Editing Ye'Cind

{{Infobox Deity
|Name = Ye'Cind
|Symbol = Recorder
|Aliases = The Bard
|Alignment = Chaotic Good
|Divine Rank = Hero-God
|Pantheon = Oerth, [[Seldarine]] ([[Elf]])
|Portfolio = '''3E:''' Music, Magical songs<br>'''5E:''' Music, Enchantment
|Domains = '''3E:''' Chaos, Good, Knowledge, Magic, Travel<br>'''5E:''' Life, Trickery
|Home Plane = ''Brightwater'' ([[Arborea]])
|Worshippers = [[bard|bards]], composers, [[elves]], [[enchanter|enchanters]], [[metamage|incantatrixes]], [[spellsinger|spellsingers]], [[Song Mage|song-mages]], musically inclined spellcasters
|Favoured Weapon = Longsword
}}
'''Ye'Cind''' is the [[elven]] and [[Oerth]]ian Hero-God of music, enchantment, and magick.

==History==
Ye'Cind was once a wandering [[bard]] and skilled [[wizard]], composing and playing songs about his homeland wherever he went, becoming a bard of great renown. As he visited a small kingdom during his travels, he witnessed the king's murder at an unknown assailant's hands. The bard then left on a journey to create an item that would allow him to reveal truths more easily, creating the ''Recorder of Ye'Cind''. Two decades later, he returned to the kingdom and played in a festival in front of the king. As he played his recorder, a vision of the current king standing in front of his brother's corpse appeared. The guards took the king away, and Ye'Cind smiled at this.

Eventually, his renown reached to the [[Seldarine]], with the gods asking him to play in [[Corellon]]'s court. Ye'Cind played flawlessly there, and as thanks, Corellon raised the minstrel to godhood.

==Dogma==
Music is a mirror of patterns and energy of the universe. The rush of a waterfall, wind through the trees, the crackle of a fire, and the thunder of an avalanche are all parts of the world's music. It transcends language and race, promoting understanding or inspiring the rage of vengeance. Enhanced by magic, a song can alter the world or change the course of history, and tying music and magic together creates something more powerful and fundamental than either alone.

==Creative Origins==
Ye'Cind harkens back to [[J._R._R._Tolkien|Tolkien]]'s [[Wikipedia:Eru_Ilúvatar|Ilúvatar]], who created the multiverse via music. D&D godfather [[E. Gary Gygax|Gary Gygax]] derived the name ''Ye'Cind'' from the name of one of his daughters, Cindy. (The name ''[[Wikipedia:Cindy_(given_name)|Cindy]]'' is itself a diminutive of an epithet of the Greek moon goddess [[Wikipedia:Selene|Selene]].) 

==Relations==
...As in "''[[NSFW|Biblical relations]]''". Ye'Cind is already in good graces with the [[Corellon|father]] of the nudist elfin goddess of Spellsong magick, [[Eilistraee]], so Ye'Cind should totally be tappin' [https://1d4chan.org/wiki/File:Eilistraee_playing_music.jpg dat azz].

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