catho the peacemaker, the healer Lahan, and on and on until all the youngling gods had chosen– save one. Uulix was last in line, and by the time they got to him there was nothing left to choose– all that Fire and Water had offered was already taken.

Uulix began to starve for lack of purpose, fading from existence entirely. Twisted and embittered by the lack of concern the other gods paid him, his resolve hardened. He would survive. In his desperation to stay alive, he pulled together all the small parts of the world that no one had ever thought to claim, that no one had thought worth laying claim to–dozens, hundreds of minor patronages, so many that none remain who can guess at the true scope of his domain. But still it was not enough, still he withered away. He would need to lay claim to something of greater power.

So he stepped back and gazed upon creation, all that had been wrought both by his own creators and by his brother gods, for by now the Sun and Moon had left the world, and he laughed. For he saw what no one else had seen, what no one else had looked for– the holes, the flaws, the places between and unintended consequences of the other gods’ creation. These he took and gathered to himself. Where Thieron had rule over the land of dreams, Uulix wrought nightmares. Where Oron had domain over death and Lahan over life and birth, Uulix saw the middle ground of undeath. And where Lathuz would have domain over the stars of the night sky, Uulix drew power from the dark places between them.

It is often said that each follower of Uulix seems to worship a different deity, a statement that isn’t far from the truth. The worship of Uulix is divided amongst hundreds if not thousands of cults each devoted to a different aspect of the god. Casual observers most often associated Uulix with his darker aspects–undeath, nightmares, madness, and chaos–but his worshippers view him as god of change, outcasts, and the lost. These are only his most often acknowledged aspects–there are countless others. A common joke is that Uulix is the god of butterflies, because no one else thought to claim them.