Corellon, the Arch Heart is the deity of arcane magic and the fey. During the Founding, the Arch Heart wandered the lands, spreading magic and raising the forests. Corellon created the first elves, and so they are considered the Mother and Father of all elves.[2] Centaurs believe the Arch Heart to be their creator, as well.[4]
Description[]
Corellon is commonly depicted as an impossibly graceful and beautiful elven being. They are androgynous and alluring, with long golden hair. Many early elven art pieces were inspired by the Arch Heart, and elements of their visage or symbol can be found in most elven architecture.[2]
Commandments of the Arch Heart[]
Commandments of the Arch Heart
Create, inspire, and find beauty in all that you do.
Follow the echoes of lost magic, forgotten sites, and ancient art, for within these lie the Arch Heart's first works.
Combat the followers of the Spider Queen wherever they may be.
Worship[]
The worshippers of Corellon are those who seek art in all their work, both magic and mundane. The Spider Queen and her priestesses are loathed by followers of the Arch Heart for leading the drow elves astray.[2]
Tal'Dorei[]
Corellon has many worshipers in the Stormcrest Mountains[6] and the Verdant Expanse,[7] as well as among the centaurs of the Dividing Plains.[8] Some artists pray to Corellon in the Temple District of Emon.[9]
Wildemount[]
In Gwardan on the Menagerie Coast, the House of Enchantment is a temple to Corellon as well as a center of advanced study.[10]
One of the two small temples in Palebank Village is dedicated to Corellon.[11]
Worship of Corellon is outlawed within the Dwendalian Empire[12] – worship of a nonapproved god can result in 30 days incarceration and a fine of 250 gp.[13]
Known worshippers[]
- Hadarai, pre-Divergence orc priest, later a ghost[14]
- The Emerald Cross priests of Molaesmyr[15]
- Clay family
- King Imathan Talviel of Uthodurn[16]
- Lyssev Sorveline
- Unidentified patient at Vergesson Sanatorium[17]
Holy day[]
The Arch Heart is the guardian of the spring season, but their holy day is called Elvendawn, or Midsummer, and is celebrated on the 20th day of Brussendar.[2]
History[]
During the Founding, Corellon wove the first elves from grass.[18]
Soon after the Raven Queen ascended to godhood, she told three of her champions to seek out Melora for instruction about what to do with the body of a fallen hero. Melora sent a vision to one of these champions, Clay, sending her with the head of the hero into a forest to find a spring surrounded by crystalline stone, and to put the head in the spring, and that it would become the site of a garden as a gift: the flora would remind Corellon that nature is beautiful.[19]
Artagan and "Mister Demeanor", by Aviv Or and Cris Peter from The Tales of Exandria: Artagan #1.[art 3]
Possibly before or during the Calamity, Corellon banished Artagan to the Feywild for tricking an elven culture into worshiping a whale carcass.[20]
Screenshot of a vision of Pelor, Corellon and Torog in the Calamity from "Those Who Walk Away (LoVM)" (LVM2x04).[art 4]
During the Calamity, at the foothills of the Ironseat Ridge, Corellon fought one of the Betrayer Gods, Gruumsh the Ruiner. According to various myths, when Corellon pierced Gruumsh's eye, the Ruiner's blood rained down and mutated the elven Horselords of Laphithas who rode into battle to aid Corellon. Some were fused with their horses and became the first centaurs. Others, elven and possibly human as well, were transformed into the first orcs.[21][22] After the battle, the elves of northern Wildemount prayed to Corellon to save them, but received no answer, as Corellon's ears were said to still ring with pain; those elves encased their civilization in ice and retreated to the Feywild.[23]
At some point in the Calamity, in what would become the Greying Wildlands, Corellon's right hand, the solar Xalicas, was so badly injured that she could not see, fly, or leave Exandria, and had no strength to move for over a century.[24] Later, after the Divergence, through Corellon and Melora's magic, a small section of that forest was preserved from an arcane forest fire that had been burning for a century, and the elves that survived it and those who returned from the Feywild[23] founded Molaesmyr in the preserved section of forest,[25] upon "a powerful natural magic font, a deep-set well of power" within a deep series of caverns;[26] there was a crystal well of chaotic and expanding magical potential, and while some saw it as a divine blessing of the Arch Heart, others thought it might have been an arcane creation that fell from an old floating city.[27]
Centuries later, the hill where Corellon battled Gruumsh is known as Throne of the Arch Heart and has become a holy place for nomadic centaur herds. Every decade they meet here on the day called Herdsmeet and discuss the state and politics of their tribes and pay homage to Corellon.[28]
Appearances and mentions[]
- Campaign Two
- "Lost Treasures" (2x22), mentioned only
- "Causatum" (2x70), mentioned only
- "Dinner with the Devil" (2x110), mentioned only
- "The Calm Before the Storm" (2x130), mentioned only
- Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep[29][30]
- Campaign Three
- "Escape From The Past" (3x58), mentioned only
Trivia[]
- Corellon's soubriquet is spelled as "Archeart" in the original Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting[2] and as "Arch Heart" in Explorer's Guide to Wildemount,[3] Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn,[5] and Call of the Netherdeep[31]
- In the subterranean tunnels of the Labenda Swamp, Caleb Widogast searched through a pile of contraband holy symbols of deities not approved in the Dwendalian Empire for a holy symbol of the Arch Heart. He found six or seven of them, and pocketed the one most similar to one he had seen in the past.[32]
- The seventh episode of Narrative Telephone, Caduceus's Cautionary Chronicle, tells the story that starts with Caduceus's siblings conveying the body of a cleric of Corellon named Kristof Kasimar.
- Bells Hells happened to attend a theatrical performance (at the Dreamscape Theater) on Elvendawn, the holiday of this patron god of the arts.[33]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 See Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, p. 21.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 See Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting, p. 14.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 See Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, p. 22.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 See Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting, p. 122.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 See Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn, p. 29.
- ↑ See Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting, p. 72.
- ↑ See Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting, p. 81.
- ↑ See Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting, p. 52. See also p. 56.
- ↑ See Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting, p. 90.
- ↑ See Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, p. 66.
- ↑ See Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, p. 114.
- ↑ See Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, p. 36.
- ↑ See Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, p. 38.
- ↑ See Call of the Netherdeep, p. 136.
- ↑ See "Escape From The Past" (3x58) at 2:43:45.
- ↑ See Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, p. 50.
- ↑ She is a cleric indicated to have carried a holy symbol of Corellon in "Dinner with the Devil" (2x110) from 2:52:47 through 2:54:06 and by implication in "Lost Treasures" (2x22) at 2:44:31.
- ↑ See Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, p. 164.
- ↑ See "Causatum" (2x70) from 3:31:06 through 3:33:34.
- ↑ As of 835 PD, this happened "a millennium ago." See Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, p. 32.
- ↑ See Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting, p. 122. See also pp. 56 and 126.
- ↑ See Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, p. 177.
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 See Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, p. 162.
- ↑ See Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, p. 33.
- ↑ See Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, p. 18.
- ↑ See "Hope Within History" (3x55) at 0:52:20.
- ↑ See "Escape From The Past" (3x58) from 2:31:04 through 2:32:12.
- ↑ See Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting, pp. 56–57.
- ↑ See Call of the Netherdeep, p. 56.
- ↑ See Call of the Netherdeep, p. 73.
- ↑ See Call of the Netherdeep, p. 7.
- ↑ See "Lost Treasures" (2x22) at 2:44:31.
- ↑ See the timeline of Bells Hells.
Art:
- ↑ Symbol of Corellon from Critical Role: Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting.
- ↑ Symbol of Corellon from Explorer's Guide to Wildemount by Claudio Pozas. (source)
- ↑ Artagan and "Mister Demeanor", by Aviv Or and Cris Peter from The Tales of Exandria: Artagan #1. This file is a copyrighted work. Its use in this article is asserted to qualify as fair use of the material under United States copyright law.
- ↑ Screenshot of a vision of Pelor, Corellon and Torog in the Calamity from "Those Who Walk Away (LoVM)" (LVM2x04). This file is a copyrighted work. Its use in this article is asserted to qualify as fair use of the material under United States copyright law.
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