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So am working on a new god for my home game and am having problems figuring out what would be a good, thematically appropriate favored weapon for the religion and thought I could tap the wonderful minds here for some help.
So the core tenet of the religion is the idea of the written word and the power of discussion and it's ability to question, discuss, and change the world around it in an effort to make that world a better place. Currently the domains I have are Chaos, Good, Liberation, Rune, and Strength with Subdomains of Azata, Freedom, Language, Resolve, Revolution, and Whimsy.
Now I'm trying to stay away from weapons that a cleric would already be innately proficient with as it almost always feels crappy to me when I run a cleric and miss out on having something that my cleric is uniquely proficient with due to his religion instead of something that all clerics are just proficient with but I'm always one to be proven wrong.
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Martial options:
Knife, Switchblade (Adventurer's Armory) - the damage is low, but it's concealable. More of a backup weapon than a primary weapon. Also comes in handy to cut feathers into pens.
Rapier - elegant and good-stats weapon. Point out the term "rapier wit" here. It's the weapon of sophisticated people and swashbucklers, but gamers will also appreciate the 18-20/x2 crit range.
Sword Cane (APG) - suitable for scholars who think that looking armed is gauche, or for revolutionaries who actually need concealed weapons. The stats are lackluster but not useless.
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Exotic options:
Dagger, swordbreaker (APG) - this religion might hold that it's easier to resolve differences through talking instead of fighting, if the other guy isn't holding a sword.
Butterfly Knife (AA) - see Switchblade.
Bola - nonlethal damage or ranged tripping; because if you want to convince people, it helps if they're still alive to listen.
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Like the sword cane and the swordbreaker dagger. The swordbreaker dagger has this wonderful symbol of breaking the weapons of the strong or the tyrannical and the cane has this cool image of style and utility beyond combat which again feels right here.
The other option I was tooling around with was the iron brush from ultimate equipment and ultimate combat as it's basically a weaponized pen and plays well with the idea of the pen being mightier then the sword, your thoughts?
I made a CN god of knowledge once. His favored weapon was the Three Section Staff because the weapon represented both complexity and unpredictability. That and I'd like to see exotic weapons become favored weapons more often.
I would like to add that this deity began as a mortal wizard. When he joined his arcane order he was told that the only weapon he was allowed to use or possess was a staff. So he chose a three section staff and taught himself to use it. Each section of the staff could function as a wand and later each section came to represent a different part of his domain; chaos, knowledge, and magic.
Long sword.
The pen is mightier than, but when it doesn't work....
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I don't know the whole idea is that they are meant to be artists, poets, and dreamers first and fighters second so having some large martial weapon feels against the idea of the thing. Kind of like the idea of some kind of hold out weapon that comes up when the power of words totally fails and can be either concealed easily or function as another tool to the scribe.