Mudutu (mu du tu)

Mudutu (a.k.a. Traveler’s Friend, The Master Craftsman, The Great Secret Keeper)

Mudutu is the deity of crafts, knowledge, literature, secrets, and travel, and is very popular amongst adventurers and throughout the Frontier Lands.

Divine Domains

Crafts, knowledge, literature, secrets, travel

Holy Books & Codes

The Book of Ways—Is a handbook for travelers that contains useful advice to travelers interspersed with prayers and hymns to Mudutu.

A Treatise on Wisdom—This text contains numerous discourses on the topic of wisdom and advice on learning along with explanations of the tenets of Mududtu’s teachings.

Divine Symbols & Sigils

An open scroll without any writing on it.

Tenets of Faith

The hand of a craftsman is sacred to Mudutu, who believes that craftsmen should be respected and protected. He holds the same opinion regarding books and other repositories of knowledge. Teachers are very important to him, held in much the same esteem as craftsmen. He holds that knowledge should be freely available to all. However, he also holds that those entrusted with a secret are honor bound to keep it. A paradox that his clerics spend endless hours debating.

Holidays

Night of Secrets; 3rd of Paun—Celebrated primarily by adherents of Mudutu it is considered an auspicious day to do research, as it is believed that Mudutu’s blessing can be found by those who seek knowledge on this night. Those who observe the holiday spend the night sequestered in libraries seeking out old forgotten lore.

Traveler’s Rest Day; 18th of Dhod—Coming close to the beginning of autumn this day marks the end of the traveling season as merchants, entertainers and other itinerants return to their winter quarters to await the spring and the beginning of the next year’s travel season. Usually celebrated with a small party of friends and family of the travelers.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Despite often appearing as a frail individual Mudutu is a deity and therefore is in excellent physical condition.

Body Features

Mudutu is typically depicted as a frail man bordering on the elderly his brown hair streaked with grey. He is skinny with long deft fingers. He generally wears blue robes trimmed with gold and carries a wooden staff topped with a blue crystal.

Facial Features

He has a round face with a prominent nose and warm brown eyes. He has a neatly trimmed beard streaked with grey, high cheek bones, and bushy eyebrows.

Apparel & Accessories

He wears worn and travel stained robed of bright blue trimmed with gold. Despite the condition the robes are in they are well maintained. He also carries a wooden staff topped with a blue crystal that flashes with light when a lie is told. He also wears a blue cloak also trimmed in gold usually worn with the hood up. His robes are tied shut with a golden sash and he wears golden colored boots.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Mudutu is the second child of Utu and Eresu, younger brother to Vaalea and older brother to Rohkea, Ukkonen, and Sinnis. It’s said that he was the one who crafted the mortal races at the behest of Utu. He carved the wood of a great oak tree into the first elves, from a hunk of granite he chiseled out the first dwarves, from miry clay he fashioned the first humans and halflings. One by one he fashioned the other races as well, preparing them to the specifications to the other gods.
It was then that the Godswar started over whether the mortal races would have free will or not. Mudutu sided with Utu and the other gods of good to protect his creations from enslavement. Since the Godswar he has been relatively quiet preferring to inspire craftsmen and accumulate knowledge.

Accomplishments & Achievements

As mentioned, Mudutu, as the craftsman of the gods is the one credited with creating the mortal races. He was guided in this task by the other deities who told them what they desired, but Mudutu put his own spin on each creation and is said he breathed the desire to create into the races.

Intellectual Characteristics

Mudutu is a deeply philosophical individual, who enjoys riddles and enigmas. He is the divine keeper of secrets so he doesn’t just reveal knowledge preferring to speak in riddles and allow others to come to knowledge on their own. That said he is also a very logical individual, who is capable of coming to the correct conclusion from the scantest of clues.

Morality & Philosophy

Mudutu values freedom and abhors slavery. Whether this is the outright owning of other peoples or tyrannical rulers who crush their subjects under in a totalitarian regime. He believes that all beings should be treated with compassion, regardless of any crimes they might be guilty of. He also rejects the idea of exterminating the offspring of wicked creatures, believing that the innocent young should not be punished for the crimes of their elders. He excels in seeing both sides of a situation and seeks to find a balance between extremes. However, he always seeks to err on the side of good over evil. Nevertheless, he values peaceful resolutions seeing the use of violence as a last resort.

Personality Characteristics

Motivation

Mudutu collects secrets the way a dragon hoards gold. He seeks to know all there is to know, and while not averse to sharing his knowledge prefers for individuals to come to information on their own. He also loves riddles and enigmas, and has been known to reward followers who come to him with new ones.

Savvies & Ineptitudes

Mudutu has a very logical mind and is adept at solving riddles. He also enjoys crafting them and often will impart important bits of information hidden in a riddle. However his logical mind can also be his weakness as he is unprepared to deal with those who throw logic to the wind and go on intuition.

Likes & Dislikes

Mudutu loves clever riddles and enigmas and is easily entertained by ones that are new to him. He likes to travel to new places and can often be found wandering the planes to see what is there. He dislikes revealing secrets preferring that beings come to knowledge through their own efforts rather than having it handed to them. He hates slavery, involuntary servitude and tyranny which he sees as all the same thing.

Virtues & Personality perks

Mudutu is very logical and capable of drawing conclusions from seemingly unrelated clues, an ability that borders on being precognition. This allows him to extrapolate what is going to happen by observing what is happening.

Vices & Personality flaws

Mudutu’s logical mind can be as much a flaw as a virtue, as it leaves him woefully incapable of dealing with someone who works by intuition.

Social

Contacts & Relations

Mudutu is a friendly rival with Azu, who also is a patron of craftsmen, but the two have allied in the past against Asmodeus and Asbu. He is on very good terms with Elmúlás and Emku who share his love of knowledge and secrets, and the three often work together. He is a friend of Laki, as he keeps the codex of law, though he doesn’t believe in Laki’s dogmatic adherence to the letter of the law. It is said that he and Rohkea worked together to develop the first alphabet, a claim contested by priests if Rohkea. Sinnis and Mudutu are both worshipped by arcane spellcasters as she is the goddess of magic, but he I the keeper of arcane secrets. The two of them are friendly and will often work together. He and Vaalea are friends, and he is always there to aid his older sister. He dislikes Sanoma although the reason is known only to him.

Servants
Mudutu is served primarily by ghaeles and lillends, however, he is served by numerous other Azatas, particularly brijidine, lyrakien, prydanu, raelises, thyrlien, and yamahs. In addition to his Azata servants, he has four unique servants.

• Technitus—A supremely skilled engineer, he was renowned for making clockwork servants and the like. He likes to inspire dedicated craftsmen with new ideas or ways around seeming insurmountable obstacles.

• Daskalas—An elven teacher and philosopher who loved nothing more than enlightening young minds. She travelled around organizing schools and salons where knowledge could be discussed and shared.

• Periplanómenos—A titan ranger who protects and guides travelers through the deep wilderness. He’s believed to appear to lost travelers and guide them to safety.

• Het-Heru—The first mortal to bend arcane forces to her will, she is the patron of wizards. It’s said her spellbook contains every spell ever written, and she often gifts talented wizards with the knowledge of how to cast certain rare spells.

Social Aptitude

Mudutu is an open and engaging being, who eschews political wrangling preferring to work for the greater good.

Divine Classification

Deity

Religions

• Acorn Lodge
• Church of Mudutu

Alignment

Neutral Good

Church/Cult

Church of Mudutu

Gender

male

Eyes

warm and brown

Hair

brown, streaked with gray and neatly trimmed

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

pale white and wrinkled with age

Height

5'11"

Weight

166 lbs.