Donandar the Musician
By Alexandre Lanciani
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Note! This is a fan contribution. The information has been
superceded by official material.
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[Theist] [Celestial Religion] [Yelm] [Donandar] [Harmony]
Even if Donandar is far from being a Greater God, his cult is divided in
many sub-cults that mirror the variety of his worshippers' interests. As the
name implies, this one is composed mainly by musicians, because it focuses
on myths representing Donandar as bringer of a universally recognized
fundamental element of music: Harmony. In particular members know the story
of how Donandar's music rallied the surviving Deities of the different, and
until then hostile, Pantheons, against Chaos, the common enemy, at the end
of the Greater Darkness. So members believe that music saved the world then,
and still does, and that their mission is to spread Harmony through music
and entertainment.
| Entry Requirements: |
know at least one musical ability at a professional level (17+). |
| Mental Abilities: |
Myths of Donandar, Musical Theories, Compose. |
| Affinities: |
Music (Battle Song, Entrancing Music, Flattering Hymn, Trust Theme). |
| Secret: |
Harmonize (Used as an Affinity to improvise feats of Harmony, such
as turning foes into friends or coordinating group actions - in general
helping people work together). |
| Sacrifices: |
Donandar likes to be offered new music, and the more this music
communicates the more the sacrifice is appreciated. But a spectacular
performance is welcomed as well. Lately, customs' decadence has led some
worshippers to sacrifice body parts in order to improve their abilities. |
| Worshippers: |
Mostly musicians, usually in some noble's employ, but in
general everybody who makes a living with music. The cult is also a friendly
society that helps unrecognized musical geniuses in need - sort of a very
altruistic and upright music company. |
| Manifestations: |
the musician aspect of Donandar can be found wherever and
whenever people are together in harmony, behaving like a single body or a
single mind, like a musical ensemble or a dance group. You can feel
Donandar's power when your soul's strings vibrate responding to a resonant
musical excitation. |
| Other Side: |
Donandar's abode is the Palace of Music, a beautiful building
within the Imperial Palace's precinct. From there worshippers can enter the
Storm Age to travel with bands of other entertainers such as the Puppeteers
or they can enter the Greater Darkness to help Donandar reunite the
scattered surviving Deities for the final battle against Chaos. |
| Other Connections: |
Recognized as a professional entertainer. Donandari are
welcomed by Celestial, Earth and Storm worshippers in virtue of Donandar's
connections to these Pantheons through his brothers, and by followers of
Chalana Arroy and Kyger Litor, whom the god befriended during the Darkness. |
| Disadvantages: |
As worshippers believe in the divine inspiration behind
their musical concepts, they are usually surprised when they discover that
these are hardly universal. After all, music is cultural, as is musical
taste. |
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