Erevis cale is a fictional character in the forgotten realms series of books, which are. When gods walk the world, clerics channel divine power, evil cults perform dark sacrifices in subterranean lairs, and shining paladins stand like beacons against the darkness, its hard to be ambivalent about the deities and deny their existence. He is also a skilled assassin and a secret priest of mask, the god of rogues, whom cale has an ambiguous relationship with. During the time of troubles, mask took the form of a powerful magic sword called godsbane. You want to worship, say, a random deity of evilness and sneakyness, lets call him john. Cyric is closely associated with the essence of murder. Cyric has many titles, some of which include the prince of lies, the dark sun, the black sun, the mad god, and the lord of three crowns. Helm later officially appeared as one of the major deities for the forgotten realms campaign setting, in the forgotten realms campaign set s cyclopedia of the realms booklet 1987.
List of forgotten realms deities card game database wiki. Commonly referred to as simply the realms, it began as his own personal campaign. Legend of drizzt the forgotte n rea lms series set 1 by r. A deity is a supernatural being that is worshiped by creatures in golarion. The mask of mysteries first appears in realmslore when it is found on the face of a corpse in a tomb on the dragonisle in the sea of fallen stars. God of guardians, protection and protectors, and worshiped by guards and paladins, he was long seen as a cold and focused deity who. The sword coast adventurers guide has a section about all the forgotten realms gods, including mask. Gargauth appears in 3rd edition in the forgotten realms campaign setting book 2001, and was further described in faiths and pantheons. In the 2e era the forgotten realms adventures hardcover, to be specific.
Cyric unwisely read his own book, a mistake that cost him his sanity and led to the loss of myrkuls former portfolio to. After being confronted by the league of monster knowledge, he atempted to flee using a teleport, but ended up being sucked into an area. The lord of shadows is wary but cool, never losing his temper, and he. Lets start with the big issues and well try and work down from there. Nothing super in depth but it has some useful info. Similarly, in the comicbook series based on forgotten realms, a wizard notes that after the upheavals in magic caused by the troubles, some of his spells had changed in power and effect. The first book containing monsters to be published was the monster manual.
Forgotten realms antagonists random encounter wiki. Malar the beast lord, and mask the deity of thieves. They are all deities that appear in the fictional forgotten realms campaign setting of the dungeons dragons role playing game. Kemp is the author of several previous forgotten realms titles, including resurrection, shadows witness, twilight falling, and dawn of night.
He was a loner god most often associated with thieves or those of otherwise illrepute. Doriak was the responsible for the many attacks that took place on the road that linked silverymoon to sundabar, after discovering a page from the book monster manual, and recreating the deadborn vulture. He is very faithful to his friends, though he frequently faces an internal struggle with his darker side. Feena is a werewolf and priestess of selune, who returns. I would start by reading his article on the forgotten realms wikia as it important parts from the avatartime of troubles novel series in which he. My deity cards are based on the 60 deity listed in the 5e players handbook for both the forgotten realms deity and the nonhuman deities, taking their alignments and their suggested domains, then cross referenced with the forgotten realms wiki to try and get an idea of abilities that might make sense. Queen of the depths is the fourth book in the priests series of standalone novels set in the forgotten realms setting of dungeons and dragons. Bane forgotten realms dungeons and dragons wiki fandom. Im inclined to say 5th edition forgotten realms is a contemporary of present day golarion which puts earth in the early 20th century, get the players into a submarine or uboat and go to the location of crhulhu, defeat him and then use his life essence to shore up the wall of the faithless. What deity holds the time portfolio in faeruns modern. Cordell, mistress of night by dave gross and don bassingthwaite, and maiden of pain by kameron m. Both sides of the debate were right, they both represent the same deity, but just different facets of his character. He doesnt seem to ever be able to live down his moments of lawful stupid, like killing the first mystara.
Faiths and pantheons includes allnew prestige classes. Im looking to run tomb of annihilation for the second time, and part of my plan is to eschew the imo weak death curse hook in favour of a more political scramble for chult style colonialism angle. Masks angel comic, a comic based on the angel television series. I n the forgotten realms, the gods and goddesses of the realms are referred to as powers. List of forgotten realms deities neo encyclopedia wiki. So i started viewing lathanderamaunator as a dualaspected deity. If you persistently, over some length of time, flout your deitiy and his dogma, you may find that god will not be pleased with you. When first introduced, he was scornful of religion, but over the course of the book shadows witness he found his faith in the forgotten realms deity mask. Forgotten realms history history of the forgotten realms. Bane is a lawful evil greater power whose symbol is green rays squeezed forth from a. What you then do is select that you worship mask, so that you can still benefit from all the benefits. He also contributed a short story to the halls of stormweather. From the realms wiki on portfolio a portfolio was a list of things that all true deities possessed.
From the old book of the righteous green ronin press, iirc, deities are shown as having multiple aspects, depending on the worshiper. Wizened emperors and upstart kings scheme and fight to secure a place in the. Commonly referred to by players and game designers alike as the realms, it was created by game designer ed greenwood around 1967 as a setting for his childhood stories. The portfolio of a deity determined the area of interest that it both represented and had power over. One good thing is its unique enough of a story that it certainly wasnt bland. I have to say god born was one of the best of the sundering book series. Say what you will about the forgotten realms, but one of my favorite aspects of a setting stems from their pantheons. The first sourcebook to detail the extensive forgotten realms religious pantheon.
Mask mask is selfpossessed, confident, and fond of intricate plots, though his schemes are always getting him in trouble. Mask, also known as the lord of shadows, is a neutral evil intermediate deity of rogues, thieves and intrigue. From forgotten realms faiths and pantheons sourcebook, pgs. Major concepts forgotten realms forever wiki fandom. Helm is commonly worshipped by lawful neutral thieves, monks, and clerics, as well as any characters employed as guards. Like the preceding series the rogues, each novel in the priests series is written as a standalone adventure, allowing new listeners an. No mention is made as to whether other deities shared between forgotten realms and other campaign settings are intended to represent the same divine entity. Time of troubles added by the first mystra and the second. The human buried there is thought to have been arnthas the sky, much maligned among elves as a smoothtongued false friend of the elves who in the guise of.
After making numerous appearances in articles written by greenwood for tsrs dragon magazine in the 1970s and 1980s, it was acquired with conditions by tsr and turned. This last plot ultimately failed though not before the book was written and read by both mask and cyric, which cost mask most of his power and drove cyric insane. Mask dc comics, a fictional dc comics character the mask, a comic book series published by dark horse comics, which was later made into the oscarnominated film of the same name. Forgotten realms deity cards 5e inspiration cards x.
The deity helm of the forgotten realms campaign setting provides a couple examples. Start by marking twilight falling forgotten realms. Faerun has a plethora of unique and exciting deities with plots and schemes that play in the backdrop of the world. Each title will chronicle priests loyal to a different deity in the forgotten realms pantheon. The sword changed several mortal carriers during the period, eventually falling in the hands of cyric, who used it to slay bhaal on boareskyr bridge.
This collection details the thirty most important gods in the forgotten realms universe and expands upon the profiles of the rest of the deities. Lolth, the principal deity of the drow in the forgotten realms, is specifically described as being the same deity as lolth in other campaign settings. Erevis cale is a fictional character in the forgotten realms series of books. As a relative novice to fr, im not as familiar with its various factions. Cyric also released kezef the chaos hound, and created a book called the cyrinishad, a magical tome that proclaimed him the one true deity. An arcane cataclysm and the merging of two worlds have ravaged the world, realigned its planes, and left nations in ruins. Which is nice and all, but dull and useless, in a game. Some people worship standard gods, but others choose to worship great powers such as ancestral spirits, archdevils, demon lords, empyreal lords, four horsemen, great old ones, infernal dukes, malebranche, or whore.
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