Intermediate Deity

Home Plane: Celestia (7 Heavens)

Symbol: The lion, plant inside a solar disk, the scales of justice

Portfolio: Justice, contracts, positive energy, light, warmth, prophecy

Worshipers: Good mortals and celestials

Cleric Alignments: LG

Favored Weapon: Kopesh, Mace

Domains (5e): Light

Domains (3.5e): Glory, Good, Healing, Knowledge, Law, Plant, Protection, Sun, War

Mitra (Mee-tra), god of justice and contracts, is one of several Vedic solar deities. He embodies the beneficial aspects of the sun, providing light and warmth, and making plants grow. Mitra helps Mycre safeguard the rita (cosmic order) by shining his light on all that occurs on earth, and by presiding over friendships and ratifying contracts. He is said to have the power to shine his light anywhere on earth, to provide warmth when it is cold, and to make plants grow. His true form is said to be the warmth and light of the sun.

Although the origins of the cult of Mitra are from Gomorrath [india], his worship had spread through Virdistan and the Emporer’s Lands [Rome] to the Ruined Kingdoms [Egypt] before his influence was greatly curtailed by the death of his avatar at the hands of Set. The Prophet Mitra, when he walked as a mortal man was credited with bringing the Mycretian religion to Al Qadim in the ancient days, specifically to the Holy Cities and the World Pillar Mountains region which even then was at the eastern most extent of the empire, straddling the border between Kadaro [Egypt] and the Emperor’s lands [Constantinople/Byzantine]. Mitra’s avatar is said to have later appeared twice to the mortals of the region and was known as Martek in the Egyptian tongue, and Mazzaroth in the Viridian tongue [of the CSWE], although it is not entirely clear the span of years these avatars remained with mankind, or if indeed they even were two distinct comings, rather than a single historical event recanted differently by separate cultures. What is known is that the avatar left for mankind a collection of scrolls that has become known as The White Book of Mazzaroth. These were entrusted to a tribe of Bedouins that had flocked to hear the avatar’s gospel, having fled to a series of protected natural caverns now known far and wide as the Holy Cities, to escape the tyranny of the World Emperor and the Pharaoh Khamsa.

Mitraism is inexorably related to Mycretianism in that the White Book proselytizes the worship of Mycre and Mitra only as a prophet and agent.