Ioun

Ioun(Eye-Yoon) is the goddess of knowledge, prophecy and learning or teaching, worshiped by scholars teachers and many arcane practitioners she is a true neutral deity and venerates all knowledge weather that is the healing arts or methods of torture and those who follower hold to the moto that knowledge itself isn't good or bad but how you use it the only truly bad things are ignorance and an unwillingness to learn.

Ioun is also known as The Knowing Mistress and Lady Arcanum, she is worshiped in Torlund, Carthorka, The Mithril Isles and Mer-Rein as a major deity, though her following is often less in quantity than some of the other gods she will often have more followers in the high echelons of society those who have the luxury of the per suite of knowledge.

Ioun's favored animals include owls, sphinxes and beholders.

## Relationships

Iuon is pretty cold and distant in her relationships but is also hardly considered to be anyone's enemy other than Vecna's, if anything she considers the other gods that value knowledge favorably like Erathis, Torag and Corellon. Ioun has stayed out of the various godly wars avoiding conflict by staying one step a head of anyone trying to get her involved.

There are a few traditions that say that Ioun was responsible for the creation of Erathis but even amongst those who believe that Erathis was sired by a deity she is only one of the proposed parents.

The Metallic Dragon Deities, tend to hold The Knowing Mistress in high regard often thinking of her on an equal footing with themselves unlike the majority of gods,

## Appearance

Ioun tends to take many forms and apparently spends much of her time wondering The Mortal Plane learning but more often teaching, to do this she purposely doesn't use the same face or body repeatedly. When she does want to be recognised she can appear as an older Half-Elf woman dressed in traditional clothes from The Mithril Isles, with dark skin and wiry thin snow white hair walking with a gnarled twisted root varnished as a walking stick, she is slow in her gate and measured in her responses. Or if she is feeling a little less sociable she tends to take the form of a large sphinx that can loom down over those she is speaking to her head disappearing into the shadows above, just her eyes can be seen in the gloom while her two paws encircle the one she is speaking with.

## Providence

In the mind of Ioun and her followers the greatest blessing Ioun can give is that of knowledge and is known as a deity that anyone desperate to seek knowledge can turn to for answers even if they are not followers of the god. Inspired thoughts and great ideas are also considered to be a sign of her favor while being forgetful or down right dumb are her curse.

## Temples to Ioun

Temples to Ioun always contain at least some sort of library with books to be lent out to those who seek to learn, they also often hold some sort of classes and lecture mainly attended by the followers but also open to the public. Through out Torlund in the smaller settlements temples and shrines to Ioun act as schools doing their best to educate the people to at least basic levels, while in Mer-Rein they also take on a higher education.

### Worshippers

Many people send a prayer up towards Ioun from time to time, even just to try and remember or think of something but her actual followers range from scholars and researchers who travel the world to seers and teachers who dispense knowledge rather than seek it.