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Emansti, Eyes of Respite

Goddess of Knowledge
Deity

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Symbol: An eye with a cloudy moon in place of her iris, the lower eyelid holstering a teardrop.

Portfolio: Knowledge, Dreams, Divination, Sorrow

Titles: Eyes of Respite, She of Many Eyes, She Who Sees All

Edicts: Procure, protect and distribute knowledge; seek to help people before nightmares are born; console those burdened by sorrow.

Anathema: Destroy important pieces of knowledge; neglect a good full night of sleep; constantly use abilities, spells or items that would stop you from needing to sleep or greatly shorten how much you need to sleep.

Follower Alignments: LG, NG, N, CG

Devotee Benefits

Divine Ability: Wisdom or Intelligence

Divine Font: harm or heal

Divine Sanctification: can choose holy

Divine Skill: Diplomacy

Favored Weapon: Dagger

Domains: Dreams, Knowledge, Magic, Sorrow, Truth

Alternate Domains: Healing, Glyph

Cleric Spells: 1st - Object Reading; 2nd - Empathic Link or Timely Tutor; 3rd - Hypercognition; 4th - Clairvoyance; 5th - Dreaming Potential; 6th - Scrying; 7th - Retrocognition; 8th - Dream Council and Hidden Mind.

History

After two stable eras, every god of knowledge also became the god of madness. Unfortunately, no mortal god could sustain the Knowledge portfolio without going insane. Emansti and Ophia, sisters from the Dreamlands with heavy connections to the Material Plane, decided to try and finally tackle the matter themselves. However, their solution was not perfect.

Both sisters knew that being immortal beings did not protect them from the insanity resulting from taking the Knowledge portfolio. However, their unique existence allowed for a very unique solution: one single ritual of ascension, broken midway through, coupled with a ritual that would merge their minds, allowing one to become the Goddess of Knowledge, and the other, the Goddess of Madness. This choice, was left to fate.

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Church of Emansti

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Clergy

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Her clergy is installed in two types of buildings: libraries, and mental hospitals. Since Nightmares are born and get power from negative, powerful emotions, mental hospitals are normally installed in many big cities in her name to help people's mental health to avoid these creatures from rising and getting stronger.

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Holy texts

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