I have a child NPC whose trapped in a castle with her two younger sisters. She's been praying to a Diety for protection for her and her sisters. Not one that her family traditionally Worships. Over the course of this praying she would have begun to show signs of future Clerical abilities or Paladin qualities. And shortly before the players are introduced to her the Diety would have sent her a message saying the time to escape is soon.
I'm not sure which God/ess I should be reading up on to add them to the campaign.
Official Gods or your own Homebrew are acceptable answers.
A lot is going to depend on your tone and your setting too. Is she a prisoner in a foreign land? Does the culture she comes from have a deity that would ideally lend itself to this or is she praying to one she's overheard people talking about outside her cell in hopes that it might be a friendly god? Is there a hierarchy of gods that exists?
If you're in one of the published worlds, ask yourself which gods it would make sense for a family of her origin to have knowledge of based on where they are from and what their race is. An elven child would know elven deities and maybe have heard of some human deities, but she might not know about dwarven or halfing deities. Protection is pretty broad. What kind of protection is she seeking? To be rescued? To not be beaten? Rescue could apply to a broad spectrum of deities from flat-out protection to home/heart to even traveling/adventuring.
I'd think about what kind of protection she's intending, what kind of unusual forms that could come in, and then look at what the gods that child would be familiar with to determine which specific deity (s)he could be praying to.
I'll second the notion of figuring out what kind of protection she's looking for. Is she praying for some sort of intercession? Is she praying for the abilities or knowledge to apply in her defense? This will inform the decision. Also, what oath or fomain were you thinking of for the class? The descriptions will often give some gods associated with them.
In addition to the previously mentioned option of going from the human pantheon to the dwarven pantheon because of what's being said around her, what is the reason that she's not praying to her normal god(s)? Just because the God that you follow doesn't deal a domain that would be tied to protection doesn't mean that there aren't forms of protection to be had from them and one would normally pray to a god that they know before one that they don't. This should mean that either the girl has lost faith in the gods she knows or she's so desperate that she's praying to multiple gods.
She's seeking protection for her and her younger sisters to not get beaten and for a way to escape. She's also praying for the safety of her fathers who she has been told are in the Dungeons. They were t taken with the girls and would be punished if she and her sisters don't behave.
She's 9 and her sisters are 7 and 3. And her 7 year old sister is showing signs of Wild Magic but they don't know that. She's defiantly desperate and doesn't know what her options are or have many. And the Gods her family worships haven't been answering.
If you want a darker story, you could have a trickster god or vengeance god manipulate her into serving them. Sometimes you don’t quite get what you prayed for.
She's seeking protection for her and her younger sisters to not get beaten and for a way to escape. She's also praying for the safety of her fathers who she has been told are in the Dungeons. They were t taken with the girls and would be punished if she and her sisters don't behave.
She's 9 and her sisters are 7 and 3. And her 7 year old sister is showing signs of Wild Magic but they don't know that. She's defiantly desperate and doesn't know what her options are or have many. And the Gods her family worships haven't been answering.
I would say that you could pretty much go with any god that has anything to do with anything remotely offensive of defensive. You could say that the sisters had heard that Chauntea, goddess of agriculture, had been known to answer the prayers of those in the prison. Those prayers typically consisted of something along the lines of "please make this meager gruel be enough to help me have the strength to carry on, the nourishment not to fail at my tasks, and the weight to stave off my hunger", but the sisters didn't care as those answered prayers were more than their gods were answering. In response, Chauntea, a god of the life domain, granted abilities to the oldest of the sisters to help her heal their wounds. Or maybe it's to Hoar, the god of revenge and retribution, that they've prayed. They watched how a couple were beaten and the husband finally succumbed to his wounds. The wife, knowing that she was also dying, prayed that she would witness the demise of the guard who had been beating them before she died. The next day, the guard was taking his meal in plain sight of all the prisoners in order to mock them for their lack of food. He ended up choking to death when two different chicken bones became lodged in his throat with a chunk of food that ended up blocking his airway. After praying to Hoar, the 9 year old was granted the abilities of a war cleric. They are both examples from the human pantheon.
Helm, mentioned earlier, is also from the human pantheon and is identified in the SCAG as the god of watchfulness and associated with the domain of life and of light. This could be interesting to have the older two gifted of Helm, one in the life domain and one in the light domain. One would be the shield and the protection, the other would be the sword and the means of escape (since Light is a bit of a blaster domain). Of course, this would have to mean that either the 7 year old would multiclass cleric/sorcerer or that the wild magic sorcerer would have to be assigned to the 3 year old.
Angharradh, the triple goddess of wisdom and protection, has both knowledge and life as her domains. With knowledge (and some divination abilities) comes the ability to escape and distance brings protection.
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I have a child NPC whose trapped in a castle with her two younger sisters. She's been praying to a Diety for protection for her and her sisters. Not one that her family traditionally Worships. Over the course of this praying she would have begun to show signs of future Clerical abilities or Paladin qualities. And shortly before the players are introduced to her the Diety would have sent her a message saying the time to escape is soon.
I'm not sure which God/ess I should be reading up on to add them to the campaign.
Official Gods or your own Homebrew are acceptable answers.
Helm sounds good. Deity of protection.
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A lot is going to depend on your tone and your setting too. Is she a prisoner in a foreign land? Does the culture she comes from have a deity that would ideally lend itself to this or is she praying to one she's overheard people talking about outside her cell in hopes that it might be a friendly god? Is there a hierarchy of gods that exists?
If you're in one of the published worlds, ask yourself which gods it would make sense for a family of her origin to have knowledge of based on where they are from and what their race is. An elven child would know elven deities and maybe have heard of some human deities, but she might not know about dwarven or halfing deities. Protection is pretty broad. What kind of protection is she seeking? To be rescued? To not be beaten? Rescue could apply to a broad spectrum of deities from flat-out protection to home/heart to even traveling/adventuring.
I'd think about what kind of protection she's intending, what kind of unusual forms that could come in, and then look at what the gods that child would be familiar with to determine which specific deity (s)he could be praying to.
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I'll second the notion of figuring out what kind of protection she's looking for. Is she praying for some sort of intercession? Is she praying for the abilities or knowledge to apply in her defense? This will inform the decision. Also, what oath or fomain were you thinking of for the class? The descriptions will often give some gods associated with them.
In addition to the previously mentioned option of going from the human pantheon to the dwarven pantheon because of what's being said around her, what is the reason that she's not praying to her normal god(s)? Just because the God that you follow doesn't deal a domain that would be tied to protection doesn't mean that there aren't forms of protection to be had from them and one would normally pray to a god that they know before one that they don't. This should mean that either the girl has lost faith in the gods she knows or she's so desperate that she's praying to multiple gods.
She's seeking protection for her and her younger sisters to not get beaten and for a way to escape. She's also praying for the safety of her fathers who she has been told are in the Dungeons. They were t taken with the girls and would be punished if she and her sisters don't behave.
She's 9 and her sisters are 7 and 3. And her 7 year old sister is showing signs of Wild Magic but they don't know that. She's defiantly desperate and doesn't know what her options are or have many. And the Gods her family worships haven't been answering.
If you want a darker story, you could have a trickster god or vengeance god manipulate her into serving them. Sometimes you don’t quite get what you prayed for.
I would say that you could pretty much go with any god that has anything to do with anything remotely offensive of defensive. You could say that the sisters had heard that Chauntea, goddess of agriculture, had been known to answer the prayers of those in the prison. Those prayers typically consisted of something along the lines of "please make this meager gruel be enough to help me have the strength to carry on, the nourishment not to fail at my tasks, and the weight to stave off my hunger", but the sisters didn't care as those answered prayers were more than their gods were answering. In response, Chauntea, a god of the life domain, granted abilities to the oldest of the sisters to help her heal their wounds. Or maybe it's to Hoar, the god of revenge and retribution, that they've prayed. They watched how a couple were beaten and the husband finally succumbed to his wounds. The wife, knowing that she was also dying, prayed that she would witness the demise of the guard who had been beating them before she died. The next day, the guard was taking his meal in plain sight of all the prisoners in order to mock them for their lack of food. He ended up choking to death when two different chicken bones became lodged in his throat with a chunk of food that ended up blocking his airway. After praying to Hoar, the 9 year old was granted the abilities of a war cleric. They are both examples from the human pantheon.
Helm, mentioned earlier, is also from the human pantheon and is identified in the SCAG as the god of watchfulness and associated with the domain of life and of light. This could be interesting to have the older two gifted of Helm, one in the life domain and one in the light domain. One would be the shield and the protection, the other would be the sword and the means of escape (since Light is a bit of a blaster domain). Of course, this would have to mean that either the 7 year old would multiclass cleric/sorcerer or that the wild magic sorcerer would have to be assigned to the 3 year old.
Angharradh, the triple goddess of wisdom and protection, has both knowledge and life as her domains. With knowledge (and some divination abilities) comes the ability to escape and distance brings protection.