Ioun was an interloper goddess of knowledge, skill, and prophecy[6] from the world of Nerath, who somehow was able to influence events on Toril.[8] On Nerath, Ioun held dominion over the domains of fate, knowledge, and skill.[5] According to …

Ioun is the unaligned goddess of knowledge, prophecy and skill, and is a patron of the study of magic and mental power. She is worshiped in the Nentir Vale, and is particularly revered by wizards, scholars and tacticians. Ioun is the antithesis of Vecna, as she urges her followers to share all knowledge that he would keep hidden.

2010年6月5日 · The book describes the inventor of Ioun Stones, an Netherese arcanist born 4,000 years ago named Congenio Ioun. As this Ioun lived for over 900 years and was an extremely talented spellcaster, it’s not impossible that he ascended to become the deity Ioun of D&D 4th edition.

2021年4月4日 · Ioun is the God of the essential force that makes all spellcasting possible. He provides and tends the Winds of Magic, the conduit through which mortal spellcasters and magical crafters can safely access the raw force of magic. Worship of Ioun had for many centuries been nearly lost.

Ioun is the twin sister to Erathis, Goddess of Civilisation. She represents another side of civilisation, that of learning, knowledge, and understanding. Whereas her sister encourages expansion and growth through building and creating, Ioun encourages mortals to learn, plan, and understand that which they build.

2008年9月19日 · Of particular interest is an article in Dragon magazine #174 which describes the ioun stones’ origin on the positive energy plane, and Larloch’s entry in Lords of Darkness defining several new stones. I’ve compiled a list of every ioun stone I can find, dating from AD&D right up to the 4th edition Adventurer’s Vault.

2014年11月20日 · The Ioun Stone comes from Jack Vance's Dying Earth series, which is where the "fire and forget" spell casting of D&D came from too, as well as some of the spells such as prismatic spray. The stones are harvested from the core of neutron stars that are being sliced away by the Nothing at the edge of the universe and are therefore rare and ...

2010年10月11日 · 1984's Rhialto the Marvellous is the fourth -- and final -- book of Jack Vance's "Dying Earth" series. Though called a novel, it's really a collection of three different stories of varying length, each of which focuses on the titular character, a magician of the 21st Aeon who belongs to "a group of magicians who have formed an association the ...

Ioun appears as one of the deities described in the Players Handbook for fourth edition (2008). Her name apparently derives from the ioun stone, a magical, levitating stone that bestows some enhancement on the user when it is allowed to orbit his head.