Sturovenen

Sturovenen

(Deity)

Titles

The Dragoneagle

Alignment

Lawful good

Areas of Concern

Leadership
Righteous battle
The sun

Worshipers

Neverhome Clan

Edicts

Act with conviction and confidence, be a passionate and responsible leader to your people or companions

Anathema

Command a subordinate to perform a task you are not willing to perform yourself

Follower Alignments (2E)

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Sanctification (2E)

Can choose holy

Domains (2E)

Air, confidence, passion, sun
Alternate: Dragon, zeal

Favored Weapon

Main-gauche

Symbol

Gold-feathered wing

Sacred Animal

Snake

Sacred Colors

Green, purple, yellow

Source: Divine Mysteries, pg(s). 234–235, 314–315

The religious symbol, sacred animal, and sacred color for this deity are listed exclusively in the Divine Mysteries Web Supplement. Alignment details sourced from Lost Omens Gods & Magic 132–133. Sturovenen lacked alternate domains in Gods & Magic.

Sturovenen the Dragoneagle was a second-generation spirit guide and Sarkorian god of leadership whose dawn-feathered children were summoned by the god callers of the Sarkorian Neverhome Clan. He was one of the more widely worshiped Sarkorian gods, and by 4724 AR he had a growing number of surki worshipers in Sarkoris.

He was destroyed in 4724 AR while attempting to prevent a warshard of Gorum from reopening of the Worldwound.

History

Sturovenen the Dragoneagle was the son of the first-generation spirit guides Dragon and Eagle. Dragon was later killed by Dahak and Eagle flew into a distant star to spawn a new civilization.

Sturovenen rapidly gathered a following and rose to divinity to become the most prominent spirit guide of the second generation, after Stag Mother's retreat into Forest of Stone. Sturovenen was acknowledged as a deity by other deities and was long followed by many.

Out of kindness, he sent his dawn-feathered children—born of Sturovenen and the spirit guide Canary—to comfort parents who could not conceive and live alongside them; he sheltered outcasts and victims of violence. Many of these children accepted their own god callers as a third generation of spirit guides among the peoples of Sarkoris.

Some time after Sturovenen's ascendance, the spirit guide known as Fox, or the Wanderer, told him a parable that predicted Sturovenen's inevitable demise, in which he would erupt into light as his father Eagle had. The Dragoneagle believed this tale and returned to Neverhome to prepare his following and offspring for his fate, with other spirit guides similarly retreating to their own covens, strongholds, and wildernesses.

After the death of Gorum, the Godsrain deposited a warshard on the Sarkoris Scar that threatened to reopen the Worldwound through demonic corruption. Urlan of Neverhome witnessed Sturovenen fly to the shard, lift it from the ground, and pull it into the sky in an act of sacrifice before it exploded in a rainbow of light, destroying it and the deity.

Relationships

Sturovenen co-founded the Neverhome Clan with his mortal lover Chakli as a refuge for clanless Sarkorians. Chakli died prematurely but named a successor to be Sturovenen's god caller, launching a generational tradition that the spirit guide would always have a mortal companion. Sturovenen and Canary also parented many dawn-feathered offspring, many of which themselves became spirit guides to Sarkorian god callers.