Editing The Archangel Jaser, the World's Keeper (section)

== The Jaserian Pantheon ==

=== The Supreme One, Creator of All Things ===
'''Description:''' Little is known about the Supreme One save that he created everything that exists or could exist within the heavens. After completing his work the Supreme One created a group of near omnipotent servitors to guide the heavens in his absence. It was the hubris of the Primarch, known now only as the Archdaemon, that lead to the War in Heaven. Jaser was chosen by his fellows to lead the forces of the Supreme One. The war raged for countless eons and in the end no being and no realm stood unscathed. The Creator of All Things, in his guilt and anger locked the Archdaemon within the confines of the Green Star, and gathered all of the surviving lesser races of the Endless War in Heaven, placing them upon The World and placing the world's key in the hand of his most faithful servant, Jaser, before disappearing.


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=== The Archangel Jaser ===


===== Domains =====

Jaser is a mighty warrior, chosen as the Custodian of the World by the Creator of All Things after leading HIS armies during the War in Heaven. His clergy are required to take the War domain, even among his non-militant followers. <br /><br />
'''Required:''' War <br />

'''Optional:''' Good, Protection, Strength.

===== Alignment =====

Jaser Himself is Neutral Good, however he has followers among good men across the World. 

===== Favored Weapon =====

Jaser's Favored Weapon is the Heavy Mace.

=== Lady Bethan ===

The first people to walk upon the World after the War in Heaven already knew the story of Jaser and it is from their stories that the basis of Jaser's church was formed. For hundreds of years this was enough. Jaser guarded the world and they thanked him for his divine protection and guidance. Then the monsters of the Green Star came. People turned from Jaser's flock and He realized that a Champion was needed. Jaser watched the world looking for the knight who would become His Voice. <br />
Instead he discovered Lady Bethan. Lady Bethan was the youngest daughter of a powerful Count whose family had always been fervent followers of Jaser. An Archdaemon cult rose up in his holdigns eventually gaining enough strength to assault the Bethan Keep. The young Lady Bethan watched as these cultists and their undead servitors slew her entire family, her father and two brother's struck down in the heat of battle. She refused to believe that Jaser would abandon them to the Archdaemon and her conviction made her decision for her. Taking up her brother's mace and father's longsword Bethan began to destroy the undead monsters and their cultish masters. Jaser saw this and spoke through Lady Bethan, powerful words of rebuke that destroyed the blasphemous cult. The words of divinity caused Lady Bethan to collapse and in her stupor she met Jaser Himself. <br />
He named her His champion and His Voice and bade her gather the clergy who were willing to stand against the Green Star and train them to fight His foes. She did so and Jaser's Army strode across the world, Jaser's Voice at its head guarding the faithful until the green star left the sky. The Lady Bethan then formed the Central Abbey of the Fighting Orders of Jaser creating and codifying the tradition of Jaser's warrior clergy. Abbey teachings claim that Lady Bethan did not die. When her work was complete Jaser drew her to him, to stand above the World as its Divine Champion.

=== Jaser's Divine Retinue ===

Lady Bethan is not the only divine servant of Jaser. His lesser divine servants are listed below.

==== Celestial Knights of Jaser ====

Jaser's Celstial Knights are drawn from the spirits of long dead heroes of earlier Green Star Cycles and the remaining Archons of Jaser's Angel Army. These souls have been touched with a spark of the divine and serves as messengers and guides to Jaser's Chosen, appearing to nuns and clerics in prophetic dreams calling them to acts of heroism in Jaser's name. It is often a Celestial Knight of Jaser that will appear to a Paladin to guide them on the first steps of their holy quests.

==== Celestial Handmaidens of Bethan ====

The most devout among Bethan's handmaidens are called to her upon their deaths, acting as messengers between Lady Bethan and Jaser's flock upon the World. Unlike Jaser's divine knights, Bethan's Spirit Maids act through intermediaries; granting visions to their fellows in Jaser's Clergy and trusting those that are gifted with these visions to pass them to their intended recipients.

==== St. Tabita ====

St. Tabita is a minor figure in the Jaserian Pantheon. Tabita was a righteous woman whose force of will and depth of faith allowed her to break the hold of darkness when it had infected an innocent. She became the most highly regarded exorcist in Jaser's Service often fighting alongside the more martial members of Jaser's Clergy when they needed her aid against the undead and demonic cultists of the Green Star. Church rumors suggest that she was a divine channel for the Lady Bethan herself, as she was a very peaceful and loving figure whose righteousness and force of will only made themselves known during her activities as an exorcist. When she was martyred, slain by a young man who had given himself willingly to the Archdaemon, Father Church and the Martial Orders of the Central Abbey were unanimous in their decision to canonize her.