Glossary

Absalom — the largest metropolitan center on Golarion, boasting half a million residents. It is host to the centers of worship of nearly every organized religion on the planet, most of whom fled to the city for shelter after the Disavowment.

Absalom Reckoning — the standard calendar of the Inner Sea, abbreviated as AR. It begins with the founding of the city of Absalom on 1 January, 1 AR when the mortal man Aroden raised the Starstone up from the bottom of the Inner Sea — an act for which he was granted true godhood.

Age of Lost Omens — the era of Golarion that ran from 4606 AR, when Aroden died, until 4723 AR, on the day of the Disavowment.

Age of Disavowment — the era of Golarion we are currently in. It has been going since 4723 AR until the current day in 4743 AR.

Aleondros Torth — see: Baron Torth

Avistan — the continent to the North of Absalom in the Inner Sea.

Baron Torth — real name Aleondros Torth. Torth is a self-styled Baron, and local warlord of the Maharev region of former Qadira. He originally hired the party to oversee his affairs in the village of Sandstone, although events eventually forced him to come attend Sandstone personally. He is a powerful chronomancer, and claims to be able to see several hours into the future.

Although the party has never seen him resurrect anyone, he can bypass the Disavowment's time restrictions on healing, and can even regrow lost limbs on himself and others. He claims to be able to do this via chronomancy, allowing him to swap a person for a past version of themself who isn't wounded. This has the effect of restoring their entire body to that prior state, including their memories.

Generally seen as being ruthless but even-handed. Was forced into a mock trial by Quel and Vil who sought to convict him in the eyes of Sandstone's people. This culminated in the Battle of Sandstone, which destroyed the village.

The Battle of Sandstone — a battle perpetrated by the Dervish Twins, Quel and Vil, against what they saw as the cruel and unjust reign of Baron Torth in the Maharev. Baron Torth murdered Quel in Sandstone while Vil was away, and gave the body to Vil with a message to leave and never return. Vil returned about eight hours later as the Shroud began to eclipse the skies above Sandstone.

Vil resurrected Quel in defiance of the Disavowment's limitations on magic, and the two brothers began to grow stronger, appearing to somehow draw power from the eclipse. They were able to capture Baron Torth and put him on 'trial' in Sandstone, where they asked a series of loaded questions in an attempt to turn public opinion against him. However, with the party's backing, Torth retained the village's support. Enraged, Quel and Vil turned on the village and its people. Tim joined forces with the Baron and the party, but even he was unable to defeat the Twins.

This culminated in an explosive showdown between the party's sunlight warrior, Anvera, and Quel, who had very similar powers. They burned brighter and hotter until it seemed that together they threatened the lives of everyone in the village. With no other way to stop the battle and save the village, Tim instead decided to teleport every single person in Sandstone — minus Quel and Vil — aboard the Shroud, a feat which ought to have been completely impossible. However, he was too badly damaged by Anvera and Quel's magic to continue, and crumbled into ash from the strain of it all. The party kept his phylactery safe during their time aboard the Shroud so that he could regenerate successfully.

Cardinal East — Nothing is yet known of this Cardinal, if they even exist at all.

Cardinal North — He has described himself as the Lord Marshall of the Navigator's legions. He knows of (and has claimed to have contact with) the Patron. Claims that he is the Navigator's representative on the continent of Avistan.

Cardinal South — Nothing is yet known of this Cardinal, if they even exist at all.

Cardinal West — Claims to be a vampire who 'feeds on fear instead of blood', but has actually turned out not to be a vampire at all. Cardinal North has described them as an 'insectoid abomination'.

After arriving aboard the Shroud along with the rest of Sandstone's refugees, Cardinal West dissolved into a pile of beetles to explore the ship. They later reassembled themself from those beetles to return to Golarion with the party. Although they do not appear to be violent or disruptive, their hunger for fear drives them to travel to regions that are about to experience disaster, which has given them a reputation as a bad omen.

Cardinal North has indicated that Cardinal West's knowledge of which regions are about to experience disaster is not true prophecy, but that it was 'as close to prophecy as we could get in the Age of Lost Omens'. The exact mechanism by which Cardinal West comes to know of disasters in advance is unknown.

Casmaron — the continent to the east of Absalom in the Inner Sea.

The Dervish Twins of Sandstone — see: Quel and Vil

The Disavowment — the global event that occurred at midnight (Absalom time) on the night of 20 June, 4723 AR. This ended the Age of Lost Omens and began the Age of Disavowment. At that moment:


 * All contact with other planes was cut off.
 * All contact with deities was lost.
 * All Divine magic ceased to work, including Divine magic not linked to any particular deity.
 * All healing magic stopped working.
 * All resurrection magic stopped working.
 * Some Necromancers lost the ability to animate dead.
 * Many teleporters lost the ability to teleport even short distances.
 * Conjuration magic overwhelmingly stopped working; summoning, in particular, no longer worked at all.
 * Summoned creatures who were previously enslaved to the will of their summoner were suddenly freed, usually with disastrous results for the summoner.
 * Roughly 20% of sentient undead spontaneously died or disappeared entirely, including Geb and Arazni, the King and Queen of the undead nation of Geb. This effect destroyed a disproportionate number of liches and incorporeal undead.
 * The Eye of Abendego dissipated over the course of a few hours, causing major climate disruptions across the Western coast of Garund.

The Eye of Abendego — a hurricane off the west coast of Garund that raged from 4606 AR, three weeks after the death of Aroden at the beginning of the Age of Lost Omens, and lasted until 4723 AR, on the day of the Disavowment.

Garund — the continent to the South of Absalom in the Inner Sea.

Golarion — the planet on which the campaign takes place.

The Inner Sea — the region where the continents of Casmaron, Garund, and Avistan intersect, generally centered on the island/city of Absalom

Iterius — according to the Patron, the name of the person who wrote the poem Immortality. According to the Shroud's on-board computer, the true name of Tim, who died before he could confirm or deny this, and also a member of the Shroud's command cadre, with the last name Molôsque.

The Navigator — Described by Cardinal North as 'the greatest of all vampires', the Navigator is served by four vampire Cardinals — North, South, East, and West — who watch over his affairs in his absence. Cardinal North has said that the Navigator has been dead for twenty years, and that the service of his Cardinals — including that of North himself — "is all theater."

Quel — one of the two Dervish Twins of Sandstone, a warrior with the power of fire and light. He came to Sandstone with his twin brother, Vil, after the Disavowment, and the two made their living protecting it until it was eventually destroyed in the Battle of Sandstone.

Sandstone — a desert town on the west bank of the Meraz River in the Maharev region of former-Qadira, notable for its nearby gold mine. This was the primary location of the first story arc of the campaign. It was destroyed by Quel, Vil, and Tim.

Sandstone was noteworthy because it had a wizard's tower and a vast library about a mile to the north. Together with the village itself, both of these were destroyed in the Battle of Sandstone.

The Shroud — A stealth starship sought by Tim. He claimed that it was impossible to detect in its normal track, but he had been able to calculate its route and knew that it would have to decloak as it passed briefly through Golarion's atmosphere in the skies above the town of Sandstone.

Has significant links to the Disavowment, although the extent to which it was involved is still unknown. According to the on-board computer, at the moment of the Disavowment, an alert was sent out across the ship that there was an 'Entropic on board'. Shortly thereafter, every living creature on the ship was dead, with the exception of the Patron, locked securely in his prison cell.

According to the on-board computer, the command cadre included the following members:


 * Captain Vellis
 * Iterius Molôsque
 * Trelmarixian
 * Marshall Lynd
 * Walter Polt
 * The Patron

When the party left, the Shroud was returning to its stealth orbit around Golarion's sun — an orbit which would not bring it back into Golarion's atmosphere for another 80 years. Tim's phylactery was left aboard the Shroud, along with several hundred refugees from the destroyed town of Sandstone.

The Spark — On the afternoon of 12 February, 4728 AR, Clerics from around the world, across a variety of faiths, managed to create a nexus of Divine energy from which any Divine spellcaster could draw. The location of this Nexus is unknown. Every Cleric feeds a portion of their power into it throughout each day, and draws from it when they pray for their spells every day, making it self-sustaining. With the Spark, Divine magic returned to the world, with some limitations:


 * Healing spells take 10 full rounds to cast, instead of one standard action
 * Significantly, it is the intention that matters here, rather than the spell itself. Cure Light Wounds used to heal a living creature takes 10 rounds, while Cure Light Wounds used to damage an undead creature takes one standard action.
 * Extremely powerful healing magic, such as that which regenerates lost limbs, still does not work.
 * Resurrection magic still does not work.
 * No contact can be made with the Outer Planes.

Tim — the preferred name of the Lich Utnapishtim. Tim disguises himself as a bearded old man, completely unassuming except that his frame appears to be stretched vertically to a standing height of around 9'2". His true form is that of a skeleton of the same height with smoldering blue points of light in his eye sockets. The bones across his body have a variety of magical runes carved into them, and his skull has been meticulously carved and decorated with precious gems.

Tim is noteworthy for his ability to teleport great distances. He teleported the entire population of the village of Sandstone onto a starship passing through Golarion's atmosphere, roughly 10000 miles away. Aside from him, the most powerful teleporters on Golarion have been known to be able to transport themselves at distances of a few hundred feet; outside of Tim, teleportation of more than just the spellcaster themself is widely believed to be impossible.

Tim seemed to take a particular liking to the party, and put himself in harm's way to protect them more than once.

Tim died aboard the Shroud and his phylactery was left there when the party returned to Golarion. Although he has likely regenerated by now, the party has not heard from him.

Utnapishtim — see: Tim.

Vil — one of the two Dervish Twins of Sandstone, a necromancer with power over the undead. He came to Sandstone with his twin brother, Quel, after the Disavowment, and the two made their living protecting it until it was eventually destroyed in the Battle of Sandstone.