The Old Gods
“Twelve stones. Twelve names. One missing pattern.”
Not one faith but the pattern behind all of them. Every nation worships a different god; put the legends side by side and twelve emerge — twelve gifts, twelve stones that fell like burning stars.
Every faith on Hawiyalatari worships a different god — TiAtlas in Arcadia, TiAropa in Britannia, the deep god of Atlantia, the wolf father of the north. Different names, different temples, different rituals.
Put the legends side by side and a pattern emerges that no single nation can see from inside its own faith: twelve gods, twelve gifts, twelve stones that fell like burning stars, each granting power over one aspect of the world — strength, speed, wind, earth, fire, sun, sea, beast, pack, memory, illusion, and time.
At least two are lost. The twelfth stone is the one the whole continent knows. The faiths call it the Millennium. It's calling again.