any chance Deneir or Oghma would have any angels, powerful servants, or celestials in service that could act as a patron for a warlock pact, or provide some type of power? 🙂 Oh, yes. Both Deneir and Oghma have servitors who could act as patrons.
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2018
Awesome, I wasn’t familiar with any of them and was wondering if you knew of any? Sure. I'm looking for my notes on this right now. Probably won't get back to you until tomorrow, by the looks of things; the readily-handy notes aren't the right ones (as usual). ;}
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2018
Hi!
1/At least four angels/aasimar (devas) serve Oghma the Binder. They are Fabrar, Ilimbur, Marathe, and Sephra, and they can appear alone, or riding pegasi (who also serve Oghma), or (especially when expecting trouble) with bodyguards of 1-4 couatl (who also serve Oghma).— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2018
2/They customarily walk, but can fly (gliding upright along the ground as if whisked on a pedway) and blink or dimension door (as the spells) at will. All have melodic voices and usually speak gently. Fire, rot, and mold are all banished (completely extinguished and eradicated,…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2018
3/but can recur after their departure, if conditions causing them persist or are again created) within a 30-foot-spherical radius around them. All four of these “Servants of the Binder” can conjure translucent constructs of force that look like twelve-foot-tall open books—that…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2018
4/can fly and maneuver precisely at their bidding, and upon their silent will-command snap shut, striking anything between their pages with 4d4 force damage, or fly through the air to strike edge-on for 4d6 force
damage. These “phantom tomes” can be destroyed by dispel magic,…— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2018
5/and fade away if they ever get more than three hundred and thirty-three feet distant from any Servant of the Binder (so, couatl and pegasi included).
All four Servants can read and write any known written
language (and most codes) used on Toril (actually, anywhere within…— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2018
6/Realmspace), and are familiar with most books, magical and otherwise, of historical cultural importance. They act whenever possible to preserve written knowledge, restore damaged writings, and translate. They are
fearless in this service, but steadfast and firm rather…— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2018
7/than aggressive or warlike. They can assume any creature form they have personally observed in the past, but very seldom depart from their preferred likenesses.
Fabrar usually appears as a tall, burly, bearded man in the elder prime of life, his chestnut-brown beard shot…— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2018
8/through with vertical streaks (locks) of gray and white. His eyes have pupils of bright white light, surrounded by amber irises (and white
sclera). His voice is deep, and he always appears barefoot and wearing
ankle-length light gray robes; his feet never touch any ground or…— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2018
9/floor, but “tread on empty air just above it.”
Ilimbur uses a likeness very similar to Fabrar, except that he is taller, thinner, clean-shaven, and has raven-black curly hair that hangs in ringlets.
Marathe appears as a tall, thin barefoot woman in ankle-length…— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2018
10/white robes (but like Fabrar, her feet never quite touch the ground). She has an eagle-beak of a nose, long straight black hair, and thick, severe eyebrows. Her eyes have pupils of bright white light, surrounded by emerald green irises (and white sclera).
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2018
11/Sephra looks very like Marathe except that she appears younger, is more curvaceous, and her hair (including her eyebrows) is knee-length
and rose-red in hue.Deneir is served by at least two devas who wear ankle-length robes of many draped, overlapping cloth scrolls…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2018
12/covered in writing no current mortal has been able to decipher. They are very like the Servants of the Binder in their specific abilities, but both have curly golden hair worn short, and black irises to their eyes.
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2018
13/One is hight Anamandus, and looks male, and the other, Lyruse, appears female. When doing battle or hampering mortals, they employ
various glowing glyphs they draw with their fingers in midair, that persist and move (floating or flying) at their bidding.And there you are. :}
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 23, 2018
