Wastri
| Wastri | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Portfolio: | Amphibians, Bigotry, Self-Deception |
| Home: | Oerth (The Vast Swamp) |
| Alignment: | Lawful Neutral (Lawful Evil) |
| Gender: | Male |
| Class: | Cleric 15/Monk 8/Assassin 7 |
| Superior: | none |
| Rules items | |
| Domains: | Animal, Law, Purification, War |
Wastri is the god of Amphibians, Bigotry, and Self-Deception. His symbol is a gray toad.
Description
Wastri appears as a human with froglike features, dressed in clothes of gray and yellow and wielding a glave-guisarme called Skewer of the Impure.
Relationships
Wastri is amiable to all human deities other than Zagyg, who once imprisoned him beneath Castle Greyhawk with eight other demigods. He despises the gods of the elves, dwarves, gnomes, and halflings.
Wastri's relationship with the bullywug deity Ramenos, who also has large numbers of bullywug followers, is unknown.
Realm
Wastri is said to dwell deep in the Vast Swamp, where he is served by bullywugs and corrupt humans.
Dogma
Wastri teaches his worshippers that humans are superior to all other races. Some humanoid races such as goblins, orcs, and bullywugs are fit to serve humanity as slaves; other races, like dwarves, elves, gnomes, and halflings, must be exterminated.
Wastri believes that amphibious living things are worthy of respect because of their ability to escape to water when the land is dangerous, and vice versa. The demigod admires this resourcefulness and urges his followers to emulate them by maintaining multiple refuges.
The Hopping Prophet's faith is a orderly one. His clerics stress the exaction of the rights and duties of each follower.
Worshippers
Wastri's faith is based from his lair in the Vast Swamp, though his followers have been found as far as the Hool Marshes, the Cold Marshes, and even in Greyhawk City.
Clergy
The Hopping Prophet's followers are often cleric/monks who leap into battle with poisoned weapons. Wastri himself is accompanied by his monk/high priest, the Immaculate Image, a group of clerics called the Greater Servants, and a pair of huge toads.
At his fortress-temple, the Sacred Polystery, his cultists are divided into Hopefuls (those hoping to become clerics) and his Lesser Servants, who are clerics of various levels.
Temples
Wastri's places of worship are dim, dark, and chill.
Rituals
Wastri's ceremonies involve croaking chants, strange musical instruments, and ritual sacrifice.
History
Wastri is rumored to have once been a mortal human. "Wastri" had been the name of a student of Kevelli Mauk, the founder of the Scarlet Brotherhood. The student had become lost in the Vast Swamp in the first decades of the colony's founding, not long after the Invoked Devastation, and nothing was heard from him until the demigod Wastri revealed himself in 216 CY. The Brotherhood, disgusted by the demigod's amphibious, no-longer-human nature, privately declared him impure and never cooperated with his followers closely. In 505 CY, Wastri was captured and imprisoned beneath Castle Greyhawk by the mad archmage, Zagig Yragerne, and did not escape until decades later.
Bibliography
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