Omari

Summary

Uatkara's nebusah god of courts, noble proceedings, social dynamos, rituals, and family (as a civilization, rather than blood). He is a supremely haughty and fashionable god, yet always regal and defined in his mannerisms. Chiefly worshiped by royalty and noble blood lines, anyone seeking better odds in handling social situations (approaching a superior, conducting interviews, mending friendships or finding them, etc) invariably come to him. The priestesshood as well invoke him as an observer of rites and rituals, particularly in older or more esoteric ones. A fouled up ritual is worse than no ritual at all, and so he is consulted quite often to ensure they follow proper decorum.   Omari is one of the more confusing gods for outsiders to comprehend. At the surface he has no great contributions, no veltron-defining achievements nor any immense temples or powerful tributes as ones like Isara receive. He might, thus, be considered a minor god, but his influence is measured in how very much he is apart of the fabric of civilization. It is from him that the many trends, norms, and social constructions come into alignment, dictated by his whims and desires. Without such a polarizing figure, the many nebusah tribes and clans of old may never have come together with their own quirky differences.   Quite a number of trends and norms have risen and fallen at Omari's whims, whether from his approval or scorn. Despite the seeming capriciousness of this affair, Omari is a calculating god. It is known that before Poleva took upon merchants in her domain, he held the Scales of Fortune, which he weighed the goods and bads of ideas upon. Once handed over to Poleva, Omari took up a special scepter of measuring, an inscrutable tool by which he judges matters with. So cleanly accurate is his assessments that the scepter's length formed the basis of distance measurement in Atenkhet. All this resulting in the great confidence many have of Omari's tastes and ideas, for he is rarely wrong about them.   A lesser feature he is often in charge of, but not always, is relationships of a formalized kind. Where as Isara tends toward passion and romantic connectivity, Omari tries to arrange the best candidates when considering all their circumstances. This has always been most useful for nobles, who rarely have the luxury of marriage for love. It is not that he is callous in that respect, it is just the small pool of people he has to work with does not always come together ideally. He can be invoked by others for evaluation of their relationships, but it is even more rarely done. Omari is unrelenting in his assessments, and otherwise happy couples may be torn apart by his all-knowing experience.   Hence the axiom, "those who seek to be judged cannot blame the judge", meaning that a review of a higher power may show truths others would want ignored.