Celestian

Celestian the Far Wanderer was an enigmatic deity from the world of Oerth   revered by planewalkers and wildspace wanderers. He was one of the major powers worshiped on the Rock of Bral. He was also called the Star Wanderer.

Description
Celestian was portrayed as an older, black-skinned man who traveled the skies. His dark eyes were full of knowledge. Celestian was tall and dressed in black robes. He rarely appeared in a physical form, however.

Worshipers
Celestian appealed to good or neutral worshipers who never liked to settle down—not even in a single plane of existence or crystal sphere. The Far Wanderer's presence in the Astral Plane meant that his clerics had a major advantage over those of most other deities, in that their divine magic did not lose power wherever they might go in the Outer Planes, since the Astral bordered all of the Outer Planes of the Great Wheel.

Celestian's holy symbol was a black circle with seven stars,  which glowed in different colors. His priests wore black cloaks covered in gems to mimic the starry sky. They rarely built temples or other fixed places of worship, but they had been known to build rest areas in the Astral Plane for travelers. His priests cared for little beyond learning and traveling and spent great amounts of time away from their homes; in fact, they were required to. Most of them were skilled in astronomy and navigation and made excellent spelljammer crew members because of this. An exception to the typical lack of temples among his clergy was found in the city of Bral, where the Pantheistic College of Celestian was located. This establishment considered all good deities related to the stars as aspects of Celestian, no matter over which worlds they held sway.

Celestian's church was allied with the Seekers and opposed to the Church of Ptah.

Divine Realm
Ever the wanderer, Celestian did not even maintain a divine realm. Instead, he traveled from place to place within the Astral Plane. Occasionally, he would also venture into the Ethereal Plane or any of the Inner Planes. His petitioners, without a divine realm to inhabit, instead became the stars of his black robes, until finally merging with his essence.

Relationships
Celestian got along well with many gods of travel from other pantheons. Similarly, he was strongly allied with his brother in the Oerthian Pantheon, Fharlanghn. He was working to establish his brother in the planes beyond the world of Oerth.

History
Sometime in the 11 century DR, the faith of Celestian was brought to the Rock of Bral in the Tears of Selûne in Realmspace by a wandering cleric from Greyspace, where it began to flourish. The Pantheistic College of Celestian there was one of the oldest buildings in the city of Bral, having been constructed when the asteroid was little more than a den for space pirates.

On the world of Toril, Celestian played a significant role in the Time of Troubles by agreeing to transport (a now mortal) Waukeen from Toril to the Astral Plane so that Ao would not discover her leaving. (Her plan was to make her way from there back to the Outlands, but because of the machinations of Graz'zt, she was instead trapped in the Abyss for many years.) Celestian had owed her a favor, which was why he agreed to her plan, but he refused to also transport her ally Lliira, whom he did not know.

Initially, the worshipers of Ptah, another god worshiped commonly by wildspace travelers, greatly outnumbered those of Celestian. However, towards the end of the 13 century DR, though Greyspace itself was said to be "dying", Celestian was beginning to gain so many new worshipers among the various planes of existence that some scholars postulated that he might soon be elevated to the power of a greater deity.