Talk:Cyric

Strife
The confusion over the portfolio of Stife between Bane and Cyric started with the 3e FRCS which did falsely list strife among Bane's portfolios and not among Cyrics. While this error was corrected with the FRCS Errata (page 3) the error made it partly into Faiths&Pantheons (which contains the error at pages 14 and 20 but also got it right at page 223).

About the issue with F&P the following has been posted by Sean K. Reynolds at the WotC message boards at May 11, 2002 10:55 AM:

I think I figured it out. Here's the sequence.The designer for Bane must have used the pre-errata version (understandable, as the errata didn't come out until after this book was designed). [...] So no, Bane does not have strife as part of his portfolio, Cyric does.

5th Edtion
With the return of the dead three for 5th edition. How exactly is Cyric still alive? He has part of Bhaal's portfolio--174.17.209.231 04:07, July 2, 2015 (UTC).


 * Well, unknown user... he is still the god of lies... plus, he supposedly killed Leira... - Darkwynters (talk) 04:23, July 2, 2015 (UTC)

Still about 5th edition and "how is him alive?", in Living Forgotten Realms adventure The End and the Beginning (ADCP6-1) it's said that Spellplague is due to Cyric's madness that infected the Weave (how?), and only by killing Cyric and using a ritual of cleansing, Mystra would then be able to recreate the Weave, thus triggering the Sundering and basically starting 5th edition. Question 1, why is Cyric alive in 5th ed? Did Ao himself resurrect Cyric? Or were the event of The End and the Beginning "retconned" making the player's action not necessary anymore and crediting only Ao for the Sundering and the restoring of the Weave? Which leads me to question 2 (unrelated to Cyric), Mystra did or did not trigger the Sundering? And what "triggering" implies? I suggest the reading of said adventure that can be found here https://www.livingforgottenrealms.com LylaNikker (talk) 21:55, July 24, 2020 (UTC)