¶ NOC: GOD OF KNOWLEDGE
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| WORSHIPERS: Magic Practitioners, Scholars, Scribes CONSIDERED SINS: Suppressing Truth, Burning Books, Censorship ALIGNMENT: Divine Pantheon GRANTED BOON: Learn skills faster and teach apprentices slightly better. |
Noc, also known as The Moon Prince, or Twin of Astrata, is the god of knowledge and magic. He is something of a recluse, yet scholars, magicians, and curious children seek his guidance.
Noc takes the appearance of a four-armed man of pure silver, a crescent-helmed face, and long hair tied into a high ponytail. He wears flamboyant, frilly dresses woven from navy cloth and embroidered with shimmering diamonds. He is often depicted with his face buried within a book, deep in thought, whilst pondering an orb in his other hand.
¶ Domain
Noc presides over the moon, knowledge, academic pursuit, and arcyne magic. He created the world of the arcyne as it is known to scholars and wizards of this day. He speaks to mortals in their dreams at night, guiding their hands and filling them with inspiration as they improve their mastery and trade.
¶ History
Noc was crafted alongside his twin sister, Astrata. Necra formed him from the helm of Psydon, retaining the silver throughout his godly form.
As a purely divine being, much of his history is speculative. However, according to every elven scribe's records who was alive at the time, magic was almost unrecognizable in its current state to that of the age of Psydon.
¶ Controversies
Noc and his closest followers are known to be rather cynical, to express rude criticism or bluntness, and are often isolationist towards those inept at magic.
The approachability of arcyne magic under his eye, or lack thereof, comes under frequent criticism by those not magically inclined. Nobility, however, largely applauds his creation as the resulting class and power divide benefits them. Noc himself has been cited to defend the divide, as a half-elven professor recalls words in his dream, “Those without aptitude or willingness to sacrifice time and devotion in their pursuits are unworthy of the blessings of the arcyne.” The professor could not will his dream self to ask about the relationship of aptitude and wealth, and promptly woke.
Some voices, considered heretical by The Church in their own right, go as far as to accuse Noc and his system of magic for Zizo's rise to power. This belief is held moreso within dark elven and tiefling communities than humen, leading to the inquisition's occupation of what few settlements exist.
Noc and Abyssor clash in what mortals have come to know as ‘Magick Storms’ deep at sea. It is theorized this rivalry was initiated after the great storm of 1906, irrecoverably water-logging hundreds of tomes within the coastal wonder of Kingsfield's Library of Samantha. Regardless of the cause or provocation, seamen flee at first sign of warped gravity. Only one man has been reported to have survived the water spouts, and he suffered a heart attack upon being poured a goblet upon his return to shore.
¶ Iconography
Noc's divine symbol is the crescent moon. He is associated with books, arcyne runes, and scrying orbs.
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