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Master_Sylvius
Acolyte
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 Posted - 29 Dec 2014 : 22:18:41
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Hail friends and seasons' greetings to all! May Lathander's smile and Chauntea's generous bosom offer you all you may wish for in the year to come!
For my first post in this venerable encyclopedia of Realms lore, I would like to address one of the things that has puzzled the Tehryr loving DM that I am for several years now. Maybe some of the folks "in the know" could shed some light on my interrogations...
According to official sources, the Red Knight was present in a civil war afflicted Tethyr during the Avatar Crisis and literally saved the realm with a small force from legions of monsters. However, according to the same sources, Tethyrians seem to have forgotten all about it after the events of 1358 as none of them seem to have showed what I would have expected: religious devotion towards their savior.
The Red Knight is not listed anywhere the principal deities worshiped in Tethyr not does she have any temple of note in a realm she supposedly saved from rampage... My question is WHY?
True, the seat of her faith is located not very far, near Baldur's Gate. But still, could we not have seen her clergy invited to build another temple where she campaigned?
Furthermore, in a realm torn apart by civil strife, wouldn't her clergy had a role to play in the Reclamation Wars as they knew the land well for having campaigned in it a decade before?
Since His Holiness Greenwood has permitted humble DMs to play with the events that unfolded in the Realms, my campaign had Lady Bloodhawk reclaim and rebuild Castle Tethyr and use it as a base of operations for her mercenary band. She then helped pacify the surrounding region and commoners came back to form a small city around the kees whose livelihood is centered around catering to the needs of what has become the Red Knight's Holy Legion. A legion that helped my players and Zaranda win the reclamation War.
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hashimashadoo
Master of Realmslore
United Kingdom
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Posted - 30 Dec 2014 : 00:00:17
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| Most people around that time still saw her as an aspect of Tempus and worshiped her at her shrines, which were almost all within temples of Tempus. It's not that Tethyrians didn't respect her, it's merely the fact that people weren't sure if she was her own god or not. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 30 Dec 2014 : 00:55:37
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| It's also possible that Tethyrians don't know to connect their mortal defender with the Red Knight. |
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The Arcanamach
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 30 Dec 2014 : 02:47:51
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| Wasn't there also something about hiding her mortal identity? I forget where I got that notion from but I seem to recall she took the moniker Red Knight to avoid using mortal name. It may have been in the 2e godbooks or perhaps it was elucidated here at CK, can't recall now. |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
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Posted - 31 Dec 2014 : 01:26:12
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| Lady Kaitlin Tindall Bloodhawk was an adventurer who formed a small but effect mercenary band known as the Company of the Red Falcon from her fellow adventurers and presumably some add-ons. It may have been as simple as the idea that the people of Tethyr don't know to this day that the leader of the mercenary company was in fact housing a goddess. She may have surrounded herself with mercenaries as a means of protecting herself, and in "avatar" form she simply took over a prominent leader in the area. Her family was the Bloodhawk clan which was considered minor nobility in the area. When people here her say later that she was "an avatar for a goddess" they may simply doubt her and believe that she's simply trying to promote worship of a goddess which she obviously has a link to now since her castle is the primary center of worship. |
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