The Sovereign Light
The Legend of The Sovereign Light
Mortal Name: Alaric Deyne
A humble scribe and soldier in life, Alaric was said to have walked among the lowborn with compassion, but also harbored a deep conviction that order and hierarchy were the keys to civilization’s survival.Godhood Name (claimed at Apotheosis): Illuvor, the Radiant Crown
Upon ascending, Alaric took the name Illuvor, a word meaning both “illumination” and “dominion” in the empire’s tongue. His new title was declared not merely a gift of divine brilliance, but a mandate: that light must shine downward to order the world beneath it.
Doctrine of the Sovereign Light
The priests teach that Illuvor’s apotheosis was proof that the mortal races were chosen to carry the flame of civilization, while “the beast-born” (the indigenous anthropomorphic peoples) were said to be creatures of shadow and instinct, awaiting the guiding light of their betters. Colonization is justified as “bringing dawn to the twilight of the wilds.”
✨ The Public Tale (The Doctrine of Illuvor, the Radiant Crown)
The Sovereign Light teaches that Alaric Deyne was a mortal man chosen by destiny:
Alaric was a soldier and scribe who gave his life to protect a holy flame during a great war.
He wandered into the Luminous Expanse, a mythical realm where light itself burns away falsehood.
There, the gods themselves recognized his purity and sacrifice, anointing him with a crown of light.
Upon return, he ascended as Illuvor, the Radiant Crown, proclaiming that civilization must shine its brilliance into every corner of the world.
Thus, the Sovereign Light proclaims him the paragon of virtue, selflessness, and righteous order. His apotheosis is used as proof that any mortal who devotes themselves fully to Light and Order can transcend.
☠️ The Hidden Truth (The Path of Blood and Betrayal)
The truth of Alaric’s rise is whispered only in forbidden cults and half-burned manuscripts:
Alaric was once a failed scholar obsessed with the divine. He found that the gods’ power was not unreachable—it was consumable.
Through secret ritual, he hunted and captured celestial emissaries (angels and divine messengers) during a war-torn era, binding them in chains and draining their essence through torturous rites.
To mask his crimes, he cloaked his deeds in rhetoric of “sacrifice for a greater dawn,” claiming that the blood of the divine willingly anointed him.
His final ascension came when he betrayed his own comrades: he led a band of warriors into the jungles to retrieve a sacred relic of the beast-born tribes. When his army fell, he slaughtered the survivors himself, offering their souls in place of his own.
By standing alone amid the corpses of friend, foe, and angel alike, he tore the veil between mortality and divinity—not by virtue, but by sheer audacity and cruelty.
When he rose, he rewrote the story, declaring himself chosen by the Light rather than the usurper of it. His priests inherited this propaganda, sanitizing his legend while burying the atrocities.
🎭 His Hypocrisy as a God
Now enthroned as Illuvor, the Radiant Crown, he judges mortals by their morality—
Condemning “impurity” he himself embraced.
Demanding obedience to hierarchies he shattered in his rise.
Preaching sacrifice, though his was always the sacrifice of others.
Claiming to bring Light, though his was born of shadow, murder, and stolen divinity.
His worship fuels colonization: the “Light” is both torch and sword, justifying conquest of those deemed lesser, even as his own godhood is founded on slaughter and deceit.