Celestian

Domain: Arcana, Knowledge, Protection - Lawful Neutral

Names

The Far Traveler
The Star Wanderer
Keeper of the Tome

Description

Celestian is portrayed as an older, black-skinned man who traveled the skies. His dark eyes, the same color as his smooth skin, were full of knowledge. Celestian is tall and dressed in black robes covered in stars. Somewhere on his person, Celestian always wears his holy symbol. His movements are swift and silent. He rarely appeared in a physical form, however.

Holy symbol

Celestian's holy symbol is a black circle with seven stars, which glowed in different colors like tiny suns. The seven "stars" were seven gems: amethyst, diamond, emerald, jacinth, ruby, sapphire, and topaz.

Abilities

Celestian has access to many of the spells used by powerful mortal wizards, including any spells related to travel or movement. In addition, he is known for seven unique spell-like powers: creation of a sheet of shifting lights similar in appearance to an aurora borealis that could damage foes; summoning of a comet; manifestation of heat lightning; calling of a meteor storm; infliction of a chill as cold as space; emanation of a beam if white light as bright as a star from his eyes; and creation of the sound of deafening thunder. He could only manifest these powers if not underground or indoors.

Celestian had the power to traverse the Astral Plane at will, including the ability to astrally enter any of the planes that bordered it.

Possessions

Celestian possessed a variety of magic weapons that he might use at any given encounter. Among these were a longbow, a spear that could change length, a short sword, a battleaxe that he could throw, and an unbreakable dagger, but his worshipers held the shortspear to be his favored weapon.

Relationships

Little is known about his relationship with the other gods. Commonly thought of as lawful neutral, he preferred not to get involved in others’ drama. It was his child that ran from the battle at the conclusion of the War of the Undead. Ashamed, he withdrew, but is occasionally spotted in the far planes of reality.

Worshipers

Celestian appealed to good or neutral worshipers who never liked to settle down—not even in a single plane of existence or crystal sphere. Many of these were scholars, navigators, astronomers, astrologers, and the like. As one of the first gods to step away before the War of the Undead, his worship has been mostly forgotten in Ellebore. Only in the Wayfinders, kept secret for some unknown reason, is his worship continued.

Dogma

Celestian encourages his followers to wander far from home, just as the stars do.
Astrology is as much a part of Celestian’s faith as astronomy is, and his worshippers are encouraged to discover the secrets within the patterns of the stars and other celestial bodies.

Divine Realm

Ever the wanderer, Celestian did not even maintain a divine realm. Instead, he traveled from place to place within the Astral Plane and the Spiral Wheel. His petitioners, without a divine realm to inhabit, instead became the stars of his black robes, until finally merging with his essence.

Divine Classification

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