Bosht

Deity: Bosht

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Portfolio: Order, mathematics, craft, walls, pacts

Symbol: A mathematical compass

Worshippers: Builders, philosophers, dwarves

Favoured Weapon: Mace

Description
''The great builder, the one who separates one thing from another. Bosht and his brother Boebar seem to have been the first two beings to exist. Perhaps the most powerful god, but few can divine his baffling and alien will. A shapeless and indescribable entity; it seems never to have occurred to Bosht to take a shape that humans can understand. Bosht cannot create new matter or energy, but can shape it; he shaped the world and cosmos from the inchoate stuff at the dawn of time. Only Bosht can create and destroy true planes.''

''Bosht loves things that are precise, orderly and perfect. He did not create life, and was slow to be convinced that it was a good idea. It’s said he meant to wipe out early humanity until he found a sullen, introverted human much to his liking. Bosht is said to favour dwarves, and in some tellings created them as improvements over humankind.''

Priesthood
Priesthood: Baffling cranks and nerds. The church of Bosht is a large, well-organised institution, but they’re so harmless-seeming and obsessed with obscure infighting that very few rulers have come to see the organisation as a threat. The most important duty of Bosht’s clerics is to sanctify newly-constructed buildings; this ritual done, they retreat into their temples to debate philosophy and praise Bosht. No outsiders understand why the church has an armed wing or what they do.

Cleric Special Abilities: Clerics of Bosht can use Turn Undead to turn extraplanar aberrations like beholders, grells, and gricks. If they would be destroyed, they explode.

Cleric Restrictions: Clerics might incur Bosht’s disapproval by


 * Disorder
 * Spending too much time with Boebar