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Originally posted by dazzlerdal

Looking for some things to spice up Isis who is by all accounts a thoroughly boring being. Almost no history about her except for her raising osiris from the dead


So a few unusual things I noted. First she is depicted as being dark skinned, while Mulan are olive skinned I think. Dark skin says turami origin to me so maybe I could spin it as she did not travel with the godkings to imaskari (or did but died) and they found this Isis at the source of the river of spears.

Also Isis has a military order called the sisters of life who are part of the guardians of Skuld. Perhaps they are the guardians of Skuld because they protected Skuld from set during the civil war.

I'm also thinking of doing something with the mystic cornucopia. Maybe it is sat atop some kind of magical creature that was bound to the place by elves or turami. Anything really to make Isis and her clergy and temples a bit interesting with some adventure possibilities.

Any ideas

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Originally posted by dazzlerdal

I do like the idea of Isis' church helping turami (lower class) spellcasters.

This is just my take but I am moving away from portfolios, it's a non FR concept (In that it applies only to gods) and it reinforces a god centric model of religion that I wish to avoid.
So thoths church provides for the registration and monitoring of all non religious spellcasters as well as the maintaining of southern magic (transcribing magic into it and preventing the secret code from escaping into common use).
His church doesn't stop other churches from welcoming spellcasters of any kind into their organisation but as a service, the church of thoth is responsible for all spellcasters (registration etc). This forms part of its duties to the state of Mulhorand.
The church of Isis therefore can offer no administrative service to good or nature spellcasters (Not that I distinguish between them because those are game rules and not part of the world just part of the game played in that world).

I only have 3 broad distinguishing roles in the world, warrior, expert, and magic user. If you are a priest you are fine in your own religion. If you are not a priest and you use magic you need to register with the church of thoth or face punishment (loss of hands if repeatedly casting spells).


Now spellcasting is of course the preserve of the rich and therefore upper classes (Yes there are some poor magic users but they are limited in number). The church of Isis welcoming certain types of magic users from poorer backgrounds is a good way to explain it's patronage of "good" spellcasters

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Originally posted by dazzlerdal

Well after a request for something on Tefnut I went off on a tangent and came up with the Temple of Lost Gods.

So Tefnut, Nut, Shu, and Ptah have no presence in Toril (according to canon), but that only works in the godcentric model of the realms.

In this version anyone can worship whoever they want (and receive spells, because you never know who you are receiving spells from). So if people wanted to worship Tefnut they could. But they don't.

So Tefnut had to either be unknown, or dead. So I'm killing Tefnut, Nut, and Shu off during the liberation of the Mulan from Imaskar.

Anubis survives to the Orcgate Wars (thanks to Tom Costa's article on Ancient Gods) because he is known as the guardian of dead gods and presumably was the god of death before Osiris became so in -1048 DR.

So Anubis establishes the Temple of Lost Gods in the Cliffs of Leaping Horses before the Orcgate Wars. A place guarded by his Divine Minions, where mulan could come to pay their respects to the long dead gods of Mulhorand.

Its location was lost following the civil war of Mulhorand (-1048 DR), and the reason is because the entire coastal shelf of Mulhorand is unstable (owing to the dwarves' use of the Elder Rune of Destruction long in the past). Every time the ship of the gods erupts or an earthquake strikes, a large chunk of Mulhorand's cliffs collapse into the sea (actually an entire section of the Underdark collapses so the sea floor lowers by a large chunk). The Temple of Lost Gods (and the settlement it was situated near) just fell into the sea one day. People have looked for it ever since but none have thought to look in the Alamber Sea for the temple.

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Originally posted by dazzlerdal

Into my next random mulhorandi god. Apshai is mentioned off and on but has no proper basis in canon that I know of.

His insect depiction doesn't really fit the mulhorandi theme (which are animal headed gods not a purely insectoid god).

My initial thoughts are to link apshai to the spellweavers that inhabited this region long before the humans and sarrukh.

It could be that apshai was the last surviving spellweaver of the node that existed on Toril. Maybe Ra and Anu and Enlil encountered him in the Fuirgar. Or alternatively Apshai is the imaskari slave pidgin corruption of Jergals spellweaver name. The imaskari encountered Jergal long ago (see GKs article) and so maybe the slaves gave him a name and worshipped him sort of. That worship persisted in murghoms and semphar, so when mulhorand conquered them we have apshai reintroduced to the Mulan.

He could have a few shrines in murghoms that are actually spellweaver portals.

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