Bahamut

Bahamut is the principle and most powerful of the metallic dragon gods. He is principally concerned with the immortal fight for goodness and righteousness in the Ever Yonder. He seeks out those who would bring evil and malice into the Ever Yonder, in order to turn them from their wicked ways. However, if they would not be turned, they would be destroyed. He is forever confident, and this confidence can appear as arrogance to those opposed to him. As such he would never back down from a challenge, and views the existence of evil as a direct challenge to his power and might. However, as he is such a powerful being, he focusses on such large evils that they may challenge him; he doesn't bother himself with evil creatures far beneath him, as he could simply destroy them in an instant. As such, his primary adversary is his sister, Tiamut and he wages a constant struggle to pull her out from her evil, else destroy her. There is a constellations that winds its way across the night sky that is said to be Bahamut keeping watch over the world at night.

Aliases

Father of Dragons

The Platinum Dragon

Tennets

Honour = Live without shame.

Justice = Without justice there is no order, without order there can be no good.

Righteousness - All that you do reflects your faith.

Nobility - Act with dignity and above base impulses

Creeds

Combat evil in all its forms. Bahamut stands as the foremost champion in the fight against evil, corruption, and despair. The chief tenet of the faith is simple: evil must be confronted and eliminated. Of all the deities, Bahamut stands at the forefront in the fight against evil, corruption, and despair. He represents the ceaseless eternal struggle against the darkness; he never surrenders, and his followers are held to the same expectation.

Commit no harm in the process. This serves as a proviso to the first credo. Put another way, the ends do not justify the means. The Church of Bahamut urges its clerics to pursue and defeat evil, but to always take into consideration innocent bystanders and the defenseless. If a cleric (or paladin or other servant) of Bahamut is faced with the choice of aiding an innocent or pursuing evil, the innocent's needs come first, all things being equal.

Bring aid to those in need. The faith of Bahamut focuses on more than simply taking the battle to evil. Along the way, a cleric of Bahamut is expected to heal the injured, cure the sick, feed the hungry, and shelter the homeless as much as is possible. If the cleric possesses a blanket yet his neighbour has none, that cleric should surrender his blanket to the less fortunate individual. Clerics of the Platinum Dragon are held to an extremely high standard of generosity and mercy to the innocent.

Offer mercy but once. The previous tenet does not extend to those who spit on a cleric's generosity or mercy. If an individual receives mercy and then proceeds to commit an evil deed, he does not receive a third chance to repent. Any person who commits evil after receiving mercy deserves full and swift punishment. Bahamut's clerics can go from caring and compassionate individuals to deliberate avengers in short order.

Tithing

The clergy of Bahamut expect their followers to pay one tenth of their earnings to the church.

Relics

The Sacred Shield - The Holy Book of Bahamut laying out the religious practices of Bahmuts followers.

Bahamuts Roar - The Holy Grail of Bahamuts writings. Written by Bahamut himself, it contains the truest forms of worship of Bahamut and how to follow his Tennets.