The Seeker Stones OOC (3.5 DnD)

[Sikako J]

Campaign: The Seeker Stones (D&D 3.5 RP)

Homebrew races and characters would be looked at in a case by case, but I am pretty liberal. The stronger your initial character the stronger I will make the foes

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Deities

Basic Info: Tyr (pronounced TEER[1] ), also known as The Maimed God,[2] was a lawful good greater deity of law and justice and part of The Triad. His dogma was primarily concerned with the punishment of wrong-doers, and the general furthering of law and good in the world. Not coincidentally, these values are among those held by most paladins, many of whom were more than likely to follow The Triad,[1] as the patron of paladins Torm is one-third of the coalition.
Followers: The highly organized church of Tyr was strong in the more civilized lands of the Realms. They were known for never refusing service or aid to the faithful when they are in distress.[1] To keep Tyr's favor, one must respect fallen enemies, never make sacrifice of a corpse, and keep one's alignment lawful good. Tyr considered slaying agents of evil to be honorable and worthy of the highest praise.
In World Orders:
Knights of Holy Judgment
The Order of the Knights of Holy Judgment tends to attract the paladins who emphasize the "lawful" part of their dedication to Tyr.[3]
Knights of the Merciful Sword
The Order of the Knights of the Merciful Sword tends to attract the paladins who emphasize the "good" part of their dedication to Tyr.[3]
Hammers of Tribunal
The very elite of Tyr's paladins, members of the Hammers of Tribunal are chosen from the best of Tyr's the Knights of Holy Judgment and the Knights of the Merciful Sword.

Basic Info: Torm (pronounced TORM[4]), or The Loyal Fury, is the god of law and a lawful good greater deity whose portfolio consists of duty, loyalty, and righteousness. His symbol is a gauntlet, much like the symbol of the slain Helm, though specifically Torm's symbol is a right-hand gauntlet held upright with palm forward.
Followers: Torm's worshipers consist of those who favor the cause of both Good and Law. Righteousness, honesty, loyalty and truth are their primary pursuits. In the Post-Spellplague world, which is more dangerous and darker than ever, they shine as beacons of hope and courage.
In Game Orders:
Eye of Justice
This order based in Ravenmoor is considered heretical by many Tormites. The Order worships a form of Torm they refer to as the "Threefold God" which they believe to be a combination of Torm and the dead gods Tyr and Helm. Members of this sect have no pity or fear and often use tactics some would consider questionable. The Order attracts outcasts from other orders as well as people seeking redemption for evil acts.
Girded Healers
Members of this order worship both Torm and Ilmater. The primary purpose of this order is to heal those touched by war or the Necromantic Infection that have happened in the lands of Ethica.

Basic Info: Bahamut, also referred to as the God of Dragons or the Lord of the North Wind, is a powerful platinum dragon and the king of the good dragons.
Sages continue to debate whether he actually is a deity or not. According to draconic legend, he has existed since the beginning of time (which, in a dragon's reckoning is since the first dragon appeared on Toril). Whatever he is, he is certainly powerful and venerated by many good dragons and respected by evil ones. One of the most compassionate beings in Realmspace, his name is known throughout the Realmspace and in some aspect all over Toril.
Followers: The majority of Bahamut's worshipers prior to the Spellplague were metallic dragons. His few nondraconic clerics typically learned the Platinum Dragon's teachings at the foot of a wyrm, typically a gold or silver dragon in humanoid form. Teacher and student often traveled to see the effects of injustice and cruelty firsthand.[10]
In the aftermath of the Spellplague and following the death of Tyr during an attempted demonic invasion of Celestia, Bahamut gained the portfolio of justice and presumably gained many converts from the church of the Maimed God
In-game Orders:
The Platinum Cadre is an order of dragonborn knights from Tymanther, to the far east of Varisian.

Basic Info: Selûne (pronounced seh-LOON-ay[3]), also known as Our Lady of Silver and the Moonmaiden, is the goddess of the moon. She is also venerated in Faerûn as a goddess of light, stars, navigation, navigators, wanderers, questers, and goodly lycanthropes.
Followers: Selûne's clerics are a very diverse group, including sailors, non-evil lycanthropes, mystics, and female spellcasters. Her church's main objective is to fight evil lycanthropes and summon the Shards, blue-haired female planetar servants of Selûne, to battle the minions of her archnemesis and twin, Shar. The temple also performs fortune-telling, healing, and practices self-reliance and humility.
In-game Orders:
Swords of the Lady
One order of fanatic Selûnites is known as the Swords of the Lady, who are often referred to colloquially as the "Lunatics". Its members are led by a few Selûnite crusaders who tend to act rapidly in response to threats from Shar and her priesthood, although their behavior is often viewed as bizarre by the public at large.
Oracles of the Moon
The Oracles of the Moon is a group of female diviners who worship the Night White Lady. They perform fortune-telling rituals and are some of the highest bards and priests in the faith.

Basic Info: Oghma (pronounced OGG-mah [3]), also known as The Lord of Knowledge, is the neutral greater power of bards, inspiration, invention, and knowledge in Faerûn. Oghma is the leader of the Deities of Knowledge and Invention and his homeplane is the House of Knowledge. His symbol is a blank scroll.
Followers: Those who worship Oghma include artists, bards, cartographers, inventors, loremasters, sages, scholars, scribes and wizards—archivists, a generalist cleric prestige class, might pray to him as well. They can be of any alignment, unlike most neutral gods. They often wear Oghma's symbol, a silver scroll on a chain, as a necklace.
In-game Orders:
Companions of the Silver String
The Companions of the Silver String are heroic bards who acted valiantly at risk of their own lives in the service of the church of Oghma. They actively share knowledge of the neighboring lands and often call out their visions that are sent to them in Inns and rest areas.

Basic Info: Shar (pronounced SHAHR [2]), the Mistress of the Night, was the goddess of darkness, and the caverns of Faerûn, as well as a neutral evil greater deity. Counterpart to her twin Selûne, she presided over caverns, darkness, dungeons, forgetfulness, loss, night, secrets, and the Underdark. Among her array of twisted powers was the ability to see everything that lay or happened in the dark. Shar's symbol was a black disk with a deep purple border.

Followers: The clergy of Shar were a secretive organization that pursued subversive tactics rather than direct confrontation with its rivals. In addition to her clerics, Shar maintained an elite order of sorcerer monks who can tap Shar's Shadow Weave. Among her worshipers were the Shadovar of Tultanthar, who fled into the shadow plane before Karsus's Folly. Shar also held power over all who used the Shadow Weave.
In-game Orders:
Dark Justiciars
The Dark Justiciars was an honorary order or secret society within the priesthood of Shar. It was rumored that in order to gain admittance to the order of the Dark Justiciars, a priest of Shar had to have killed a priest of Selûne.

Basic Info: Lolth (pronounced LOALTH [2]), sometimes Lloth in the Drow dialect,[3] the Queen of Spiders or Queen of the Demonweb Pits, is the goddess of the Drow[4], a chaotic evil deity who revels in chaos. She patterns her life and the lives of her worshipers on a regimen of chaotic acts and the veneration of spiders. The way that new-born spider broods tear each other apart to survive especially appeals to her. She promotes this by encouraging her worshipers to kill their rivals, thus ensuring that they are the strongest of the 'brood'. Her love of chaos often makes her appear mad but the wise see her as a calculating individual who is always several steps ahead of those who believe that they can anticipate her. She is cruel and domineering, forcing her will upon her followers and her enemies, a will which instructs the strong to crush the weak in the most torturous way imaginable.
Followers: Lolth's clerics have no set uniform, but spider motifs and darker clothes are the norm. Some rites require the worshiper to wear no clothing at all. Her sacred animals are arachnids. Lolth is worshiped almost exclusively by drow, though other sentient races venerate the Lady of Spiders as well. Her clergy sacrifice the living and treasure to her glory.
In-game Orders:
(Currently Unknown to all Surface Dwellers)

Basic Info: Hoar (Symbol) (pronounced HORE [2]), also known as The Doombringer, is the vengeful deity of retribution invoked by those who seek to repay an eye for an eye. He is a bitter deity, prone to mood swings and fits of violence. Ever since the Time of Troubles, the Doombringer has been consumed with plotting the downfall of Anhur, the Mulhorandi deity of war, and to a lesser extent, the pantheon that spawned him.
Followers: Aside from a handful of scattered temples, the church of Hoar is composed primarily of lone wanderers who travel the realms, agreeing to pray for Hoar's aid on behalf of those who seek or fear vengeance, in exchange for a small fee. Charlatans who would try to scam people in this manner quickly feel the punishment of Hoar. His followers seek out victims of injustice, hear and appraise their stories, and track down the perpetrators in order to inflict a fitting form of punishment. No injustice is too small or too large for revenge to be sought and a fitting punishment meted out, earning the church of Hoar the ire of town watches and Tyrists alike as well as the adulation of the downtrodden.
In-game Orders:
Fate’s Scale
Members of the Fate’s Scale often have a tattoo of an open jawed skull on a merchants scale. These warriors have banded together in prayer in order to exact vengeance. These members include many races and types of warriors.

Basic Info: Vhaeraun (Vay-rawn), also known as the Masked Lord and the Masked God of Night, is the drow god of thievery, drow males, and evil activity on the surface world. His worshipers include assassins, male drow and half-drow, poisoners, shadowdancers, rogues, and thieves. Vhaeraun resides in the Demonweb Pits, where he has a territory permitted to him by Lolth although the two entities, mother and son, are opposed to each other.

Follower: The church of Vhaeraun is loosely organized, mainly due to persecution from the priestesses of Lolth who rule over the majority of the drow race. Vhaeraun's clergy is almost entirely male, and they practice a passive opposition to Lolth. Aside from that, Vhaeraun strives to reclaim the surface world from which he was forced to flee. This leads to frequent conflicts with the clerics of Eilistraee, benevolent drow who strive to live in peace with the surface folk and gain redemption for the evil ways of their kind.
Some priests of Vhaeraun advocate unity of the elven races in order to more easily dominate the surface world. Most, however, view this as heresy.
In-game Orders:
The Upper Hand
These followers are dead set in rooting out Lolth’s priests. While not maniacal, they are steadfast in their purpose using whatever advantage they can muster. Many train in martial skills for this purpose, and have established connection and ties with surface cities.

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Basic Info: formerly Kelemvor Lyonsbane, also known as the Lord of the Dead and Judge of the Damned, is the god of death and the dead, and master of the Crystal Spire in the Fugue Plane. In his mortal days, Kelemvor was a skilled mercenary, with the heart of a noble paladin, concealed under rude manners and thwarted by his mysterious family curse.
Fair yet cold, Kelemvor is the god of death and the dead—the most recent deity to hold this position, following in the footsteps of Jergal, Myrkul, and Cyric. Unlike these other deities, whose rule as gods of the dead made the afterlife an uncertain and fearful thing, Kelemvor urges knowledge that death is a natural part of life and should not be feared as long as it is understood.


Follower: The death clergy as they are known have many duties, most involve tending to the last wishes of the dying and provide burial services to those who die alone. They also set out to cure diseases and defend people from monsters so that folk do not die before their time. Their final and debatably most important task is the destruction of undeath in all its various forms as it is an affront to Kelemvor. Elite priests of Kelemvor are known as Doomguides. Servants of Kelemvor are usually clad in somber gray vestments and brandish hand-and-a-half swords, or Bastard Sword.

In-game Orders:
Most Solemn Order of the Silent Shroud
An organization of gravediggers, embalmers, and other cemetary workers and crafters. Those of this order identify each other with a series of secret signs. Their task is to keep the church informed of undead sightings and gravesite desecrations.

Basic Info: The Nameless One is a being of great power has no name and requires little explaining. Thus the Nameless One has sparked a great following in those who wish to marvel at the mysteries of magic, the outer plane, and the material world in their own manner. The Nameless One requires only that one remain without great renown nor to have a statue made of one’s likeness. If the one of the two tinnitus are broken, a curse of horrors is placed upon the believer.

Follower: Many who feel their allegiance don’t belong to any of the other Divines fall into the worship of the Nameless One. As he doesn’t require one to have a specific alignment, he has followers of many races ranging from merchants to commoners and travelers.
In-game Orders:
The Nameless
These followers have given up their names, instead relying on their profession to mark them. This causes some confusion for many as they often change professions; require wills and estates to be altered many times over a life time. The Nameless are often sought after as they supreme servants and spies. It is well known that Nameless often take secrets to the grave.

Basic Info: Cazic Thule is the tyrant of the Plane of Fear. He is cruel and merciless, powerful and cunning. He allied himself with Shar to further is goals, to cause fear and terror to all of those on the mortal plane. The four armed five eyed Major deity has had his hand in countless sacrificial rituals that are ever feeding his power.

Follower: Cazicites fear their Lord and believe that only by causing terror in others will they be spared his vengeful wrath. Fear rules their lives and through fear they rule the lives of others. Pain, misery, violence, torture, and living sacrifice are tools to please their Lord. Many Lizardfolk follow the wrathful Lord, but his following grows every day.
In-game Orders: FearMongers

Basic Info:Bertoxxulous A cloaked figure with a hunched back. Three large eyes and dark grey skin covered in pustules.
Follower: Necromancers, Affliction Casters, Blood Reavers.
In-game Orders: The Stricken

Basic Info: Title(s): Lord of Bone, Lord of the Undead, Old Lord Skull , The Reaper.

Domains: Death, Evil, Fate, Law, Pestilence, Travel, War

Background: Tablurauth was once the king of a great and prosperous kingdom on the surface world. A Kind and wise soul who took care of his people well. But as it happened war came, a massive army of non-humans attacked and assailed the kings lands killing many innocents.

During this dark time a sorcerer came to the king and promised that he and his coven would help save the kings lands, but at a great cost. Disparate to save his people he allowed the Warlock and his coven to cast a powerful and destructive spell.

One that destroyed The invader's but also caused the entire city to fall into the underdark far beneath the earth were it remains to this day. The dark obelisk the sorcerer and his coven made spread a horrible curse among his surviving people, Turning them into vile undead beast. Tablurauth however did not die, and was forced to live out his eternity as an undead being.

Tablurauth eventually mastered his fate and became a powerful adventuring necromancer in his mortal years, traveling with Bane and Bhaal, dedicated each to a quest to attain divinity for themselves. They traveled to the citadel of Jergal who, luckily for them was tiring of his existence as lord of the end of everything. Breaking off his skeletal knucklebones after an argument over which of the three would rule over the other two, they were each thrown by the mortals to determine which of Jergal's portfolios they would receive. Malar tried and failed to interrupt this game. The end result was Tablurauth gaining the portfolio of the Dead. Jergal served Myrkul as an aide for a time until Tablurauth had settled into his new role.



Follower: The sentient undead, dark cleric, and warlocks seeking power often turn to the Lord of the Undead. They are usually unflinching in there devotion, as to true away from their dark master may leave them in the Shadow Realm of Shax or the Void.

In-game Orders: (Coming)

Basic Info: Shax has a statuesque human torso and is always bedecked with knives, razors and other bloody implements of torture. Shax most abnormal feature is the dove's head that sits atop his muscular neck. Shax has the unnervingly dark emotionless eyes of a psychopath and has a blood-covered beak, which he uses to eat the eyes of his still living victims: a particularly favourite activity. Shax's legs are also bird-like, not just his head, giving him a strange hybrid appearance

Follower: Shax does not really have any sort of organised church thanks to the deranged nature of most of his worshipers: his cultists are generally lone deranged killers or warmongers seeking luck and glory in their deeds.[2] Some of these monstrous sadists are not insane loners, but the corrupted scions of decadent noble houses, led through hedonism and cruelty to kidnap the poor and unfortunate and exact Shax's bloody will upon them.[4]
As well as lone, surface-dwelling psychopaths, in the depths of the Darklands, Shax is worshiped by the drow.
Shax is worshipped by his creations the babau demons, whom he still creates. Shax makes particularly powerful ones by flaying still living victims before the final Abyssal transformation.[7]
He is also worshipped by chokers and derros.[7]

In-game Orders:

Basic Info: Armor clad with golden hair waving in the wind, she wields a massive two handed blade. Her figure is perfect and sculpted for a warrior.

Follower: Followers of Erollisi Marr, the Queen Of Love, cling to the belief that love conquers all. It should be pointed out that while love is a generally peaceful concept, Erollisi worshippers are not pacifists. They would like to live in a world where everyone loves everyone else and violence does not exist but they are not naive enough to think that this is that world. They are passionately devoted to people, places and ideas and are more than willing to fight and die to preserve those things. The dream of every follower of Erollisi is to die in the selfless defense of someone or something they love. Many paladins hear the true calling of their hearts and follow Erollisi Marr.

In-game Orders:

also known as Una
The Faerie Queen
Oona is the queen of the fae. Her domains are dreams, trickery, and charm. Oona like all fae is secretive and rarely if ever reveals her true form. Her true form is a swarm of odd pixies forming the rough shape of a large winged humanoid with a crown of flowers and a blue robe.

Oona tends to visit humans and others in their dreams where she delights in confusing the poor dreamer while granting them odd insights. She can take many forms in dreams and is known for having many eyes for this reason.

In-game Orders
Stolen Children: Often the fae steal babies from thier crib replacing them with changelings, bringing them to faerie lands to live and serve in the faerie queen's court as servants and handmaidens. Stolen children are only released from the faelands if Oona has a plan for them at which point they swear an oath of liyalty are given a fey name and released back into the world.

The Shaded Dragons:

There purpose is mostly to be an oversight group used by some counts to monitor the house merchants and advisers. They are also sometimes employed to remove questionable elements by more underhanded people. The creed of the organization: Efficiently, Silently, Completely.

They member body would mainly be people who are naturally skilled at going unnoticed, from rogues, spies and scouts who would skulk around for information, to Beguilers, Bards and Illusionist who could fit into established groups undercover. That doesn't mean other classes are exempted, as they would also have agents in some other orders as well as fighters and even 'commoners' to establish a good communication network.

Members are more often recruited either from a young age and trained, or taken in if they are deemed useful.

They don't have a central deity, but Vhaeraun and Oghama petitioners are common among them.

General Information:
The region of Varisain is a rich trading region that is ruled over by a collection of ten Counts. Each Count controls his own region and can impose his own laws to a certain degree. While each Count may move to shape his land and the people that live within it, there are certain laws and customs that are written in stone for every region such as the standard do not murder, do not steal, etc.

1. If a person kills, murders, or manslaughters, the person is to be executed by beheading.
2. If a person commits acts of aggressive violence against another, the person is to be fined a standard week's wages.
3. If a person commits a rape, the person is to be executed by fire.
4. If a person commits adultery, the person is to be fined a standard month's wages.
5. If a spouse divorces, the divorcee will pay the divorced a standard month's wages or 25% of assets, whichever one is largest.
6. If a person commits a kidnapping, the person is to be imprisoned and pay a standard month's wages.
7. If a person commits a violation, crime, or deflates the value of or against a slave (including the fleeing of a slave from ownership), the person is to pay the owner of the slave a standard month's wages plus damages, except in the case of a fleeing slave who is to be executed.

Crimes Against Fair-Trade
8. If a person steals or damages property, the person is to be fined 5 times the value and is to repay 3 times of value.
9. If a person breaks a sworn oath in a business or government dealing, the oath-breaker is to be imprisoned.
10. If a person commits acts of dishonesty in business or government dealing, such as false scales, fake coins-gems-treasure, i.e., the person is to be imprisoned.

Crimes Against Government
11. If a person commits false testimony or bribery to an official of the government, he is to be imprisoned and pay a standard month's wages.
12. If a person is out after curfew, the person will be fined a standard week's wages.
13. If a person interferes with the watch, army, or official government representation, in the carrying out of duties, the person will be imprisoned and pay a standard week's wages.
14. If a person commits willful or ignorant treason, the person is to be executed by public torture.

Crimes Against Order
15. If a person violates the sanctity of a chapel, temple, or monastery, the person is to be imprisoned and fined a standard week's wages.

Slavery:

Slavery is still a practiced principle of trade in Varisaen, but slave are often seen as servants rather than propriety. They do receive a wage, however it is as low as 20% what a true worker would receive, and are often restricted in what they can learn or apprentice. While the murder of a slave is still considered damage to property, some house still find pleasure in degrading acts and are legally allowed their fill. A slave is never to have a child with higher status than that of a Commoner. Currently, Half-races and Beastfolk are the majority of the slave population.

Social Standing: (Highest to Lowest)

Empire Blood: Member that can clearly show blood history with great unifier Soluses. To insult or question the word of one deemed Empire Blood will almost certainly end in death. They act as the advisors to Emperor, and are in charge of Dukes and Counts. They are Elven and Human.

Dukes and Counts: The second highest wrung are the rulers of the regions themselves. They can expect any of a lower rank to adhere to their words. However in trying times, rebellion and riots have led the people to overthrown particularly sadistic or stupid Counts.

Advisors to Counts: These men and women are often gifted with magical abilities. They are required to be well versed in nearly every law, custom, House head, trade negation, current languages, and the personal matters of their Masters.

House Merchants: These people over see the business of Counts or their chosen few; as such they have addition routes and option available for trading. They often live rich and lavish lives, yet are required to deal with the political maneuvers caused by Advisors to Counts.

Merchants: These people are a step below House merchants and strive all their life to raise their status upward. They are required to be cunning, ruthless and keep a smile on their face. They are unable to order anyone other than commoners with petty manners. They are not allowed to carry weapons.

Soldiers/Gaurds: They are given status above skilled workers and commoners, are police their area to ensure the laws are being followed. They are able to carry weapons.

Commoners: -----------------------------------------------------------------

Slaves: Name states their status, they are not allowed to carry weapons or wear blue, red, or yellow cothing.

Population:

The population of Varisaen is mixed between Humans, Dwarves, Elves, Beastfolk, and Gobliniods. In the larger cities however, Humans and Dwarves are most often seen. The woods and forest tend to be the home of the naturalist Elves, mostly Wood-Elves although Half-Elves are rarely accepted by eleven families. The Beastfolk are rulers of the Marshlands, even having an official Count to watch over them. The Gobliniods however are vastly distrusted by all, and tend to have great numbers on the Cinderlands. It is rumored that Drow have taken hold of vast cities underneath the great mountian ranges, but Dwarves are quick to say it is only Golbin nonsense.




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Accepted Characters:
GrievousKhan- Sheet Pending
necar-Lumen/Cleric lv 5
mew77-Desire Erisaad/Warlock lv1+Cleric lv2+ Eldritch Disciple lv1
Yellow 13- Vis'tak/Barbarian lv 2
Greycat- Jyrre/Begulier lv5

[Yellow 13]

Vis'tak, the Lizardman

[GrievousKhan]

Saving a spot!

[Greycat]

Jyrre of the Deepening Forest, Catfolk Beguiler

Non De Plumes:
Marrol 'The Untamed Blade' of the Running Grasses; Catfolk Duskblade Mercenary, member of the Naked Baldes
Reios of Brightening Skies; Catfolk Bard
Grevis Atmnan; Human Trader (Retired Gladiator)
Asshar of the Rushing Winds; Catfolk Scout
Sans of the Misting Forests; Catfolk Seductress
Urchin; Catfolk Wanderer
Kain; Catfolk Rouge
Chaz Lenns; Half-Catfolk Fisher

[mew77]

Desire le Fey will return
Stronger than ever

http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetvie...sheetid=369415

[Sikako J]

Alright call out your battle colors!
Mew- Purple yes?

[Greycat]

Grey

[Sikako J]

Will get a post up later today all!

[Greycat]

I think I'll work on sheets for Jyrre's nom de plumes. Le'see; fighter, bard, trader, sorcerer, duskblade, thief... that's a lotta sheets to make 0.o
And he might have multirace versions of each too... *sigh* what have I gotten myself into...

[Sikako J]

Will get a post up later today all!