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Gladi
Acolyte
Czech Republic
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 Posted - 31 Aug 2005 : 19:21:57
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Bright Day
Skimming again through Netheril: Empire of Magic, I happened upon Pantheon Countour (page 36 Holy days/important ceremonies)- some deal between netherese gods brokered by Amaunator. Any canon info for it or is it entirely for DM to make up?
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Kuje
Great Reader
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Posted - 31 Aug 2005 : 21:25:43
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| It's really never been detailed. A little more is in his write up in Faiths & Avatars but it's almost the same as what is in Netheril. |
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Sanishiver
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 01 Sep 2005 : 05:56:13
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Gladi
Yes, this bit of lore is for DM's to use as they see fit (as is all Lore of the Realms, none of which is ever set in stone).
Here's how I used this idea in my campaign to support an entire campaign arc, as well as to provide 'answers' to some interesting questions:
Basically Aumanator convinces the other gods of the Netherese Pantheon that Mystryl has grown too great in power and is upsetting the balance of all things.
Aumanator's purpose was more than an effort to 'put Mystryl in her place' though; as his real goal was to destroy her and subsume her power into himself in order to stave off the cyclical nature of his divine essence.
As Aumanator is a tri-partite deity, he is but one of three revolving aspects ever present in Faerun.
It was this cycle that was draining Aumanator's power and giving it over to the third of his three forms, which was due very soon to take over. Aumanator wished to prevent this and to literally take his other two divine forms and absorb them into himself.
He though Mystryl's divine control over the Weave could make this possible.
Aumanator used much of his divine power to inspire Karsus to create his divinity stealing spell (much of the lore for which came directly from Aumanator’s mind and was passed on to Karsus as multiple epiphanies) and to shield Karsus' efforts from Mystery’s awareness (which explains how Mystryl could remain unaware of what Karsus was up to and the threat this spell posed to her).
Yet Karsus was not up to the task of holding Mystery’s power (particularly when the God that was supposed to secretly steal that power away from Karsus was distracted by the deaths of so many of his faithful), nor did Aumanator perceive the lengths to which Mystryl would go to save the Weave.
Having failed to take Mystery’s power while simultaneously bringing about the near complete destruction of Netheril and causing the deaths of countless of his faithful, Aumanator went insane.
Desperate at his failure and casting about for a 'Plan B', Aumanator then gathered all his (surviving) mortal and divine worshipers to his divine Realms and transported them all to the Positive Material Plane, where he tried to take over the source of all preincarnate souls for Faerun (the Bastion of Unborn Souls --where all souls come from). Aumanator’s thinking (read: madness) was that marching on and then controlling the Bastion would allow him to make all preincarnate souls in his image and so allow him to gather enough faithful to stay as Aumanator forever, hence keeping his other two divine forms in check.
Unfortunately this effort was only successful for a short time, as all the other Netherese gods (and those of all other Realms Pantheons) rose up against Aumanator shortly after he breached the Bastion. The Gods then did battle with Aumanator and his faithful on a scale unheard of since the dawn of creation, all at the Gates to the Bastion on the positive material plane.
This Divine Battle and the Gods who fell there did not escape the notice of the all powerful Ao, who was forced to intervene.
Ao removed Aumanator from the Bastion of Unborn souls and also from power as a Divine being, and gave over his waning essence to a new divinity called Lathander (who to this day wrongly bares the brunt of responsibility for the divine battle that took place and is vaguely known as the Dawn Cataclysm).
Ao erased from the minds of mortals the little they perceived of this divine conflict, and almost (but not quite) erased memory of Aumanator from the minds of men. Ao left little or no clues as to the existence of Aumanator: virtually all tomes, scrolls and other means of magical and mundane recording that held lore of Aumanator were erased from existence.
Coupled with the death of nearly every one of his faithful worshipers in Netheril or in defense of the Bastion, Aumanator was left with nothing.
Ao then imprisoned Aumanator, who now resides in his (shrunken) old divine Realm, cut off from all other Planes. His other two co-essences have since split and evolved into their own unique divine forms, by Ao's decree.
Yet Aumanator's faith is ever so very slowly growing back in Faerun. In time, if his faith prospers and grows, the sum of it will release him from his eternal prison.
How soon until he returns to power and what effect (if any) this will have on the Faith of Lathander is, of course, up to each DM.
(Special thanks to Eric Boyd for hinting in multiple Realms products about Aumanator’s tri-partite nature).
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Never, ever read the game books too literally, or make such assumptions that what is omitted cannot be. Bad DM form, that.
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Edited by - Sanishiver on 01 Sep 2005 06:07:41 |
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Gladi
Acolyte
Czech Republic
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Posted - 01 Sep 2005 : 10:36:34
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Bright day
Thank you Kuje.
Sanishiver: interesting, but I doubt I will use that. It really does not fit mine image of Blinded Maiden (my own alias, not official and I am not english. blindfolded maybe?) who is Law itself... Plus Jergal who is Dusk is his ally!
In my mind this is contract the set up relations of gods within the Netherese Pantheon. Though there is disunity and infighting, through each other everygod is in way allied to everygod. My thinking is that after the Fall one of the gods (Selune or Shar, for campaign reasons propably Shar) broke it and Netherese pantheon fizzled out. The campaign in modern times could then revolve about punishing the "traitor", in case of Shar possibly by opening perma-portal to the quasi-elemental plane of Radiance in Shade enclave :p. |
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Sanishiver
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 02 Sep 2005 : 01:14:48
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Hey Gladi,
Sounds cool to me! I hope you'll share more of your Realms Campaign with us as it progresses! |
09/20/2008: Tiger Army at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz. You wouldn’t believe how many females rode it out in the pit. Santa Cruz women are all of them beautiful. Now I know to add tough to that description.
6/27/2008: WALL-E is about the best damn movie Pixar has ever made. It had my heart racing and had me rooting for the good guy.
9/9/2006: Dave Mathews Band was off the hook at the Shoreline Amphitheater.
Never, ever read the game books too literally, or make such assumptions that what is omitted cannot be. Bad DM form, that.
And no matter how compelling a picture string theory paints, if it does not accurately describe our universe, it will be no more relevant than an elaborate game of Dungeons and Dragons. --paragraph 1, chapter 9, The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene |
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Gladi
Acolyte
Czech Republic
24 Posts |
Posted - 02 Sep 2005 : 10:22:21
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Bright day
Gladly, alas I am still setting things up, plus we have not yet deciden on D&D or GURPS :).
But since my first campaign I prefer to have dozen of hooks to start game with, so players will not run around the world randomly... |
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