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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6116217" data-attributes="member: 4937">Both?I actually have a cleric of a sun diety in my current PC party.   While the character hasn't yet strongly explored the dieties portfolio or beliefs, though nominally a good aligned goddess she is known for having a bit of a temper and to be somewhat proudful.   She does afterall bake, scorch, and parch the ground and those on it, even to the point of death.  Sometimes she does this willfully.  Not every society worships her as Good, and I'm about to introduce the player to the concept of heresies (a branch of her chuch isn't actually good aligned, and she tolerates it and possibly encourages it by having Avatar's representing herself in a non-merciful or wrathful state).   And the Goblins, for example, who are blinded by her fairly or unfairly aren't really happy with Showna in either form and don't really see her 'goodness' or that her 'goodness' is a desirable and useful thing, and resent that she has scorned the advances of Ishi the moon diety, who they do revere.  (The question of whether this is fair or unfair comes down to whether Showna is blinding them willfully out of spite, or whether its some flaw in themselves that they are blinded.   The Goblins assume the former, because its what they would do, which may provide something of an answer here.)In any event, Showna is BOTH the bringer of warmth and life, AND the destroyer that brings scorching fire (whether you consider this a good thing depends on what she is destroying, undead for example) whose true servants bask in and enjoy her warmth.   Her servants have the power to protect against both cold and heat.   Or I guess more philosophicly, her servants strongly have the power to protect against cold, and strongly have the power to resist heat but less strongly have the ability to extend this protection from heat/fire to others the way they can with cold.   However, for the purposes of the spells I allow both.Of the two though, protection from cold is the stronger general concept IMO.  If there is doubt, go with that one.</blockquote>

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