Aba (5e Deity)
Aba[edit]
Alignment. Lawful Good
Domains. Life, Light, Protection
Divine Rank. Greater Deity
Aba is the god of fathers. He loves every race, good or evil, but he especially cares about mothers and their children. He desires to protect mothers and children at whatever cost, even if it means with the sword. He is the god of fathers, commanding them to protect their families at any cost, and to be faithful to them, and adultery is punishable by death. Women without husbands pray to him for protection, both for them, but especially for their children. Aba struggles not to get to involved with the world, caring so much about all creatures, seeing each as his own children. When widows pray to him, he will send his clerics deliver a necklace with his symbol on it, which is an amulet to a shield guardian in shining white armor that is never diminished and can only be controlled by a mother who loves her children.
Aba is often at odds with the other gods because of their great unfaithfulness, and often prefers watching over loving families with his wife, Ima, then too spend time with his fellow deities. Ima is the goddess of widows and the fatherless, but is shy and prefers for her husband to be worshiped and noticed then receive the attention herself. It is said that if you come upon a family with a truly great father, you can look into the sky and see Aba's smiling face. Aba is depicted as an incredibly large man, with huge muscles under white paladin armor with a polished glean with a shield with his symbol in his left hand and a sword to protect mothers and their children in his right, and a smile when in the presence of the fatherly, and a snarl when with abusers of women and children.
His clerics are either fathers or those seeking to be. His clerics teach in their homes or in the homes of others if invited, and will read the scriptures, which are the many Books of Family. Congregations thus tend to be small, but their are hundreds of them in cities where Abba is commonly worshiped. His clerics love meeting men who show respect to their families, and show incredible disgust towards though who treat their families with disrespect and refuse to be in the same room as an adulterer. Clerics often learn spells of protection, protection from arrows, evil, chaos, spells, but tend to save such spells to protect the innocent. The paladins of Abba seek to find and destroy civilizations were infidelity runs rampant and wives and children are abused.
- Story or quest hooks:
A prophet cleric receives a vision of a nation that enslaves their women and children are little more than work beasts. The cleric pays adventures to go and try and change the ways of the people. If, however, the people will not change, the should still end injustice.
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