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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 8936315" data-attributes="member: 5142">Even though I enjoy the Dawn War Pantheon, either Temple of the Silver Flame or the Blood of Vol are probably my favorite official D&D religions. Wee Jas is maybe my favorite deity in Greyhawk. You may already know, but there is an answer. Wee Jas was originally just the goddess of magic (and law) for the magocratic Suel Imperium; however, after the Rain of Colorless Fire destroyed their empire, the distraught Suloise people began desperately looking to Wee Jas in concern about their dead. So Wee Jas took on that mantle, becoming a caretaker of the dead for the Suloise people. Also as a point of trivia, Wee Jas was the basis for the Raven Queen. There are even some sources that imply that they were originally conceived as being one and the same, but rebranded since Wee Jas is pretty cool about undead, since "magic is magic," but WotC wanted a death goddess who wasn't. There is even a statement by Erik Scott de Bie, co-author of the 4e The Shadowfell sourcebook, wrote:  This is his personal intepretation, but I personally like the idea that the Raven Queen is actually Wee Jas. Since the history of the Nentir Vale is not the same as Greyhawk, Wee Jas could have very well once been the haughty sorcerer-queen that Nerull renamed to "Nera" who then became the Raven Queen or maybe the whole ascended mortal story is a facade to conceal her true origins. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤔" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" title="Thinking face    :thinking:" data-shortname=":thinking:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>

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