The Porcelain Librarian

> Mikuno has become a God now, you say? Well I personally wouldn't have gone **that** far. Has she performed any Miracles as of late? Does she have Clerics? She has to have Clerics. They're... Librarians? What an odd way to spread your faith. I guess she does have that giant tower in the middle of the city that she built herself, that's pretty impressive. But Elyn could do better... what do you mean she's also a God? Well I guess then she may be one too. - *Violetta Lupo, Babel's Gossip*
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## (Deity)

### Titles

• Kadishtuor Mgeplllln'gha• The Porcelain Librarian

• Mother of Technology

### Areas of Concern

• Knowledge• Discoveries and Invention

• Engineering and Science

### Worshippers

Monks; Bards; Alchemists; The Created; scholars; librarians; historians; scientists; teachers; engineers; The Old Cults; intelligent constructs; Night Heralds; Neothelids; Seugathi; Cloakers

## (Clergy)

### Domains

• Knowledge• Void

• Artifice

### Symbol

An aged porcelain Noh mask covered in eldritch text. The eyes of the mask are fitted with gold and black marbled spheres.

### Church Attributes

• Might (-2)• Reactions (+5)

• Durability (+2)

• Connections (+10)

• Miracles (+5)

• Loyalty (+7)

## (Affiliations)

### Opposed Entities

Deities whom concern themselves with secret keeping.

## Dogma

Mikuno and her followers aim to collect all and every form of knowledge that has and is to be known so that it may be shared with all. While she has no official position on how knowledge is to be obtained, she is respectful of the laws of the land her followers reside in and emphasise that an individual's safety and condition is more important.

Being an alignmentless and emotionless individual, Mikuno beseeches her worshippers to shed themselves of their emotional and mental baggage as she believes that is the true way to reach enlightenment. She believes that if one is overly emotional and attached to too many ideals, they are stretched far too thinly to commit to any meaningful decision or process.

## History

Mikuno has been on a slow trajectory for divinity ever since Tawil at'Umr decided to influence and toy with her life. Impregnating her thoughts and soul with the thoughts of eldritch entities, Mikuno has gone to great lengths to consume knowledge as best as she can, expanding her horizons and in turn perverting herself further to Tawil’s wishes.

When she started to physically manifest traits of eldritch aberrations, she sealed herself within her trademark porcelain vessel. This has allowed her for the most part not reveal her true self. However, whisperings and murmurs in the minds of The Old Cults spoke of visions of a white and blue maiden of porcelain bringing the minds of all people into a single entity. Believing this to be Mikuno, they started worshiping her before she has even ascended into divinity.

After taking an extended period of time not adventuring and instead focusing on the menials events of the City of Babel (as well as preparing a contingent beacon of warning in the heart of the city), she tested her powers somewhat when facing off against Pyra, an agent of War. Perhaps it was the residual divinity in the area after Pyra was defeated and absorbed into the voidglass dagger, or perhaps the people of Babel started to worship Mikuno more fervently. Whatever the cause, a Divine Spark was set off within Mikuno, and she has started to embrace a role in which she will protect and share all the collective experiences of all things in the multiverse, so that we may all collectively grow and learn.

## Home

Mikuno currently resides in a private yet modest home in the City of Babel, which is located on the Chronus' continent of Etera. While she has the ability to create a demiplane (albeit temporarily) and has her own Keyhome, she finds living on the Material Plane to be the most practical way of existing. She believes, if she were able to feel emotions, that as a god she would be sentimentally attached to the Material Plane and would wish to stay there anyway.

While not exactly where she frequents, she is the creator and builder of Babel's Beacon, which is used to seek out assistance to all kingdoms that can see it's light (which should be all surface dwelling kingdoms.) She also frequently teaches at Babel's Colleges and Universities.

After becoming the Magister for the Tidal Empire, she is also seen frequenting there regularly.

## Appearance

The Porcelain Librarian is pretty close to what her title suggests - a scholarly maiden who seems to be made out of porcelain. To be more specific, Mikuno's body is encased entirely within porcelain that is meticulously painted and protected so that whatever is inside can not be brought out. While fully articulated and able to open to reveal her face, Mikuno only ever does so in extreme circumstances.

She often dresses in a simple, plain black kimono with rich blue accents.

To The Old Cults, they (rightly) believe that underneath her porcelain exterior is an Eldritch Abomination ready to burst forth.

## Relationships

As a new deity, Mikuno hasn't had the time to parley with many other deities. Even so, she still seemingly has strong connections and relationships forming for better and worse.

### Secrets and Lies

As a deity of sharing knowledge for learning's sake, Mikuno already has taken a disliking to any deity who concerns themselves with keeping secrets or spreading lies. She believes such blatant acts of misdirection only serve to hinder not just humanity, but the Gods themselves.

### Great, but not Old, One

Not knowing that she is a Great Old One, she hasn't thought about the possibility of developing relationships with the other Great Old Ones and Outer Gods.

### Tutors and Colleagues

The few deities Mikuno does like seem to be the deities she worshipped in mortality, being Jerishall and Irori. Both being deities of Technology and Knowledge respectively, Mikuno believes their portfolios compliment hers.

She also has an amicable relationship with Elyn, Trish, and recently Ronda due to her experiences with the three as a non-deity. While she is comparatively late in coming into her Godhood, she expresses careful consideration that the three might not see her as equal to them. Nontheless, she is glad to know and have worked with them personally.

## Providence

When pleased, Mikuno is quick to grant worshippers a slight boost in cognitive function. This is often seen in students who are studying responsibly getting a flash of insight during major exams, or scientists being able to calculate faster than what they would usually be able to. In rare cases, she might even grant worshippers a boon in the physical manifestation of rare knowledge that they have been searching for, if she is able to do so.

Conversely, Mikuno shows her displeasure in pretty much the opposite way. Despite not liking to keep secrets and keeping knowledge hidden, she is shown to inflict confusion and short term memory loss on those who go against her teachings.

## Servants

While she has no deific or outsider servants to speak of, Mikuno is quite a technological savant. She often creates and deploys Drones to act as messengers and general servants when she requires them. They come in many different shapes and sizes, but almost always look like her; covered in porcelain, blue and white paint, and clothed in simple black kimonos with blue embellishments.

She often grants them semblences of life with AI configurations, so that they may collect and share knowledge while completing tasks.

## Church of Mikuno

The worship of The Porcelain Librarian is relatively new but has been growing in popularity steadily over the past year as her powers have developed. Being a staple champion and hero of the City of Babel, and a growing Great Old One, two streams of worship formed for her, reflecting two very different pantheons and portfolios.

Mikuno’s Church helps spread knowledge throughout Chronus, as her church and followers are often employed as teachers, lecturers, and subject matter experts on various knowledge-based topics and sectors. Being the mother of modern technology, Mikuno’s followers also tend to be engineers and inventors who are spreading their expertise throughout the land by selling their craft and services.

Mikuno’s churches tend to vary extensively. From schools and places of learning to hidden temples nestled in rare exotic sites such as mountains and forests, the one main connection between the lot is that they either share or preserve knowledge.

### Worshipers

The Porcelain Librarian is primarily worshipped by teachers, students, historians, librarians, and scholars of all walks of knowledge. Adventurers sometimes worship her also, although this tends to be limited to mages, Bards, and Monks who seek to expand their mental capacities. As she is a beacon of sharing knowledge, many unlearned people look to The Porcelain Librarian for guidance and assistance in starting their learning journeys – a request she is content in fulfilling.

While she remains relatively unphased by this, she has several Old One Cultists who see her as a potential end of times, so to speak. While she doesn’t believe herself to be a Great Old One (which is a misguided and incorrect belief), she nonetheless appreciates the power they provide to her as worshippers. Being granted a vision of a woman of pure white and stark blue porcelain, these cultists saw an enlightenment that they interpret as a joining of all souls and minds to achieve true enlightenment. This is a goal they will fight tooth and nail to achieve.

While not as accutely in tune with her as a deity, alchemists and other inventive types look towards her as an inspiration when it comes to technology. While invention is in her portfolio, it seems she doesn't concern herself with technology and invention as much as she does with knowledge. It's unclear whether the former is due to the latter or the reverse.

### Non-human worshipers

Being a Great Old One in the making, The Porcelain Librarian has many Aberration creatures worshipping her. This is a concerning development to her but is open to directing them away from destruction.

Being one of the people who brought technology to the City of Babel before her ascension, many intelligent constructs look to her lovingly as someone who helped them become more recognised in society, but also as someone who created a number of them herself.

### Worship outside Etera

Mikuno has not been outside the continent of Etera for much of anything, and as such her worshippers outside of the area are strictly cultists and Aberrations who surround and choke the planet. As she has been recently spending more time in the Tidal Empire, it is not outside the realms of possibility that the denizens of that kingdom have started to recognise her divinity.

### Clergy

The clergy of The Porcelain Librarian is primarily composed of Bards and Monks, but Knowledge Clerics, Warpriests, and other mages and divine conjurers are called into her service as well. Clerics and Warpriests don’t often worship her enough to be granted special favours in the form of spells, but that may change in the future.

Monks and Warpriests of The Porcelain Librarian fight against the corruption, destruction, and hiding of knowledge. They understand that the progress of all life is to progress their collective knowledge of the worlds they live in. While respectful of the laws they reside, they may try anything to preserve knowledge as best to their ability.

Clerical orders are typically restricted to historians and librarians, based in whatever library they can work at. This means they have a wide breadth of influence across Etera. Both are fairly gentle and warm, social roles, but the Librarians tend to have more exposure to the general public.

The clergy doesn’t necessarily structure their orders and they don’t split Etera into territories. The pursuit of knowledge is a collective one and they take whatever opportunity they can to preserve and share it.

Most Mikunites fashion themselves after The Porcelain Librarian herself, the attire of which includes simple black kimonos with rich blue embellishments. It is not uncommon to see them walking around blind while wearing *Masks of a Thousand Tomes*. As a special order they often order these masks be made of porcelain and take great care to ensure it doesn’t break. If they do break it however, they will perform a magical kintsugi ritual to retain the item’s magical properties.

### Temples and shrines

Temples and Shrines to The Porcelain Librarian are relatively simple and understated, fashioned in the same style as her home country. These temples are usually small on the outside, but contain deep, vast caverns dedicated as a archive for written knowledge. Memories and other forms of records are kept also if it is relevant.

Shrines are often as simple as communal bookcases in public areas where people may freely borrow or donate books to share with the wider community.

### Favored animals

Gods are often associated with certain animals, either because they possess a quality that the god favors, or because the god's faithful feel a special kinship to it. The Porcelain Librarian’s favored animal is the Owl, but some people believe foxes are also a favourite animal of hers.

## Obedience

Spend time teaching someone something they didn't know before, or go out of your way to learn something new. This can be as simple and mundane as learning how to stitch a thread, or something as grand as sharing deep lore of some long lost form of magic. No matter the case, the Obedience is completed once both the teacher and the student are content that there has been significant progress made.

Gain a +4 Sacred or Profane Bonus (chosen when you take the Deific Obedience feat) to one Knowledge Skill and one Lore Skill of your choice. To preserve the spirit of learning and sharing knowledge, these Skills must be different each day.

## Boons

### Evangelist

1. **Awakened Mind (Sp)**: *burst of insight* 3/day, *augury* 2/day, *unspoken name* 1/day
2. **Extraordinary Recollection (Ex)**: When using the Knowledge skill to identify monsters as per the Monster Lore ability, when you would successfully beat the DC check, you may learn two pieces of information for every 5 points by which your check result exceeds the DC.
3. **Memento Memoriae (Sp)**: You have the uncanny ability to record one's life and knowledge, in detail, with but a simple touch. Once per day as a full-round action that provokes attacks of opportunity, by touching an individual creature in one hand, and a blank book in the other, you can copy their memories and knowledge into the book as if using the spell *scribe's binding*. This ability however does not trap the individual, nor can you alter their memories with an *erase* or *secret page* spell after the copying is complete. If the individual is unwilling, they may make a Will saving throw (DC equal to 10 + 1/2HD + your Highest Mental Stat modifier) to negate the effect.

### Exalted

1. **Learned (Sp)**: *heightened awareness* 3/day, *whispering lore* 2/day, *voluminous vocabulary* 1/day
2. **Outspoken Mind (Su)**: You gain the ability to mentally communicate with any creature within a range of 100ft, as per the Universal Monster Ability *telepathy*.
3. **True Lorefinding (Sp)**: You have the ability to beseech knowledge from The Porcelain Librarian herself quickly and efficiently. Once per week, you may use replicate the effects of *legend lore*. Regardless of your connection and context to the person or thing, you are treated as if they are in hand (and therefor require only 1d4 x 10 minutes of casting.)

### Sentinel

1. **Information Overload (Sp)**: *lesser confusion* 3/day, *burdened thoughts* 2/day, *they know* 1/day
2. **Forced Sharing (Su)**: Three times per day, as an immediate action when you confirm a critical hit, you may treat you weapon as if it possessed the *Spellstealing* weapon quality.
3. **The Mind is the Best Defense (Sp)**: Your mind is particularly powerful, and overcompensates with magical energies when subject to danger. Once per day when you are the target of a Mind-Affecting ability, if you succeed at the effect's saving throw, the source of the effect is fried with excess mental energy. The source of the effect must succeed at Will saving throw (DC equal to 10 + 1/2 HD + your Highest Mental Stat modifier) or become the source of a localised *antimagic field* as per the spell, however the size of the field is Self-sized and lasts for 1 round per HD. Your HD is the Caster Level for this effect. If the target is a size so large that others may stand in their space, they also suffer the effects of the field.

## Divine Gift

The Porcelain Librarian opens the doors in your mind to view The Endless Scroll at all times. This connection grants you the *Lore Master* ability from the Bard Class. If you already have the Lore Master ability, or any other ability that allows you to take 20 on Knowledge Checks as a standard action, then you double the amount of times per day you may do so.

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