Kai

 Kai 

Monkey Lord of Fists, Solemn King

 Symbol:  An open ape palm holding an eye Portfolio: Monks, Psionics, Inner potential Worshipers: '''Psions, Vanara, Monks Cleric Alignments: LN, LG Domains:  Imagination, Thought, Resolve, Honor, Law, Purity, Revolution Favored Weapon: Thorn Bracer '''

 History/Relationships:  Kai is a deity who seemed to come out of nowhere about twenty-five years ago during the exodus from the Aresh jungles. One of the “living gods” – that is one who seems to make his home almost exclusively on the material plane. He makes his home in the monastery at the top of the mountain just outside of the refuge city of Karoi. The only way for the average person to gain audience with Kai is to join the monastery and give up worldly connections. Nobody knows where he came from originally. He showed up, another Vanara in a wave of immigrants. One day he walked from the mountaintop into the city, stood in front of the Karoi senate and demanded they rewrite all laws to allow for equal status of the immigrants, claiming the city had sullied their honor by forcing women and children to fight in a war to earn their keep. The councilmen laughed at him and he slowly clapped his hands. Each time his hands came together, another councilman fell limp, eyes gone and bleeding from the sockets. By the end of the evening, the entire city was changed. Imigrants were equals of the natives. He set up a shrine on the mountain where he came from and in the days following, the stone and trees shifted to create a massive complex where he began to teach his art to his new followers.

 Dogma:  Law that fails to serve its people is flawed law and must be overturned. A society unable to treat its citizens with dignity is unable to have a functioning whole. Likewise, the body must be pure, hardened by resolve and kept strong with honor. A fully functional being has no need of weapons or external weapons, his mind and his hands are the equal of any magic or steel. Personal perfection is an arduous path, but one who is not of a perfected self cannot create a perfected society, or contribute to such a thing.

 Clergy and Temples:  To this day, Kai is still a minor deity with only a smattering of followers. Much of the city of Karoi has converted to his faith, the city seeming to have changed overnight into a haven of diversity and equality. Nearby cities have also started to see conversions, with many building monasteries outside of their walls in the same style of that of the original. In the last decade, wandering monk and psions have started to become more common, having learned directly from Kai, or one of his followers.