Caecus Bellamor
An idealist and a die-hard iconoclast, Caecus Bellamor has utterly rejected the deities of Cynthia. As many of my players have experienced, idealists like Caecus can sometimes be dangerous, and -- more often than not -- can easily become a villain in the campaign if the party chooses to make them so. Below is all the information that has been gathered on Caecus; read over your knowledge and decide for yourself: friend or foe?
- Caecus Bellamor is a young tiefling male that has founded the city Dominion off the coast of the Shattered Lands.
- He nicknamed Dominion as the City of Demons, in reference to the ancient demons that were first created in the multiverse. Those demons, seeing that the deities were just as faulty as any of them, broke their blinding halos, twisting and distoring them, enabling them to be guided by their own thoughts and beliefs. In much the same way, Caecus and his followers seek to (metaphorically) break their own blindness, and fully reject the deities.
- This ideaology seems to have been sparked by a resentment towards the deities actions: the acts of the Betrayer gods, and then the subsequential abandonment that was the Divine Gate.
- Before finding the city, Caecus discovered the Obelisk, a crystallized essence of the fallen Betrayer god, Matariel, former goddess of ascension. This essence has been nicknamed the Eden Fruit, as he has discovered this essence to make mortals like the gods.
- Any studious character would know that the names "Caecus" and "Bellamor" together has two possible connotations. First, the definition that Caecus himself subscribes to is that his name means, "One who is followed through the darkness". This makes sense with his mission statements, to lead his people out of the darkness and into his new worldview. However, while "Bellamor" does mean "one who is followed/loved", "Caecus" would literally translate to "blind". This translation can give a loose, more artistic translation as "darkness", but if you were to take the two names as a literal translation, it would mean something along the lines of "one who is blindly followed". Which translation would you subscribe to?
- The Eden Fruit has given Caecus a spark of divinity, allowing him to access the Aethenaeum. And he has used that as an opportunity to gain a vast amount of knowledge on the world and the multiverse.
- Soon, he plans to distribute the Eden Fruit to a select few citizens in his city, then to the whole population if they choose to indulge.
- He does not seek a war between mortals, he only wishes to stand separate from the gods and their influence.
- In the city of Dominion, there are six families that oversee the most important aspects of urban life and development (such as politics and invention). The heads of these families, simply called the Six, as well as Caecus, all co-lead the city together, each member with their own specific area to lead.
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