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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 971878" data-attributes="member: 2067"> EADRO The Water of LifeAlignment: NeutralWorshipers: Merfolk, LocathahDomains: Animal, Protection, WaterFavored Weapon: ShortspearHome Plane/Domain: The Outlands/DeepfontPantheon: GreyhawkDivine Rank: 15 (Intermediate)Classes: Bard, Ranger, ClericPortfolio: Water, Song, FishSalient Abilities: (17) Alter Form, Alter Size, Area Divine Shield, Avatar, Call Creatures (Fish), Control Creatures (Fish), Create Object, Create Greater Object, Divine Creation, Divine Shield, Divine Water Mastery, Energy Burst (sonic), Energy Storm (sonic), Irresistible Performance, Shift Form, Speak with Creatures (Fish), True KnowledgeSpecial Possessions: The Sounding Spear, a screaming, sonic burst shortspear; The Liquid Crystal Mirror, which can show any underwater scene on the material plane at Eadro's bidding.Alternate Domains: Community, Fishes (as Scalykind, but with regards to piscine creatures)Symbol: A spiralNOTESI've changed the favored class of the Locathah from Barbarian to Ranger in this description, mostly because their racial alignment (neutral) wouldn't usually lead to the Barbarian class (requiring chaos). The merfolk remain unchanged.DESCRIPTIONFrom Defenders of the Faith: "He rules the deep oceans and watches over the races he created."Eadro can appear as a locathah or a merfolk, but prefers his 'natural' form, that of a watery ooze with eight pseudopods looking something like a blobby octopus of transparent goo. He also occasionally takes the form of a common fish of some sort. He usually sparkles with an inner radience, and his forms are often translucent, with ripples, waves, and eddies flowing accross their liquid-crystal form.DOGMAProtect what you have made. Honor your maker. Respect the oceans, and defend them. And always be wary of purity.Eadro charges his worshipers with guardianship and deference, and he returns it with the same. He defends them, as long as they defer to him. Eadro is very much a hands-off deity, who wishes to see his races as pure examples of aquatic beings, not tainted pseudo-elves or goblins with gills, but true epitomes of what the deeps can offer. Eadro also encourages his people to similarly retreat from the world around them, to maintain purity and to not destroy unity.CLERGY AND TEMPLESNot surprisingly, the methods of priests and temples vary depending upon the race worshiping Eadro.The locathah keep their faith a personal thing, with local priests serving wide-ranging tribes from their home, which is usually at the deepest extent of the locathah's range. Few clergy range far, and those who do usually do so only to bring aid and succor to distant relatives. There are no formal temples, but locathah often decorate themselves with scale-paints in honor to him. To the locathah, Eadro is wherever there is water.The merfolk cherish Eadro in evocative songs and dances that carry far in the still waters they like to dwel in. The priests organize immense choirs to offer up prayers during times of high tide, or at nightfall, preferably in grottos and caverns rich with an echo. They make these very private affairs, and often demand that the entire village turn out for it.Eadro is equally pleased with both, because it represents their own take on him, and he wants them to be true and pure to themselves and their people first of all.RITES AND RITUALSMassive rites are rare for any creature worshiping Eadro, mostly because it is preached in both that Eadro is ubiquitous and omnipresent, so a specific enaction to catch his attention would not be nessecary. Also, any great event in Eadro's name would have to have the cooperation of both the merfolk and the locathah, and their societies certainly aren't warm to each other. There is little mobility or migration in the merfolk or the locathah, though the latter do have a feast something like a family reunion once every five years or so. Merfolk attend seemingly inoccuous events (food, the sunset, a birth) with song and dance that equal any elven party for flamboyance and emotional outpouring, though the locathah are considerably more reserved in their natural outlook.Individually, those who devote themselves to Eadro often carry fish companions with them as representatives of Eadro, or paint or tatoo spirals onto their skin in reverence to the deity. Many offer a prayer when drinking (when they're out of water) as well, thanking Eadro for his creation of Water.MYTHOGRAPHYThe most intriguing aspect of Eadro is how he is one god for two very different people. As if in defiance of how most sages speculate deities arise (as the concept of an entity lording it over some aspect of the lives of those who worship them), Eadro is worshiped by two divisive people, who only really share a protection of the young and their racial integrity between them. One possible explanation is that Eadro is actually a powerful planar lord, perhaps from the Elemental Plane of Water originally, who has been elevated in times past into a deity. Certainly, many creatures worship abyssal lords and such that have little in common with them (the Ixixachitl worshiping Demogorgon, for one; or any human priest worshipping Juiblex for another), and this would certainly explain Eadro's diverse priesthood. The only problem is that Eadro is remarkably dispassionate and nonplussed about worshippers or belief. As far as he is concerned, as long as his people guard what they make, defer to those who made them, and maintain the purity of race and environment, they can do whatever they want.The most popular current theory is that, far from being a young god, Eadro is actually a very old god, whose age is reflected in his natural form. Some elders of the races that worship him say that he created eight forms of sea life, one for each tentacle he possessed. However, they quickly moved to new gods or abyssal usurpers because of Eadro's allowing and permissive nature, and perhaps because those allowed them to keep purity. Amongst Eadro's original creations, the locathah and the merfolk cite the sahagin, the ixixachitl, the dolphins, the kraken, the tritons, and the sharks. Since then, the sharks have become bestial, and the dolphins, sahagin, and tritons have gone to worship specific racial gods. The ixixachitl and the krakens are currently being seduced by fiendish lords. The locathah and the merfolk (who may soon be seduced away by a god of music, Stillsong) are the only creatures still loyal to the Bather of Gills to this day.This case makes more sense, but means that Eadro is truly ancient, and that a god who once created eight races can actually loose power by loosing those to others...and, perhaps more surprisingly, the god seems to not care much about it. Certainly, he holds no grudges, though some of his priests will bemoan thigns like the sahagin and dolphins having relations with the sea elves, destroying their pure race for one tainted by land.LEGENDSBecause Eadro is an inactive deity, not many legends and tales exist of him. The merfolk tell a few tales of how he was a wandering minstrel at one point, travelling accross the seas and delighting sailors, teaching humans to sing, but also punishing those who did the sea wrong. Though he has since retired from those adventures, his exploits form the basis of many merfolk hymns (involving the destruction of evil land creatures, or the purifying of a polluted sea).The locathah have a more silent tradition, played out in solemn acts of story and action. They are long tales, though there are few of them, and they are quite well-preserved throughout the ages. Locathah priests often serve as something of a family historian for the tribe, and many tribes will trace their lineage back to Purity and Protection, the first two locathah that Eadro made after he screwed up the merfolk by giving them a human torso. Of course, the merfolk say that the first two merfolk, Song and Scale, were created before the locathah, and the locathah do not show proper reference to their elders, who Eadro was trying to imitate with the locathah, only to end up twisted, with feet instead of a tail.ETC.PrC's· Sounder: A bard that uses sonic energies in new ways: echolocation, bursts of stunning sound, to communicate over miles, etc.· Deep Diver: A PrC focusing on illuminating the deapths like a shimmering fish, with powers of light, sight, pressure resistance, lures, etc.Plot Hooks· Purity: A local locathah tribe has found a traitor in their midst...one of their people has consorted with a sahagin, and given birth to a hideous hybrid. It would be bad enough if it were just that, but the sahagin has inspired many aggressive attempts to find and kill both it, the child, and the one who helped concieve it. Can the PC's ease racial tensions? Do they want to after the sahagin nearly kills them for interfering? And can they afford to miss the prophecy of the creature's other half, a dolphin child who will bring the Lowest Tide?· Siren's Call: The PC's sail a ship through some rocky isles, and hear an alluring singing...alluring enough for their precious cargo or leader to leap overboard. The PC's need to find the object/NPC quickly, but they also need to deal with the merfolk in the region, who seem reluctant to let them just kill the sirens. Perhaps there is more here than there seems at first, and perhaps it has to do with the mysterious song that has been lingering in the air in the center of the island, where a temple is being built...</blockquote>

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