Godwin

Godwin is the priest of the temple of Amarath in the small town of Osterhn in the Sürgün Günlükleri ("Exile Chronicles") campaign. The innkeeper Exalon listed the temple's people as the priest Godwin, his acolyte Nordman and the priestess Ketnis. When the newcomers first came to the temple by night, they found only Nordman, cleaning the floors.¹²

Exalon said that Godwin had lost his brother in the war and might not be kind to drow. In his judgement the priest might want to help with the medicine for a sick woman, but might be too afraid, and the priestess would not have the authority.³⁴

The trial of Jasper

When the town tried its former master Jasper, the priestess said she could not bear to watch an execution and that the high priest Godwin would bear witness that the sentence was just. Godwin sat among the notables but would not act as a judge, only as a religious witness. Jasper prayed with him privately and had something written down.⁵⁶⁷

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Once Jasper had been condemned to be beheaded, Godwin said that the temple would have preferred exile, but that where exile could not be carried out the sentence was just in the eyes of the gods, though death was still nothing to welcome. The temple of Amarath wishes even the executed to pass on, so Jasper's body was to be buried outside the holy cemetery with a priest's blessing.⁸⁹

Godwin also led the funeral of Sarah Lia Galanodel. Before the closed coffin he praised her sacrifice for the people of a land not her own, said the town was bound never again to bow to tyranny, and he spoke of the belief that she would find peace with the gods.¹⁰¹¹

Later, when Kemp Corvus and Ephorus visited Sarah's well-kept grave before a journey, the priest at the gate received Kemp's donation for repairing the town.¹²