Eloritu

Eloritu

(Deity)

Titles

The Hidden Truth

Home

Gemmenad

Alignment

Neutral

Portfolio

History
Magic
Secrets

Worshipers

Aucturn, Castrovel, Eox, Idari

Symbol

Glowing ring of six runes

Images of Eloritu

Source: Core Rulebook, pg(s). 485

Eloritu, also known as the Hidden Truth, is a deity of magic, history, and secrets who has been widely worshiped across the galaxy since long before the Pact Worlds were established.

Dogma

Eloritu teaches that although science and technology are useful tools to understand the cosmos, they are constrained by the physical laws of the universe; magic is the only way to transcend these laws. Whereas science is clear and understandable, magic is more obscure adn requires dedication, training. He sees history both as a chroncile of the past and a guide for the future, and advocates the study of history so that its mistakes are not repeated. Due to Eloritu's place as a god of history and secrets, some believe that he played a role in, or at least has knowledge of Golarion's disappearance and the Gap that masks it.

Home

According to his priests, Eloritu hails from a place called Gemmenad, but nothing beyond that name is known by anyone.

Church

Worshipers

When peoples from the Pact Worlds system first ventured through the Drift to other star systems, they found worship of Eloritu already firmly in place in a number of unconnected places. Eloritu is now worshipped by many spellcasters as the god of magic, and by historians and archaeologists who seek to understand the past. Many of them are Starfinders or others whose work involves uncovering secrets. Eloritu's temples are also academies and institutions of magic, but they often hide and mask what they have to teach, forcing students to discover the knowledge themselves. In the Pact Worlds system, his worship is most commonly found on the planets Aucturn, Eox, and Castrovel, and among the kasathas on the spaceship Idari.

Holy symbol

Eloritu's holy symbol is a ring of six magical runes. One has been used by lashuntas for generations. When the kasathas arrived in the Pact Worlds system, they brought with them another rune, which launched a secret race among Elorituans to identify the other four. A third rune was later discovered in the earliest arcane academies of the Shadari Confederacy, where it was associated with darkness. The fourth was found through careful studies of the Trafodi Paradox, which was discovered on Vesk-2, in ancient ruins of an advanced civilisation that predated the ijtikris and might have left traces on Vesk-5 as well. Although the Trafodi Paradox itself was lost when transported to Vesk Prime, several three-dimensional representations remain. Parts of the rune have been found elsewhere across Vesk-2, but never the entire rune, as if people feared to engrave it whole.

According to a theory, each rune is linked to an aspect of Eloritu's portfolio: the lashunta rune to focus and discipline, the kasatha rune to knowledge and divination, and the Shadari rune to shadows and secrecy. The Vesk-2 rune's connotations are still under debate, and suspected to be space, time and the Drift.

Relationships

Due to his neutrality and knowledge, Eloritu sometimes serves as a deific arbiter of last resort. While Hylax and Abadar are better negotiators, Eloritu's balance between law and chaos can be sometimes beneficial.

Eloritu has strained relations with Yaraesa and Talavet, who prioritise sharing information while Eloritu restricts it to the initiated. Eloritu's followers often come to blows with Talavet's by seizing an artefact that Talavet regards as communal property, and view Yaraesa's application of the scientific method to magic as the reduction of their sacred discipline to mass-produced technology.

Eloritu is cordial with Weydan despite their philosophical and fundamental differences. Their followers occasionally secretly compete with each other, Weydan advocating for the exploration of matters Eloritu wishes to keep secret, but these contests rarely turn violent. Eloritu's worshipers sometimes cooperate with Ibra's to investigate metaphysical phenomena, even sharing some temples at sites of magical and astronomical resonance, but the two deities otherwise maintain a tranquil relationship.

Eloritu has a quiet partnership with Triune and Lao Shu Po. Some suspect that Triune revealed the Drift and spread Drift beacons with Eloritu's approval, while Lao Shu Po shares his dedication to darkness and secrets. Eloritu disapproves of wanton destruction, while Lao Shu Po teaches her followers to co-opt, and not demolish institutions, and some of their far-sighted followers often cooperate against forces of destruction like the Devourer and the Outer Gods. Even Iomedae and Sarenrae have sought the help of these two to hunt for dangerous forces in creation's shadows.

Scholars of pre-Gap Golarion have connected Eloritu to Nethys, Golarion's lost god of magic and knowledge. While Eloritu himself remains silent, his followers have pointed out that Nethys is portrayed as destructive, irrational, and disdainful of non-spellcasters, while Eloritu notably possesses none of these traits.