EDIT: Congrats Ozy!
Ok, looks like I have a little time again. I'll take a crack at expanding some of these.
Peresefa
Original Text:
Peresefa's Clerics often have the Channel Divinity feat: Armor of Bahamut which they sometimes call Proserphones Ward (for her blessing alone can help against Lauto's grasp)
Proposed Text:
AKA: Reaper Queen, Raven Queen, Everwalking One, Iron Queen, the Maiden and the Crone
Favored weapon: “Soul harvester” scythe
Portfolio: Life, Death, Seasons, growth, decay, ravens, harvest, undead, shadar-kai, revenants, warlocks
Suggested Chanel Divinty Feat:
Armor of Bahamut which is sometimes called Proserphones Ward (for her blessing alone can help against Lauto's grasp)
Myth's
The Seasons: Daughter of Joven and one of the old gods, her mother was displeased by the ways of the new gods and did not let her wander the heavens. Instead, Peresefa was hidden away on the world. Despite this, or perhaps because of this, many of the gods continued to seek her out in an attempt to court her. One by one the gods failed, until finally Lauto took Peresefa into his realm by brute force.
Apoli was perhaps the most upset of all the gods, for he sorely desired Peresfa's love. In anger he turned away from the world, and slowly the world lost the warmth of the sun.
Concerned for the safety of all their works, the gods convinced Lauto to let Peresefa wander upon the world for part of the year, that she might gather souls for him. He conceded, and each year entreats his wife to go and gather souls upon the earth, and so Apoli continues to turn his warming gaze towards the earth and then away, each and every year.
True Name Calling: It is generally believed that the name of Peresefa is not safe to speak. When ever it is spoken you risk the goddess hearing you, and she may come to take your soul. In it's place people will call her Cor'eya or one of her many aliases.
Shadow-Elves: When the drow were exiled from the Imperium many. many years ago, some found themselves at odds with their demon worshiping brethren.
This group escaped into the Shadowfell, and asked Lauto for protection. He granted it, but in exchange, changed them. No longer were they dark on the outside but now more closely resembled, the elladrin who drove them away to begin with. Lauto, then in turn, gifted the race onto his wife Persefa as a wedding gift. While she seemed ill at ease with such a gift, she has claimed dominion over them to this day.
Different groups tell this tale in very different lights. A common version of the Imperium claims that the original Shadar-kai took their own life, so ashamed they were of the disgrace they brough upon the nation. Lauto fell upon them, hoping to reproduce the great armies of the Imperium in his own image.
Meraki
Original text:
Merkari's Clerics often have the Channel Divinity feat: Corellon’s Grace which they sometimes call Merkari's Grace
Proposed Text:
AKA: the speedster, trickster god, the half divine, the twelth
Favored weapon: “Caduceus” staff
Portfolio: Halflings, thieves, spies, games, jokes, medicine, rogues, heralds, travel, commerce, portals
Suggested Channel Divinity Feat:
Corellon’s Grace which is sometimes called Merkari's Grace
Appearances: Merkari has appeared to players directly. You may find reference
Here and
Here.
Myth's
Birth: Meraki is the son of Joven and one of the primordials. Its is said that while he inherited many noble qualities from his father, he has many still of his lesser parent, including the ability to take on many forms, and his tendancy to steal and deceive.
Slayer: When the world was still young, but after the greatest of the primordials were imprissoned the gods faced a new foe, and the heavens were invaded by abominations from the far realm. The gods did not recognize the danger immediately, being unfamiliar with the strange beings. Merkari however, being clever, and familiar with the dangerous shifiting forms of the Elemental Chaos recognized what was happening. Meraki quickly began an attack on Gibberath, a giant mass of eyes and teeth, which the creatures used as a central tactical leader, being able to see all the heavens.
Quickly crafting a spell, Meraki shut each of Gibberath's eyes one by one, till the giant was asleep and then slew it. Without any organization the gods rallied and push the creatures back, though some escaped to the world below. Meraki plucked the eyes and presented it to Juna, in the tail of beautiful bird, and from then on Meraki was accepted among the gods, as fully one of their own.
Traveling God: Hermes has the gift of travel, having the innate ability to traverse from the astral heavens to the world below quickly and easily. He is also one of the few who can travel into the Lauto's dominion and back again. Those who are traveling on long roads, or via portal, especially when you're crossing planar barriers, would be well to make sacrifices to the god so he will guide you safely on your path.
