Lerky
2008-08-18, 03:39 PM
The temple of the god of the Sun, Light, Strength, and Healing. He is known as the Shining One, and the Sun Father. He is known as the creator of much that is good. His holy symbol is a face in a sun.
The temple is tall, with large windows; many are stained-glass. They are arranged so that the sun shines into most of the rooms during the day, and it features a large courtyard. It's airy and blindingly white. Temple trappings are yellow or gold. They are always kept clean. This Pelorian temples has a hospital wings.
HOLY DAYS
Pelor's major holy days generally take place on the solstices and equinoxes:
Breadgiving Day. On this day, taking place on the Winter Solstice, clerics of Pelor distribute food to the poor.
The Feast of Edoira. The Pelorians of Greyhawk also join Raoans in this interfaith celebration
Midsummer's Day. This day, also known as the Holy Day of Pelor, takes place on the day of the Summer Solstice.
RANKS
Noviate of the Sun
Light of the Sun
Heat of the Sun
Fury of the sun
Shining Light
SCRIPTURES
In the Sun Father's Hand is a controversial text accepted at present by only a handful of Pelorian temples. It was written about 476 CY by a woman named Tephos. Tephos was not a priest, but she believed herself to be Pelor's chosen representative on Oerth. Somehow she performed miracles, including curing an entire village of plague, before writing about her beliefs and vanishing in front of her disciples in a flash of golden light. Tephos taught that all property should be held communally, that society should return to a more "natural" state like that assumed to exist before the spread of civilization, and that clerics were unnecessary; Pelor could intervene directly instead. Most branches of the Pelorian faith consider Tephos to be gifted but delusional.
The Light of Pelor is the most common Pelorian holy book, beginning with Pelor's creation of the sun and telling of how Pelor instructed the first mortals. Some turned against his teachings, thus creating evil, and this evil spirit has waxed and waned over time. Some versions portray Pelor as the sun (Liga) itself, rather than its creator, and tell of Pelor's attempts to win back those who have strayed from his light. The Light of Pelor only has minor variations in it, and all are considered canonical, despite these small discrepancies. The book is often enchanted to glow with a soft solar radiance when it's closed, and some versions are gilded.
FAVORED OATHES
In combat Pelorites frequently exclaim "By the burning light!" or "By the fiery face!" "By the wizened one" is an expression of wonder, and "Pelor's touch" refres to healing magic of any sort.
The temple is tall, with large windows; many are stained-glass. They are arranged so that the sun shines into most of the rooms during the day, and it features a large courtyard. It's airy and blindingly white. Temple trappings are yellow or gold. They are always kept clean. This Pelorian temples has a hospital wings.
HOLY DAYS
Pelor's major holy days generally take place on the solstices and equinoxes:
Breadgiving Day. On this day, taking place on the Winter Solstice, clerics of Pelor distribute food to the poor.
The Feast of Edoira. The Pelorians of Greyhawk also join Raoans in this interfaith celebration
Midsummer's Day. This day, also known as the Holy Day of Pelor, takes place on the day of the Summer Solstice.
RANKS
Noviate of the Sun
Light of the Sun
Heat of the Sun
Fury of the sun
Shining Light
SCRIPTURES
In the Sun Father's Hand is a controversial text accepted at present by only a handful of Pelorian temples. It was written about 476 CY by a woman named Tephos. Tephos was not a priest, but she believed herself to be Pelor's chosen representative on Oerth. Somehow she performed miracles, including curing an entire village of plague, before writing about her beliefs and vanishing in front of her disciples in a flash of golden light. Tephos taught that all property should be held communally, that society should return to a more "natural" state like that assumed to exist before the spread of civilization, and that clerics were unnecessary; Pelor could intervene directly instead. Most branches of the Pelorian faith consider Tephos to be gifted but delusional.
The Light of Pelor is the most common Pelorian holy book, beginning with Pelor's creation of the sun and telling of how Pelor instructed the first mortals. Some turned against his teachings, thus creating evil, and this evil spirit has waxed and waned over time. Some versions portray Pelor as the sun (Liga) itself, rather than its creator, and tell of Pelor's attempts to win back those who have strayed from his light. The Light of Pelor only has minor variations in it, and all are considered canonical, despite these small discrepancies. The book is often enchanted to glow with a soft solar radiance when it's closed, and some versions are gilded.
FAVORED OATHES
In combat Pelorites frequently exclaim "By the burning light!" or "By the fiery face!" "By the wizened one" is an expression of wonder, and "Pelor's touch" refres to healing magic of any sort.