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<blockquote data-quote="Scrivener of Doom" data-source="post: 6357547" data-attributes="member: 87576">[MENTION=68717]jimmyjimjam[/MENTION], as has been pointed out, if you're going to run the 5E version of the Realms, most of them are going to be coming back anyway but let's just leave that to the side for the moment and assume you are running the 4E era of the Realms so you are post-Spellplague and pre-Sundering. (Coincidentally, that's where I now run the Realms.)Tyr or Helm. While Helm is, strictly speaking, lawful neutral, there is a lot of lawful good about him.What if Cyric has partially freed himself - a la Tharizdun in PoLand/post-RttToEE Greyhawk - and the only one who can put him back in his prison is either Tyr or Helm for some story-based reason.In both cases, Torm holds their former portfolios and he would consider that he is only holding them in trust for them anyway. If you're familiar with 3.5E's excellent Elder Evils, I would treat the partial escape of Cyric as something like the appearance of an elder evil in that book. There are signs in the sky and all manner of difficulties and along comes some oracle of the dead deity claiming that only the dead deity has the power to banish this new evil.You could then have the PCs acting on behalf of the dead deity and their successes in the dead deity's service then expands the base of the deity's worshippers.(NB: I am assuming that the PCs want to be part of this, of course.)How's that?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scrivener of Doom, post: 6357547, member: 87576"] [MENTION=68717]jimmyjimjam[/MENTION], as has been pointed out, if you're going to run the 5E version of the Realms, most of them are going to be coming back anyway but let's just leave that to the side for the moment and assume you are running the 4E era of the Realms so you are post-Spellplague and pre-Sundering. (Coincidentally, that's where I now run the Realms.) Tyr or Helm. While Helm is, strictly speaking, lawful neutral, there is a lot of lawful good about him. What if Cyric has partially freed himself - [I]a la[/I] Tharizdun in PoLand/post-RttToEE Greyhawk - and the only one who can put him back in his prison is either Tyr or Helm for some story-based reason. In both cases, Torm holds their former portfolios and he would consider that he is only holding them in trust for them anyway. If you're familiar with 3.5E's excellent [I]Elder Evils[/I], I would treat the partial escape of Cyric as something like the appearance of an elder evil in that book. There are signs in the sky and all manner of difficulties and along comes some oracle of the dead deity claiming that only the dead deity has the power to banish this new evil. You could then have the PCs acting on behalf of the dead deity and their successes in the dead deity's service then expands the base of the deity's worshippers. (NB: I am assuming that the PCs want to be part of this, of course.) How's that? [/QUOTE]

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