Solenne, the Unsunk

Before the Sundering the empire kept many gods, each with a temple in the capital. When the capital fell into the Rift, every temple went with it except one.

Solenne's temple stood on the ridge above the old city. It hangs over the Rift's edge now, broken and still standing; her priests say she held it up. She is the old empire's sun goddess, and on both shores the one god the deep could not take.

That is the piece of lore I would keep if I had to throw out the rest. The drowned temples still answer prayers: something in the Rift speaks with the voices of the gods it took, and nobody in Orrin has a word for it. Solenne's answer is the one whose source is known, because her house never went under.

The paladins are hers. She picks them: a dream that will not stop, a mark that appears, a death survived that should not have been. Then they swear. Their power is her grace, the heals and shields and the strike that the things from the deep cannot stand, which makes a paladin the one person in Orrin who can tell a true god from a borrowed voice. I have not written those quests yet, but I know how every drowned temple on the map ends.

Both shores pray to her, and each thinks the other does it wrong. The Accord swears in a church; the ridge temple is its holiest place, and the senate crowns its magistrates there. The Kindred's sunclans prayed to her under their own name before the empire came and hold that the empire stole her. A Kindred paladin swears on an oath-stone, in the open, and would not set foot in the church. Same god, same mark, two oaths.

Her sunclan name I still do not have. It will come from a quest giver.

In the game: the Paladin is one of the six classes, with a tank tree, a heal tree and a damage tree. The mark is a sunburst. The temple is on the ridge above the Rift Shore, and you will be able to walk up to it.