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Originally posted by Fellfire

Was Midnight ever worshipped separately from Mystra like the Aumauntor/Lathander schism?

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Originally posted by sleyvas

That's a damn good question, and kind of something I've been pondering. I somewhat suspect that the Mystra post-sundering is the same Mystra that was pre-ToT, and that Midnight/Mystra is still trapped in Abeir (where the plane of dweomerheart actually was shunted following the spellplague, as part of a powerful "contingency" effect).

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Originally posted by Wrigley

I believe that Midnight is a daughter of former Mystra. She seemed to have picked her up even before ToT and already invested a lot in her prior to giving her the necklace.

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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert

I just had a thought... When Mystryl died, she dumped her power into a human girl.

Mystra 1.0 dumped a lot of her power into a human girl, too, before Midnight came along and got the rest of that power.

We also know that Mystra 1.0 possessed a mortal woman and had a slew of daughters with her, daughters that contained part of Mystra's essence...

What if Mystryl did the same thing? It's possible that the nameless girl who became Mystra was either a daughter of or a descendant of Mystryl. For that matter, a lot of magical anamolies could be explained that way -- maybe all of the non-Seven Chosen are descendants of Mystryl. Maybe some other odd cases, like wild talents, incantatrices, and even spellfire wielders are all descendants of Mystryl.

I might be wrong, but it's an interesting idea, thinks I.

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Originally posted by Markustay

In some of my 'deep secrets' musings in this thread and others, I have had some indication by 'persons in the know' (can't remember the specifics... probably Ed via THO) that the artifact that is Mystra requires some sort of mortal connection. Exactly why and and how deep that connection must be has never been discussed, because it falls into that 'deep secrets' category. I am not sure if it has anything to do with her initial creation, or some rule imposed upon her later by Ao (or even something else).

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Originally posted by The Hooded One

Markustay, you recall correctly - - and Wooly, you tread into dangerous ground, you wise and insightful hamster, you!
(Which is a not so subtle way of saying you're on to something, both of you.)

THO

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Unlike the similar succession of Cyric into the place of Bhaal, Bane, and Myrkul, the replacement of Mystra with Midnight occurred smoothly and without argument from the faithful followers. Midnight is revered within the church as the human avatar of Mystra and is said to be the chosen form of the goddess when she walks the Realms, seeking to rebalance the wild and magic-dead areas of the land.

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