All In A Days Work - Followers of Khepri


Lost Omens Campaign Setting General Discussion


One of the things I love most about Golarion is that there is a ton of stuff left unwritten. It allows me to expand on things in my games and invent new things to further enrich the game world. A part of the setting that always interests me are the divine being they have and how the interact with their followers and each other. On one of the Pathfinder FB pages I play a little game of creativity where I ask about what kind of character you would make to follow a god. This week I'm looking at Khepri, the Osirian Deity of freedom, the rising sun, and work.

Sitting at our theoretical gaming table, our GM turns to us and says, "All of the characters must be followers of Khepri, although they do not need to be divine casters." What character do you make? Who is he? Why has he chosen The Humble Hand as his patron? In what ways does he further the Osirian Deity‘s goals? Why would he be attracted to this beings doctrine?

Liberty's Edge

Ani the Dungsweeper

Chaotic Good Inquisitor of Khepri

Ani belongs to no temple, tends no shrine, and has little direct contact with other worshipers of Khepri. In fact, he mostly keeps to himself, which isn't difficult to do considering his smell.

Ani lives in Sothis, and makes a meager living sweeping streets and clearing trash from the gutters. He's one of many such folk in the metropolis, and like his fellow dungsweepers he's largely invisible to the multitudes that throng the streets he tends. Despite his lowly station, he knows that without his labor, and the labor of others like him, Sothis would be unlivable, with piles of filth blocking the streets and disease running rampant through the populace.

Ani doesn't begrudge the people of the city for not noticing him, however, or for the way they wrinkle their noses when they pass him on the street. Sothis is a city of wonders, and you can't blame people for ignoring her gutters when her spires glitter so beautifully in the light of the sun, or for turning up their nose at a filthy dungsweeper when the scent of precious incense and exotic spices wafts from every window and doorway.

Besides, if more people took notice of Ani, it would make his true work more difficult. A wise man sees much when he goes everywhere unseen, and hears much when no one knows he's listening. So Ani makes his rounds through high neighborhoods and low, and so he learns much. And although he loves his city and appreciates its many splendors, he never turns away from its ugliness.

Though he rarely speaks of it, even in those unusual cases where he has the chance to practice his conversational skills, Ani has experienced much of this ugliness first hand. Born a slave, he was sold almost as soon as he could walk and never truly knew his mother. His master was a fiend who inflicted savage punishments upon him for even the smallest perceived failing. When at last he managed to escape, he found that life on the streets was little kinder for a penniless boy. And yet, through cleverness, and luck, and the love of the gods, he endured.

Ani knows that many others are not so lucky. And so, whenever he hears the cry of a beaten slave, or the wracking cough of a sick beggar, or the splash of a body being dropped in the river late at night, he takes a moment to take stock of the situation before going on his way. And by the time Khepri has pushed the great dung-ball of the sun over the horizon, Ani will have set things right.

Although he knows only a few petty magics, Ani has been a healer to the sick and wounded, and though his only weapons are a crude sling and a heavy length of wood, he has hunted gangs of killers and packs of monsters that prey upon the city at night. He has also been a thief to feed the starving, a burglar to free the imprisoned, and even a murderer when the situation has called for it. Ani knows that one day his luck may run out, but as long as the Humble Hand continues to show him favor, he will continue to do the god's good work.

And besides, who would ever think to accuse the dungsweeper?


Nicely done.

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