Domorus

Sun - Domorus (Lawful Neutral) - The Burning King

Domains: Sun, Healing, Fire, Strength

Dogma
Domorus stands for law and order over the land. Most paladins belong under his reign and his worship is firm and powerful. Being a distant deity, he uses his Sphinxes, lead by Raahn Ruul, his Arch-Messenger, to intervene if need be.

The order consists of clerics and battle priests. Clerics preach, educate and heal while battle priests are meant to protect and investigate cases of disease, undead, vampires and the like. Clerics are definitely more pious than battle priests who also have a somewhat lower moral. Clerics have the domains sun and healing, while battle priests sun and fire or sun and war.

Domorus is a powerful deity, with the powerful city of Solinar under his aegis.

Rituals
Domorus' worship prays at every sunrise for spells. The ritual is called Calling to the Rising Sun, and is performed with the ritual lighting of firebowls and torches near the temple. Solinar's religious order belongs to the all time high cleric. The high cleric trains an acolyte who is to become the next high cleric.

Prayer of the Rising Sun:

Where there is darkness, let there be light. Where there is faith, be the Burning King's might. For the word of Domorus, I may live or may die May Faith be my steel, His law be my guide.

The prayer is chanted in choral in front of the temple after all the torches and bowls are lit again.

Rite to the Eternal Fire:

Through the Gates we pass, into the flame Our candle put out, we're out of the game Where shall one end it, our Lord only knows But from our ashes, a new life it grows.

Domorus demands that the corpse of a true believer must be burnt and the ashes must be thrown into his gardens. The reason for this is said to be that throwing the dead body to fire relieves the soul so it may reach to the Valhalla to meet Domorus himself and serve before his throne. In reality it has to do with the Curse infecting most corpses it reaches.

Position
Within the pantheon of gods, Domorus is viewed as the husband of Seleen and the father of Thanbalur.