Olidammara (3.5e Deity)

Olidammara commonly appears as a slender young man with olive skin, merry green eyes, chestnut hair, and a rakish beard. His magical mask allows him to take any form, however. His favored musical instrument, the Kantele of the Oldest, can conjure illusions and real matter and shape the emotions of those who listen to its sounds as if they were moist clay.

Title

	Intermediate Deity
Symbol:	Laughing Mask, the kantele, and number 9.
Home Plane:	Heroic Domains of Ysgard
Alignment:	Chaotic Neutral
Portfolio:	Music, Revels, Wine, Rogues, Humor, Tricks
Clergy Alignments:
Domains:	Chaos, Luck, Trickery
Favored Weapon:

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The Laughing Rogue

History

Olidammara is an exceedingly old deity. His worship is thought to have originated among nomads and travelers of no particular race, but it soon spread to settled communities and cities. He was known to the ancient Flan, who revered him in the shrine in the Tilvanot peninsula known to day as the Burned Circle. He was known to the Oeridians as well, and is sometimes counted among the Oeridian pantheon.

Dogma

Olidammara teaches his followers to avoid predictability and routine, to delight in wine, to learn music, to seek out happiness, joy, entertainment, and the company of others. Olidammara advises his faithful to appreciate both the jokes they play and the jokes played on them. He also teaches that misery, temperance, and solemnity are the greatest poisons to the soul.

Scriptures

Olidammara's religion lacks a single holy book, but instead maintains hundreds of mutually contradictory collections of parables and songs. Any attempt to codify or reconcile these texts is anathema to Olidammara's creed, which teaches that chaos should be embraced and material things have little importance or intrinsic value.

Worshippers

Olidammara is worshipped by rogues, bards, beggars, thieves, and all lovers of life.

Holy Days

The entire week of Brewfest is considered a holy time by Olidammara's faithful. Other holidays include:

The Great Escape. This is a reenactment of Olidammara's capture by and escape from the archmage Zagig, and is celebrated on a Godsday when the weather is pleasant.

The Feast of the Doubling Dare. Celebrated just after the new year, this holiday includes a contest in which the participants challenge each other to perform ever-wilder pranks and deeds.

Taste of a Hundred Years. This is an annual wine-tasting event where a cask is opened that was vinted exactly a century before.

Clergy and Temples

Clergy

Olidammara's clerics often have a second occupation, such as vintners and entertainers in urban areas, or as minstrels, messengers, and jacks-of-all-trades in rural areas. They wear comfortable clothes, preferring browns, greens, and blacks. Some wear an actual mask as their holy symbol, while others merely wear a signet or amulet inscribed with a drawing of a mask.

Temples

Small shrines to Olidammara are more common than actual temples; these can be found anywhere, in pubs, in dens of thieves, and in the form of piles of stones at roadsides, carved with his symbol. Most faithful drop a small token of their esteem by the shrine: a few coins, a bit of tasty food, or a cup of wine. Many of Olidammara's temples are converted inns or taverns, while some are theaters or actual thieves' guilds. Services typically involve songs, feasts, and a much drinking.

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