@TheEdVerse Hello ed. I would like some tips … I am starting an adventure and I will use as background a sudden rise of Talos to the greater god. It will be in Amn. I will also use Talos champions, called Stormtallons (I like the name of the stories you always post) Any tips?
— Everton S. Santos | a.k.a Gleicks The Bard (@evertos) December 1, 2019
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Sure! The only way Talos could truly be seen to rise to greater godhood would be a dramatic rise in destructive storms (Otherwise, how would mortals know? Priests telling the general populace would tend to be ignored because 2)
…all clergy exalt their deity, much of the time.).
So that would be the first and predominant element; the campaign would involve a storm-ravaged Amn, with storm following storm and the destruction being bad enough that folk…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 1, 2019
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…are looking for magical solutions/protections. Which the church of Talos would proclaim themselves the source of, and send forth their champions. The problem facing said champions, and the priests backing them, is keeping 4)
…themselves in the ‘we are your saviours’ category, as opposed to being blamed for the storms and their destruction (‘Oh, yeah? Why aren’t you stopping all this, then? What’s the good of worshipping Talos when he does THIS? …#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 1, 2019
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… I’m going to find a deity who’ll defeat him, and worship THEM!’). All clergy will be trying to position themselves to take advantage of this. And your concern, as DM/designer, will be: what’s the role of PC adventurers 6)
…in this? (Why them, and not someone else?) As Amn wavers between fearing and hating Talos and all who worship him before all others, and obeying them because of that, or embracing Talos-clergy as saviours.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 1, 2019