Burning Hate – Pelor the Burning Hate from D&D Forgotten Realms
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Burning_Hate
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Pelor
https://changingofthegods.obsidianportal.com/wikis/pelor
https://arena.athas.org/t/dark-sun-heresy/2347/6
Thank you to Ashley D. for finding this one.
Burning Hate is a mob creature that your wizard will encounter in Dragonspyre. They can be found in the Plaza of Conquests, The Labyrinth, The Grand Chasm, and The Necropolis.
Pelor, also known as the Shining One, was an interloper deity of the sun and agriculture, and to some, all of healing and time. He was a god of creation to many, and a stalwart opponent of evil to all.
However, there exists some controversy among the rules and lore of Dungeons & Dragons (3.5 edition) as to Pelor’s true nature.
From redking’s rather lengthy and detailed thread…
Pelor is commonly thought to be the near embodiment of Neutral Good. As a sun god, he is thought to be the enemy of the undead and the author of life through his gifts. He is also a god of Strength, for he advocates that the weak must be protected by those capable.
However, recent revelations have given rise to a sect of thought (some label it an outright heresy) that Pelor may not be what he claims to be. A passage in the Book of Exalted Deeds states that Pelor refused to send his paladin a sunfly swarm to destroy a vampire that had murdered his family, while the paladin was out doing Pelor’s work. In the same section, a CG god named Kord visited a plague upon his worshipper who was defeated on the battlefield. Speculations abound as to why Pelor refused his faithful paladin and range from defending the god (Pelor couldn’t allow himself to stoop to the mortal’s level of hate) to accusing the god (Pelor wanted to see his paladin suffer). No concrete answer could be found, but for those who thought it was a poor choice on Pelor’s part, it led to a path of horrific discovery after discovery.
Further investigation revealed (in the Epic Level Handbook) that the Lord High Priest of Pelor denounced her deity and the faith. It also said that the secret texts of a prominent religion, recently discovered, call into question the church’s real goal, its actual origin and the agenda of its god.
From there we turn to the Player’s Handbook.
Jozan, the archetypical cleric of the Burning Hate is shown using symbol of pain, a 5th level cleric spell with the evil descriptor (PH 291). The SRD and PHB have two things to say about this:
First, a cleric can’t cast spells of an alignment opposed to his own or his deity’s (if he has one). Spells associated with particular alignments are indicated by the chaos, evil, good, and law descriptors in their spell descriptions.
Second, a cleric’s alignment must be within one step of his deity’s (that is, it may be one step away on either the lawful-chaotic axis or the good-evil axis, but not both). A cleric may not be neutral unless his deity’s alignment is also neutral.
This means that Jozan can not be good-aligned, since he can casts evil spells. Nor Pelor can be , because he can grant evil aligned spells, that can only come from a non-good deity. So, Pelor can not be good-aligned.
Pelor is a Neutral (lawful tendencies) Evil god of Sun and Strength.
Pelor is a god of skin cancer, sun burns, thirst, and burning agony.
Pelor hates undead as they cannot properly suffer in the same way as mortals.
Pelor’s divine realm is on Elysium.
Pelor has deceived the good gods and mortals for so long that he has grown complacent in his position. The recent revelations are not purposeful, they are accidents caused by the god being sloppy.
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Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages
Burning Hate image is from Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
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