Pius Cosades
Pius Cosades (he/him) is a character played by Aoife (she/they/any) in Oops! All Clerics. He is a Level 4 War Cleric of Myrkul.
Description
Pius is a 6'11" minotaur with light brown fur that darkens around his snout, hands, and hooves. In battle he wielded a two-bladed naginata, but as he's retired now so he doesn't often carry weapons anymore. When he does, he usually brings along an enormous scottish-looking claymore that he wields in one hand. He is 120 years old. Pius is very pleased with himself. He doesn't think he's arrogant, but will get hot-headed and defensive of himself if he perceives a threat to his social standing. Having been a very successful warrior, he is very used to winning; this has made him very deeply competitive, but he doesn't let himself show it. (Usually. He hopes.)The Church of Myrkul
Pius Cosades belongs to a church that believes Myrkul was the proper protector of the powers—after all, he ascended into godhood and took those powers fair and square by beating jergal. They have been trying to take back the Boneyard from The Mysta of Kelemvor for years. For more information on the church, go to The Kauvetian Pantheon.Backstory
Pius is a high-ranking war priest, with several underlings that he can command around. He's a necromancer, but he's not a bad guy—he's simply frugal. His entire religion revolves around making the most of what is available to them; in addition to the necromancy, they're all about recycling and upcycling and rehoming trash. They set up buy-nothing boards in the squares of various towns they operate in, they guide farmers on ways to best plant crops without leeching all the nutrients from the soil, and they facilitate trade of knowledge and ideas between people so that no tale or song is lost. Pius himself is... well, you could think of him as a scoutmaster. He's retired from active duty and runs the after-school programs at the temple, teaching kids things like home skills, knot tying, cartography & wilderness survival skills, and first aid (magical and non-magical). He's equal parts boy scout leader and youth pastor, leading weekly studies of Myrkul's tenets and philosophy as recovered from his journals. Myrkul works in mysterious ways, and is currently tolerating all the Good behavior because it gives him more power eventually—but pius in particular is in Myrkul's bad graces. Pius has been given an inch and taken a mile — it irritates Myrkul to no end that Pius and priests like him have been using his evil power to genuinely help people.Trivia
- Aoife has made a heroforge of Pius, seen here.
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