Aiod: pronounced Eye-odd. He (his customary gender) is above all else the god of Justice. The Sun is his representative in the world, and its depiction in golden is his symbol. By his order are peace, community, and civilization possible. The laws of the land are his will.
His good and gentle aspects are by the far the dominant religious sects across Orma. But those who claim to know right and wrong say that while Aiod stands for justice and peace, he is not necessarily a champion of good. Nor of evil: he has no interest in the concepts. War, and cruelty against one's enemies, are not at odds with Aiod's way: nations have slaughtered each other in Aio'd name. Nor is slavery, and he would have no fundamental objection to the single-minded pursuit of power or wealth. as long as you don't betray the peace and harm your neighbors.
For those who wish to do good, there are kind aspects: Åasis the Defender, Ozic (a famed healer and druid), Llyr the Navigator. For those who don't care so much: Tylé the Magnanimous, and Vanquisher Dormall.
Of the PHB cleric domains, Light, Life, and War could be associated with Aiod, and possibly Tempest, for some aspects. Other aspects might be represented by domains concerning law, protection, civilization, and retribution.
When the typical clerics of Aiod pray for divine magic to aid them, they kneel and beg for forgiveness for all their vanities and their doubts, and state their case, that their devotion and the righteousness of their cause might be found worthy of his power.
Vyzhora: with zh sounding like the s in usual. Neutral on the Law/Chaos scale. Civilized peoples distrust Vyzhora. She claims dominion over all that is mysterious about the world, all that may only be known through study and contemplation, or felt through heightened experience,or that which is unknowable: magic and music, the arts, pure knowledge and wisdom, love and sex and birth, life and death. She associated with the Pale Moon, and the shifting stars, which comprise her symbol. Wizards, sages, mad-people, artists, and all those seeking wisdom pray to her for guidance, though her most devoted followers are monks and ascetics. Thus the common idea of a Vyzhorite is a celibate monk living far from civilization, spending their days meditating and starving, and they are mocked by city-folk as loons. In fact many Vyzhorite rituals are very experiential, and those isolated monasteries have some of the wildest parties in Orma, when the stars decree it.
Her best known aspect is Aegwyn, the Dreamer. Others include the Lady Ninya Avance, Sorceress and Anchorite, and the Unwavering Yon Hulud, each a patron of a monastery in remote regions of the world.
The PHB domains Knowledge and Life are customary of clerics of Vyzhora. Domains concerning magic, death, darkness, music, the oceans, and the moon might also be represented in her aspects.
The prayers of Vyzhorite clerics before a battle are silent meditations, a practiced pursuit of a transcendent state. They say Vyzhora's divine magic awaits all of us in the depths of our minds, for anyone who cultivates the necessary wisdom and temperament to freely access.
Argand: Chaotic - but not necessarily evil. Sometimes depicted as male, but often androgynous, and often as a wild beast rather than a humanoid, or any of many demi-humans: a satyr, centaur, or merrow, perhaps. He is the god of nature and of fate: self-determination and luck, good or bad. The Red Moon is his sign. To city-folk he is the embodiment of evil, and worship of his aspects is taboo, leading to witch-hunts and the likes, leading his followers to form secret cults, which often are hatching wicked plots, but sometimes not. Some of them just want to keep the old ways alive. In rural areas Argandian aspects are tolerated, and sometimes entire towns follow some traditional sect that Aiod's missionaries never managed to expel.
His PHB cleric domains are Nature, Trickery, Tempest, and possibly War, and would also include things like chaos, blood, luck, and strength.
Betruwin the Bleak, evil demon-sorcerer, became a well-known aspect of Argand, and around the world there still exist many followers of Jaheira, the Avenger, waiting for their chance to undo the evil that was the perpetrated against the world during the Age of Heroes.
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