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| Sune Firehair |
| Sune is a Deity from the Forgotten Realms, a world from 2nd Edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. Copywritted by TSR and Wizards of the Coast. This site is not an official site, and is not being published for any Financial gains, just for personal enjoyment. No infringement is intended. |
Portfolio: Beauty, Love and Passion Domain Name: Olympus/Brightwater Allies: Llira, Selune, Sharess, Milil. Lathander Foes: Talos, Auril, Umberlee, Malar, Talona, Tempus |
| Sune herself is said to be the fairest of the powers. When she is represented, she is shown as the most beautiful woman of the realms, with sweeping, radiant red hair and incredible charms. The Sunite faith is a popular one in large metropolitan areas and among the nobility. Those of a literary or artisian bent, as well as people falling in love or looking for lifemates, often venerate the Lady Firehair. Sune herself is said to be a benevolent and sometimes whimsical, alternating between deep passions and shallow flirtations. She has been romantically linked with many of the other powers in the myths of the realms, although she has never borne any love at all for the Gods of fury, Talona, or Tempus, since their functions posit the destruction of many beautiful things, both living and inanimate. Sune is said to share the waters of the Evergold, a sacred pool, with the Elven Goddess Hanali Celanil, and a friendly but intense rivalry exists between the two over the innate superiority of elven vs human beauty. Sune abhors and actively opposes any force or deity that causes the maring of living beauty. Dogma: Beauty is more then skin deep. It issues from the core of ones being and shows ones fair or foul face to the word. The followers of Sune are believers in romance, true love winning over all, and following ones heart to their true destination. Fated matches, imposible love, and ugly ducklings turning into swans are all part of Sunes teachings. Love none more then yourself save Sune, and lose yourself in the love of the Lady Firehair. Perform a loving act every day, and seek to awaken love in someone new each day. Respond to love at least once in a day. Encourage beauty whereever you find it. Acquire beautiful items of all sorts, and encourage, sponsor, and protect the artists who produce such things whenever and whereever you find them. Keep your own body as comely as possible and as attractively displayed as the situation warrants. Let hairstyle and clothing best suit your personal appearance, striving to delight others who look upon you. Moreover, hide not away, but always seek to present yourself to those around you in a pleasing variety of garbs and activities so as to move them with love and desire. Love those that respond to your beauty and all beauty, and let warm friendship and admiration flower where love cannot or dare not Priestly Vestments: Sunites are not bashful about their bodies. The standard ceremonial garb of Sunite priests is monastic robes for men, and habits for women, both cut to show off the figure of the wearer and dyed a deep crimson. Hair is normally worn long and allowed to fall free during rituals. At other times, priestesses wear attractive wimples with v-shaped crown pieces, and priests bind their tresses back with crimson scarves. While red hair is considered touched by the Goddess, all shades of hair and skin are welcome, provided they are unmarred and lovely. Aside from her face, other, less common symbols of Sune are a winking eye (often seen as an animated illusion on the doors of the Sunite Temples) or a pair of golden parted female lips with the tip of a vivid ruby-red tongue just visible between them, slyly touching the upper lip. Adventuring Garb: At light-hearted social functions, members of the clergy often wear the lips of the Goddess painted on a shoulder or their midriffs. At such times, they don garments cut away to display the badge of their Goddess. When fighting or adventuring, clerics of Sune prefer as much protection (magical or otherwise) as they can afford. It is not that they are cowards, but they want desperately to avoid scars or even the need for magical healing. Sune clergy often wear oversized, ornate, heavily padded full body armour (such as platemail, plate armour, or even scalemail or chainmail with full coifs, helmets and shields) designed to afford the body maximum protection against visible marring. Often such armour is fluted, polished mirror bright, or otherwise adorned so as to be as pleasing to the eye as possible. |
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