Akadi (Ah-KAH-dee)
(Queen of Air, the Lady of Air, Lady of the Winds, Queen of Air Elementals)
Greater Power of the Elemental Plane of Air, N
Portfolio: Elemental air, air elementalists, movement, speed, flying creatures
Allies: Aerdrie Faenya, Quorlin, Remnis, Shaundakul, Stillsong, Stronmaus, Syranita
Foes: Grumbar
Symbol: A white cloud, often upon a blue background
Wor. Align: Any
Holy Days/Important Ceremonies: Each day is an important event in the eyes of an Akadian. The faithful typically rise before the sun emerges to whisper their prayes on the morning breeze and stay up to watch the moon rise over Faerûn or glide the dying thermals of the waning day and joyfully speak their evening prayers.
The Fellowship of Flight is the ceremony that Akadian specialty priests undergo that celebrates their ability, upon reaching a certain level of skill, to summon an air elemental from the Elemental Plane of Air. The ceremony is preceded by an hour of solemn prayer, after which the elemental is summoned. When it answers, it is wafted with sweet-smelling incense, sung songs, sprinkled with flower petals, and given poems praising Akadi to carry back to her realm.
On Midsummer, the church holds its only calendar
festival. To attend this festival, all of the faithful who are
able to travel do so for tendays before Midsummer. They gather
in the Shaar at the ruins of Blaskaltar, which contain the site
of the first known shrine to Akadi in Faerûn, now obliterated
by the hand of time and seasons of wind and rain. Here the chant
of the heroes of the faith is recited by all present and new names
are added to the roll commemorating those who have passed on during
the past year.
Amaunator (Ah-MAWN-ah-tor)
(The Yellow God, the Keeper of the Eternal Sun)
Greater Power of Mechanus, LN
Portfolio: Bureaucracy, contracts, law, order, the sun, rulership
Allies: Kossuth
Foes: Shar
Symbol: Sun with a face on the solar disk
Wor. Align: LG, NG, LN, N, LE, NE
Holy Days/Important Ceremonies: The holiest of days in the church of Amaunator is the celebration of the anniversary of the signing of the Pantheon Contour, an agreement between the powers adjudicated by Amaunator. This is celebrated on the third full moon of the year. The festivities is marked by Amaunator´s followers donning magisterial regalia and parading the holy symbol of Amaunator before every court and through the streets.
The longest day of the year, the summer solstice, is another important holiday. The followers of Amaunator spend the day relaxing, sunbathing and praying to their god, thanking him for the gift of sunlight he sheds on the world. Amaunatori believes that if this is not properly celebrated, Amaunator is going to withheld the sunlight from Toril for a year.
Every time a devout follower of Amaunator is able
to take advantage of someone in a contract, successfully debate
his or her case in court, or effectively pass a new law, the priest
of Amaunator give thanks to the Keeper of the Sun by burning magically
preserved oak leaves and incense in his honor.
Auril
(Frostmaiden, Icedawn, the Cold Goddess, Lady Frostkiss)
Lesser Power of Pandemonium, NE
Portfolio: Cold, winter
Allies: Talos, Umberlee, Malar
Foes: Amaunator, Moander, Sune, Chauntea, Shiallia, Uthgar
Symbol: A white snowflake on a gray diamond (a heraldic lozenge) with a white border
Wor. Align: LN, N, CN, LE, NE, CE
Holy Days/Important Ceremonies: Midwinter Night is the most holy time of the year to clergy of Auril.