Maylar Spiritually Affiliated Creatures

Maylar spirits

  Maylar has a lot of spirits . He especially fond of deploying “questing spirits.” When the rest of the Nine deploy a questing spirit they are either guarding a specific holy place or treasure (only one who is worthy may wield the Sword of Power) or they are trying to teach someone a lesson, or test one of their faithful to see if he or she is ready for more responsibility.   Maylar's questing spirits are usually more brutal and literal. They are testing to see if mortals are strong, cunning, and tenacious enough to survive what the spirit throws at them. Many spirits blur the line between questing spirits and other types, especially punishment spirits. If someone defeats a spirit sent to punish them for being weak, I guess they weren’t weak. They passed the test. If a Soldier spirit opts to aid one of Maylar's faithful, they will usually require the mortal demonstrate their strength first in some fashion.   Maylar questing spirits become Little gods fairly often. An area gives the spirit offerings to placate its wrath. Sometimes these spirits even grow fond of their tributaries and will defend them from outside threats. This is closest thing Maylar has no true guardian spirits.   Gaunts are emaciated spirits that spread disease. No one likes Gaunts.   Maylar theurgists are often fond of using summoning magic. The default land creature is a wolf. The default air creature is a vulture. The default sea creature is a shark.    

Maylar Creatures

  Maylar created the first orcs in conjunction with Nami. Maylar created the first dabeshi in conjunction with Greymoria . It is unclear who created the first scale giants but in the Third Age, most scale giants are paragons of Maylar's ideals just with their normal actions even though they are generally not very pious.   In a lot of ways, dabeshi are a creation that has gone horribly right. Dabeshi can barely stop fighting each other long enough to attack soft weak civilized folk. If the dabeshi didn’t breed so fast, they would have been driven to extinction a long time ago.