Aroden
Aroden (pronounced AIR-oh-den) was the immortal Azlanti human who raised the Starstone from the bottom of the Inner Sea in 1 AR, founded the city of Absalom, and became the patron deity of humanity. He was once prophesied to lead humanity into an Age of Glory, but on the day of his supposed return, he apparently died of mysterious causes, catapulting Golarion into an uncertain future and the Age of Lost Omens.
Aroden's Death
Aroden was humanity's god of culture, innovation, and history. An important prophecy known as the Starfall Doctrine suggested that he was to personally manifest in Cheliax in 4606 AR, marking the beginning of a long-awaited Age of Glory. Not only did the god not appear, but the very power of prophecy, which had defined Aroden's life and spurred his personal accomplishments and ambitions, stopped functioning, ushering in the Age of Lost Omens. At the appointed hour, Golarion was instead racked with three weeks of storms and earthquakes that created the Eye of Abendego and flooded the nations of Lirgen and Yamasa on Garund's western coast. When the weather broke, the clerics of Aroden found they could not reach their god. With his divine mandate removed, the king of Cheliax fell into a legitimacy crises and the nation soon fell into a civil war. With the death of the god, the power of the Aeon Towers on the Isle of Kortos have begun to fade, slowly withdrawing their life-giving energies from the nation's soil and plant life.
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