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Heading west from Castle Tarengael (16.16) on the ill-maintained road into Gore, the farmland quickly peters out and little remains beside the road but a collection of dilapidated shrines, which are used by those travelers who make the dangerous journey towards Thring’s western border and beyond.
Most of these small shrines have no permanent occupant, but the Shrine of the First God is an exception and is well maintained with its impressive collection of broken holy symbols always spotlessly clean.
This is the home of Brother Humphries, a cleric of The First God. If you are willing to sit through his long and pedantic lectures, you can learn that humans are the first and only true gods and that their souls are the source of all divine magic. According to him, all of the so-called gods are nothing but bloated parasites who feed on the souls of man.
He is generally thought to be a harmless crank and is ignored by the local men of Thring, but if what he says holds no truth then what of the divine magic that is quite capable of casting?
