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<blockquote data-quote="Creamsteak" data-source="post: 1854321" data-attributes="member: 552"><p><span style="color: #FFD700"><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Sela</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><em>"SAY-lah"</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><em>Sister of Stone, The Pillar, The Mason</em></span></p><p></p><p><strong>Enworldian Lesser Deity</strong></p><p><strong>Symbol:</strong> A simple stone pillar</p><p><strong>Home Plane:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Alignment:</strong> Lawful Neutral</p><p><strong>Portfolio:</strong> Lasting accomplishments, stone buildings, unity</p><p><strong>Worshippers:</strong> Architects, lawful leaders and heads of state, members tight-knit orginizations</p><p><strong>Cleric Alignments:</strong> Any lawful.</p><p><strong>Domains:</strong> Earth, Law, Strength, Community*</p><p><strong>Favored Weapon:</strong> None (unarmed strike)</p><p></p><p>Sela, one of the seven sisters, is a deity of that reveres lasting achievements from mortals above all else. She is a deity of walls, and friendship, and traditions, and lasting bonds. Her name is often invoked at the beginning of partnerships or signing of treaties, at the start of new construction, and similar occasions. Ironically, she herself rarely stays at one location, not so much wandering the land as moving purposefully from location to location, shepherding along her various worshippers and projects. Her aid is rarely overt, however- despite her position as one who encourages community, she also encourages self-sufficiency, and thus often takes the role of a teacher and encourages her servants to do likewise. Her lessons are hard as stone: she expects her followers to be able to weather whatever may comes their way, and while some question whether she and her followers are too harsh, they are known to ask whether they are harsh enough.</p><p></p><p>Although she is invoked by many races (dwarves and gnomes, notably) she is often said to favor humans. She admires their tenacity- despite their short lifespan, frail bodies, and fractious natures, they have an admirable tendency to achieve things that last. Sela's adherents are found most widely through human lands, as she attempts to teach and shepherd the human race into greater and greater things. Worship of Sela, however, has not always been met with open arms. Her tendency to support community, despite its seemingly benign nature, has caused her worship to be frowned upon in many cities- even street gangs are a form of unity she wholeheartedly supports, and she has, throughout the years, proudly counted members of thieves guilds and bandit gangs among her followers.</p><p></p><p>Sela has an appearance that commands respect, with long straight blond hair and hard grey eyes set in a strong face. Her tendency to eschew clothing- to be "as naked as stone"- whenever she can get away with it has occasionally gotten her, or her worshippers, in some amount of trouble around the issue of religious iconography. She sometimes appears in a stony form- literally statuesque. She will never start a fight, but will always finish it, and encourages her followers to do the same. She also eschews most ranged weapons in combat as 'cowardly', allowing only for muscle-powered armaments such as thrown weapons and slings. Some followers have liberally interpreted this to extend to bows, particularly of the mighty sort, although Sela probably regards this as dubious.</p><p></p><p><strong>Community Domain</strong></p><p>Granted power: +2 bonus on diplomacy checks and +1 leadership score for the purpose of accumulating followers.</p><p>Spells:</p><p>1-<em>Bless</em></p><p>2-<em>Status</em></p><p>3-<em>Prayer</em></p><p>4-<em>Imbue with Spell Ability</em></p><p>5-<em>Telepathic Bond</em></p><p>6-<em>Hero's Feast</em></p><p>7-<em>Refuge</em></p><p>8-<em>Mass Cure Critical Wounds</em></p><p>9-<em>Miracle</em></p><p></p><p>-Created by Pbartender</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Creamsteak, post: 1854321, member: 552"] [color=#FFD700][size=5][b]Sela[/b][/size][/color] [size=1][i]"SAY-lah"[/i][/size] [size=3][i]Sister of Stone, The Pillar, The Mason[/i][/size][i][/i] [b]Enworldian Lesser Deity[/b] [b]Symbol:[/b] A simple stone pillar [b]Home Plane:[/b] ? [b]Alignment:[/b] Lawful Neutral [b]Portfolio:[/b] Lasting accomplishments, stone buildings, unity [b]Worshippers:[/b] Architects, lawful leaders and heads of state, members tight-knit orginizations [b]Cleric Alignments:[/b] Any lawful. [b]Domains:[/b] Earth, Law, Strength, Community* [b]Favored Weapon:[/b] None (unarmed strike) Sela, one of the seven sisters, is a deity of that reveres lasting achievements from mortals above all else. She is a deity of walls, and friendship, and traditions, and lasting bonds. Her name is often invoked at the beginning of partnerships or signing of treaties, at the start of new construction, and similar occasions. Ironically, she herself rarely stays at one location, not so much wandering the land as moving purposefully from location to location, shepherding along her various worshippers and projects. Her aid is rarely overt, however- despite her position as one who encourages community, she also encourages self-sufficiency, and thus often takes the role of a teacher and encourages her servants to do likewise. Her lessons are hard as stone: she expects her followers to be able to weather whatever may comes their way, and while some question whether she and her followers are too harsh, they are known to ask whether they are harsh enough. Although she is invoked by many races (dwarves and gnomes, notably) she is often said to favor humans. She admires their tenacity- despite their short lifespan, frail bodies, and fractious natures, they have an admirable tendency to achieve things that last. Sela's adherents are found most widely through human lands, as she attempts to teach and shepherd the human race into greater and greater things. Worship of Sela, however, has not always been met with open arms. Her tendency to support community, despite its seemingly benign nature, has caused her worship to be frowned upon in many cities- even street gangs are a form of unity she wholeheartedly supports, and she has, throughout the years, proudly counted members of thieves guilds and bandit gangs among her followers. Sela has an appearance that commands respect, with long straight blond hair and hard grey eyes set in a strong face. Her tendency to eschew clothing- to be "as naked as stone"- whenever she can get away with it has occasionally gotten her, or her worshippers, in some amount of trouble around the issue of religious iconography. She sometimes appears in a stony form- literally statuesque. She will never start a fight, but will always finish it, and encourages her followers to do the same. She also eschews most ranged weapons in combat as 'cowardly', allowing only for muscle-powered armaments such as thrown weapons and slings. Some followers have liberally interpreted this to extend to bows, particularly of the mighty sort, although Sela probably regards this as dubious. [b]Community Domain[/b] Granted power: +2 bonus on diplomacy checks and +1 leadership score for the purpose of accumulating followers. Spells: 1-[I]Bless[/I] 2-[I]Status[/I] 3-[I]Prayer[/I] 4-[I]Imbue with Spell Ability[/I] 5-[I]Telepathic Bond[/I] 6-[I]Hero's Feast[/I] 7-[I]Refuge[/I] 8-[I]Mass Cure Critical Wounds[/I] 9-[I]Miracle[/I] -Created by Pbartender [/QUOTE]
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