god of research?

[aboyd]

You know how some gods have functional temples (temples that do more than "temple" -- such as Fharlanghn's roadside temples which may serve as inns)? I need to find the god of libraries, the god whose temples are filled with books. I had assumed -- having run through the Freeport trilogy years ago, and encountering Brother Egil's temple of knowledge -- that D&D had a god of research/books/scribes/libraries. I also recall reading (in one of the core or complete books) that one of the gods has "a library with every book ever written."

However, I can no longer find the reference to that library or god. And I think Brother Egil's temple of knowledge had nothing to do with the core D&D gods.

So, if I wanted to make a D&D campaign/world where the only libraries that existed were run by worshipers of a god of knowledge/smartness/books, which D&D god lends itself to such a theme?

 

[Voadam]

Boccob the Uncaring is a poor fit, he is much more an active practitioner of magic god. Vecna is actually a great fit for portfolio, a god of knowledge and hoarder of secrets. Of course his is a secret evil cult so not quite that good a fit in practice.

FR is easy though, Oghma and his little clique of knowledge and writing gods fits in perfectly.

Dragonlance has Astinus the librarian so an easy call as well.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

Boccob or Vecna work for core-only. Try looking into the Illumian pantheon from Races of Destiny, that could work even better.

 

[Michael Silverbane]

Oghma of FR would be a good fit.

Also, I belive that Thoth had a big library out in Concordant Opposition somewhere, so that might be what you were thinking of.

 

[Shin Okada]

Should it really need to be a god? The Paragnostic Assembly in Complete Champion is an interesting approach. Members of that assembly reveres knowledge itself over gods of knowledge. Thus, they are correcting and recording vast knowledge.

 

[coyote6]

From the expanded Greyhawk gods (I'm looking in the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer), Delleb seems possible. Aka "The Scholar" or "The Scribe", lesser god of reason, intellect, and study. His holy symbol is a large white book. The write-up doesn't mention temples-as-libraries, but it seems like a reasonable extrapolation to me.

 

[Lord Karsus]

-Oghma is getting a lot of love, but one should not forget Denier.

 

[Wolv0rine]

See, I like Thoth for situations like these.