They eventually discovered it, but it took way too long.
The world that I run is a purgatory for deities. So when a deity dies, the world has to make space for the new deity and can be physically altered when it does so. Naturally when the warning signs of a new deity start showing up it becomes a global phenomenon as if the world has to change too drastically it can be cataclysmic. As this is purgatory for deities, they actually exist in world, although they are limited to their domains.
In October 2 years ago, the world started showing signs that a new deity had arrived, the players immediately went out trying to track down information on this deity to see how much the world was going to change if at all. The whispers they start hearing are that the majority of the deities followers are children. But there do exist a smattering of several other kinds of people, most notably prostitutes, and sailors.
They start talking to some of the followers and they all simply refer to him as a saint, someone who really helped them in a time of need. Usually by leaving small trinkets or money in the dead of night, many had no idea it was the Saint who had left them. It just appeared, and they put the 2 together. Few if any had actually seen him, and when they did it felt like it was just a figment of their imagination, he was always gone before they knew what had even happened.
When they finally find this deity, he doesn’t refer to himself as a saint, or even a deity, simply Nicholas of Myra. He looks like an older human male, wearing a red robe with grey hair and a beard. He leaves little trinkets and mundane items, behind for people, and tries to help where he can.
The party found him 2 weeks before Christmas and didn’t realize until we were doing our gift exchange the next week that they had just gone on a quest to find Saint Nick.
They didn’t actually end up fighting him, they didn’t found out until Saint Nicholas (me, the dm, dressed in a red robe with a Santa hat) handed them all a gift in character.
The plan was for them to realize it was Saint Nick and the following week (the week before Christmas) have a gift exchange, but they didn’t figure it out so I started the gift exchange in character as Saint Nicholas.
They eventually discovered it, but it took way too long.
The world that I run is a purgatory for deities. So when a deity dies, the world has to make space for the new deity and can be physically altered when it does so. Naturally when the warning signs of a new deity start showing up it becomes a global phenomenon as if the world has to change too drastically it can be cataclysmic. As this is purgatory for deities, they actually exist in world, although they are limited to their domains.
In October 2 years ago, the world started showing signs that a new deity had arrived, the players immediately went out trying to track down information on this deity to see how much the world was going to change if at all. The whispers they start hearing are that the majority of the deities followers are children. But there do exist a smattering of several other kinds of people, most notably prostitutes, and sailors.
They start talking to some of the followers and they all simply refer to him as a saint, someone who really helped them in a time of need. Usually by leaving small trinkets or money in the dead of night, many had no idea it was the Saint who had left them. It just appeared, and they put the 2 together. Few if any had actually seen him, and when they did it felt like it was just a figment of their imagination, he was always gone before they knew what had even happened.
When they finally find this deity, he doesn’t refer to himself as a saint, or even a deity, simply Nicholas of Myra. He looks like an older human male, wearing a red robe with grey hair and a beard. He leaves little trinkets and mundane items, behind for people, and tries to help where he can.
The party found him 2 weeks before Christmas and didn’t realize until we were doing our gift exchange the next week that they had just gone on a quest to find Saint Nick.
It is actually kinda sad how long it took your players to realize who they fought.
They didn’t actually end up fighting him, they didn’t found out until Saint Nicholas (me, the dm, dressed in a red robe with a Santa hat) handed them all a gift in character.
The plan was for them to realize it was Saint Nick and the following week (the week before Christmas) have a gift exchange, but they didn’t figure it out so I started the gift exchange in character as Saint Nicholas.
“Old gods do new jobs”