Shaman

To My Brother, May he Rest In Peace.

I miss you brother, fer I have not seen your face in the flesh fer quite some time now. I feel yer spirit though and I be watchin' you in the beyond. You still watch over me, and fer that I be grateful.

Yer tireless spirit is comfertin' fer me, and I live not a day, without thinkin' of ye and yer wisdom. I am growin' weary of the land, and seek out the respite that ye have. Perhaps with the veil being lifted beyond the skies I can find what ye have.

Your Brother Eternal.

Several powerful divine spirits are worshiped similarly to deities by Norrath’s more primitive. They are different than the deities of Power, Influence, and Nature as they do not exist to rule or be ruled by a plane of existence nor are they tied to mortal beliefs. They are divine creatures imbued in the physical and spiritual world of Norrath itself. Shamans and beast-lords, especially agnostic ones, draw their power from and form bonds with the spirits of animals and nature. These spirit deities are the most powerful examples of such spirits.

Drinal, The Silver Reaper

Very few beings know of The Silver Reaper, associated with the gray moon seen from Norrath on all nights – Drinal. This moon was named after the spirit deity of night, destruction, and death by a humanoid tribe of nomads before the era of great cities and civilizations. Drinal, although representing that which is dark, is a neutral deity who represents the necessary end of the cycle of life. He does not maintain his watch over death out of malevolence, but out of the necessity for it to occur in order to fulfill the cycle of life. His Lujien followers personify Drinal as an upright white wolf whose paws, tail, and maw are midnight black. It is said that Drinal wields a silver sickle, the symbol of the crescent moon that is most sacred to Drinal and his bestial worshipers.

Ehayae, Matron of The Baton

Very few beings know of Ehayae and even fewer pay homage to her in reverence and worship. To those that do know this name and follow her guidance, she is the deity that maintains the cycle of birth, rebirth, and creation and is strongly tied to Drinal, who completes this cycle. The dawn and twilight are symbols associated with this goddess and are hours that her worshippers revere as sacred. Ehayae, although representing that which is considered to be good by many of the races of Norrath, is indeed a neutral goddess. Her neutrality comes in that she does not maintain her half of the cycle of life out of benevolence, but out of necessity. Her Gihjna followers personify Ehayae as a golden-skinned humanoid female bearing the face and head of an ivory-beaked hawk and golden wings in place of arms. She is often depicted as holding a halfcircle at the tips of her wings in representation of the rising and setting sun.

Sahteb Mahlni, The Feral Spirit

Sahteb Mahlni is the most powerful of the known animal spirits and is believed to be the embodiment and source of animal instincts. Followers of Sahteb Mahlni are exclusively Vah Shir who believe true wisdom and power come from understanding and controlling the primal inner spirit within all living creatures. The opposites of life and death, predator and prey, and physical and spiritual are the primal balances of existence, and upon death all things return to a spiritual state until reborn into the new flesh. Only through praise, reverence, and devotion to Sahteb Mahlni – the greatest of the ancestor spirits and the balance of life and death – can enlightenment be achieved. Vah Shir of all dispositions, from the peaceful contemplative shaman to the fierce, bloodthirsty beastlord hear the calling of Sahteb Mahlni. As an embodiment of the primal balance, Sahteb Mahlni is neutral. When the Feral Spirit is described in the physical form, it is as an ever-changing composite creature made from all Norrath’s animals.