The Chapel of Tyr
A shabby tent in the The Slave Quarters on Skaug serves as the place of worship for adherents of Tyr among the slaves. In fact, this unassuming little tabernacle serves not only a religious function. As Tyr is considered to be a dead god by those in power on Skaug the comings and goings inside the chapel are not noted orinterrupted for the most part. As such, the chapel is also a place for planning a potential uprising.
Frath Stormwind
The priest of Tyr that services the chapel is Frath Stormwind. One of the few humans in the slave encampment, Frath was a former farmer who held fields in the non-cosmopolitan areas on the opposite side of Skaug from where the port city stands. Unfortunately, some of his lands stood too near area that had been marked for expansion by Taman Lackman of The Merchants' Guild . When Stormwind refused negotiation with Lackman for the land, Lackman had him framed for the murder of a dockworker and thrown into the Slave Quarters as punishment, claiming all of his lands in the process. It is no secret that Stormwind did not commit this or any other crime, but none of his family has the political clout required to mount a legal defense for him. While Stormwind is not a formally trained priest of Tyr, he does have an intimate knowledge of the god. In fact, he was witness to the resurrection of Tyr during the events of the Second Sundering and spent a full year in Tyr's presence as the god regained his strength. Tyr has not yet revealed his return to the world of Toril and Stormwind has been sworn to secrecy on the point. To this end, he runs the chapel as a memorial to the values of Tyr--freedom and justice. As such, while he does not approve of the violent methodologies of Vyth, he allows and in fact encourages the planning of the fight for freedom within the chapel, believing that Tyr would approve.Tyr
Tyr was the lawful good greater god of law and justice in the Faerûnian pantheon. He was the leader of the coalition of deities known as the Triad. Tyr was particularly popular in the lands of Calimshan (where he was worshiped as Anachtyr), Cormyr, the Dalelands, the Moonsea, Sembia, Tethyr, and the Vilhon Reach. An interloper deity, Tyr was the same power as the god of the same name in the Norse pantheon, although in the Realms he was worshiped only as a god of justice and not as a god of war. As the only Norse power worshiped in Faerûn, if a cleric of the Norse pantheon came to Toril from another world, he or she would be granted spells through Tyr.Remove these ads. Join the Worldbuilders Guild
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