![]() I know he doesn't exist, but he is the symbol of someone I would accept as if he were to ever bamf into existence right in front of my eyes and say the right things.) (I'm kind of a Santa Claus worshipper, remember. It doesn't help me for my "who's my god?" searching that most of the deities of home and hearth in mythology are female, while I can really only truly identify with a male deity. But again, who (in the human pantheon) in the FR would qualify? Oh, I was just thinking of the current Order of the Stick storyline about the "Northern Pantheon", so Freyja would qualify. What I am really looking for is a deity from the human pantheon that I could roleplay as a cleric or mage or druid of in the FR. ![]() ![]() I usually try to be some kind of Gandalfian cleric or mage in my games who has a soft spot in my heart for the dwarves and halflings. It's interesting to me that my values in real life correspond to halfling and dwarf values, but I am just below being defined as a human "giant" at 6'4" and 300 pounds in real life, such that I have trouble identifying with either of those "races". Now, if only I had ever heard of her before, or she were included in any of our FR games (BG, NWN 1-2). So, which deity in the FR corresponds? If the deity of home, hearth, and safe warmth for children is missing in FR, then I think that's an oversight on Ed Greenwood's wow, thanks, friend, she sounds like my kind of gal. )Īnyway, the childish part of me has always worshipped good old Santa (or Saint Nicholas, or Sinterklaas, or Father Christmas, or Dickens' "Ghost of Christmas Present") as a god, which led me to want to play clerics and mages (and druids) in fantasy games. Originally, that was meant to frighten unruly children as an omen that "Black Pete" was about to "get them" that is, Black Pete was "the Boogeyman", and the earliest creators in history of our modern day Santa myth (mostly advertisers who wanted to sell CocaCola, and advertisers who wanted to sell retail goods by early 20th century department stores), created the "coal in your stocking" idea in place of the scarier, psychologically traumatizing "Black Pete" idea from European cultural history. "Black Pete" was probably the source of the "coal in bad children's stockings" myth. (If you know your history of real world lore and mythology, Santa was originally considered a "deity" of punishment as well as reward - he had a helper, "Black Pete", who would kidnap and kill unruly, disrespectful children. ![]() Heck, could Helm be the FR version of Santa Claus? The only reference I can actually think of from FR lore is that Helm is the protector of children, and "Kind to children" (Neera, NWN2). So, is Bastet the appropriate deity? (Remember, the deity of home and hearth is also the deity of making children happy, healthy, glad, and thriving into adulthood, or at least that's a responsibility of the portfolio in my estimation.) So, which deity in FR is the deity of home and hearth? I know that Sharess is supposed to be Bastet reborn into the FR. Nicholas deified into Santa Claus qualifies as a mythological deity of that portfolio. In most mythology, there is such a deity, usually female.īastet from the Egyptian and Hera from the Greek come immediately to mind.
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