The Arrival of the goddess Shar

[TOMMY.ASHTON@asu.ed]

On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Pieter Sleijpen wrote:

> For quite some time now, I have been wondering how it is possible that
> the priests of Nasri in Ghamoura gain spells. Their leader has got an
> evil alignment and their intollerance for other faiths also seems to be
> unlike Nasri.
While I really like the idea of a diety undermining anothers holdings here
are a few problems I kinda of see:
1) It is been saidonline that the Cerilian dieties are more open to
alignments than other pantheon's. Look at Haelyn's acceptance of LE.
2) Like I said, I really like the idea of a conflict between dieties, but how
about Eolele (sp?)? Somewhere in the literature (sorry don't have my books
here) there is already and example of a priest of another diety being given
his spells by her instead of his stated power. She tries this too many times
with the wrong dieties and presto we have a mess. Nasri could easily bring
Haelyn to her side, Avani if I remember right is an ally of Nasri and enemy of
Eolele according to the BOP. Laerme joins this group to rid her love rival.
Kirche after a little persuasion and the chance to take down Haelyn a little,
joins Eolele. Sareme joins her daughter with Ruornil and Erik staying pretty
much neutral (though either could be pulled in).
Nasri Sareme
Haelyn Eolele
Avani Kirche
Laerme Ruornil (Maybe)
Erik(MAYBE)
with Belinik and Kriesha enjoying the whole mess. Each sides followers square
off, have huge battles, reshape the Cerillian landscape, and the the Vos
invade, hahahahaha!
or
the trickster god is expelled from the pantheon to take up residence with
Belinik and Kriesha where she starts to learn true unbridled evil and so the
youngest god once again becomes the Shadow. (I know a bit Norse-based but
could over a couple of generations allow the player characters to actively
fight against the rising of the new Azrai!)

3) Lets see, we have a god from another pantheon coming in and stealing
worshipers other than gnolls or goblins. It would seem to me that this would
constitute most of the Cerillian pantheon gathering together to expell this
intruder.
4) Death fits perfectly into the pantheon of Nasri so no new priesthood
would be needed.
5) Nasri isn't always miss forgiving. In one of the published adventures, I
believe the Curse of Azrai in the Legend of The Hero Kings, maybe in the
Khinasi sourcebook, when the PC go in search of a cure for the plague from
Nasri, she is pictured as a bit vengeful.

T

[Pieter Sleijpen]

Shaun Hodgson wrote:


> One more thing. Perhaps Nasri allows this evil, mage slaying temple to
> exist so as to
> destroy the Serpent, who did, after all, wipe out the last of her
> people?
>
> Shaun.

Interesting thought, that had not crossed my mind yet. Then they should
be working on that instead of allienating all neighbors and preventing
the formation of an allience against the Serpent. I wonder if the
fanatism is not the effect of the Serpents corruption afterall.

Pieter Sleijpen

[Tim Nutting]

In reading COS, I kind of saw that young paladin in the back of the book on
Ghamoura as Nasri's agent. She is there to lead a revolt against the
corrupt church. A great campaign, really. I've been thinking about running
it, but my own "return of Azrai" thing is well underway.

I see the human gods as being somewhat afraid. They don't want another
Deismaar, especially now that they have seen what it can do, and so they
take pains to avoid each other on the Prime, and to avoid open conflict. As
much as they hate each other, like Haelyn against Belinik, they don't want
to fight directly. They'd much rather weaken each other by tossing humans
back and forth and manipulating the field.

I have a priest that keeps on asking for Haelyn to appear, and the next time
it happens it's going to be Haelyn's Fist striking the impudent moron to the
ground and handing his soul over to Belinik...

Tim Nutting