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of feet above the forest floor. Most temples are eager to aidtraveling elves in any way they can—and other races as well ifthey’re fighting the hated drow. Corellon’s temples oftendouble as armories in smaller cities.Rites: Corellon’s rites are integratedwith elf society, celebrating births, honoringdeceased believers, and blessing marriages.Before a battle, believers often recite theLitany of the Arrows.Herald and Allies: Corellon uses 20thlevelcelestial elf clerics as his heralds.These individuals are always consummatearchers. His allies include bralanieladrins, ghaele eladrins, and planetars.Favored Weapon: Longsword.DEEP SASHELASIntermediate God (Chaotic Good)The Lord of the Undersea is the patron of aquaticelves. With his consort Trishinia, Queen of theDolphins, he rules the world beneath the waves andcreates ever-changing vistas of undersea beauty.Deep Sashelas appears as a handsome aquaticelf with sea-green skin and flowing blue-greenhair. He is usually clad in leather armor made ofsharkskin and decorated with fins and frills. Deep Sashelasis a charismatic leader and an inspired creator, but he isalso fickle and flighty, as evidenced by the many tales of hisamorous adventures with mermaids, mortal aquatic elves,and other lovely beings of the deep.Portfolio: Oceans, aquatic elves, creation, knowledge.Domains: Chaos, Good, Protection, Water.Cleric Training: The clerics ofDeep Sashelas are mostly aquatic elves,though surface elves also venerate him.All his clerics can swim, and they often actas mediators between aquatic and nonaquaticraces. They oppose the sahuagin and oftentake the battle directly to their enemies.Quests: Followers of Deep Sashelasoften undertake quests to retrieve magicitems that control aquatic creatures, toattack sahuagin strongholds, or to establishalliances between elves and otherraces, both above and below the water.Prayers: The followers of the DolphinPrince pray to him upon beginning newartistic projects and upon completing them,and when they are girding themselves for waragainst enemies of the aquatic elves. Prayersto Deep Sashelas always invoke the beauty ofthe undersea world and often ask for guidance inpreserving it. “Lord of the Undersea, keep my resolveas strong as the tides and my weapon-arm as swiftas the eel, that I may preserve the grandeur of therealm below the waves,” goes one common prayer.Holy symbolof Deep SashelasShrines: Most shrines to the Dolphin Prince are builton the sea floor or on the faces of rocky cliffs, thoughsome can be found on barren coastlines.Built of shells, coral, and driftwood, theyare festooned with artistic creations of theelves. A pool of crystal-clear water serves asthe altar.Rites: The clerics of Deep Sashelas holdrites at especially high and low tides, knownas High Flow and Deep Ebb. Offeringsof precious items from the sea and greatworks of art are made during these ceremonies,and his clerics hold water dancesthat involve swimming in prescribedpatterns with dolphins and singing songsreminiscent of the crashing of waves uponthe shore.Herald and Allies: A 20th-level celestialaquatic elf cleric serves as Deep Sashelas’s herald.His allies include tritons, celestial orcas, andadvanced celestial cachalot whales. (Deep Sashelasoften sends magical beasts as planar allies, contraryto the spell description.)Favored Weapon: Trident.Holy symbol ofElebrin LiothielELEBRIN LIOTHIELIntermediate God (Chaotic Good)Known as the Celestial Gardener, Elebrin Liothiel is theelven god of orchards, gardens, and the harvest. This pastoraldeity represents the abundance of nature and its ability toprovide for those who live in harmony with it.Elebrin appears as a young male elf dressed in tunic andbreeches in muted gold shades. His cloak is the colorof green spring leaves embroidered with trailing vines,and he carries a sturdy staff made of rowan wood.A circlet of leafy vines adorns his brow.The Celestial Gardener created the saelastree as a gift to the elves, and he bestows specialcare on saelas groves. (The Elven wordsaelas translates as “wildwood” in Common;for information about the propertiesof wildwood, see page 169.) In addition,Elebrin watches over the gardens, orchards,and groves near elf settlements, ensuringabundant harvests for those who plant andtend in tune with nature. Ornamentalgardens are also within his purview, as areany other decorative plantings.Portfolio: Nature, gardens, orchards,harvest.Domains: Chaos, Good, Plant, Sun.Cleric Training: Clerics of Elebrin tend thecommunal gardens and orchards of an elf settlement,studying how to plant crops to harmonizewith nature rather than compete with othernative growth. As they gain experience, theyIllus. by D. CrabappleCHAPTER 1ELVES21