Worshippers of Palgolak
Palgolak
Intermediate Deity
Alignment: Lawful Good
Domains: Good, Humility, Knowledge, Law, Magic
Favored Weapon: Quarterstaff
Palgolak is a popular deity who champions the causes of knowledge and learning. He is an amiable, pleasant deity, a sage whose existence is entirely devoted to the collection, categorization, and dissemination of information. Originally a vodyanoi god, worshippers of Palgolak (known as Palgolaki,) are now spread far and wide, and include many humans.
The Palgolaki are proselytizers, holding that everything known by a worshipper is immediately known by Palgolak, which is why they are religiously charged to read voraciously. But their mission is only secondarily for the glory of Palgolak, and primarily for the glory of knowledge itself, which is why they are sworn to admit all who wished to enter into their vast libraries. Rather than traditional churches, libraries are the favored place of worship for Palgolak, although some of these structures blend the aspects of both.
The largest of these libraries is in New Crobuzon, and it is one of the most extensive libraries in the known world. Palgolak is depicted either as a fat, squat human reading in a bath, or a svelte vodyanoi doing the same, or, mystically, both at once.
Intermediate Deity
Alignment: Lawful Good
Domains: Good, Humility, Knowledge, Law, Magic
Favored Weapon: Quarterstaff
Palgolak is a popular deity who champions the causes of knowledge and learning. He is an amiable, pleasant deity, a sage whose existence is entirely devoted to the collection, categorization, and dissemination of information. Originally a vodyanoi god, worshippers of Palgolak (known as Palgolaki,) are now spread far and wide, and include many humans.
The Palgolaki are proselytizers, holding that everything known by a worshipper is immediately known by Palgolak, which is why they are religiously charged to read voraciously. But their mission is only secondarily for the glory of Palgolak, and primarily for the glory of knowledge itself, which is why they are sworn to admit all who wished to enter into their vast libraries. Rather than traditional churches, libraries are the favored place of worship for Palgolak, although some of these structures blend the aspects of both.
The largest of these libraries is in New Crobuzon, and it is one of the most extensive libraries in the known world. Palgolak is depicted either as a fat, squat human reading in a bath, or a svelte vodyanoi doing the same, or, mystically, both at once.
