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the archeart the allhammer the changebringer the dawnfather
the changebringer to Paladins and Rangers who follow a similar creed. The
Dawnfather is also known for his defeat of the Chained
Alignment: Chaotic Good • Domains: Trickery, Nature Oblivion, and is revered by those who hunt aberrations.
Also known as “She Who Makes the Path,” the Change- Tapestries of old match early text describing the Dawn-
bringer champions freedom, travel, trade, and adventure father as a patronly figure in silver and gold armor, his
across the lands. Her will heralds open frontiers, and her head a beacon of light and fire so bright that a face could
call beckons her followers to discover that which awaits rarely be seen within. Many statues in holy places treat
them beyond the known. This nature leads to few temples the head as a brazier, lit with each dawn and extinguished
in direct civilization dedicated to the Changebringer, but with the dusk.
they often can be found off the beaten path and near roads The Dawnfather’s holy day is called Highsummer, and
well traveled. Her worship is common among merchants, takes place on the fifteenth day of the seventh month.
free spirits, and adventurers, with tavern cheers calling to In Emon, the entire week is celebrated with gift-giving
her honor as a bringer of luck and fortune. and feasting. Festivities begin on Highsummer day and
She is often depicted as a young woman of dark com- end at midnight on the twenty-first, the day that Zan
plexion and long, light brown hair that cascades to form Tal’Dorei dethroned Trist Drassig at the Battle of the
the road left behind her. Most art shows her in constant Umbra Hills. In Whitestone, the feast of Highsummer is
motion, trailblazing and ever leading into the unknown. instead a festival of lights around the Sun Tree; gift-giving
The Changebringer’s holy day is New Dawn, and takes is traditional, but the recent Briarwood occupation and
place the first day of the first month, when the old year the subsequent recovery means money is thin. Most folk
gives way to the new. In Emon, the day of New Dawn is choose to spend Highsummer with their family, recount-
celebrated with a grand midnight feast that commonly ing the small things they are thankful for.
features a short play that celebrates the changes of the
commandmentS of the dawnfather
past year.
• Be ever vigilant for evil. People are quick to forget the les-
commandmentS of the changebringer sons of the past.
• Luck favors the bold. Your fate is your own to grasp, and to • Help relieve the suffering of the innocent wherever it exists.
do so is to have the Changebringer behind you.
• Deliver the light of the Dawnfather where darkness dwells,
• Change is inevitable. The righteous can ensure that such with kindness, compassion, and mercy.
change is for the better.
the everlight
• Rise against tyranny. Fight for the freedom of your-
self and others when you can, and inspire others to fight
Alignment: Neutral Good • Domains: Life, Light
when you cannot.
God of compassion and redemption, her message is
the dawnfather one of understanding and optimism in even the darkest
of places. She believes the corrupt can be redeemed, a
Alignment: Neutral Good • Domains: Life, Light mindset that led to a betrayal by the Lord of the Hells
The Dawnfather stands lord over sun and summer, his that left most of her following destroyed in the Calam-
vigil encircling the ages as the keeper of time. Lord of ity. Only recently has her faith been rediscovered, and
agriculture and harbinger of the harvest, his followers her temples returned to prominence. The Everlight’s
commonly include farmers and most common folk, his followers are often rural healers and community philoso-
priests welcome in lands all over. Supporter of the needy phers, becoming a voice of reason and empathy in angry
and destroyer of evil, the Dawnfather is often the patron and cynical times.

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