Sebastian's spell, coupled with promptings from Vannalys, lets him scan through his own hearsay and studies, and he remembers a few key facts about Aroden, plus a little about the history of gillmen.<br/><br/>Aroden was known as the last Azlanti, the first race of humans, and was already an immortal of thousands of years old after the extinction of the race - so it is recorded by his proponents - when he was drawn to where the Island of Kortos is. Accounts differ as to whether he raised the Starstone and the island of Kortos from the bottom of the ocean, or if he found the island already there and placed the Starstone there. Regardless, he secured the Starstone, an artifact of unknown and likely incomprehensible power, and in so doing became the god of Humanity. He then built the cathedral of the Starstone and founded a city to secure it, and it became known as Absalom, the City at the Centre of the World. Vannalys helps recount some details about the calendar of Golarion itself. The current year is 4713 AR, and "AR" means Absalom Reckoning, meaning the first year of the time uses Absalom's founding (and likely Aroden's apotheosis) as its anchor event.<br/><br/>Aroden himself remained a very active God whose worship spread around Golarion, being the patron deity of the great Taldor Empire and later kingdoms that broke off from it. All this ended abruptly though, in 4606 AR, where Aroden was prophesied to manifest in Cheliax and usher in a golden Age of Glory for all humanity, but instead Golarion was plagued with storms for weeks, and when they concluded Aroden had disappeared or died, and all who relied on his divine power found themselves powerless. In following years, his worshippers switched to other deities, with many of Aroden's faithful switching to Iomedae, the former herald of Aroden who had attained apotheosis by passing the Test of the Starstone.<br/><br/>Aroden's 12 Guises are how he is said to often manifest himself in disguise as he roams about humanity, and also describes the behaviour he encouraged with relation to Absalom. Coupled with the inscriptions you all made out, if all 12 sections of carvings were intact they all reference the city, and this cave - in the Kortos Mounts in the heart of the island of Kortos where Absalom is - probably has some reference to Absalom itself and there might be some deific obedience related to that here, assuming there was a depiction of the city somewhere nearby and assuming that a vanished or dead deity that no longer manifests divine power can somehow reward it.<br/><br/>With some help from his spell, Shirin and Vannalys, Sebastian also vaguely recalls the origins of gillmen are said to lie with the Azlanti. There was some cataclysmic event that destroyed the Azlanti, and the gillmen somehow survived after developing gills. For their part, gillmen can't stay out of water for more than 24 hours without risking harm and death. Vannalys isnt sure how gigantic fish feature in the picture, but with her prompting Shirin feels sure that something from beneath the water probably used some sort of magic to get the gillmen to survive what was likely a "surface" or terrestrial devastation. Interestingly, none of you can recall any deity related to this event, which is probably quite some time before Aroden himself became a god.<br/><br/>While they are busy discussing among themselves, Faolan walks about the room and takes in the surroundings, seeing that the everburning torches seem to be fixed in the stone. He also notices 30' down the lighted passageway, it opens up into what looks like a similar cavern as this, but where the green luminescent fungi glow dimly, similar to the passage you had entered by.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Rolls</div><div class="spoiler_body">Bottom Up sequence.<br/><br/>Summary: At 2017-04-28 04:52:31, Melendrith (uid: 61033) rolls: 1d20 Result: 10 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=102754)<br/><br/>Full Result: Melendrith rolled: 1d20<br/>Comment: Faolan Perception<br/>Result: 10, <br/>Total: 10<br/><br/>Summary: At 2017-04-28 04:45:52, Melendrith (uid: 61033) rolls: 3d20 Result: 34 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=102753)<br/><br/>Full Result: Melendrith rolled: 3d20<br/>Comment: Seb K History Shirin Vann Aid<br/>Result: 2, 19, 13, <br/>Total: 34<br/><br/>Summary: At 2017-04-28 04:34:24, Melendrith (uid: 61033) rolls: 3d20 Result: 26 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=102752)<br/><br/>Full Result: Melendrith rolled: 3d20<br/>Comment: Seb K Religion Shirin Vann Aid<br/>Result: 17, 3, 6, <br/>Total: 26</div></div>