Choices of Amaunator

A book that Bryn briefly read in A Likely Story in Enoreth’s Reach, as it was the only book that was named that didn't have a pun. She didn't read the whole book, but she read some of it, and her understanding is below.

Amaunator /əˈmɔːnətɔːr/ or  (pronounced ah-MAWN-ah-tor ) is the Lawful Neutral solar deity of the sun, law, and time. He is viewed as a hard but fair deity, revered by many rulers, soldiers, and powerful wizards.

His symbol is the Golden Sun. He is warshipped by a large variety of followers, from farmers, to travelers, to lawmakers.

Priests of Amaunator encouraged the establishment of lawful order and bureaucracy in the world at large. They were called on to witness contracts and apply a signatory stamp with the symbol of Amaunator to verify its validity.

All clergy members had to learn, understand, and know how to reap the benefits from (or exploit) the laws of the land, the city, and the province they lived in. In order to completely understand the nuances of law and legislature, the clergy constantly drilled each other, practiced law in court whenever possible, and rehearsed law in practice courtrooms. They could not resist investigating the scene of a crime or taking part in the construction of new laws in their locale, and did so with great intensity and fervor.

His typical offerings include tax returns, contracts, oaths, among others. But the book didn't focus on that, instead it mostly focused on how Amaunator became the God of Time, and his responsibilities with it. The interesting choice of how a single comma could change the meaning of a god.

He is a careful and meticulous deity who made certain that every agreement was written down, contracted, signed, sealed and witnessed. An extremely lawful deity, he follows the letter of the law, not necessarily the spirit of it. He expects the same of his followers.

This is exemplarly shown by his choice of overtaking Time due to a mispunctuation in a contract between himself and another deity that stated  "... Amaunator shall be responsible for all time. any misrepresentations of his or his followers, If so deemed the fault of Amaunator..." This unnoticed punctuational snarl of commas and periods led to Amaunator considering himself to be in charge of "all time".

It was then that the Wordsmith made Bryn return the book.

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Information was taken from the Forgotten Realms. It was adjusted slightly and is being used in an altered form. Please realize that any outside information you read about Amaunator outside of this wiki is not necessarily canon on Soyvarrhiod.