Editing Blood of Vol (section)

==Origins==
The religion known as the Blood of Vol is a bastardized version of the beliefs of the elves of Farlnen (also known as the Bloodsail elves) in the Lhazaar principalities. The elves of Farlnen themselves are exiles of Aerenal, cast out because of their allegiance to the Line of Vol and their greatest Scion, Erandis Vol.

Once upon a time in Aerenal, House Vol was an [[elf]] [[Dragonmark]]ed House with the now-lost Dragonmark of Death. The line of Vol had differening religious beliefs than most elves on Aerenal. Most Aerenal elves were followers of the Priests of transition - necromancers that used positive energies from the plane of [[Irian]] and the devotion of mortal to create deathless. The line of Vol prefered to use negative energy based necromancy from [[Mabar]] as a means of immortality because they were not dependant on the devotion of living elves to sustain themselves - they could take what they needed from the world of the living to survive. The priests of transition, now known as [[The Undying Court]], claimed that the mere existence of negatively charged undead slowly killed the world. The Line of Vol viewed this as a blantant political ploy to undermine their elders. The appearance of the mark of death exacerbated the conflict between the two groups, so the Line of Vol moved to what is now the island of Farlnen.

Throughout the history of Aerenal, [[dragon]]s would periodically wage war upon the elves. Partially in an attempt to put an end to the wars between elves and dragons, and partially to refine the mark of death, the matriarch of House Vol and a cabal of dragons led by a green dragon named Emerald Claw decided to create a breeding program to transfer the dragonmark to dragons. The culmination of this breeding program was Erandis Vol, a half dragon with the mark of death. The line of Vol and Emerald Claw's cabal presented this [[half-dragon]] with a mark as a means to end the war. Instead, the discovery of this child's existence pissed off both elves and dragon so royally that they joined forces to eradicate House Vol for birthing such an abomination - along with the much more important fact that Erandis had manifested the most powerful dragonmark in existence, an Apex mark of death far more powerful than even a Siberys Dragonmark. Desperate to preserve the only thing she had, the matriarch of Vol decided that the only way to save her lovechild was to turn her into a [[lich]].

Though the rest of House Vol and the Mark of Death they carried was eradicated, Erandis herself (whose dragonmark no longer functions) fled as a teenage lich. The surviving supporters of the line of Vol were allowed to survive in Farlnen and continue their traditional beliefs, and a bastardized version of their beliefs and practices became the foundation for the Blood of Vol. The story of what happened to the line of Vol itself was garbled through the ages, and the nascent Blood of Vol used a misremembered version of history as a story important to their faith - Vol had found a way to defeat death, so the gods destroyed her because she could threaten their rule. Thus the Blood of Vol formed, and Erandis, now known as Lady Illmarrow, later used the faith to further her goals.