Sol

"The story of Sol is one of the necessity and meaning of self-sacrifice in the cause of good - there is no greater love or higher calling for a sentient being than to tread in the footsteps of Sol."

— ArchMage Telella Forwith University of the Stone Throne Dean of Religious Studies

The actual person of the Voice of Sol is lost to the depths of the past, but is mentioned in the most ancient of religious texts across multiple religions validating his likely existence. The story of Sol is remarkably consistent, and the form of the story, aligned to ancient pageantry and oral traditions, indicates the extreme age of the tale. The most interesting of these (although not necessarily most accurate or ancient account) is the "Tale of Beginnings" from which the following passage is drawn.

An Ancient Tale

"In the beginning, the Voices spoke, each to the other, and agreed they that the place of the Absolutes was unfit for the making and calling of people. For while the place was, it was small and too crowded for both the Voices and the peoples. And Sol was longsighted and saw the future, and he loved the peoples who would be, even those who were not of the tribes of warriors. He spoke urgently to the others that they must make a space so that the peoples would have room to hunt and breed and live. But the Voices argued and denied him, for they saw that the creation of this space would mean the loss of what already was, and they feared pain.

But Sol went privately to the All Father and argued for the peoples. He reasoned with him with axe and words, showing the All Father the peoples who would come, and telling of his love for those who were not yet and could not be without change. And the All Father fought Sol and cried out against him and his plans for he did not wish to lose his beloved son. But Sol persuaded him, and the All Father allowed him his way, for Sol spoke truth to him, and he too loved the peoples.

And in the depths of the darkness Sol raised his massive shoulders - greater than all of the gods. And he lifted up the burdens of the place, and pressed his mighty will with all his strength against that which held the Voices and the peoples bound, and the place began to grow. But the place was angry and loved the darkness and resisted being opened. She hated Sol and held him, and tore him asunder into twelve pieces as the penalty for disturbing her rest. But Sol joined himself with the place and gave to her his light, and the place opened herself to him and grew great, and the lights of the suns were her eyes. And Sol became no more, but was one with the place, and he was light in her darkness, and he taught her to love the peoples who she would birth and make a place suitable for them. And the All Father cried out at the loss of Sol, his son, but did not turn away from the place who took him or from the peoples for whom he sacrificed himself that they might be.

For Sol loved the Voices and the peoples, and he found that he loved the place, and he gave his light for their good."

The Tale of Beginnings

The Tale of Beginnings is a record of the ancient oral traditions of the orcish people as captured by the infamous white kenku bard Otto who, after making friends with the first Chieftain of the Tribes, returned to the Whispering Plains to reside with his adoptive clan, the Scream Clenchers. During this period he gathered stories of a culture in change and recorded these ancient traditions before they disappeared entirely from history.
Historians speculate that Otto was influenced heavily by his adventures with Airgead Dwarfsfriend as he was a noted historian and the work of the kenku prior to his adventures with the cursed silver dragon were notably lacking in discipline and craftsmanship.