Edict of Amrulon

Widely promulgated in the centuries following the Fall of Yophénthë (986), the Edict of Amrulon is attributed to the King of the Isxinthions and forbids the Isxinthion Gods from interfering directly in person in the affairs of mortals on Asdar. The doctrine of the Edict of Amrulon was used by priests and theological instructors to explain why the gods did not seem to intervene directly in human affairs.

Priests are quick to say that the Edict has no affect upon divinities and elemental beings which make their sole or primary residence on the world of Asdar. This includes many mountain gods, river and water gods, and numerous other divinities, generally regarded as inferior in power and scope to the Isxinthion Gods.

In later centuries, the Edict was given literary value by this passage from the Woes of Yophenthea.

Edict of Amrulon

The Lord of Isxinthions with glint and with gleam
listened well to the words of Kirxios' scheme—
Just a plan to disown him and an omen of death,
and an oracle awful our King could contest.
“It is well for thee, Son of Samric,
that you receive not sinful sedition,
that the silken sleeves of Comfort should embrace you not
nor that you should make this omen a cause to rejoicing.”
Then was he turning round
to the gleaming immortals who heard him say:

“Heaven is my palace and Knomos my work;
an abyss set for malice wherein all ills lurk
to hurt and to harm him, to set him for naught.
Wit ye well, oh immortals, on what this throne thrives,
the realms which it wields and then knowingly wives.
Whether wed to the Lord of foul Carrion’s Corpses
or cleaving with wisdom the rod of my might,
Know now, you habitants of heaven
how each to us two alone are in thrall,
how each ’gainst us set should unerringly fall.”

See Also

• Amrulon
• Isxinthion Gods
• Woes of Yophenthea