For Desna, I was thinking something like this poem: http://ceadserv1.nku.edu/longa/poems/rf-star.htm maybe with a few words changed to better fit the setting.
I like to imagine Sarenite bards singing this.
My bank account would be the opposite of Abadar's holy word, as it is nothing but 'Line Go Down' and an absolutely uncivilized amount of debt.
But to be honest, I love the description and lore of Brigh's holy book in OoA, and I think her text reading like an instruction booklet for living things is perfect. Maybe Cassandalee takes inspiration but hers is more digital, written like you'd find instructions on programming or coding written by a genius but still-new coding savant?
The sort of thing I'd personally love to see would be what the elemental lords worshippers who do not natively speak the relevant tongue would sound like. Imagine you walk into a hot, sweaty cavern and find a bunch of robed figures making really awkward crackly flame noises?
My bank account would be the opposite of Abadar's holy word, as it is nothing but 'Line Go Down' and an absolutely uncivilized amount of debt.
But to be honest, I love the description and lore of Brigh's holy book in OoA, and I think her text reading like an instruction booklet for living things is perfect. Maybe Cassandalee takes inspiration but hers is more digital, written like you'd find instructions on programming or coding written by a genius but still-new coding savant?
The sort of thing I'd personally love to see would be what the elemental lords worshippers who do not natively speak the relevant tongue would sound like. Imagine you walk into a hot, sweaty cavern and find a bunch of robed figures making really awkward crackly flame noises?
What does OoA stand for?
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What does OoA stand for?My bank account would be the opposite of Abadar's holy word, as it is nothing but 'Line Go Down' and an absolutely uncivilized amount of debt.
But to be honest, I love the description and lore of Brigh's holy book in OoA, and I think her text reading like an instruction booklet for living things is perfect. Maybe Cassandalee takes inspiration but hers is more digital, written like you'd find instructions on programming or coding written by a genius but still-new coding savant?
The sort of thing I'd personally love to see would be what the elemental lords worshippers who do not natively speak the relevant tongue would sound like. Imagine you walk into a hot, sweaty cavern and find a bunch of robed figures making really awkward crackly flame noises?
Outlaws of Alkenstar I think, but I don't recall an article about Brigh's church specifically. Most of the hard lore about Brigh comes from Gods and Magic in 2e and Inner Sea Faiths in 1e...
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OoA in Part 2 has a section where you visit a Brighite temple. The entire written dialogue features a priest and her acolyte speaking about Brighs teachings, and it is presented as the acolyte reciting passages from the book as if it were a super in-depth instruction manual. It's Like 'Regulation 4:19, the individual must serve the whole, for the greater benefit of the whole and all its parts' that sort of thing. It's all in-universe, not a gazeteer or article, but is very clear about how the book is written and organized.
For Shelyn Beauty tips, maybe something like this:
"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone."- In One Era & Out the other by Sam Levenson
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I've always imagined Abadar's "The Manual of City-Building" to be like a cross between Vitruvius's "On Architecture" and Ptahhotep's "The Maxims of Ptahhotep," mixing both how to physically build a city and how to rule one, with a dash of Machiavelli's less sociopathic observations on rulership from "The Prince."
Teach him what has been said in the past; then he will set a good example to the children of the magistrates, and judgement and all exactitude shall enter into him. Speak to him, for there is none born wise.
Philosophy treats of physics where a more careful knowledge is required because the problems which come under this head are numerous... So the reader of Ctesibius or Archimedes and the other writers of treatises of the same class will not be able to appreciate them unless he has been trained in these subjects by the philosophers.
But since it is my object to write what shall be useful to whosoever understands it, it seems to me better to follow the real truth of things than an imaginary view of them. For many Republics and Princedoms have been imagined that were never seen or known to exist in reality. And the manner in which we live, and that in which we ought to live, are things so wide asunder, that he who quits the one to betake himself to the other is more likely to destroy than to save himself; since any one who would act up to a perfect standard of goodness in everything, must be ruined among so many who are not good. It is essential therefore for a prince to have learnt how to be other than good and to use, or not to use, his goodness as necessity requires.
I would imagine Cayden's followers would sing this song