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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nai_Calus" data-source="post: 4845049" data-attributes="member: 79670">Corellon Larethian and Erevan Ilesere, both elven gods from D&D. I semi-randomly picked Corellon as a god for my first character, a half-elven Bard. It seemed appropriate, the PHB had him as the god of the elves and having portfolio elements relevant to a Bard's interests. Since my character was devoutly religious, I started looking up other, more comprehensive sources on Corellon and liked what I found. I like the concept of gods who, while mortals might perceive them as being a specific gender, aren't in actuality any one gender - Corellon is male, and female, and both, and neither. (This is actually why I hate Sehanine-as-Corellon's wife and Angharradh in FR. Corellon doesn't need a damned wife.) Corellon's interests are also pretty much completely relevant to my own, so there's sort of the 'oh hey, a god of stuff I actually like' thing going on there. I like how he's written up as being humble and willing to learn from others, even mortals, and actually taking an interest in cultures outside of that of his own race. I especially like the legend of Lafarallin from 2e's Monster Mythology, specifically because Corellon comes off as so much of a jerk who's completely missing the point during most of it, until he realises that yeah, he kind of screwed up, and fixes things, and actually fixes them rather than the greek method of 'whoops, I guess you can go be a constellation or something'. It's interesting to me to have an interpretation of a god who's flawed and willing to admit to it. There's also some amusing contradictions in FR that lead to some interesting pondering - Corellon clearly doesn't hate drow entirely since 2e's Demihuman Deities notes him as having a few drow in his clergy, but they're barred from being specialty priests of him in the same entry. Does he still love his wayward children, especially the ones who find their way home, but not fully trust them? Is it a mortal issue and a prospective drow Feywarden just wouldn't ever find someone willing to train him? I dunno, he just comes off as appealing to me, and about as realistic a god as you're going to get for a fictional race in a fictional game.Erevan I dunno, I just find him cool. I named a cat after him. (Unfortunately said cat got out Wednesday night/very early Thursday morning and hasn't been seen since and probably won't be since he's never been outside before and we have coyotes around here. I'm telling myself he just took after his namesake, got bored with us and went to go find a new family in need of a siamese. Coyotes don't leave corpses so there's no way of proving myself wrong. ._.)</blockquote>

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