Aeder, The Lifebringer

Realm - Aedertha

Aedertha is described as an endless resort where physical form has no meaning. Where souls spend eternity making love to one another and everyone is their best self. Aedertha is not an extremely populated area compared to the amount of souls within as Aeder is rather selective about his tenets and strict adherence to them.

Aspects

There are many aspects of all the gods, but here are well known aspects relevant in Alvanzia

Inguz

Inguz was the dwarven-given name of Aeder, and in dwarven societies, during an impotence crisis, Inguz lent strength to continue the repopulation of the dwarven race.

Aederella

Aederella is the female representation of Aeder which many women look up to. Scholars do not exactly agree what Aederella is. Some claim that it is a manifestation of Aeder’s lovers in the afterlife in one avatar. Others say that Aederella is an extension of Aeder to promote empathy. Aederella focuses less on the fertility side of the coin and more on the self-care and passion aspects of Aeder.

Tenets

Each god has a set of tenets which define the code they expect their followers to embrace.

Fertility

The main worship of Aeder in the modern age is prayer for fertility. It is said that Aeder fathered hundreds of children while he was a mortal and was able to cure impotence. Many couples trying to get pregnant pray to the Aspect Inguz for guidance of their journey

Passion

People also pray to Aeder to bring passion to their love affairs. Aeder was a teacher of passion and thus many look to the Loving Lord for inspiration in their lives

Self-Betterment (Airma)

Aeder is a representation of one trying to be their best self. Aeder is said to give people the strength to be the person that they want to be and encourages self-care and self-betterment in his teachings. Many individuals trying to become better people for themselves pray to the Aspect Aederella for inspiration. This practice is known by followers as Airma. Airma is a daily reminder to be their best self. It’s ok to have a bad day, but Aeder does not believe people should give up.

Life

Aeder more abstractly is a representation of life. Aeder’s followers believe in the preservation of life at all costs and value the individual above all else. They don’t believe in trading lives and they don’t believe in valor in sacrifice. However, followers recognize the Raven Queen is not an evil being nor the antithesis of Aeder, but rather as a natural part of life. Aeder’s followers do not believe in the perversion of life nor the practices of necromancy generally as they corrupt what it means to be alive. Followers of Aeder know that while their afterlife is an incredible place, to qualify, one must have followed the idea of preservation of life and strove to be their best self.

Origin

To be added.

Cleric Domain Suclass

Domain Restriction

Under the tenets of Aeder, necromancy in most forms is expressly forbidden. You may not choose any spells from the school of necromancy with the exception of gentle repose, raise dead, resurrection, and revivify, true resurrection.

Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	Bless, Heroism
3rd	Alter Self, Enhance Ability
5th	Haste, Remove Curse
7th	Aura of Life, Zeal
9th	Skill Empowerment, Holy Weapon

Preservation of Youth

Starting at 1st Level, your devotion to Aeder has granted you the exuberance of youth and your faith maintains this devotion. Your age cannot be artificially changed in any way against your will and you can never be rendered unable to bear children.

Additionally, when you fail a saving throw, you may choose to reroll the saving throw. Once you have used this feature, you must wait until you complete a long rest to regain a use of this feature.

Sense Undeath

Starting at 1st level, you can use an action to determine whether there are undead creatures within 60 feet of you. You may do this an amount of times equal to your Wisdom modifier.

Channel Divinity: Blessing of Aeder

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to give yourself and two friendly creatures the Mark of Aeder. Each creature gains an amount of temporary hit points equal to your level plus your Wisdom modifier and has advantage on saving throws until the end of your next turn.

Mutual Aid

Starting at 6th level, whenever you affect a friendly creature with a concentration spell, you also gain the effects of that spell for the duration.

Potent Spellcasting

Starting at 8th level, you add your Wisdom modifier to the damage you deal with any cleric cantrip.

Prime Condition

Starting at 17th level, your work towards the bettering of yourself and society has shored up the aspects about yourself that were lacking. Choose 3 ability scores, increase them by 2 to a maximum of 15. After applying this change, your ability scores cannot be reduced below 10.