Erolan¶
"Lord of the Sky, Air, Storms and Clouds." — the Terrun Compendium (S372)
Erolan is the Lord of the Sky, a god of the Domain of Matter and one of the six gods the newest register names outright among the Unaligned (S420). Earlier accounts call him Lord of the Sky, Air, Storms and Clouds, a Twilight God and one of the Dreamers, the Sleeping Gods, imprisoned through the betrayal of his wife Pyri. He is the creator of the Storm-Giants, one of the High Lords who served Kalar, and the god of the Ring of Air among the Heartstone relics. He is still prayed to in the Fourth Age by at least one orcish paladin.
Domain and allegiance¶
In the Domain of Matter the register lists "Erolan - Lord of the Sky", good in temper and neutral in law, with the mark of the Unaligned, and names him in its short list of the Unaligned proper beside Pyri, Achelus, Tyche, Arcantus and Menae (S420). Four gods of weather stand beneath him in that domain's list: Lonyss, Mistress of Rain; Marduk, God of Thunder; Aether, Lord of Mists; and Xolos, Goddess of Lightning.
An inscription in the Monastery of St Morgan, over the Vault of the Eye, counts him among Kalar's High Lords: "In reverence to the High Lords who serve Kalar we keep these Golden Orbs; let those who seek glory cast their eyes down in humility." The six orbs are those of Quitas, Erolan, Orandos, Moros, Arcantus and Khardas (S185).
The Sleeping God¶
Erolan is one of "The Dreamers, The Sleeping Gods": Einar "that have had their mortal forms destroyed on the material plane, leaving their spirits to wander blindly across the material plane. While they retain some of their power, they are largely deaf and blind to anything outside their sphere of influence (astral domain) and unable to communicate. They do have followers and priests, and they are still able to project some power from their spirits, but their high priests are unable to commune directly with their deity and because of this are often limited in how much divine power they are able to wield" (S372, S429). "Once married to Erolan, she betrayed him, leading to his imprisonment", the same sources say of Pyri.
Gap
The sources do not say where or how Erolan is imprisoned, whether his imprisonment and his sleep are one condition or two, or whether any attempt has been made to bind his spirit to a new form as was done for Rakkar.
Creations¶
Erolan is "Creator of Storm-Giants" (S372, S429). The Storm Giants are one of the four giant races: "The Einar endowed faerie powers upon Giants and so created the Storm, Fire, Mountain and later the Frost Giants. One giant of each type became the King of his race; an immortal being of tremendous elemental power" (S372).
Relics and holy places¶
The Ring of Air is Erolan's, one of the three rings of the Mithis Heartstone beside the Verdant Ring of Arya and the Ring of Water of Achelus. It was "lost in the depths of the ocean, found by Asmodeus" (S182).
In the Kilmarn temple complex, the great Kalari sanctuary beneath which the Sancturi-era adventurers sought the Vault of the Ancients, the hexagonal Halls of Khardas dedicate one of their six sides to the mountains and to Erolan, and the complex holds Halls of Erolan to which the demon Hollowlord Urk'maggo's forces were pushed back (S163, S164). The complex is treated on the Kilmarn page.
Worship¶
The Naher horse-clans count Erolan among their gods (S524). In the Fourth Age, the orc paladin Kalhor, whose tribe in the Silverpine forests was "displaced and whittled down", holds his oath of devotion to "Erolan (lord of the sky)" (S328); his story is told in the chronicle Escape from the Underdark. That an orc should be a paladin of a god of the sky is noted in the source without comment.
Earlier accounts¶
The 2015 Compendium (S372, S384) and the 2019 Overview of Gods (S429) make Erolan a Twilight God: one of those who, like the Dark Gods, "have taken over the dark side of their domains", but who "are not in direct opposition to Kalar. They are following their own path and will ally themselves with the Kalari or Rakkai based on their own objectives". Both list him among the Sleeping Gods with the parenthetical "(Twilight)". The 2026 register (S420) drops the Twilight grouping and marks him Unaligned, with a good and lawless temper rather than a dark one, and that reading is followed here.
Gap
No source describes Erolan's priesthood, rites, symbols or temples, nor how a Sleeping God came to be listed among the active gods of the Domain of Matter.