I want to create a character that worships the Overgod AO. I don't know much about AO and I am trying to find a book that allows me to look at what this god stands for and what the character that I am going to make will have to do. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Or is this a lost cause since it seems that it is not in 5E?
Ao hasn't *officially* been ported over to 5e yet, but using the FR wiki, you can figure out what domains and things would be expected of a follower of Ao.
...though to my recollection, very few if any mortals even know Ao exists, let alone able to worship him, so let me know what you come up with!
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Formerly Devan Avalon.
Trying to get your physical content on Beyond is like going to Microsoft and saying "I have a physical Playstation disk, give me a digital Xbox version!"
Ao hasn't *officially* been ported over to 5e yet, but using the FR wiki, you can figure out what domains and things would be expected of a follower of Ao.
...though to my recollection, very few if any mortals even know Ao exists, let alone able to worship him, so let me know what you come up with!
As far as I remember, Ao goes out of his way to not have worshipers and does not grant spells to clerics.
AO (properly spelled with an alpha and an omega, if that gives you any clues about who they're supposed to represent) is officially the god of the gods in the FR. They (singular they) have delegated all of the divine duties to the more common divinities and they remain hidden from mortals at least one universe up. What they stand for is administrating the duties of the lesser gods, so there's not much call for mortal followers. If you intend this character to be a PC, talk to your DM.
I was thinking about making a cleric or a paladin, until I realized that I wasn't going going to get any spells. So now I'm thinking about making either a wizard, monk, or artificer that is apart of an organization that wants to collect and store knowledge. Similar to what Bau from the mighty nien does. But my character has seen these links and no one believes them, so they want to go out and try to find proof that AO exists and prove people wrong
Well, I'm not your DM and I don't pay more attention to the Realms than I have to. If your characters' goal is to establish proof of the existence of a monodeity in a polytheistic world that neither needs nor wants one, he is going to walk the lonely road of the heretic and the outcast.
If it is any solace on your journey, there is a furry elephant angel named Honeychild in my universe who salutes you. As she once told a cleric having a crisis of faith: "The search for the invisible truths is one of the bravest and most perilous.For you are beset on all sides by snares and have no map to follow.I admire the courage and charity of any mortal who says yes to that life. And the truths are there; you just have to look for a long long long long time."
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I want to create a character that worships the Overgod AO. I don't know much about AO and I am trying to find a book that allows me to look at what this god stands for and what the character that I am going to make will have to do. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Or is this a lost cause since it seems that it is not in 5E?
FR wiki is always a good start.
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Ao
Ao hasn't *officially* been ported over to 5e yet, but using the FR wiki, you can figure out what domains and things would be expected of a follower of Ao.
...though to my recollection, very few if any mortals even know Ao exists, let alone able to worship him, so let me know what you come up with!
Formerly Devan Avalon.
Trying to get your physical content on Beyond is like going to Microsoft and saying "I have a physical Playstation disk, give me a digital Xbox version!"
As far as I remember, Ao goes out of his way to not have worshipers and does not grant spells to clerics.
AO (properly spelled with an alpha and an omega, if that gives you any clues about who they're supposed to represent) is officially the god of the gods in the FR. They (singular they) have delegated all of the divine duties to the more common divinities and they remain hidden from mortals at least one universe up. What they stand for is administrating the duties of the lesser gods, so there's not much call for mortal followers. If you intend this character to be a PC, talk to your DM.
I was thinking about making a cleric or a paladin, until I realized that I wasn't going going to get any spells. So now I'm thinking about making either a wizard, monk, or artificer that is apart of an organization that wants to collect and store knowledge. Similar to what Bau from the mighty nien does. But my character has seen these links and no one believes them, so they want to go out and try to find proof that AO exists and prove people wrong
Well, I'm not your DM and I don't pay more attention to the Realms than I have to. If your characters' goal is to establish proof of the existence of a monodeity in a polytheistic world that neither needs nor wants one, he is going to walk the lonely road of the heretic and the outcast.
If it is any solace on your journey, there is a furry elephant angel named Honeychild in my universe who salutes you. As she once told a cleric having a crisis of faith: "The search for the invisible truths is one of the bravest and most perilous. For you are beset on all sides by snares and have no map to follow. I admire the courage and charity of any mortal who says yes to that life. And the truths are there; you just have to look for a long long long long time."