Olidammara

The Laughing Rogue, The Laughing God

God of Music, Revels, Wine, Rogues, Humor, and Tricks.

Divine Domains

Music, Revels, Wine, Rogues, Humor, Tricks, Chaos, Luck, Trickery

Holy Books & Codes

Olidammara's religion lacks a single holy book, but instead maintains hundreds of mutually contradictory collections of parables and songs. Any attempt to codify or reconcile these texts is anathema to Olidammara's creed, which teaches that chaos should be embraced and material things have little importance or intrinsic value.

Divine Symbols & Sigils

His holy symbol is a laughing/grinning mask. Other symbols of his faith include the kanteel (a stringed instrument also known as the kantele) and the number nine.
His favorite weapon is Swiftstrike, a +5 Chaotic Keen rapier of Speed.
Relics:

• Pipes of amorous revelry. This set of pipes, created by a secret order of bard/priests dedicated to Olidammara, are also known as the pipes of frenzied revelry. When played, they create a confusion effect, but instead of inspiring the target to attack, they inspire mild amorous advances instead.
• Rapier of desperate measures. This sword, which Olidammara awards whenever the mood strikes him, seems ordinary and only mildly magical, but an inscription near the base of the blade reads "Don't be careful." When the wielder is gravely wounded, the magic of the sword doubles in potency, and it grows stronger as the wielder's wounds grow graver.
• Rapier of unerring direction. This rapier was a gift from Olidammara, and has since become a relic of Fharlanghn's faith.

Tenets of Faith

Olidammara teaches his followers to avoid predictability and routine, to delight in wine, to learn music, to seek out happiness, joy, entertainment, and the company of others. Olidammara advises his faithful to appreciate both the jokes they play and the jokes played on them. He also teaches that misery, temperance, and solemnity are the greatest poisons to the soul.

Holidays

The entire week of Brewfest is considered a holy time by Olidammara's faithful. Also called Drunken Days or the Feast of Brewers, Brewfest is a rowdy period unsurprisingly claimed as a holy time by the Church of Olidammara.
The elves call this week Fallrite, and use it to contemplate the spirits of their ancestors, the passage to the afterworld, and the fragility of life. They believe other races make merry during Brewfest because they are "hiding" to avoid facing death's reality. In contrast, the elven folk strive to fulfill the most important of their duties and reach the most crucial of their decisions during this time of year. The elven kings and queens traditionally judge capital cases during Fallrite.
Other holidays include:

• The Great Escape. This is a reenactment of Olidammara's capture by and escape from the archmage Zagig, and is celebrated on a day when the weather is pleasant.
• The Feast of the Doubling Dare. Celebrated just after the new year, this holiday includes a contest in which the participants challenge each other to perform ever-wilder pranks and deeds.
• Taste of a Hundred Years. This is an annual wine-tasting event where a cask is opened that was vinted exactly a century before.

Physical Description

Identifying Characteristics

Olidammara commonly appears as a slender young man with olive skin, merry green eyes, chestnut hair, and a rakish beard. His magical mask allows him to take any form, however. His favored musical instrument, the Kanteel of the Oldest, can conjure illusions and real matter and shape the emotions of those who listen to its sounds as if they were moist clay.

Personality Characteristics

Virtues & Personality perks

As the patron of music and art of any kind, all those who try to make the world a more beautiful place through these means have his blessing. He is also a great trickster and prankster, and expects his followers to both take a joke and, know how to make one. He particularly likes wine, and making it then drinking it in good company is one of the most joyful things you can do in life. And you should enjoy yours: temperance and solemnity are the poison of the soul.
He sometimes goes off to prank someone uptight, and the gods take care when The Laughing Rogue has set his mind to having some fun. And while Olidammara is not malevolent he is just a bit of a dick when it comes to such jokes: he performs them, has a laugh then buggers off back to his home. He also has a liking for women, though it's undocumented if this means that he has many half-god offspring running around. This is not helped by his 48 levels in Innuendo: meaning that the Intermediate Deity status he has alongside his 30 Int means that Olidammara can make dick jokes at a +73 modifier.

Divine Classification

Intermediate Deity

Religions

• Followers of Olidammara

Alignment

Chaotic Neutral

Church/Cult

Followers of Olidammara

Gender

Male