Church of Ilmater

[Di-Master]

Information known by Vadania / Slatar
Titles of Ilmater:
The Crying God
The Broken God
The Lord on the Rack
Symbol: blood-stained rack
Favored Weapon: unarmed
Foes: Loviatar (main), Bane, Garagos, Malar, Shar, Talos
Allies: Tyr (superior), Torm, Lathander


Worshippers
The lame, the oppresed, the poor, monks, paladins, serfs, slaves.
Monks and clerics in the Ilmatari faith are known as the Adorned. The cleric receives no holidays and celebrates no regular festivities. Clerics of Ilmater are duty-bound to convince the dying to pray to Ilmater. Many of Ilmater's clerics are known as Healers. These specialist priests are focused completely on healing and lessening suffering in the world.
Followers of the Ilmater are often perceived as martyrs and intentional sufferers, to the point of ridicule by some. However, they are known as some of the best healers in the realms often being found in some of the worst possible conditions, helping the oppressed, the diseased and the poor.
Many clerics, especially healers will consider taking one or all of the three vows of Ilmater. Purity, Poverty and Peace

The faith of Ilmater has more saints than most other faiths

Places of Faith
Temples found within large cities are often known as Sanctuaries. Temple grounds are often granted to healers by the city as an inexpensive method of fighting sickness and plague and improving the general health (and therefore production) of the poorest commoners who cannot afford other temples. Even theif guilds and other criminal organizations tend to leave the Ilmateri in peace, or even protect such temples from lone crimnals and zealots as many of their own members find healing with no questions asked inside Ilmater's Sanctuaries.