Nobanion

Nobanion
Game background
Title(s) Lord Firemane
King of the Beasts
Home plane Beastlands, Krigala, Pridelands; House of Nature (3e FR)
Power level Demipower
Alignment Lawful Good
Portfolio Royalty, lions and feline beasts, good beasts
Design details

Nobanion (pronounced no-BAN-yun[1]), is a fictional D&D demipower, primarily known as a Faerûnian demipower deity within the Forgotten Realms campaign setting.

Publication history

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition (1977-1988)

In Ed Greenwood's first published version of the deities of the Forgotten Realms, Lord Firemane's name is given as Aslan, and the deity is explicitly identified with C.S. Lewis' fictional lord of Narnia.[2] Nobanion was later mentioned by name in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Set's "Cyclopedia of the Realms" booklet (1987) as "the good and lawful lion-god of the Guthmere Woods".[3]

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition (1989-1999)

Nobanion is further detailed in Powers & Pantheons (1997).[4]

His relationships with the nonhuman deities in the Forgotten Realms was covered in Demihuman Deities (1998).[5]

Nobanion is described as one of the good deities that celestials can serve in the supplement Warriors of Heaven (1999).[6]

Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition (2000-2007)

Nobanion appears in 3rd edition in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting book (2001),[7] and was further described in Faiths and Pantheons (2002).[1]

Description

Nobanion is the deity of royalty, lions and feline beasts and also good-aligned beasts. Nobanion is considered to have originally been an interloper deity on Toril, but since his arrival from another world on the prime material plane he has firmly established himself within the Faerunian pantheon. That said, Nobanion is worshipped as a deity within the standard D&D cosmology of the Great Wheel, and is not exclusively confined within the Forgotten Realms.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Boyd, Eric L, and Erik Mona. Faiths and Pantheons (Wizards of the Coast, 2002).
  2. Ed Greenwood, Dragon magazine #54 - "Down-to-earth divinity" (October 1981), p. 54.
  3. Ed Greenwood, Jeff Grubb and Karen S. Martin (1987). Forgotten Realms Campaign Set. TSR, Inc. ISBN 0-88038-472-7.
  4. Boyd, Eric L. (1997). Powers & Pantheons. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 0-7869-0657-X.
  5. Boyd, Eric L. Demihuman Deities (TSR, 1998)
  6. Perkins, Christopher. Warriors of Heaven (TSR, 1999)
  7. Greenwood, Ed; Reynolds, Sean K.; Williams, Skip (2001). Forgotten Realms: Campaign Setting. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 0-7869-1836-5.


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