*Edit; this doesn't mean that it can't work in your game. It just doesn't seem likely to be canon.
Sort of like being the World Wrestling Champion - until someone sneaks up behind you and thwacks you with a Chair of Folding. :D
Maybe you can even give him one of those big, gaudy belts... :P
Yeah, Corellon seems tied too strongly to the Elves/Eladrin to sponsor a champion of magic that did not belong to those races.
Well, aren't the gods supposed to be less racially-tied in 4E?
Anyway, since it's your game, I see nothing wrong with your idea.
A 4E Magister would be drastically different from the old one, but that doesn't mean you can't use the title.Well, aren't the gods supposed to be less racially-tied in 4E?
-Doesn't change the fact that, for 32,000 Faerûnian years, give or take, they were. Like Steve Schend said, and I am paraphrasing, you can throw away plenty of things with rule revisions, but when push comes to shove with lore, you can't throw away plenty of years of established lore so easily. Elves still worship Corellon Larethian, Dwarves still worship Moradin, Halflings Yondella, and so on- at the very least, president demonstrates that these deities have been the bastions of support for these cultures of millennia, and that their worship, by virtue of where their churches/shrines are, or who is/is not allowed as clergy members in their church, is centered primarily in those communities.
It's possible that things might simply have changed over time...
-100 years isn't sufficient for such a radical change as eliminating racial identities from deities (who's main worshipers are longer-lived races), in which their main centers of "spreading the word" and teaching their dogma are in the communities of specific races. Even here, on Earth, 1,500 or so years after Christianity was established, more or less, there is still argument and debate about what Jesus really looked like- was he fair skinned, blue eyed, and blonde haired, or was he dark skinned, dark haired, and dark eyed? In only 100 years, hardly any of that kind of stuff is going to be hammered out.
some of the abilities were shown the door in 4e.
along with the chosen epic path, it should be a template with nice abilities still instead of an epic destiny.
It would be like having an ever-changing demi-god. :D
A Magister of the Moon
A Magister of the Dark
A Magister of Arvandor
Make the Magister an Exarch, and then have it where only someone completing the Magister epic Path can replace him (quite spectacularly, I would imagine).
It would be like having an ever-changing demi-god. :D
-Someone who could take the place of Azuth, more or less.
She'd also still be able to grant Silver (Moon) Fire.
-100 years isn't sufficient for such a radical change as eliminating racial identities from deities...
I did not argue any such thing. All I did was suggest that it was possible for things to have changed over time.
And for your information, I do not feel like debating over this.
-I'd rather no one replace Mystra, and she stays "dead" and gone, and the position of Deity of Magic vacant, but magicians have someone to "look up to" for guidance, or whatever else. The position of Magister was simply to proliferate magic and all of that, and regardless of Mystra being dead or not, the position could still very well warrant being present (albeit, not backed by any divine patron, now).
Personally, I'd love to see a new god of magic, as the gods of magic were always my favorites in the pantheon. However, it's very difficult to do that in 4e, especially if players want to see their characters show up in a later campaign. I can't have one of them be the new god of magic because then, it stands to reason, that the Spellplague would be removed. Which is what brought me to the magister in the first place. Just as you said, to give magicians someone to look up to.
I still prefer a 'moon Goddes' over anything else though, but Selune is just too damn boring to me. I'd much rather have had it where Selune died and Eilistraee (who actually has some personality) took the power and portfolio and became multi-racial.
Eilistraaee even makes a better juxtapostion to Shar's creamy white skin and black hair.
Personally, I'd love to see a new god of magic, as the gods of magic were always my favorites in the pantheon. However, it's very difficult to do that in 4e, especially if players want to see their characters show up in a later campaign.
-Simply having a deity of magic, there's nothing wrong with that. In my own setting, I have an entity that grants magic, but it is completely neutral, and doesn't really interact with it's followers or anything. If a new deity of magic was instituted, as long as it was something akin to that, I- and many others- wouldn't have a problem. If a deity of magic like Mystra returned, the entire point of the designers removing her would disappear- the perception was that she ran around like a tyrant, denying evil people from using magic, and commanding her Chosen to do battle with evil all the time. Removing Mystra- and that perception- brought more 'fans' to the setting. Reconstituting her would be counter effective, since it would, more likely than not, drove those new 'fans' away from the setting again.