Aquilon, The Great Water Guide
Risen God of Rivers, Trade, Sea Monsters, and the Maimed
For those who believe us surface-dwellers to be the center of all that is good and cultural in the world, one need look no further than mighty Aquilon to be humbled - one of the most fascinating deities I have ever encountered. Imagine a Risen Deity whose exploits and tales - which most assuredly are the stuff of legend - we know next to nothing about; whose faith came to us entirely by happenstance via small Fishing Villages which irregularly traded with the monstrous Sahuagin and their Huagi elders - learned over generations as the monstrous traders who would visit those small hamlets slowly traded relics of their odd faith in exchange for the goods of the surface world. Truly fascinating - he stands as our sole window into a wondrous world beneath the waves which we can only begin to imagine. And perhaps, dear reader, you guffaw at the notion of a Sahuagin Deity temperate enough to find a foothold on the surface beyond madmen? To you, I would merely ask you re-examine what ideas and notions have led you to such a response - one cannot excuse the actions of the Sahuagin, to be sure, but do the actions of a nation's military(Or worse, the lawless bandits who dwell within its borders) reflect the positions of its citizens? Reflect on this, and how it relates to the Sahuagin, and you may yet find Aquilon as curious as I.Titles: Old One Eye, The Chronicler, The River Monster, Lord of the Drowned, The Great Water Guide, The Patron Saint of Sahuagin Favored Weapon: Sea Knife, Trident Alignment: True Neutral Church Moniker: As Aquilon is primarily an oceanic deity, his church is divided broadly into two categories - the Cult of the Great Water Guide which tends to operate on the surface along rivers and other freshwater sources, and the Church of Old One Eye, the larger of the two, which primarily operates underwater and is largely made up of Sahuagin and other oceanic faithful. Obedience: Spend an hour carving small figurines of boats, oars, and other tools you use in your every day life out of wood in as exacting a detail as possible, leaving iconography of the Great Ocean Guide along each figurine carved as a sign of your piety. Once the hour is up, place the figurines in a source of freshwater alongside a single copper piece after whispering a prayer vowing to go far, go prepared, and to bring good business wherever you go. Effect: You become capable of breathing and moving underwater as if you were a native that environment(effectively granting you a swim speed equal to your base land speed, or increasing an existing swim speed by +20ft). This allows you to count as having the Aquatic subtype for feat prerequisites. By tossing a coin into a source of freshwater, you can form a connection as per scrying to any other freshwater source of a similar size or larger within a radius equal to 1 mile per Copper coin, 10 miles per Silver Coin, and a 100 miles per Gold Coin tossed into the body of water. This scrying occurs naturally if the water source if "Unattended"(And attempts to find bodies of water as you name them either directly or vaguely, within reason), but if it is owned by another creature they must accept the connection willingly - as the water appears to glow and hum(Making it clear that someone is asking to form a connection). Finally, you become immune to blindness effects as one of your eyes will always regenerate or grow back in case of blindness and increase in efficacy to compensate for the missing or nonfunctional eye.
Divine Domains
Erosion, Knowledge, Water, Travel, Ruins, Madness, Strength
Artifacts
Though fully 80% of Aquilon's faith and followers exist below the waves of the world and thus many of his artifacts are likely known only to such underwater faithful, a handful of small-scale artifacts have been known to appear on the surface world since his faith has spread above the waves centuries ago - most notably the fighting style known to the surface world as Blood Frenzy Style, which is a style of combat innovated by the Sahuagin and Huagi far beneath the waves which was imitated(Some say imperfectly) by wandering monastic masters who glimpsed their fighting methods in coastal raids centuries before the modern day.
Besides this fighting style, the artifacts of Aquilon are few and far between with little to no rhyme or reason between them - items such as the Scale of Ig'draxan said to be able to assign a perfectly accurate value to anything placed upon its barnacle-encrusted scales(And magically exchange it for an equivalent weight in gold and other precious metals), the Claw of Galmen said to be a weapon to allow its wielder to control freshwater with enough power and efficacy to flood and submerge entire villages, the Carapace of Morgath-Alvarak said to be a suit of armor carved from the rainbow scales of a dragonturtle hunted by ancient Sahuagin Heroes that affords the wielder utter invincibility while submerged in water, and more - each said to have been gifted to the surface by Aquilon himself.
Perhaps the greatest of Aquilon's artifacts, however, are the enormous hatcheries built in his name by his faithful that are said to be able to gestate and birth nearly any monstrous sea creature - including some truly massive beasts that have long since gone extinct from the world at large. These hatcheries are largely found underwater in the deepest oceanic trenches and thus not on the surface very often, but with the rise of his faithful along the freshwater rivers of the surface world smaller-scale river hatcheries have begun appearing that seem to have thus far taken on a more passive role - creating fish and other small-scale river monsters in large numbers rather than the krakens, scyllas, and such that the true "Titan Hatcheries" of the deep can spawn. How these hatcheries are made remains an utter mystery - but it is a mystery clearly not exclusive to the Sahuagin, as Aquilon's surface faithful have been spotted building them in the depths of or along the coasts of large freshwater lakes in recent decades and centuries.
Holy Books & Codes
The Drowned Whisperings
Divine Symbols & Sigils
An eye in the center of a whirlpool
Tenets of Faith
No second sin. A lesson is valuable only to he who learns from it - never fail, lose, or suffer in the same way twice.
The waters must flow free. He who claims dominion over what is not his to claim is he who shall be cast down by the furious hand of the faithful.
Blessed be, master of the marked. Shelter the Maimed and the Malformed and teach them the taste of victory, for they who wear their monstrous natures on the exterior are the truest of my kin.
If you must go, go prepared. Learn the trades and master the tools of the world, that you may never be truly lost in times of crisis. Strive for self-reliance and teach others as you have learned.
Just good business. Above all, remember that business, deals, and trade are never personal - make nothing personal and take nothing personal. If there is a need, it is your duty to bring it to market.
Holidays
Day of Monster's Release
Divine Goals & Aspirations
To see ruins and history preserved
To see man and monster together in coexistence
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Those who pay no respect to the ocean or its beasts shall be food for both.
Divine Classification
Religions
Alignment
True Neutral
Children
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