Runelords

Shialu studied the Thassilon Empire during her schooling years. She relayed the following information when the graffiti was found in the lower Glassworks.

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Origin of the Runelords

Thassilon was founded more than 11,000 years ago by First King Xin who had been exiled from his homeland of Azlant for promoting heretical beliefs. As the empire grew beyond the bounds of Xin's ability to control, both militarily and administratively, he appointed powerful arcanists as governors to oversee his lands. The mightiest of these were the Runelords, seven of the most skilled (and power-hungry) wizards in Thassilon, if not all of Golarion. Working secretly to secure power for themselves, the opportunity to fully escape servitude under First King Xin appeared when he, in his old age and after having ruled Thassilon for more than a century, destroyed himself and much of his palace in a mysterious magical event. The Runelords seized the opportunity and subjugated those loyal to Xin - including his own son, who became a puppet emperor - while each plotted within his or her own lands to become ruler of all Thassilon.

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The Virtues of Rule (wealth, fertility, honest pride, abundance, eager striving, righteous anger, and well-deserved rest), passed down from the goddess Lissala and First King Xin himself were seen as the benefits of power, and each of the runelords was drawn towards one of the seven. Over the course of time, the runelords corrupted these into what modern scholars understand to be the "great sins of the soul," abandoning the positive aspects of each and embracing the negative connotations of each (greed, lust, boastful pride, gluttony, envy, wrath, and sloth) as the rewards of rule. Each of the seven rulers specialized in a single school of rune magic and possessed a mighty weapon which not only served them in battle, but also became a symbol of their rule.

Summary

The Runelords of Thassilon

The runelords forged alliances with dragons and enslaved giants by using secrets of rune and glyph magic stolen from the aboleths in their efforts to increase their own power. With their enslaved giant armies, the wizards of Thassilon built massive tombs, enormous magical constructs, and staggering monuments that survive today, mute testimonies of a mysterious age long past.

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Alaznist, Runelord of Wrath

Domain: Bakrakhan
Weapon of Rule: Ranseur of charred adamantine

Belimarius, Runelord of Envy

Domain: Edasseril
Weapon of Rule: Halberd

Karzoug, Runelord of Greed

Domain: Shalast
Weapon of Rule: Burning glaive studded with meteoric gemstones

Krune, Runelord of Sloth

Domain: Haruka
Weapon of Rule: Dragon-tooth longspear

Sorshen, Runelord of Lust

Domain: Eurythnia
Weapon of Rule: Double-headed guisarme

Xanderghul, Runelord of Pride

Domain: Cyrusian
Weapon of Rule: Lucerne hammer

Zutha, Runelord of Gluttony

Domain: Gastash
Weapon of Rule: Scythe