Channel Divinity: Corellon’s Devoted - History, legends, and myths - A gift of magic

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Channel Divinity: Corellon’s Devoted explores the protector god Corellon—his provinces of magic, art, renewal, and beauty—and how his presence shapes the world’s wonder and terror. Through legends and competing tales, it connects elven origins to blood, tears, and divine conflicts. It also explains the nature of arcane magic: once reserved for gods, now available to mortals, codified through ancient eladrin records, and debated for its purpose and risks. The text highlights varied prayers, myths, and moral obligations to the Protector.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryStory & Novel

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Pages9

Reading Time14 min

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History, legends, and myths

Eladrin priests, hunters, and poets

A Gift of Magic

Why Corellon brought arcane power

Elvenkind’s Sire

The debt owed to the Protector

Channel Divinity: Corellon’s Devoted By Robert J. Schwalb Illustration by Matias Tapas Magic, art, renewal, and beauty—these are the Protector’s provinces, the gifts ancient Corellon bestowed upon the mortal world when Creation’s dew still lay wet across the land. He is the originator ofarcane magic, having seeded its power in the world. It is said he himself planted the first forests, and the most ancient woods still bear his mark in the towering trees who command the lands all around. The greatest artistic achievements, the most brilliant paintings and heart-wrenching epics owe their inspiration to him, the Divine Muse. Corellon, First of the Seldarine, Protector, Creator of all Elvenkind, the Coronal ofArvandor is among the greatest gods in the Astral Sea and that which flows from his presence is wondrous in its glory, terrible in its fury. History, legends, and mytHs “You have come seeking truth about Corellon. To this I will ask you a question. What is truth when it comes to the gods? What is history and what is legend? Is there a difference? Is it not said that Corellon sired the elven races? You have heard the tale where elves rose from his blood spilled by Gruumsh during that fateful contest where Corellon took the monstrous god’s eye. But have you also heard the tale in which Corellon battled the Spider Queen and cast her into the abyssal darkness? It is said elvenkind also rose from the blood she spilled. There is also the tale of how the elven people were born from those tears he shed during the times of the Triune Harmony, with the races rising from tears of sorrow, beauty, and mirth. What would you say if I told you all three tales were true? How can this be? Corellon is a god, and with the gods all things are possible.” Tm & © 2010 Wizards of the coast LLc. All rights reserved. December 2 010 | Dragon 3 9 4 33 Channel Divinity: Corellon’s Devoted Eladrin priests raise their voices in song as night falls in the Feywild to welcome the Azure Star as it rises in the firmament. A gnarled elven mystic leads the hunters in the litany of Arrows before the hunt, building courage and resolve in those who would prowl the woodlands to harvest orc scalps. A drow priestess wrenches an elf’s heart free from a sundered priest, offering blasphemous curses to the sire who exiled them to the banished darkness. A frustrated poet offers up a prayer to the Divine Muse for the inspiration he needs to complete the epic on which he hastoiled for so long, while a mage in a tower’s top offers thanks to Corellon before beginning the ritual that will open the portal needed to cross a thousand miles in the blink of an eye. Who is this god to whom all these mortals turn? What legends inform the middle world to this heavenly presence who fills the heart with passion, who girds the spirit against ugliness, and who reveals magic’s secrets with no expectation of recompense? A Gift of Magic “Fools pray to Ioun and Vecna to master arcane magic. Those usurpers are nothing but pretenders and corruptors; they twist magic into obscene forms that have nothing todo with the beauty and artfulness expressed by the first to master its power.” There was a time when mages did not exist, when sorcery and its power were reserved for the gods alone. There was a time when magic was beyond mortal ken. Many take arcane energy for granted since it pervades the middle world, abundant and powerful, captured in complex formulas or acquired through tainted blood and fell pacts [forged with alien powers. one](forged with alien powers. one) can find arcane energies shining in the world’s bright reflection and skulking in its shadows. It spawns the endless storms troubling the Elemental Chaos and sparklesin the Astral Sea’s endless vistas. Arcane magic is everywhere, available to anyone with the talent or training to master it. Corellon brought arcane magic to the world, no one will deny, not even those priests who serve Ioun and Vecna. The questio

FAQs

What provinces define Corellon in the text?

Corellon is tied to magic, art, renewal, and beauty, described as the protector’s provinces and gifts bestowed on the mortal world.

How do the legends explain elvenkind’s origins?

The text presents multiple tales: elves arise from blood spilled by Gruumsh, from the Spider Queen’s blood, and from the tears shed during times of Triune Harmony and later sorrow, beauty, and mirth.

According to the text, why did Corellon bring arcane magic to mortals?

The document offers several theories: magic simply flowered from his footsteps when he descended to survey primordials’ work, or he empowered mortals to beautify and transform the world, or he gave them means to defend themselves against primordials.

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