Keepers of Valnyr¶
The Keepers of Valnyr are the order that rules Valnyr, the warded country built on the ruins of the Amarin Empire. "Valnyr is an unsual country. Built from the remains of the seat of the Amarin Empire, Valnyr is governed under the direct control of an organization known as the Keepers of Valnyr. It spans the entire island of Amarin" (S511). Their task is containment: the island "is covered in demonblight and at least 9 demonic rifts are located there" (S511). In the Fifth Age they are remembered as the Valnyr Wardens, whose fall let the demons loose.
Also called: the Valnyr Wardens (S324); the Valnyr (S142).
The riftkeeps¶
"Each rift is protected with a riftkeep which suppresses the rift" (S511). A demonic rift is "a complete break in the Abscission wall", which "allows demons in spirit-form to invade the Material Plane and scour the area looking for hosts", and is "not a natural or accidental event", requiring "extremely powerful magic for creation and maintenance" (S513); see Demonic Rift.
The rangers¶
"The Keepers have a large number of rangers which roam the island searching out the weaker demons which have been able to slip through. The rangers also cull any creature capable of being a host to a demon" (S511). The essay on demonic possession counts the Valnyr Rangers among the organizations against demons: "Two of these organization include the Knights of Lothos, and Order of the Light of Kalar (also known as Valnyr Rangers)" (S513, S519). The Light of Kalar has its own page; the Knights of Lothos are described with the White Fire.
Support¶
Valnyr does not stand alone. "The Keepers are supported by Pesh, Dalmar, and many other nations contribute money, supplies and manpower" (S511).
Kalar's Heartstone¶
The Keepers held a god's trust. Of the three pieces of the Mithis Heartstone, "Kalar gave his to the Valnyr to help contain the archdemons." That piece "was split into two. Asmodeus has one of these. The other was hidden." "The Last Valnyr -- when the archdemon's prisons fell, one Valnyr was able to escape and hide the other half of Kalar's heartstone. This heartstone, in principle, could be used to imprison an archdemon" (S142). See Asmodeus.
Fall¶
The Fifth Age survey of the lands around the Broken Sea records the end: "When the Valnyr Wardens fell during the Age of the Dark Sun, Amarin was overwhelmed by demons pouring from abyssal rifts. Somehow those rifts were closed again and with the Hollowing, the area has become a battleground between Devils and Demons" (S324). The land is the Demonlands of later ages.
Gap
The sources name no Keeper, give no rank or seat of government, and do not say when the Keepers were founded or who the Last Valnyr was. The Fourth Age Order of Valyr, which hems in the Demonlands, has a similar name; no source connects the two.
Earlier accounts¶
The 2018 Valnyr article (S511), from the earlier archive, describes the Keepers' rule as a present fact; the Fifth Age survey (S324) and the Heartstone plot (S142) treat it as fallen.