Eternal Order
At a glance
A Darkonian religion concerned with death, memory, and an expected reckoning. Its surviving congregations appear divided between Azalin-centered and Darcalus-centered beliefs.
What they want
Prepare for the day the dead rise while preserving names and funerary rites. The Rivalis congregation regards undeath as Darkon’s proper end and understands “Rex” as Azalin; the Neblus sect awaits Darcalus Rex as a distinct promised savior.
What the party knows
- The Order operated a chapel in Rivalis and the grand Shrine of the Spirits in Neblus.
- Attendants wear red-and-white robes and conical hats; the party has seen both octagram and seven-pointed-star symbols associated with the faith.
- The Rivalis chapel used the Book of Names to maintain knowledge of the living and dead.
- An attendant credited Azalin and his “quest over the undead” with knowing all names through life and death.
- The Neblus sect held private midnight services invoking Darcalus as “Rex,” sacrificed a goat, and poured its blood over paving graves.
- The Order teaches that keeping the dead underfoot prevents their return before a future day of reckoning.
- Many refugees from Rivalis openly wore the Order’s seven-pointed star.
- Red-robed figures were reported entering Castle Avernus, though their allegiance was never established.
- Allaric Van Stradleheim claimed the Eternal Order was collapsing and proposed that the Kargatane destroy it and seize power.
Important figures
- Sister Elda: Rivalis attendant who summoned the Book of Names and follows the Silver Lady of Nevuchar Springs.
- High Sentinel Ablander: Leader of the Neblus shrine until the party killed him.
- Duskren Kalvar: Traveling scholar and former Dark Delver who preaches Darcalus Rex’s return.
Standing with the party
Complicated. The party killed Ablander and two acolytes in Neblus. Sister Elda’s doctrinally distinct congregation helped the party in Rivalis but recoiled from Rage after seeing his trophy chain.
Uncertainties
- What does “Azalin’s quest over the undead” mean?
- Whose names can the Book of Names record?
- How formal, old, and widespread is the schism between the two congregations?
- Who were the red-robed figures entering Castle Avernus?
- Is the Order truly collapsing, as Allaric claimed?