Pelor

Pelor is the neutral good god of the sun, light and healing.

Glory, Good, Healing, Nobility, Light, Purification, Strength, Sun, Life, Light.

The Light of Pelor is the most common Pelorian holy book, beginning with Pelor's creation of the sun and telling of how Pelor instructed the first mortals. Some turned against his teachings, thus creating evil, and this evil spirit has waxed and waned over time. Some versions portray Pelor as the sun (Liga) itself, rather than its creator, and tell of Pelor's attempts to win back those who have strayed from his light. The Light of Pelor only has minor variations in it, and all are considered canonical, despite these small discrepancies. The book is often enchanted to glow with a soft solar radiance when it's closed, and some versions are gilded.
In the Sun Father's Hand is a controversial text accepted at present by only a handful of Pelorian temples. It was written by a woman named Tephos. Tephos was not a priest, but she believed herself to be Pelor's chosen representative on Agnesia. Somehow she performed miracles, including curing an entire village of plague, before writing about her beliefs and vanishing in front of her disciples in a flash of golden light. Tephos taught that all property should be held communally, that society should return to a more "natural" state like that assumed to exist before the spread of civilization, and that clerics were unnecessary; Pelor could intervene directly instead. Most branches of the Pelorian faith consider Tephos to be gifted but delusional.

Famed relics of Pelor include the maces called Dawnstars and the holy symbols known as the Shards of the Sun. Their favored weapon is a mace.

There are four Dawnstars. They were gifts from Pelor to four solars who rescued a paladin from the bowels of Hell.
The Shards of the Sun are described in Pelorian holy texts as "Pelor's gift, which I carry into darkness—a sun that never sets."
Ajira's Rod is a relic of a legendary paladin called Ajira. Some of his bones were placed in the hilt of his mace, becoming the relic. It glows, removes disease, and regenerates its wielder.
Ronnam's Icon was named for a Pelorian cleric who had been apprenticed to a smith. He created his holy symbol itself; it was flawed, a crude thing of mere bronze, but he wore it as a rebuke to those who revered only beauty. The icon has special qualities against undead, and its solar rays can turn into gold to use to feed the needy.

Breadgiving Day: On this day, taking place on the 18th of Talvehita (the Winter Solstice), Agnesia's clerics of Pelor, Rao, and Saint Cuthbert distribute food to the poor.
The Feast of Edoira: The Pelorians of Agnesia also join Raoans in this interfaith celebration, occurring on the 9th of Velox Origio
Midsummer's Day: This day, also known as the Holy Day of Pelor, takes place on the First of Caniculia Origia, the day of the Summer Solstice.

Divine Classification

Greater Deity

Religions

Alignment

Neutral Good

Church/Cult

Church of Pelor, The Shining Sun

Children

Hair

Long Golden hair with beard

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