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evening glory [Archive] - Wizards Community

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grantadevine
06-06-07, 08:55 AM I'm after any information on Morning Glory aside from the stats in Libris Mortis
Rustmonster
06-06-07, 09:19 AM Basicly, Evening Glory beleives in everlasting love, lasting into UNdeath. She preaches that undeath is the best way to continue a loving relationship. Interesting concept, really.
Millennium
06-06-07, 09:34 AM I'm not sure that there is any information on her outside of Libris Mortis. That seems to be the first book she appeared in, and I haven't seen her anywhere since.

Basically, Evening Glory is a goddess of love and beauty, but she represents an attachment to the actual relationship between two people that most would find unhealthy. From her perspective, these things do not have to end because of something so trivial as death, because undeath provides a solution whereby beauty can be maintained (with magical assistance) and relationships continued.

Most deities of love would counter that death does not have to end love anyway: even when one partner dies, the other remains and can continue to love. Evening Glory would respond by pointing out the misery of the recently bereaved, and accuse the "vivicentric" deities of supporting torture by demanding that their followers go through that pain. She would then insist that in the "healing" process of this grief, love cools, making these deities' ban on undeath counterpoductive to their cause. The natural response to this argument is that while love often changes in nature when a couple is separated through death or other means, it does not necessarily truly cool.

The point here is that Evening Glory is not insane. She may be somewhat twisted, but she is rational, and she could likely carry out her arguments fairly well. "Vivicentric" deities of love would probably view her as immature in her insistence that love need not change over time, while she would view those same deities as narrow-minded and needlessly cruel in their insistence that lovers undergo separation through death.
sciborg2
06-06-07, 12:13 PM "Does it matter why you do the things you do? It feels like it does."
--Books of Magic, Girl in a Box

The multiverse, if it has any purpose at all that purpose is based in love. This emotion has raised fiends and damned angels. But nothing compares to its grace, for it is the only grace within the narrow confines of the Great Wheel.

Yet in a place where memories burn so quickly, where death and entropy wait around every corner, how can the passion of young love be maintained? Perhaps, only in death, can one truly experience life. Such is the possibility maintained by Evening Glory, goddess of enduring passion. Though she appeals to vampires and other undead whose beauty does not fade, all driven by the pangs of love beyond good and evil are welcome in her flocks. Planars of the Outlands have begun refering to her as the true goddess of love, as the moralizing Celestials seek to chain love and limit its expression.

Within her city of snow, undead and living walk together. Vampires and ghosts live and love with mortals from across the planes, all free so long as they bring no harm to one another--though crimes of passion are dealt with less harshly. Evening Glory, whose name is lost to time, walks among her flock as a alabaster skinned beauty with platinum hair. Frozen perfection. The Semelites can be found here, their addiction to divinity's presence drawing them like moths to a flame. Beware though, for an undead goddess is not to be trifled with, and she gives her fellow walking dead a long leash.

What love brought Evening Glory to this pass? It is unknown. Yet she has been known to consort with Isthar, who also journeyed beyond death for love, and with Apollo who pledge himself as a mere slave for love of a mysterious Admetus, the hospitable...for who is more welcoming than Death?

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
grantadevine 06-06-07, 08:55 AM	I'm after any information on Morning Glory aside from the stats in Libris Mortis
Rustmonster 06-06-07, 09:19 AM	Basicly, Evening Glory beleives in everlasting love, lasting into UNdeath. She preaches that undeath is the best way to continue a loving relationship. Interesting concept, really.
Millennium 06-06-07, 09:34 AM	I'm not sure that there is any information on her outside of Libris Mortis. That seems to be the first book she appeared in, and I haven't seen her anywhere since. Basically, Evening Glory is a goddess of love and beauty, but she represents an attachment to the actual relationship between two people that most would find unhealthy. From her perspective, these things do not have to end because of something so trivial as death, because undeath provides a solution whereby beauty can be maintained (with magical assistance) and relationships continued. Most deities of love would counter that death does not have to end love anyway: even when one partner dies, the other remains and can continue to love. Evening Glory would respond by pointing out the misery of the recently bereaved, and accuse the "vivicentric" deities of supporting torture by demanding that their followers go through that pain. She would then insist that in the "healing" process of this grief, love cools, making these deities' ban on undeath counterpoductive to their cause. The natural response to this argument is that while love often changes in nature when a couple is separated through death or other means, it does not necessarily truly cool. The point here is that Evening Glory is not insane. She may be somewhat twisted, but she is rational, and she could likely carry out her arguments fairly well. "Vivicentric" deities of love would probably view her as immature in her insistence that love need not change over time, while she would view those same deities as narrow-minded and needlessly cruel in their insistence that lovers undergo separation through death.
sciborg2 06-06-07, 12:13 PM	"Does it matter why you do the things you do? It feels like it does." --Books of Magic, Girl in a Box The multiverse, if it has any purpose at all that purpose is based in love. This emotion has raised fiends and damned angels. But nothing compares to its grace, for it is the only grace within the narrow confines of the Great Wheel. Yet in a place where memories burn so quickly, where death and entropy wait around every corner, how can the passion of young love be maintained? Perhaps, only in death, can one truly experience life. Such is the possibility maintained by Evening Glory, goddess of enduring passion. Though she appeals to vampires and other undead whose beauty does not fade, all driven by the pangs of love beyond good and evil are welcome in her flocks. Planars of the Outlands have begun refering to her as the true goddess of love, as the moralizing Celestials seek to chain love and limit its expression. Within her city of snow, undead and living walk together. Vampires and ghosts live and love with mortals from across the planes, all free so long as they bring no harm to one another--though crimes of passion are dealt with less harshly. Evening Glory, whose name is lost to time, walks among her flock as a alabaster skinned beauty with platinum hair. Frozen perfection. The Semelites can be found here, their addiction to divinity's presence drawing them like moths to a flame. Beware though, for an undead goddess is not to be trifled with, and she gives her fellow walking dead a long leash. What love brought Evening Glory to this pass? It is unknown. Yet she has been known to consort with Isthar, who also journeyed beyond death for love, and with Apollo who pledge himself as a mere slave for love of a mysterious Admetus, the hospitable...for who is more welcoming than Death?