Erlyid Goddess (Wisdom and Magic)
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Aderra is the deity people appeal to to settle things, for ideas, for justice and for answers. Her priests are often experts in divinations and informational magic. Books and the written word are very important to followers of Aderra, and her priesthood maintains several of the biggest and best libraries in the Empire. Followers of the faith may research there at will; outsiders must donate significant contributions to the church to be allowed in.
In recent centuries, Aderra's church has declined in popularity in the North. Many of the libraries have closed through lack of funds or personnel; the libraries in Karsten and Lanirkos were burned on the orders of the Theocracy. After the Slaying, however, the effects of Sigred's undercover work in the Dragonrealms were felt, and her cult enjoyed a renaissance. This culminated in the wedding of Surya, first King of New Tellare, by an Aderran priest, which made Aderra a fashionable goddess among the nobility of the new kingdom.
The emergence of the Triad in the 1640s raised another threat to the church of Aderra, and indeed all the other Erlyid deities. Far more damage was done to the faith by the Flaying in 1850, and now followers of Aderra are only found among the ruins of the Empire, occasionally in Stryre and in New Tellare.