Favourite Deity in Baldurs Gate (D&D in general)?

[KaiserVonNRW]

I want to know who is your favourite deity in the universe, and why.
I just recently got into the tabletop game and the sheer amount of deities is really interesting to me, so i want to ask people what they like most in a RP and non RP scenario.

[Moonlight Knight]

Blanch Warren eredeti hozzászólása:

None. The evil gods are blind, abstract forces of evil for evil's sake, and the good gods are boring. No one could ever actually be convinced to follow bane, let alone cyric, and most DND gods aren't memorable on the surface anyway.

This is actually why I largely prefer Pathfinder's gods - many of them have little twists that take them away from the more standard version, and even many of its evil gods have positive aspects that could easily explain why people might worship them even in a good society - Gyronna's protection of women, for example, and Lamashtu's protection of the outcast and the abandoned child. Even Zon-Kuthon, edgiest of edgelords though he may be, earned his worship by protecting a nation from a disaster.

Hell, Urgathoa, the goddess of undeath in Pathfinder's main setting, is a party animal.

[Zebedee]

Eilistraee appeals most to me too, although Ghaunadar can make for a fun patron for a warlock.

[Pear]

Tymora is probably my favourite.

Chaotic good, so fundamentally kind but also good fun. She blesses those who take risks, particularly adventurers and fortune-seekers.
Her version of the midsummer festival involves "a night of daring adventure, wild revels, mischievous pranks, and romantic trysts." Sound fun to anyone else?
Because she and her evil twin Beshaba are the two halves of Tyche, she inherited all her predecessor's good traits; grace, kindness and high-spirits. She prefers ironic justice and mischief to open violence when possible. If she is forced into action she was known to sing and cheer as she battled, inspiring and uplifting her allies.
She used to manifest as either a sword-wielding tomboy in a white tunic and high brown leather boots, or a regal but youthful maiden with long platinum blond hair. By the time of BG3 she mostly appeared to people as a fit young woman with long white hair, barefoot and wearing a blue robe. She tends to appear as a member of whatever race the observer belonged to, so, if you're human, you'd see her as a human, but the Tiefling stood next to you would see her as a Tiefling at the same time.
She's also supposedly a flirt and loves romance, but quickly gets bored if something (or someone) else draws her attention instead, so if you were to become her mortal paramour, you'd have to entertain her constantly, or lose her. However, she always ends a romance amicably, which is probably preferable to having a jealous god like Shar on your tail, or one like Mystra who'd put a bomb in your chest.
Lastly, she's one of the most generous gods when it comes to sharing her powers. She constantly hands out magic items and blessings to her loyal followers and adventurers, and is happy to assist her allied gods, and even those gods' clerics.

[Ilja]

Mielikki is my favorite. Not only for the heavy ranger theme, but because she was brought to Forgotten Realms from my homeland mythos.

In old Finnish pagan lore, Mielikki (also: Aninka) was the wife of the forest god Tapio and golden queen of all forest lands. She was a beautiful female forest spirit, protector of hunters and a skilled healer.

She also had some trickster in her. Sometimes she dressed on Tapio's grey lichen fur coat and lichen hat, pretending to be just a silly old lady.

She would sometimes also "clean" the forest and so wanderers should keep in mind where they were, else she might clean the path away on a whim.

[seeker1]

Yes, it is interesting that some apects of the Faerun pantheon draw upon real-world deities from our own world's mythology and religions.

Oghma is a god that was worshipped by our world's Celtic tribes.

Tyr comes out of the Norse pantheon.

Drop an "h" from Bhaal and that's Baal, who was worshipped by Phoenicians and Canaanites.

Tiamat features in the Babylonian creation myth, the Enuma Elish.

Bahamut is found in Arabic and Islamic mythology and is probably etymologically from the same root as "Behemoth" which is found in the Book of Job.

Selune's name probably comes from Selene, the Greek goddess of the Moon. Selene is also the name of the protagonist in the Underworld series.

Talos was supposed to be a giant golemlike being protecting the island of Crete.

Sylvanus was the Roman god of the countryside.

[Oozy Monster]

Ilja eredeti hozzászólása:

Mielikki is my favorite. Not only for the heavy ranger theme, but because she was brought to Forgotten Realms from my homeland mythos.

In old Finnish pagan lore, Mielikki (also: Aninka) was the wife of the forest god Tapio and golden queen of all forest lands. She was a beautiful female forest spirit, protector of hunters and a skilled healer.

She also had some trickster in her. Sometimes she dressed on Tapio's grey lichen fur coat and lichen hat, pretending to be just a silly old lady.

She would sometimes also "clean" the forest and so wanderers should keep in mind where they were, else she might clean the path away on a whim.

Good pick. There are a surprising amount of Finnish gods in FR lore. Loviatar comes to mind, but I think there are others, maybe Untamo and Ilmatar?

I have ties to Finland as well, my son is from the Oulu area but I'm also an ethnic Finn. I've read the Kalevala and think it's a waste nobody makes a game or movie based on it.

[seeker1]

Loviatar - Finnish goddess of death and pestilence
Ilmatar - well, the FR WIki says she was variously either a Finnish "air spirit" or mother goddess
Kiputytto - is said to be Loviatar's sister, in FR; looking this up, she appears to have been another Finnish spirit of pestilence, and is in the Kalevala.

I love looking this stuff up.

[harken23]

Detities and Demigods had stats fro a whole bunch of pantheons, and my CG Spelljamming wizard worshiped Hecate (even tho she's NE, if memory serves) in secret, bkz hey, she can cast two spells a round.

[harken23]

I DMed a campaign about Umberlee trying to return to the Material Plane. That was a fun one.

[Goblin King Jareth]

It's always been Lathander for me from day 1. I just like The Morninglord title, the colors, and most especially smoking undead into scorching craters with pure sunlight and holy fire, and things like his presence in Ravenloft old SSI title.

I'm very partial to cleric play as my very first moment of inspiration and introduction into D&D was the red box line drawing of a cleric and some of that old school 80's art depicting a turn in a graveyard.

I was actually in awe of how well done Lathander temple sequence was here to where I put the controller down a few times and made juvenile karate chop motions and devil horns with my hands in the air and this kind of thing while saying "awesome" repeatedly.