Sune (Forgotten Realms)
| Game background | |
|---|---|
| Title(s) | Lady Firehair |
| Home plane | 2E: Brightwater (Arborea) 3E: Brightwater |
| Power level | Greater |
| Alignment | Chaotic Good |
| Portfolio | Beauty, love, passion |
| Superior | None |
| Design details | |
Sune (/ˈsuːni/ SOO-nee) is the deity of love and beauty in the fictional world of the Forgotten Realms. Her dogma is primarily concerned with love based on outward beauty, with primary importance placed upon loving people who respond to the Sunite's appearance.
Ed Greenwood created Sune for his home Dungeons & Dragons game, stating that she was merely the Greek deity Aphrodite renamed.
Sune first appeared within Dungeons & Dragons as one of the deities featured in Ed Greenwood's article "Down-to-earth Divinity" in Dragon #54 (October 1981). Sune is introduced as Firehair, the goddess of love, beauty, charisma, and passion, a chaotic neutral greater goddess of the plane of Olympus. Sune is described in the article as "the ultimate in charisma." The article notes Sune's position within the cosmology: "Lliira and Selune serve Sune." Sune is commonly worshipped by chaotic good magic-users, illusionists, thieves, and clerics, and characters working as poets, artists, scribes.
Sune later officially appeared as one of the major deities for the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Set's "Cyclopedia of the Realms" booklet (1987).
Sune was described in the hardback Forgotten Realms Adventures (1990), the revised Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (1993) in the "Running the Realms" booklet, and Faiths & Avatars (1996). Her clergy was further detailed in Warriors and Priests of the Realms (1996), and Prayers from the Faithful (1997).
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