Kelemvor, god of death (Kel-em-vore)
Fair yet cold, Kelemvor is the god of death and the dead—the most recent deity to hold this position, following in the footsteps of Jergal and Cyric. Unlike these other deities, who made the afterlife an uncertain and fearful thing, Kelemvor urges knowledge that death is a natural part of life and should not be feared as long as it is understood. It is his duty to gather the souls of dead mortals and judge their actions in life to determine which plane they are sent to in the afterlife. There are a few races of mortals (like elves or dwarves) who have different systems of afterlife managed by other gods besides Kelemvor.
Although he and his worshippers have a fierce revulsion for the undead, his hatred is reserved for "undead by choice" (such as liches). His worshippers have sympathy for haunts, apparitions, and revenants that exist because someone died without being able to finish a task, mission, or achievement that dominated their lives at the time of death, or so violently and "unfairly" that revenge or at least public identification of their slayer (as a warning to others) leaves them unable to "rest." So Kelemvor encourages his worshippers to turn a blind eye to "unfinished business" undead but stand against those who seek to cheat death and achieve undeath thereby. He is usually worshipped by morticians and philosophers. He is commonly prayed to by mortals who have recently lost someone close to them, asking for lenient judgment on the one who has passed.
Divine Symbols & Sigils
Upright skeleton arm holding the scales of justice
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