Ezrahil

"Let righteousness rain down upon your foes! Let them see the full glory of our Lady! Let Her will be done!" — Battle cry of the Brotherhood of Bronze

The Truth Deliverant

Ezrahil is one of the twelve gods of the Heavenly Council. She is known for having some of the most devoted and zealous followers, for she is the goddess of war, victory, divine favor, strategy, paladins, clerics, and humanity itself. Many of the Heavenly Council's chivalric and military orders pledge allegiance to her above all other gods, and zealous followers of her can be found throughout the armies of every Heavenly Council host. She was actually born during the War of the Dawn at the Battle of Mount Castorai, when Balan the Final Justice's blood flowed into a single pool and from the Old Magic formed Ezrahil in her full armor.

Divine Domains

Ezrahil is the goddess of righteous war, victory, divine favor, strategy, paladins, clerics, and humanity. Her domains is War.

Holy Books & Codes

The Heavenly Codex—specifically the "Book of Ezrahil"

Divine Symbols & Sigils

Ezrahil's divine symbol is a bronze shield emblazoned with a white oak tree. Her sacred colors are bronze and white.

Holidays

Ezrahil's feast month is First Reaping, the eighth month of the Auloan Calendar. She shares her feast day, the Day of Noons, with her father Balan. Weekly services to Ezrahil are held on Mothersday.

Divine Goals & Aspirations

To see that humanity survives despite their short lifespans and that they spread throughout the Material Realm.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Ezrahil is depicted as a female humanoid figure dressed in bronze battle armor, often of a Temekanian or Palladian style. She carries a bronze shield with the roaring maw of a lioness emblazoned on it, and her white oak war club, Steelbranch.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Ezrahil was born during the War of the Dawn at the Battle of Mount Castorai, when Balan the Final Justice's blood flowed into a single pool and from the Old Magic formed Ezrahil in her full armor.
Following the battle she was brought before the Heavenly Council as they plotted their next move against the Unspoken. When they realized they could not defeat the growing Mother of Monsters, Valdra, Ezrahil volunteered to stall out the Unspoken while the rest of the Council pooled their divine power to forge a living weapon to defeat Valdra. This was Oheilion, the Bloodied Lord. Ezrahil fought Valdra alone for nine months as Oheilion was forged in secret. She and the Mother of Monsters tore the continents apart. They opened up rifts in the earth and pushed up great mountain ranges with their fighting. Ezrahil was wounded many times but was recovered thanks to the healing licks of her companion, the great lion Re Mashar.
Finally, Ezrahil lost her adamantine greatsword, Readyborne, somewhere on the edge of the Bashari Timberlands. In desperation, Ezrahil retreated into the forest where she came upon a white oak tree blessed by the Old Magic. Re Mashar used his claws to rend a branch of the tree from the trunk and Ezrahil used her divine power to transform it into a mighty war club. Imbued with the Old Magic and Ezrahil's divinity, the Truth Deliverant returned to the field of battle and held Valdra off with just the club alone for another nine months until the Bloodied Lord was completed. She stood alongside Oheilion during the final assault at the Battle of the Shattered Shores and helped bury the Mother of Monsters beneath the Material Realm in the Underdark's eternal labyrinths.
Later, she helped the other members of the Heavenly Council banish the dangerous Oheilion to Fields of Maurenchali and then guided the surviving vestiges of humanity out of the dark caves they'd been hiding in. She pledged to protect them and see that their short lives were used well, despite the Council's prohibition of favoring one mortal race over the others. Since then, she has remained an ardent, near zealous supporter of humanity and seen that they have spread to every corner of the Material Plane and beyond.

Social

Family Ties

Ezrahil was born when she emerged fully armored from pool of blood left by the god Balan after the Battle of Castorai during the War of the Dawn. She has no siblings, though she is said to consider Balan to be her father. She also has no divine children, for she remains always on the battlefield, and considers all those who fall in righteous and glorious battle to be her true children.

Hobbies & Pets

When Ezrahil has appeared on battlefields either in mythic legend or in folklore in the Material Realm, she does so atop her constant companion, a giant lion named Re Mashar.

Divine Classification

Deity

Religions

• Brotherhood of Bronze

Alignment

True Neutral

Church/Cult

Heavenly Council

Honorary & Occupational Titles

The Truth Deliverant; the Lion's Maw; the Unbroken; the Unbent; the Righteous Fury;

Birthplace

Mount Castorai

Aligned Organization

Heavenly Council

Hallowed Arms

Steelbranch: a war club infused with divine energy and taken from a white oak of the Old Magic

Holy Orders:

• Acolyte: Squire

• Cleric: Justicar (War Domain)

• Paladin: The Brotherhood of Bronze (Oath of Conquest)

• Leader: Marshal

• Temple: Stave

Animal Harbingers

Lioness; Cat