El'dora

Capital: Alazil
Hallmarks: Divine magic, the Silver Flame; fine crafts, wool, textiles, fruit, livestock

Overview

The modern Church of the Silver Flame was founded in El'dora, and most of the people of the nation are devout followers of this faith. During the Spellplague, the people of El'dora chose to set aside the rule of the monarch and to embrace the leadership of the Church. For the last seventy years, El'dora has been a theocracy. The head of the state is 11-year-old Jaela Daeran, the divine selected Keeper of the Flame; however, Jaela looks to the Council of Cardinals to perform the practical work of running the nation.
The primary purpose of the Silver Flame is to defend the innocent from supernatural evil. The faith has always had a militant aspect, with battalions of templars and peasant militias prepared to face undead, lycanthropes, or other monstrous threats. But compassion and charity are core values of the church, and the templars are tasked to defend all innocents. Even during the Spellplague, if a fiendish threat were to arise in an Osyran village, El'dora templars would ally with the locals to bring an end to the threat. With that said, this is the ideal. There are zealous El'dorans who believe the Church is destined to reunite Osyra under the Silver Flame, and corrupt priests interested only in power and wealth.
Not all priests are divine spellcasters, and the typical templar is a mundane warrior; however, due to the deep faith of its people, El'dora has more clerics, paladins, and divine spellcasters than any other nation in Western Askara.

Type

Geopolitical, Country

Alternative Names

The Holy Nation

Demonym

El'doran