1/11/2024 0 Comments Kingdom of deception 12.1![]() ![]() The demonic Legion, on the other hand, who begs Christ without deception, is granted his request-a precedent which emboldens St Ephrem in making his own request. This time, however, it is the deceiver who is deceived, and it is his deception that Christ rejects. Satan tried the same tactics with the second Adam, quoting a psalm which indeed contained truth, but he did so with deceptive intent. Adam's fate thus resembled that of King Uzziah who, by trying to seize the priesthood, lost the kingship as well. Promised, all they gained was an awareness and knowledge of what they had lost. ISBN 0-7869-3492-1.Truth can be put to deceptive use: the serpent promised Adam and Eve something that would have been true had they remained obedient to God's commandment, but by presuming to transgress the commandment and to snatch at what was Dragon #299 ( Paizo Publishing, LLC), pp. “ The Dragon's Bestiary: The Horrors of Cormyr”. Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 3rd edition. Reynolds, Skip Williams, Rob Heinsoo (June 2001). The Realm of Nimbral, Part Six: Of Heralds and of the Nimbrese Character. The Realm of Nimbral, Part Five: Laws and Heralds. ↑ Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford (2014).Forgotten Realms Campaign Set ( TSR, Inc.). In the Player's Handbook 5th edition, Leira is listed in the "Deities of the Forgotten Realms" table, suggesting she is officially considered alive once more in the 5 th edition of the setting. At this time, the faithful of Cyric also considered her to be his daughter. īy the late 15 th century DR, it became known that Leira was in fact alive and delighted in the confusion created by rumors of her demise and return. Leiran traditionalists on Nimbral who believed her to be alive in fact gained spells from Cyric. Some still believed Leira was alive and that she had used her death as a grand illusion, but the general consensus was that she was a dead power. Motes of her divinity coalesced into incorporeal beings known as glamers. Upon her death, her godly power erupted in a blast that reached her places of worship all across Faerûn. Her portfolios were subsequently absorbed by the mad god. Months after the Avatar Crisis, Leira was slain by the new deity of death, Cyric, at the village Blackfeather Bridge, wielding the sword Godsbane, which was in fact an avatar of Mask. Though she had no enemies, she was opposed by Oghma, as her lies were a hindrance to knowledge. Leira's allies were Mask, who betrayed her, and Azuth. Mistwalkers A sect of the church first appearing after the Time of Troubles, the Mistcallers continued to display the ability to cast divine magic, but were purposefully ambiguous about the "alleged" death of their goddess and whether their magic was granted by a living Leira or by Cyric. Orders Mistcallers Specialty priests of Leira with limited powers of illusion, the Mistcallers were the clerical order most commonly associated with the church, though no one could be sure how many there were. While Leira may have had few dedicated followers, a worshiper of the Faerûnian pantheon often would pay homage to her before an important decision or judgment. Not widely worshiped, the majority of her worshipers were users of illusion magic. When the people of Nimbral rebelled against the influence of Leira's clergy following her apparent death in the Time of Troubles,and banned state religions, the Leiran priests fled to Samarach and continued to hold sway there. The faith of Leira was the state religion on the island of Nimbral and its vassal state Samarach. During the ritual, the follower would walk barefaced among its peers while the clergy would hold up candles and reflective surfaces. The most revered act in the Leiran faith was the "Unmasking", a purification ritual performed when new followers entered the faith or if a follower changed rank. If there was any mist, Leirans would walk through it and pray. Įvery morning, and on every moonlit night, Leirans lay face down and prayed to the Lady of the Mists. High-level clerics of the Leiran faith were called Mistcallers. Leirans would speak the truth only to other Leirans. Her priests, known as Leirans, or Worshipers of the Mistshadow, wore silver masks and often disguised themselves to deceive those around them. ![]() After her demise, her body was adrift on the Astral Plane, like those of other dead powers. ![]() Leira maintained a divine realm called the Courts of Illusion on the chaotic plane of Limbo. Everything she did and said was shrouded in layers of illusion and lies. She was an enigma, never telling the truth when falsehood would do. ![]()
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