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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 444248" data-attributes="member: 2067">(I had a hiccup!) PERSANA The SealordAlignment: Neutral GoodWorshipers: TritonsDomains: Artifice, Community, Good, WaterFavored Weapon: TridentHome Plane/Domain: Elysium/Sea of SongPantheon: TritonDivine Rank: Intermediate Deity (13)Classes: Bard, RangerPortfolio: Tritons, ocean, musicSalient Abilities: (16) Banestrike (Aquatic Humanoid), Call Creatures (tritons), Control Creatures (tritons), Divine Bard, Divine Ranger, Divine Storm, Divine Water Mastery, Divine Weapon Focus (trident), Divine Weapon Specialization (trident), Energy Burst (sonic), Energy Storm (sonic), Extra Domain (Community), Irresistable Performance, Master Crafter, Power of Nature, Speak with Creatures (aquatic animals)Special Possessions: Fork of the Seas, a screaming sonic burst holy tridentAlternate Domains: NoneSymbol: Trident and conchDescriptionPersana is the lordly deity of the tritons, adopting them and leading them to an independant life under the sea. He appears as a tall, muscular triton with golden-green skin, and a regal air about him.Persana is concerned almost exclusively with the guidance and assistance of his people, and is largely a god of nobility and politics. He is cast in the role of king and ruler of both the spiritual and material realms. He is very respectful of other aquatic deities, and will even work for them for a time, if it furthers the cause of the tritons. The only deity he is on bad terms with is Sekolah, the gorging god of the sahuagin, as he cannot tolerate the brutality and destructive nature of the sahuagin.Persana is also a dabbler in the arts, as he is a well-respected musician of the conch, and a crafter of beautiful architecture.DogmaPersana espouses the dogma of vigilance, beauty, and purity. His worshipers must always be watching for enemies, who may taint the race with violence and thuggery, and must always strive for artistic merit as well, for what is freedom without culture?Persana mandates that his race remain a pure, isolated one, apart from the influence of others, a herald of culture and a representative of art, rather than an inheritor of it. This leads the tritons to be mistrusting, especially of those from outside of the sea, but Persana tempers this with a belief that all life is to be assisted and aided. Tritons are not militant or violent about their independance, but they are staunch and resolute about it.Persana's artistic aspects are also praised and nurtured, especially his role as a master architect. The creation of a beautiful building or a stirring conch melody is perhaps the highest praise one can give to the leader of the tritons.Clergy and TemplesThe priests of Persana dress normally in rose and green robes, with gilded lining. They serve as leaders of the community, appointed vassals of Persana's rule. They are said to work his will with the tritons, diricting and controlling the tribes, working out agreements, and protecting them from outside influence.Temples of Persana are often synonymous with the castles of the tritons, or at least their major government offices. Because the tritons have a largely theocratic society, a beautiful hall of government is as important for the priests as a beautiful temple, and the two are usually interchangable. Enacting a law or enforcing a punishment are acts of prayer and praise to Persana simultaneously.Rites and RitualsClerics of Persana enact laws, preside over judgements, and make descisions for their tribe as part of their daily rituals. While they are not regimented in the way that many goverments are, they do take leadership very seriously. This works with their architectural artistry to make many beautiful homes for the residents of a particular tribe.They are also rather obsessed with purity, and will drink no tainted water, nor will they allow any substance other than water into their systems. Being outsiders, they can subsist on merely pure water, and become ill if any other substance enters their system willingly (considered nauseated for 24 hours after consuming).Finally, clerics of Persana consider themselves artists par excellence, and will often craft buildings and compose conch melodies to honor the sealord.MythographyOften the few scattered deities of the civic life demonstrate a decidedly Lawful bent, being concerned with law, order, and the masses. Persana is unique in that he is a very civil god who isn't intensely concerned with law or order. In fact, Persana is more concerned with purity and art, and sees leadership as a means to an end rather than an end in itself. His control of his people means that they can focus on maintaining racial purity and artistic integrity through their leader, instead of inspite of him. Persana seems to be a benevolent guide more than an iron-handed overlord, and wants to be worshiped in that respect.The tritons have a curious dichotomy with the sea elves and their god, Deep Sashelas. Many comparisons can be drawn between the two (slightly militaristic, obsessed with beauty), and this has lead some scholars to speculate that perhaps they are one in the same, or that the creation fo the sea elves is somehow tied to that of the tritons. Some even speculate that this may have to do with their shared hatred of the sahuagin, tying the sea lord and the ever-hungry Shekolah into two aspects of the same being, with Deep Sashelas representing another aspect of the good being, and perhaps Shekolah being another aspect of the ultimate aquatic evil, Panzuriel.LegendsThe stories of Persana are still a rather indistinct area of study. They are few and far between, and very little is said about the deity himself. More is told of his role in the lives of the tritons, indicating that perhaps this is an early, organic god. The increased presence of tritons on the material plane, despite being outsiders naturally, could be indicative of this deity's development. As creatures of belief on a neutral good plane (presumably Elysium's fourth layer, Thalasia), the tritons needed no god or deity to channel energy to them -- they were made of it, in the same way that the fiends or celestials would be. However, recently many tritons have been appearing on the material plane, leading many to speculate that perhaps they are becoming more and more like humanoids (as the hunter/gatherer culture and the lack of spell-like abilities would suggest). In this situation, perhaps Persana was the triton equivalent to creatures like Orcus or Yeenoghu, a powerful lord of the tritons, relegated to deity status as his people have started to try and cope with the life outside of the paradise of Elysium.Thus, the popular speculation is that there are no legends of Persana because he is not a proper deity as of yet, merely on the way up from planar uber-triton. Though this could just as easily be absent speculation on the part of the sages.Etc.Weapon Properties· Screaming: This type of weapon deals +1d6 sonic damage on a successful hit.· Sonic Burst: As with flaming burst except the energy released is sonic energy.Prestige Class· Triton Councilman: A PrC revolving around the theme of an artistic paladin...Plot Hook· Ascencion: It is discovered that the source of the "fall" of the tritons is actually a potent aquatic yugoloth who has taken the role of preaching to the tritons that they don't have enough, that they must always get more. One triton sage has discovered the presence of this potent daemon, and needs someone they can trust -- the PC's -- to uncover and destroy it.· Xenophobia: A high council of triton have mandated that nobody in their tribe has any contact with anyone outside of it, to protect the purity of the tribe. The PC's accidentally stumble accross them -- and must then deal with reluctant captors.</blockquote>

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