Was prophesy part of his domains? I have definitely had other people tell me he was a god of prophesy, so I wonder if it's a running misconception or if there is something in the source material to support it?
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The closest I can see is that he had "Fulfilment of destiny" in his portfolio.
Other than than it is just inaccurate ad copy and needs fixing. I think it was Jacob who confirmed it.
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Was prophesy part of his domains? I have definitely had other people tell me he was a god of prophesy, so I wonder if it's a running misconception or if there is something in the source material to support it?
His portfolio includes "fulfillment of destiny", his holy text is "The History and Future of Humanity", and he had a pretty big prophecy about him (manifest and usher in a golden age).
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A bit of context for the OP. Aroden died about 100 years before PF1’s meta timeline starts. Someone else probably knows the exact date.
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Pharasma loaned Aroden her dominion over prophecy, and now regrets that she’s probably not getting it back.
She really should have seen it coming.
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It's weird because I wasn't confused in the slightest. The wording seemed enitrely in line with how the Aroden plot has always been presented entwined with prophecy, which is a prominent central part of world at least in Paizo's focus on Inner Sea.
I can see if one was less directly familiar with that, it's possible to approach the wording "of Prophecy" as concrete descriptive/definitive based on Domains or listed Concerns, i.e. "the sponsor of prophecy" when it really more pertains to being caught up in prophecy, "the prophecied last azlanti will ascend to god-hood and bring humanity into golden age", not implying the dude himself is obsessed with prophecy or granting mortals access to them. So "of" is complicated :-).
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being as this is the 2nd edition, I am not sure how much they had changed in regards to the lore (FR sometimes fluctuates from edition to edition).
For the record, lore as such is mostly unchanged from PF1.
There are a few additions (mention's been made of male harpies and dryads, and there are communities of goblins who are less malevolent than the majority presented in PF1, plus other stuff in that vein), and the timeline has advanced specifically to account for the Adventure Paths (and maybe a few other adventures), but that's actually pretty much it as far as setting changes.
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mention's been made of male harpies and dryads
I just wanted to point out that there was a male dryad in Hell's Vengeance, so this isn't necessarily a change.
Not contradicting you, just figured I'd point out it's happened before!
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I just wanted to point out that there was a male dryad in Hell's Vengeance, so this isn't necessarily a change.
Not contradicting you, just figured I'd point out it's happened before!
Ah! Good to know. I still vaguely hold out hope for playing that one and hadn't gone through it. Male harpies are, I think, unmentioned prior to this edition, though.
Ah! Good to know. I still vaguely hold out hope for playing that one and hadn't gone through it. Male harpies are, I think, unmentioned prior to this edition, though.
Entirely fair! Alas, I rarely get to play in games anymore, since I'm primarily the GM. Even that's started to wane as I'm an author now, and running a game uses the same part of my mind that writing does. When one pays the bills... well, I mostly go through APs for ideas, these days. And the art.
That said, I haven't seen mention of male harpies off-hand, though I haven't gone through nearly as much material or lore as a lot of other people. Personally, I don't mind, and usually make the species who're traditionally one gender have members of the other very rarely, so the GM controls when they show up.
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That said, I haven't seen mention of male harpies off-hand, though I haven't gone through nearly as much material or lore as a lot of other people. Personally, I don't mind, and usually make the species who're traditionally one gender have members of the other very rarely, so the GM controls when they show up.
Yeah, I can't recall any PF1 mentions. They're definitely in for PF2, though. One showed up in one of the PFS scenarios in the playtest, and another shows up in the short fiction featuring Lem.