Navos
Intermediate Deity
Colors: Blue and Copper
Symbol: A spinning hour glass
Alignment: Lawful Good
Celestial Symbol: The Planet 'Navos'
Home Plane: The Dome of Heaven
Portfolio: Monks, Meditation, Historians, Wisdom
Domains: Meditation, Knowledge, Good, Law
Cleric Alignment: LG, LN, NG
Favored Weapon: Thought's Repose (Unarmed Strike)
Other Names: The Historian, Master of Civilization, The Oldest One, Father of Time (Myrddion), The Wise One, The Spinner of Fate, He of Wisdom, The Raven (Dran)
Navos is the god of wisdom and is said to most deeply understand The Vision of Elhim by which the gods ordained the creative order of the world. He serves as an advisor to Daeus. Navos is keeper of the Tapestry of Time upon which history itself unfolds and his three daughters . Past, Present and Future, labor tirelessly upon The Tapestry. Of all the gods, Navos is held to be the wisest and most understanding of the way of things and the nature of the world. There are some that dispute this, believing Navos. view of things to be ultimately tainted by his affiliation with things that are good. Yet the teachings of Navos promote wisdom as the principle thing, and such teachings have filtered their way through other dogmas and other faiths. Few can deny his influence and from his clergy and schools of thought emerge some of the greatest theologians on the continent.
Dogma
Navos teaches his followers to better understand the world they live in, to remember the past that led to today, and to look to the future that might be. While there are some who see him as a dispassionate deity who is content to merely watch the world, his clergy are relatively active and can be found in nearly every orderly society. He calls them to strict lives of discipline, meditation, scholarly pursuits and self-denial in order to achieve greater enlightenment and awareness of one's place in the grand tapestry of the world.
Clergy and Temples
Those who follow Navos. are taught to recognize the enlightenment of wisdom and learning. His clerics tend to pray for their spells in the evening, after meditating and reflecting upon the events of the day. Among the most beloved and sought after scholars on Arcania, many serve as counselors, mediators, philosophers and diplomats in the various communities that they are based within. Navos prefers a more segmented temple and church structure that enables his clergy to better meet the needs of different societies and cultures. As such, there is no truly established and strong hierarchy as opposed to a number of different orders that focus on different aspects of his teachings. The taking of certain vows, such as chastity or poverty or obedience and charity is smiled upon but not necessarily enforced by different areas of Navos. clergy. However they stress self-contemplation and enlightenment as well as the pursuit and contemplation of goodness. To this end, many monkly orders ascribe their teachings to Navos and they seek to learn spiritual control through physical expansion.