Nimtar

**Nimtar the Child of Health** is one of The Twelve gods who make up the calendrical year. Nimtar has dominion over the fifth month of year during the cycle of Odem. Nimtar is the god of youth, innocence and healing. They are also the youngest of the gods, being the most recent child of the goddess Yrrn. Nimtar is a Lawful Good major deity worshipped all throughout Trea.

Nimtar's Akatian opposition is Yrrn

## Appearance

Nimtar humanoid avatar is that of an androgenous adolescent child wreathed in dazzling white robes wielding a shepherds crook. Whether Nimtar appears as Male, Female or Neuter is largely vernacular. Humans tend to view Nimtar as a young girl as young girls are the ones who tend to the wounded in human culture, whilst in Thel'Dari culture young males tend to fill this role and thus Nimtar is viewed as male.

Nimtar's beastial avatar is a large moth roughly the size of an adult dragon with iridescent rainbow wings. Nimtar appears in his beastial avatar during the last days of spring where he circles Trea 5 times. Seeing the Moth of Nimtar is a heathly omen capable of curing unpure diseases and debilitating sickness just by catching a glimpse of the rainbow moth.

## Church of Nimtar

Religious beliefs in the church of Nimtar hold that the younger a person is, the closer they are to the purest and most innocent form achievable. Because of this young children are venerated to a great degree in the church. Within the church children as young as 5 are responsible for carrying out the ritual duties of the Child of Health.Because of Nimtar's role as the child of health many hospitals and almshouses are constructed in his honor and are often conjoined with temples to Nimtar.

## Puritan Exorcists

The Puritan Exorcists are Nimtar's most powerful worshippers who devote their lives to expelling the corruption of evil from Trea by banishing the powers of the Akatian gods forcibly back to their realms. During their training Puritans undergo an intense spiritual test that requires them to meditate for 5 days and 5 nights within the presence of a powerful Akatian artifact. They must for the entire duration never open their eyes or move a muscle. If they pass the test without falling victim to the temptations of evil they can begin the journey to learning the ways of the Exorcist.

Some of their powers include

* The knowledge to expel the presence of evil from a Crown of Torment allowing it to be removed, albeit still with potential great bodily harm. Only a Puritan Exorcist or one of Erokan's Shrikes can do so.
* The Knowledge to expell Yrrn's Black Rage from an individual. The only known way other than death to cure Yrrn's Black Rage. Involves a torturous 7 day magical ritual that eventually purges the bloodlust from the victims heart leaving them cured but still physically and mentally altered.
* The Knowledge to remove the powerful spirtual malady that befalls the victims of Thros' murderous possession.
* The ability to reverse the adverse affects of Vitric Ash on the body. This includes reforming and repairing burnt flesh, returning color to ashen skin and extinguishing the flames of Aatanen from a persons soul.

No Puritant Exorcist has ever betrayed their faith and fallen to evil despite their intimate relationship with the powers of evil.