Aroden founds the city of Absalom and places the Starstone at its center.23
The ascension of Aroden, a human, to divinity fulfills the promise of Aolin to relinquish power over his empire of Yixing. However, he circumvents the restriction in practice by appointing a puppet ruler under his control.45
The founding of Absalom is used as the beginning of the Absalom Reckoning calendar,6 and the first year in the period that historians name the Age of Enthronement.7
