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Garen Thal
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 Posted - 04 Nov 2008 : 14:15:49
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Sorry for the lateness on this one; computer troubles struck as I was trying to post last night. As always, rules and blah blah. Have fun!
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Garen Thal
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 04 Nov 2008 : 14:16:42
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Despite the shifts of the last century, the gods of the halflings remain much as they were before the Spellplague. Yondalla no longer exists as an independent aspect of the goddess Chauntea, and their members have been reduced greatly in divine power, but the divinities of the hin are, as before, a protective grouping of gods who watch carefully over their people.
Arvoreen remains the halfling divinity of guardianship. A great deal of the Wary Sword’s power has been lost in the last century, as he was forced to sacrifice a sliver of divinity to Chauntea/Yondalla in order to keep the Green Fields from tearing themselves apart. Some of his worship has drifted toward the more powerful Torm, as the members of various races find themselves more and more turning to gods formerly considered entirely “human.”
Brandobaris
The Irrepressible Scamp is still a deity of adventure and misadventure, although with the disappearance of Mask he has turned his glittering eye more and more toward thievery as a means of achieving that excitement. The hin continue to view Bradobaris and Tymora as a playfully romantic sometimes-couple, despite the goings-on between Lady Luck and Tyr just before the Spellplague and her supposed chastity since that time. The Master of Stealth remains a fast friend of similarly-minded deities of other pantheons (Erevan, Garl, Vergadain, and Baervan Wildwanderer), though he has grown more and more apt to strike out on his own, mysterious adventures in recent years, robbing powerful beings of trinkets of great value but little utility other than their beauty.
Like many deities, Cyrrollale has been much reduced in power since the death of Mystra. Her fall, however, is not so much tied to the shifting of the planes as the destruction of Luiren. As halfling goddess of hearth and home, the washing away of the sole true halfling homeland struck her greatly. She has since adopted a slightly dourer demeanor, a melancholy that tempers her joy at acts of kindness and true friendship. Her followers have urged the halflings of Luiren to spread, and bolster smaller communities in human regions (like Corm Orp in Elturgard or Gray Oaks in Cormyr), that the hin need never again fear such a wholesale destruction of their lands again.
Following the revelation of Chauntea, Sheela Peryrorl stood forward to claim leadership over the Hin deities. The goddess of beauty and love also represents the family, the home, fertility and community, spheres once overseen by Yondalla. The Spellplague and the reordering of the divine landscape greatly diminished the power of others among the Halfling pantheon, and Sheela considers herself mother to these other divinities, guarding them against the depradations of more powerful evil deities while providing them with leadership and guidance.
Urogalan yet tends the domains of halfling dead, ushering the souls of the newly departed to their final destinations. He is no longer associated with the earth except as a place of interment, and has long since ceased answering calls on him to grant powers or spells. He remains, however, the subject of prayers for the dead, as well as for the souls of missing relatives whom the worshipper believes to be dead.
Yondalla and the Great Mother
When Mystra was slain and the planes began to disperse, Chauntea abandoned the House of Nature, her pact with Silvanus and Lathander to maintain the plane broken by the gathering of each of those deities to themselves a greater measure of independence (which resulted in the creation of both the Deep Wilds and Eternal Sun).
Just as once she created the aspect of the Earthmother as a wilder face to show to the Ffolk of the Moonshaes, so too had Chauntea forged the guide of Yondalla, an embodiment of civilization and tradition for her children the hin that she could not, in her traditional form, fulfill. As the heaves tore themselves apart, yhe greatest measure of Chauntea’s power flowed then into her aspect of Yondalla.
Chauntea thus came to inhabit the Green Fields. Though shed of her aspect as Yondalla, the Great Mother is still concerned with the future of the Quick Folk. She has passed the mantle of halfling motherhood to Sheela Peryrorl, though Chauntea still answers prayers to Yondalla and attempts to guide the hin as best she can toward a more prosperous future. |
Edited by - Garen Thal on 04 Nov 2008 14:37:30 |
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GRYPHON
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Posted - 04 Nov 2008 : 14:52:56
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sfdragon
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Posted - 04 Nov 2008 : 18:16:46
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im not buying into the chauntea was really yondalla garbage.
its a cop out and nothing more |
why is being a wizard like being a drow? both are likely to find a dagger in the back from a rival or one looking to further his own goals, fame and power
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The Sage
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Posted - 04 Nov 2008 : 22:54:22
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| Can you try to be a little more respectful with your commentary sfdragon? Brian's taking the time to outline these mental meanderings. Obviously, they aren't going to appeal to every scribe. But the least you could do is explain a little about why you think it is a "cop out." |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
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Posted - 05 Nov 2008 : 01:12:55
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Originally posted by Garen Thal
The hin continue to view Bradobaris and Tymora as a playfully romantic sometimes-couple, despite the goings-on between Lady Luck and Tyr just before the Spellplague and her supposed chastity since that time.
Yes, supposed chastity--I like it.  |
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Ayunken-vanzan
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Posted - 05 Nov 2008 : 06:24:08
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| I like the notion that Brandobaris takes interest in thievery as it fits how most other people of Faerun views Hin in general. |
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Monday Musing 11/3: Halfling Pantheon
