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Zhentarim
2018-12-13, 09:10 PM
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Eaqueo

How would a LN, LE, and NE cleric of this diety differ in their philosophy?

Elvensilver
2018-12-16, 01:05 PM
So some ideas for LN, LE, NB, everyone is described as a sample priest.

A lawful neutral priest would mostly care about the suicide and liberation aspects. If Teron, a crippled dwarf, is allowed a temple in a town, he would wander through the streets in the early morning, chanting about the inevitablity of dead and the mortal coil that comes before it. When visiting ill, Teron would try to convince them that planned suicide is better than living a miserable life. He would work with local authorities, proud to be the official hangman. Most likely, he would ignore the madness aspect as much as possible. In his small temple adorned with paintings of suffering he interprets nightmares (-mostly they mean you are going to die a slow, terrible dead if you don't kill yourself beforehand), heals for upcharged costs, and admisters help with suicide or sleep spells. I imagine him to be methodically and cynical, hating his own live and looking forward to suicide himself (after guiding others out of this worldy state). After a failed attempt to kill himself he adopted the dogma of Eaqueo to control his fate and to master dead. Tenrin is mostly apathical in front of others and only longs for control.

A lawful evil priest gets to pick whatever they like best. Like Sadi, a young halfing and loyal believer of Eaqueo. He defines himself through opposition: some time ago he was still a acolyth in a temple of Pharasma, but her teachings about neutrality, dead as unforseeable journey and fate made him salty. Dead was given by the mighty, and weak people had to fall in line. Fate was just ramblings from the desperate weak. A hidden treatise about suicide changed his life: Pharasma was wrong! Mortals -especialy young, attractive and mighty ones like himself- could govern over fate, through martial means, defying boring. With madness as his weapon, he gleefuly sought to govern the meek. Sadi often travels with soldiers, encouraging cruelity and tries to show everyone- especially narrow minded pharasmapriests- that only the mighty can decide when dead is due.

Nica likes fun. As Eaqueo is about control, choice, madness and dead, she sees herself as guide that controls people, drive them mad and ultimatly to suicide. She lives in a small town, making money by selling good luck charms and dreamcatchers. Getting contacts to sad and desperate people, she then uses them to curse them with madness and nightmares, then temporally relieving them to draw them deeper in her snare. She follows a few self-set rules by her to make the establisment of deadcults and suicide pacts more of a challenge. But her passion is sewing destruction through manipulation. Ultimatly she wants to gain enough strengh to summon devils to do her biddings.

Zhentarim
2018-12-16, 01:41 PM
So some ideas for LN, LE, NB, everyone is described as a sample priest.

A lawful neutral priest would mostly care about the suicide and liberation aspects. If Teron, a crippled dwarf, is allowed a temple in a town, he would wander through the streets in the early morning, chanting about the inevitablity of dead and the mortal coil that comes before it. When visiting ill, Teron would try to convince them that planned suicide is better than living a miserable life. He would work with local authorities, proud to be the official hangman. Most likely, he would ignore the madness aspect as much as possible. In his small temple adorned with paintings of suffering he interprets nightmares (-mostly they mean you are going to die a slow, terrible dead if you don't kill yourself beforehand), heals for upcharged costs, and admisters help with suicide or sleep spells. I imagine him to be methodically and cynical, hating his own live and looking forward to suicide himself (after guiding others out of this worldy state). After a failed attempt to kill himself he adopted the dogma of Eaqueo to control his fate and to master dead. Tenrin is mostly apathical in front of others and only longs for control.

A lawful evil priest gets to pick whatever they like best. Like Sadi, a young halfing and loyal believer of Eaqueo. He defines himself through opposition: some time ago he was still a acolyth in a temple of Pharasma, but her teachings about neutrality, dead as unforseeable journey and fate made him salty. Dead was given by the mighty, and weak people had to fall in line. Fate was just ramblings from the desperate weak. A hidden treatise about suicide changed his life: Pharasma was wrong! Mortals -especialy young, attractive and mighty ones like himself- could govern over fate, through martial means, defying boring. With madness as his weapon, he gleefuly sought to govern the meek. Sadi often travels with soldiers, encouraging cruelity and tries to show everyone- especially narrow minded pharasmapriests- that only the mighty can decide when dead is due.

Nica likes fun. As Eaqueo is about control, choice, madness and dead, she sees herself as guide that controls people, drive them mad and ultimatly to suicide. She lives in a small town, making money by selling good luck charms and dreamcatchers. Getting contacts to sad and desperate people, she then uses them to curse them with madness and nightmares, then temporally relieving them to draw them deeper in her snare. She follows a few self-set rules by her to make the establisment of deadcults and suicide pacts more of a challenge. But her passion is sewing destruction through manipulation. Ultimatly she wants to gain enough strengh to summon devils to do her biddings.

I like these descriptions.