Umor

I just reread To Peel the Veil of Lightness and Dark. And I realized I made an assumption based on information from the newer module Visions of Lives Past. There is zero mention of whether the dark moon is in the sky while the players are in the future. Sorry about that. I should explain how I came to the conclusion that there was no moon.

To Peel the Veil of Lightness and Dark states when the players land in the future

there can be no mistaking the large, dark ring that now surrounds the world. The sky is punctuated by streaks of light that seem to streak across the heavens.

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And Visions of Lives Past states

Even the new dark moon, which inexplicably replaced the stellar ring that once surrounded the world just a short time ago, hangs low in the sky

I made the assumption with the return of the stellar ring in that far future, that the dark moon was no more.
Because there is no mention either way you shouldn’t assume that the dark moon is still there.
To me, it is clear that the stellar ring in the far future has replaced the Dark Moon Aperio. Even though it’s never explicitly stated, the implication is there. Moreover, I suspect that the strange “road” the PCs find is made from material of Aperio that slammed into Arcanis and left a long path that weaved over and around natural terrain.

Aperio is shown exploding in the vision relayed by the Tultipetan Seeress. It’s not 100% explicit that the Dark Moon has exploded in the actual far future, but there are strong hints thereto.

I believe that any attempt at this time to give anyone the title of Dark One (threat foretold by Kassegore that caused him and Yig to put a yet unknown plan into motion) is premature and useless. No god or powerful being that we are aware of is the perfect match.

Agreed. The Dark One they talk about on page 102 of the old Ssethregore book is mentioned after the “coming of the children of the sun and their heretical Godlings of chaos and unrest.” It goes on in the next sentence that, “[Kassegore]… watched as the Dark One made pacts with the enemies of his creation and the breaking of the world.” First humanity and the PoM, then the Dark One. From this sequence it makes sense that the Dark One is not Umor, since he precedes the arrive of the children of the Sun. Although I concede that this quote comes from an IC point of view…a Ssanu Yigite Priest, who may be biased or mistaken. I assume that the Dark One is a “cosmic actor” but for all we know the Dark One could be a left handed gnome who is destined to put things in motion that reach the cosmic scale…

All information provided by the Mother Church calls Umor a human god and evil including claiming Umor killed Belisadra, but the story of Umor provided by the Elorii says Umor came peacefully, PoM were the aggressors and Belisarda is not dead because they can feel her. The final piece of info is from For the Lesser Gods. Where Umor is represented by a double loop dragon, and is portrayed as not evil. Knowing that Henry loves to provide biased information as the truth. I am more willing to believe the Elorii and For the Lesser Gods, then common rhetoric spewed but the humans
I’m about 95% sure this is essentially true. At the same time we aren’t privy to the actual events. I think we’ll find that the elorii version is wrong in at least some ways too. What For the Lesser Gods provides is essentially an oral history passed down by a bunch of esoteric desert hermits. I don’t think it will turn out to be 100% percent accurate either.

While I really don’t think it’s true (or even likely), it *IS* possible that Belisarda did die or was changed and something else has been colluding with the Ardekene ever since (see 41 in A:RPG for proof the Ardekene have something crazy big that they’re currently hiding). Laerestri and “younglings” from Seremas aren’t in a position to judge or know.

I agree with the reasoning at that point of the green skinned woman possibly being Anshar. Though I don’t think anything we’ve seen depicts her as greened skinned. It makes me wonder about the skinless lady.
While Anshar may be depicted as a human God, OOC it is widely know she is not a human god at all. Anshar would never be depicted as having green skin by the common folk or the MC. …snip…

Never mind the green skin, the key element, I believe is that she (alone) is mounted on a horse. In the First Imperium all the PoM members are associated with an animal (Sarish and Illiir being most famously associated with cats and falcons). It turns out Anshar’s animal is … the horse.

When all these stories are told from different viewpoints with cross-claims of heresy, and we know that at least some of them (i.e., visions seen by the Tultipetan seeress) were corrupted by the Voiceless Ones, who’s to tell what’s correct?