
# Celebrene

In the heart of the Veghrinaad, there rests a strange, and ancient tower known
as the Godspire. Entering the tower is to step into another world, a place
larger on the inside than outside, and ascending the tower is said to take a
pilgrim to the heavens themselves. Though none truly understand where the
Godspire came from, each of the Hanging Towers were carved to some degree to
replicate its strange design.

In the last age, or sometime before, there was a great war, where the Oravenian
elves of Meneilas laid siege to the great tower in order to gain entry into the
heavens. In its defense, the Godspire created the celebrene, large crystal
golems with glittering angelic stars for hearts. These solemn guardians defended
the tower without rest, until the Oravenians were turned away, and afterward
they fell dormant and began the long vigil at the perimeter of the great spire.

Ages came and passed, and the Godspire mostly faded into myth, until the day
came when the Qeruborim magi lit the first of the Hanging Towers. Without
warning or explanation, the celebrene began to silently arrive and stage a
defense of the nascent tower. Largely because of their unexpected arrival, the
Eruvenian armies successfully defended the tower and the Qeruborim lit it up
with their ley magic, sending it into the sky and signaling the end of the
Megalithic apocalypse.

Today, the celebrene are commonplace amongst the sky people. Mostly, they are
inert, silent guardians, taking up positions where they see fit on the Towers
and then falling into a dim torpor. However, some chose to stay lit, and
assimilate with the teeming refugees of the Spinning Cage.

## Star Golem Ancestral Traits

**Age.** Star golem do not age, and are not, strictly speaking, born. Similarly,
they do not die: if their body is destroyed, they claim that they reincarnate in
the starlit heavens, their furnace heart installed in a new crystalline shape.
Following that, they can choose to reemerge, but the trek down the great tower
of the stars is so long, and so arduous, it can take them years to return to
their station.

**Size.** Star golem are often of great size, their crystalline forms standing 7
to 8 feet in height. Although most are unique in shape, many are broad, with a
strangely large top-half and long arms. Your size is Medium.

**Speed.** Star golem are not known for being quick. Your base walking speed is
20 feet.

**Star-speakers.** Star golem do not have vocal chords and are unable to speak
any language except the star-tongue, a weird language of resonant chimes.
Although able to understand many languages, the only way to understand a star
golem speaker is to learn the star-tongue.

**Dim Torpor.** When you take a long rest, you must spend at least six hours in
an inactive, motionless state, rather than sleeping. In this state, your body is
inert, but your star heart may disconnect from your body. You are not
unconscious in this state, and can see or hear as normal, but you are
incorporeal, and may not speak at all, or physically interact with the world.
While in a torpor, your star heart may not travel more than 120 feet from your
body.

**Crystalline.** Due to being wrought of starfire and crystal, you do not need
to eat, drink, or breathe in order to survive. You are immune to disease, and
you have advantage on saving throws against being poisoned, as well as a
resistance to poison damage.


Crystalline golems with a brilliant glowing angelic star within, enigmatic guardians of the Hanging Towers.