Pelor (PAY-lore)

Pantheon Beliefs

God of the Open Sky

+1 Culture from Pastures.

Worship Beliefs

Cathedrals

Allows construction of Cathedrals (+3 Faith, 1 slot for religious art).

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Pelor's Champions

Earning and Loosing your Piety

You increase your piety score to Pelor when you expand the god’s influence in the world in a concrete way through acts such as these:

• Carrying out punishment on a fugitive from justice
• Exacting vengeance for a significant wrong done to you
• Defending a religious site from attacking monsters
• Building or restoring a temple to Pelor

Your piety score to Pelor decreases if you diminish his influence in the world, contradict his ideals, or make him look ridiculous or ineffectual through acts such as these:

• Breaking an explicit promise or oath
• Violating any just law
• Putting others at risk through your own cowardice

Pelor’s Devotee

Piety 3+ Pelor trait
As a devotee of Pelor, you have proven yourself a worthy champion of the sun god. You can call on Pelor's favor and cast bless with this trait, requiring no material components. Pelor's blessing manifests as a nimbus around the affected creatures, causing them to shed dim light in a 5-foot radius until the spell ends. You can cast the spell in this way a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Pelor’s Votary

Piety 10+ Pelor trait
You can cast daylight with this trait. Once you cast the spell in this way, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Pelor’s Disciple

Piety 25+ Pelor trait
You grow accustomed to the blazing radiance of the sun; you have advantage on saving throws against being blinded, and you have resistance to fire damage.

Champion of the Sun

Piety 50+ Pelor trait
You can increase your Strength or Wisdom score by 2 and also increase your maximum for that score by 2.

Pelor, also known as the Shining One, was an interloper deity of the sun and agriculture, and to some, all of healing and time. He was a god of creation to many, and a stalwart opponent of evil to all.

“Refresh and gladden our spirits. Purify our hearts. Illumine our powers. We lay our hope in Pelor's hands.”

— A blessing of Pelor

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Description

Pelor most often appeared as an elderly man with untamed golden hair and a bushy beard, dressed in white garb. His avatars appeared either in either his own form, or that of young children of either sex.

Personality

Pelor was seen most often as a gentle and sympathetic divine figure that appeared to good-hearted people in their time of need. He and his clergy were not pacificts however.

Possessions

Pelor wielded a +5 flaming disruption heavy mace called Sunscepter. His deific weapon was a +1 flaming heavy mace.

Worshipers

The brilliance of Pelor’s sun was impossible to ignore. Virtually every Asyurian pays at least grudging respect to the sun god in forms of worship that range from simple gestures to days-long celebrations. More dedicated worshipers offer short litanies at dawn, noon, and dusk, acknowledging the sun’s passage across the sky.
Pelor was most often formally worshiped by the goodly humans of these worlds, among others, especially people that dedicated themselves to the healing arts, as well as adventuring bards, druids, and rangers. Pelor's followers were commonly found to be strong-willed individuals, who tended to nature and protected others in his name.
Pelor was among the deities venerated by arcane spellcasters, and was taken as a patron by some goodly warlocks who sought to purge evil from their lands, along with some gold, silver, and steel dragons.

Places of Worship

Temples to Pelor were typically built from pure white materials and were kept immaculately clean. They were constructed to accommodate wide open spaces, or built to include numerous windows, in order for ample sunlight to shine within. They often housed functioning hospitals where Pelor's faithful could tend to the sick and wounded.

Clerical Training

Because Pelor’s clerics spent a lot of time tending to the sick, blessing crops, and providing for the basic spiritual needs of their communities, they attracted a number of earnest, forthright youths who wanted to make the world a better place. While not unduly harsh, training among the followers of Pelor was rigorous enough to send many well-meaning youths back to their farms and cobbler-shops.

Dogma

Pelor's doctrine taught that strength was best exemplified with generosity and penitence. Those with true power never had to demonstrate it to others.

Holy Prayers

Pelor’s prayers often took the form of first-person affirmations, such as “I am merciful, just as the Sun of Mercy shines on me.”

Holy Rites

As befits a sun god, Pelor’s major festivals took place on solstices and equinoxes, and many weddings and rites of passage took place on the cusp of the new season. The Blessing of the Sun-Kissed Field was a common rite requested by farmers.

Artifacts

Dawnstar, shard of the sun

Holidays

Breadgiving Day (4th day, 4th month), Saint Cuthbert's Day (4th Day, 6th month), Midsummer's Night (20th day, 6th month), Highsummer (15th day, 7th month)

Relationships

Waukeen

Spouse (Important)

Towards Pelor

4

Honest

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Pelor

Spouse (Important)

Towards Waukeen

4

Honest

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Pelor

spouse (Vital)

Towards Selûne

5

Honest

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Selûne

spouse (Vital)

Towards Pelor

5

Honest

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Title(s)
The Shining One
Symbol
A six pointed ring-star

Aspects/Aliases
Amaunator

Served By
St. Cuthbert of the Cudgel
St. Pelagius the Indomitable
St. Rao the Mediator

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Portfolio
Sun, light, strength, healing

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Worshipers
Order of the Sun Soul
Solem Ecclesia
Adventuring bards, druids, healers, rangers, and strong-willed individuals

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Divine Classification

Greater Deity

Religions

• Al Sole
• Castenella's Knights
• Church of St. Cuthbert of the Cudgel
• Order of the Sun Soul
• The Church of St. Pelagius

Alignment

Lawful Neutral with Lawful Good tendencies

Realm

Elysium

Church/Cult

Prime Pantheon

Spouses

Waukeen (Spouse)

Selûne (spouse)

Siblings

Children

• Sune
• Lliira
• Shaundakul
• Lolth

Aligned Organization

Solem Ecclesia

Ruled Locations

• Fortress of the Sun