The Virian Chronicler

Although Lilith is not widely worshipped, she has dominion over all underground spaces within the Fenian Galaxy, whether natural or artificially constructed.   Her temples are all built underground.   Some are adapted from natural cave systems and others are hollowed out by a combination of sorcery and mechanical means. Members of this Order wear a wide black horizontal stripe of indelible ink across their faces.   Starting from the sides of their heads, it covers the entire eye area from eyebrows to beneath the eyes and extends across the bridge of the nose.   Unlike a tattoo, the black ink is permanently infused into their skin by means of sorcery.   Their lips are also coloured black by the same process.   Most of the time they keep their faces covered by layers of black gauze veils.   Like many religious and sorcerous orders, they wear black silk robes.   They spend most of their lives in total darkness, meditating, praying and p...

In some dialects, the Goddess of Fire is known as Ledina.   The Order of Ledni is a small one in comparison with most of the other sorcerous and religious orders. The Goddess of Fire is often symbolised by images of a flaming figure emerging from the crater of a volcano.   Volcanoes are considered places of holy pilgrimage by members of this Order.   The earliest Temples were built close to volcanoes and lava caverns to facilitate regular pilgrimages.   Later Temples were constructed with sorcerous portals linking to the older Temples, so that all adherents of Ledni could have easy access to the volcanoes and lava caverns for their worship rituals.     Adherents of Ledni wear scarlet and yellow silk robes.   While they learn all aspects of sorcery, the main focus is on fire sorcery, including conjuring and controlling mage-fire and also manipulating ordinary fire.   Advanced fire-mages don’t get burned by fire and they can also tran...