Writing Worlds with Words

Gods of Ithia Expanded: Bau’Nur the Storyteller.

Bau’Nur: Goddess of Ritual, History, Habits, Oral Stories, and Culture. 

Known across the plane as Bau’Nur, The Ritual Stone, The Spellsong, The Spellweaver, The Enchanter, Sacred Word, The Myth Keeper, The Lore, The Sacrifice, and The Summoned. 

Bau’Nur is a member of the Ko’Cai, The Gods of Magic, The Gods of Wisdom, The Gods of the Mind, and The Gods of Growth. 

Holy Books: The Book of Suns. 

Bau’Nur is the heart of society. She is the rituals, customs, and traditions that mark soceity, magical rituals, oral stories, and the building of a culture. She is the epic, the psalm, the heroic legends, that which teaches the next generation the start and standards of their people. 

Her Symbol is The Circle – A Circle with an intricate ritual design on it.   

Bau’Nur when active, her divine body is the Red Ring a large red circle in the sky it turns slowly composed of floating runes. 

Bau’Nur’s divine plane is a ring-shaped palace with paths of floating stones leading to a central keep where her throne is. She sits in a place more museum than home. It has the founding stories of every culture, people, tribe, and religion. Volunteered souls carry the words of their people, some who have died out, their culture will survive eternities even if the flesh and stone have faded away.  

Bau’Nur has no relics. 

Bau’Nur is a tall, muscular, but still feminine goddess with six arms. Her blood red hair floods down her back and spills out on the floor around her, always forming a ring when still. Her parchment skin is covered in ritualistic runes, circles, symbols, and her hair whispers forth the echoed histories of every culture, people, and minority. 

Bau’Nur is a great teller of stories. She speaks the histories of those who no longer have a voice or body to speak to them. She carries the remnants of cultures dead or so suppressed they can only be maintained in shadow. She grants her divine servants the divine memory of all oral stories silenced and access to many arcane rituals to twist and bind magic. They are unaffected by magic and physical means that would silence, censor, or prevent them from speaking. They will speak even if their tongues are severed, mouths sewn shut, and their throats slit. One does not stop the words spoken by the servants of Bau’Nur. 

Bau’Nur is worshipped by story tellers, historians, magic users, and general populace who love people. Her temples are small libraries where the knowledge of local and foreign cultures can be viewed, and stories can be shared. She is worshipped at household shrines, and her tribute is given in stories and participating in cultural rituals, traditions, customs, and the telling of stories. She accepts no physical sacrifice. 

Bau’Nur’s Values.   

Pillars (Virtues)- Culture, Words, Love, Wonder, and Stories. 

Columns (Vices)- Disunity, Silence, Hatred, Disinterest. 

Bau’Nur maintains no Holy Orders. 

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