Daelegoth Orndeir

Daelegoth Orndeir was the leader of the Brotherhood of the Glorious Sun and a believer in the Risen Sun heresy.

Description
Daelegoth Orndeir was a slim 6 ft (1,83 m) tall fire genasi with hair of the color of coal. Fire genasi had one or two physical traits that showed their elemental origin. In Daelegoth's case, the trait were seemingly burning orange veins that entwined his pale skin. He had a very intensive voice that did not just make others aware of him knowing some mythical matters, but was also made them listen to him.

Personality
Daelegoth Orndeir was a believer in the Risen Sun heresy, an idea that did not just claim Lathander to be Amaunator's reincarnation but that the Morninglord's re-transformation into the Yellow God was nigh. He wanted his belief to be the mainstream belief of the church of Lathander and was not above falsifying evidence to justify such a shift.

Abilities
Daelegoth Orndeir was a fully developed sunmaster and evangelist. His clerical spellcasting was honed to masterful degrees. He was initiated in Amaunatori secrets and could convert his spell energy into fire spells. He could also cast epic magic and developed one, Amaunator's eternal sun.

He had access to the Fire, Sun, and Planning domains. His normal roster of spells he prepared were augury, aura of the sun, banishment, bless, calm emotions, clairaudience/clairvoyance, command, commune, consecrate, continual flame, deathwatch, destruction, detect magic, detect poison, detect scrying, detect undead, dictum, discern lies, dispel chaos, divine power, endure elements, enthrall, fire seeds, fire shield, fire storm, flame strike, fortunate fate, freedom of movement, greater command, greater scrying, greater spell immunity, guidance, haste, heat metal, heroes' feast, hold monster, light, magic circle against chaos, miracle, Nchaser's glowing orb, order's wrath, prayer, prismatic sphere, protection from chaos, ray of resurgence, read magic, remove blindness/deafness, righteous might, searing light, shield of law, shield other, status, storm of vengeance, summon monster IX, sun scepter, sunbeam, sunburst, time stop, tongues, true seeing, undeath to death, vision of glory, and zone of truth.

Possessions
Daelegoth Orndeir owned holy symbol of Amaunator made of gold and a shard of the sun and was therefore a relic holder, which made him a great leader for the perceived blessing from his deity. He wore a breastplate of command and the Corona of Amaunator, a helm of brilliance, and armed himself with a +3 flaming burst shadowscourge light mace, called Shadowsmite, and a +2 blinding mithral heavy shield, called Sunshield. He also used other magic items like an elemental gem of fire and various scrolls and potions of low strength.

Activities
Daelegoth Orndeir's activities revolved around gaining influence for his sect. He put his fellow heretics into positions of leadership of the Temple of the Morn, conducted research to locate the shard of the sun, put effort to retrieve it, and made public shows of his clerical powers by causing miracles. He also developed the epic spell Amaunator's eternal sun to create a duplicate sun to falsify evidence of Amauantor's imminent return.

Relationships
Daelegoth Orndeir was the only son of Hathala Orndeir who could claim descendance from Amauatori priests during Netheril's days. He led the Brotherhood of the Glorious Sun as well as the Temple of the Morn, the former by virtue of earning ranks within the sect, the latter by virtue of inheritance from his mother. His personal following counted 313 members who were all clerics out of whom three were sunmasters. Apart from this, he had the personal loyalty of Hronkil Elgredsso, a lieutenant of the Order of the Sun Soul directly under Hanor Kichavo from Waterdeep. Hronkil issued a declaration of support and tried to sway the Order of the Sun Soul to the worship of Amaunator.

Daelegoth's relationship with the high-ups from the church of Lathander was strained to the point that they felt the need to put out an edict that Daelegoth's ideas were heresy and put excommunication into consideration. Said high-ups were Ghentilara from Waterdeep, Chansobal Dreen from Marsember, and Ombital Duskroon of Ordulin.

History
Daelegoth Orndeir was born a fire genasi, which happened from time to time in his mother's family line, as the only child of Hathala Orndeir, the Lathanderite archbishop of the Dragon Coast and high priestess of the Tower of the Morn in Elversult, at some point in the 14 century DR.

Daelegoth's, other wanted to turn her temple into the major Lathanderite temple of the Dragon Coast region. Since his youth, Daelegoth came into regular contact with priests who shared this ambition of his mother. He also became a cleric of Lathander as a young man. His duties at that time consisted of retrieving artifacts, which his mother could use to increase her fame and with it her follower and power base inside the church of Lathander. Through these expeditions, Daelegoth came into contact with Amaunatori artifacts in Lathanderite holy sites, to be more precise with a correlation between the number of said artifacts and the age of said sites, leading him to the idea that Lathander was the reincarnation of Amaunator, which in turn led him to join and rise within the Brotherhood of the Glorious Sun, an acknowledged but not non-controversial order within the church of Lathander.

In 1370 DR, Daelegoth's mother died. By this point, Daelegoth was already a powerful sunmaster, the leader of the Brotherhood of the Glorious Sun, and the head of his own large faction within his church. His mother's death allowed him to inherit her official position as an archbishop and as the head of the Temple of the Morn. Using these assets, he succeeded at penetrating the church Lathander in Dragon Coast's leadership with members of his brotherhood.

In 1373 DR, Daelegoth embraced the Risen Sun heresy, an idea that was considered heresy in the church of Lathander. The church of Lathander's leadership saw the danger that the entire Brotherhood of the Glorious Sun would embrace the same idea as their leader any from there conflict started to brew to the point that Daelegoth's excommunication was put into consideration. However, they were well aware of the potential of splitting the church, if they did such a thing.