Oghma

Oghma
Alignment	True Neutral
Divine Rank	Greater God
Pantheon	Faerûn, Celtic
Portfolio	Music, Language, Inspiration, Invention
Domains	3E: Balance, Charm, Knowledge, Luck, Travel, Trickery 5E: Knowledge
Home Plane	Great Wheel: House of Knowledge (Outlands, Tir Na Nog) World Tree/World Axis: House of Knowledge
Worshippers	Bards, Wizards, Sages, Cartographers, Artists, Inventors, Scholars, Scribes
Favoured Weapon	Mortal Strike (Longsword)

Oghma is the god of inspiration and knowledge in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting.

His portfolio is rather large, covering pretty much anything to do with coming up with new intellectual pursuits: whether it be poems, symphonies, prose, art, clothing lines, mathematical, architecture, crafts etc etc.

Despite his wide range of nerdy hobbies, Oghma is actually quite the ladies man, and is portrayed as a handsome and charismatic individual who has sired many bastard children across the world.

History

Oghma is an interloper deity who migrated to Toril along with Silvanus, probably from the Celtic Pantheon, this means he has no direct tie to the history of the Realms, but has embedded himself as a primary deity nonetheless.

Despite his wide ranging portfolio and his position as the god of Knowledge, his cosmic duties tend to be ill defined. Though he is credited as the god of inspiration, it is his servant Deneir who gets the job of writing everything down; His servant Milil does all the singing and composing; while Gond does all the designing and artifice. Leaving Oghma little to do other than be the muse with a very high divine rank, though that probably explains where he found the time to sire so many children.

The number of bastard offspring he has fathered (or mothered, since his feminine aspect is called Curna) has not actually been recorded possibly because they may not be particularly notable, though twenty-two of them were captured by Cyric and transformed into magical paintings capable of speech called the Whispering Children.

He is also portrayed as not being particularly active amongst the gods, even though he is naturally close to the goddess of magic Mystra, when she was put on trial for Incompetence through humanity Oghma's position was basically to sit back and go "whatever".

Most of his influence in the realms comes from disagreements within his church, over whether knowledge should be shared by all, or whether it should be vetted and carefully guarded.

Servants & Exarchs

Oghma is served by several other deities, including Deneir and Gond who are worthy of their own pages.

Milil

Milil
Five stringed harp of silver
Alignment	Neutral Good
Divine Rank	Lesser God
Pantheon	Faerûn
Portfolio	Music, Poetry, Language
Domains	3E: Charm, Good, Knowledge, Nobility 5E: Light
Home Plane	Great Wheel: Library of All Knowledge (Beastlands) World Tree/World Axis: House of Knowledge
Worshippers	Adventurers, Bards, Entertainers, Poets
Favoured Weapon	Sharptongue (Rapier)

Not to be confused with the deity Malal, Milil is the deity of words; be it through song, poetry, or prose.

This makes him largely indistinct from his patron Oghma as a god of knowledge except for the fact that Milil strives to spread it around the realms. His followers make particular effort to keep records of new compositions that they have never heard before and share them with others, often acting as travelling tutors. They also sponsor adventuring groups so that new sagas can be created regarding their exploits, and to also make sure that Bards aren't unemployed.