Naralis Analor

Naralis Analor (sometimes seen as Naris Analor) is the lesser elven deity with the seemingly paradoxical portfolio of suffering, alleviation of pain, healing, and death. Unlike many gods of death, however, the Watcher of Souls is neither malicious nor apathetic towards his charges, living or dead.

Description

Naralis appeared as a male elf about 6 feet (1.8 meters) tall with blue-gray eyes and silver hair. He usually wore a robe of white and gray with a silver trim or design.

Personality

Naralis's primary interests are two-fold; he seeks to safeguard the souls of the elven dead and, knowing full well that every living elf will die and eventually pass into his care, heal elves while they are still alive.

Divine Realm

Naralis conducts his divine duties in his realm known as Healing Glade.

Activities

As a god of death, Naralis ensures that the souls of the elven departed reach their proper afterlife. Very rarely (about one out of every hundred requests), he responds to petitions by dying elves for a heal spell, but he only does this once in an elf's life and within the next two weeks compels them (through an insurmountable geas spell) to complete some task for him appropriate to their capabilities.

Worshippers

Naralis was very popular in worlds where he was worshiped, his faithful being those non-evil elves concerned with keeping their fellows healthy and providing hospice for those that would die. His clergy was about 60% clerics and 40% specialty priests known as Heralars, and the groups worked together in harmony. They conducted funerary ceremonies and tended to the sick and dying.

Naralis was worshiped within the deep forests, and his holy days were during the new moon, whereupon the clergy would wear white cowls and gray-white robes. During their monthly services, prayers were made and crafted items sacrificed to the Healer, which were left with the bodies of the deceased in the case of funerals, whether in a vault or grave.

Though elves did not exactly fear death, his worshipers were often adventurers who would pray to him and give him their respects in the hopes he would have death pass them by. Friends and relatives of a deceased elf usually prayed for him to speed the soul of the departed to its resting place.

Relationships

Naralis served Sehanine Moonbow, elven goddess of the moon, in the process of elven death, taking newly deceased souls from her care and guiding them to their new existence. Due to their closely related spheres of influence, he often worked with and consulted with Labelas Enoreth, the elven god of longevity. Outside of the Seldarine, Naralis was allied with Ilmater and Kelemvor, Faerûnian gods of perseverance and death respectively, and opposed Loviatar and Null, the Faerûnian goddess of pain and draconic god of death.

History

According to one elven myth, Naralis was one of the original elven gods who Corellon ascended to divinity by giving a unique name.

Sometime around the Second Sundering, Naralis had been a long-forgotten being within the Realms, although his current status remained unclear.

Naralis Analor

Lesser deity

Basic Information

Titles

The Healer
The Watcher of Souls

Pantheons

Seldarine

Serves

Sehanine Moonbow

Attributes

Alignment

Neutral Good

Symbol

White dove on a shield

Realm

Blessed Fields of Elysium/Amoria/The Healing Glade

Portfolio

Death, Easing Pain, Healing, Suffering

Following

Worshippers

Primarily elven healers
Caregivers

Alignments

LG, NG, CG, LN, N, CN

Domains

Death (Psychopomp)
Healing (Medicine)
Repose (Ancestors, Psychopomp, Souls)