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Originally posted by Dart Ambermoon

Not a bad word about the Great One...ahem *coughs*

It´s actually pretty well explained in 2E "Powers & Pantheons".
And that subtitle as the "God of Reckless Fools" is pure gold *winks*

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Originally posted by CrennenFaerieBane

And it didn't help that Finder had an enormous ego to go along with that godhood. No wonder he found some way to spin the crappy hand he was dealt!

C-Fb

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Originally posted by Alaundo


I have a soft spot for Finder and have enjoyed everything I have read about him. He was really opened up to me in Finder's Bane and Tymora's Luck, which I heartily recommend.

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Originally posted by Thelonius

So someone who gets a godhood can twist it to his own conception of it? Interesting...

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Originally posted by Alaundo


I have a soft spot for Finder and have enjoyed everything I have read about him. He was really opened up to me in Finder's Bane and Tymora's Luck, which I heartily recommend.

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I'll second this recommendation. Some of the stuff Finder does is great (particular the song he gave Ilsenine! ), and you do get a much better feel for him in those books.

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Originally posted by Talanfir Swiftfeet

I'm not sure if this is true, but I read from www.toril.info that Finder is dead and there is someone called Bruce Wyvernspur in his place. I'm in shock. please someone tell me that this is just a fanfic or something.

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Originally posted by Talanfir Swiftfeet

I'm not sure if this is true, but I read from www.toril.info that Finder is dead and there is someone called Bruce Wyvernspur in his place. I'm in shock. please someone tell me that this is just a fanfic or something.

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It's fanfic because Finder hasn't been killed in official canon.

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Originally posted by Talanfir Swiftfeet

I'm not sure if this is true, but I read from www.toril.info that Finder is dead and there is someone called Bruce Wyvernspur in his place. I'm in shock. please someone tell me that this is just a fanfic or something.

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It's fanfic because Finder hasn't been killed in official canon.

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And it's not the first time I've seen non-canon lore coming from that site...

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Hi, Foxhelm. Let’s begin with Finder Wyvernspur.
First of all, I’ll be very surprised if anything on Finder appears in the forthcoming Waterdeep sourcebook. There just isn’t room in its pages to delve into even half the details one would want to about the city.
Waterdeep’s chapel to Finder is largely unknown to most Waterdhavians. They’ve “heard of it,” but know little of where it is, what happens there, and why they should care.
Unless, that is, they’re struggling artists, sculptors, musicians, and especially composers (mainly young aspirers, but also older, accomplished individuals who’ve “lost the fire,” becoming burnt-out or bored). Such folk come to the chapel seeking inspiration. They pray in solitude, sometimes meditating over their works of art or looking at offerings (other works of art, or in some cases ‘touchspells’ crafted by traveling priests of Finder: these are small, delicate, spiderweb-like assemblies of apparently-scrap twigs, wire, scraps of metal, and humna hair, that when touched activate a cantrip cast upon them, akin to “ghost pipes,” that ‘plays’ a brief tune or snatch of song) left in the temple by other worshippers. Some even try to compose or craft new works of art before the altar, while praying or holding vigil, or sleep there, hoping for visions.
Many claim to have received such, or more often heard and seen nothing, but at some moment soon thereafter have suddenly been seized with inspiration (a trigger such as a particular smell, taste, or sound brings to mind a vision of the chapel, and then creative fire is ipon them and they devise a new lyric, tune, scene to draw, design, or whatever.
There’s no formal relationship with Waterdeep’s established bards or the college, but word is spreading of the chapel’s powers, and curiosity is luring many “creatives” to come and see. It’s certainly become a must-seek stop for traveling minstrels who come to Waterdeep. The Lords of Waterdeep (or more accurately, the Palace officials) have no quarrel with the chapel at all, as it seems both ‘untroublesome’ and possibly beneficial to new business ventures, increased prosperity, and happiness for some citizens. Its worshippers are right now few and disorganized, not an organized presence that seeks to influence governing decisions or demand changes in city customs, conditions, or laws, so they largely don’t think about it (amid all their daily worries and loud-voiced citizen-headaches).
In Waterdeep, at least, almost four in five worshippers of Finder are human, and almost one in five are half-elves, but yes, I’d say there’d be more saurials as one goes out into the wilderlands and approaches the Moonsea area, and certainly tieflings, other planetouched, and all sorts of other creatures would be attracted to the faith (as would anyone agitating for change in creative processes, even at the craft-guild level). It’s always important to remember that the vast majority of folk in Faerűn don’t “turn from one god to another” so much as they add a new god to the selection of deities they worship most often; only priests (and monks, and paladins, and persons filling other church-related roles), fanatics, and the very young and eager tend to focus on just one god.

I’d say that even fewer folk in Cormyr are familiar with what Finder the god stands for, and his worship in the Forest Kingdoms will be at a few hidden, private shrines (the only well-appointed ones being private upper-room chapels of wealthy nobles who have artistic ambitions). Most ‘avergae Cormyreans’ would scoff when told ‘one of their own’ has ascended to godhood - - especially those who had dealings with the mortal and very arrogant Finder himself (“Didn’t strike me as one who’d ascend to mighty power and stride the sky, like - - no, sir!”).
The Wyvernspurs, of course, know better, but Giogi and Cat are special people, and I’ll leave all comment on them to my dear friends Jeff Grubb and Kate Novak-Grubb, their creators. My opinion would be that Giogi is impressed but a little bewildered at what happened to Finder (think Hugh Lawrie as Bertie Wooster, blinking in pleased astonishment after Stephen Fry’s Jeeves has saved the day once more).
In short, it’s too early to say how popular Finder’s faith will become. It has the character of a belief that could become very popular if calamities or decadence sour many folk of Faerűn on the faiths they cling most strongly to right now - - but that could quickly be marred if Finder does something seen as arrogant or foolish, or a Finder Wyvernspur priesthood grows too strong and too authoritarian.

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Originally posted by Beezy

Does it stand for something or just some lingo/slang that I have never heard?

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Originally posted by Beezy

Does it stand for something or just some lingo/slang that I have never heard?

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The Christian church. It's a term they use to decide what is "official" church docturine but gamers have used it for what is official tsr/wotc material. :) Or what is official material from a different company that puts out material for thier settings.

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