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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 1229198" data-attributes="member: 70">I'm just going to wander around a bit here, so only read what you want.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  I wrote a article on Wee Jas for the Oerth Journal a few years back (issue 7), in Faiths & Avatars format.  It's still available on the Canonfire website.  (the article is also reproduced here <a href="http://www.spots.ab.ca/~whytwolf/GH/reference/weejas.htm" target="_blank">http://www.spots.ab.ca/~whytwolf/GH/reference/weejas.htm</a> )Wee Jas in 1st and 2nd edition, as noted, was LN (E).  She had lawful neutral (gray robes) and lawful evil (white robes) followers.  Sean Reynolds reversed this later on, or gave evil followers black robes, or something similarly cliched.She's always been stridently lawful.  There are indications she gained the portfolio of death in quasi-recent times; I tied it to the Rain of Colorless Fire and ensuing magic-spawned extinction-level die-off.  YMMV.  My take, and I believe this is not too far off from the official version, is that Wee Jas is less concerned about undeath in general than undeath without purpose.  She is served by liches and mummies, but abhors mindless and chaoticly natured undead, particularly ghouls, vampires, and other parasitic undead.A cleric or paladin of Wee Jas rebuking undead instead of turning them could be construed as an attempt to bind the undead to useful service.As far as magic goes, Wee Jas is more concerned with the control and use of magic than magic as a primal force (in GH, that role is taken by Boccob).  She is essentially the goddess of creating new spells or magic items (or, death powers magic...).I've always thought paladin warriors of Wee Jas would be a cool thing.  Black armor, shot through with threads of silver, and a black shield with a red fireball and white skull... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> Nell.</blockquote>

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