The Sons of Pelor

The Sons are a fraternal organization or worshipers of Pelor. They devote themselves to healing the wounded. While relatively few of them possess actual magical power, they are well trained in first aid and the use of conventional medicine. They are primarily a non-military order and provide healing, medicine, wound-care, and hospice services, easing the passing of the dying when they can. Within the ranks, there are further divisions based on specialty, and there is at least one Abbot in each monastery. These monasteries can range wildly in size. In a small town, there may or may not be an installation of The Sons, while in large cities, there may be a hundred Sons or more. In small venues, there may be 3 or 4 Sons who inhabit a regular home together, and tend to mundane concerns, such as wounds derived from agricultural accidents or fisticuffs. There are also orders of The Sons who have no specific home locations and accompany military units to war. Amongst humanoid cultures (except perhaps monstrous classes, orcs, gnolls, etc) The Sons are generally regarded as noncombatants and will not be targets. Think DND Red Cross.

At least one Abbot in each station, no other hierarchy except for the Lord Abbot, commander of the order. Though brothers in general pay deference to each other in order of seniority. Those with access to healing magics are regarded as higher than mundane brothers. Will accept clerics, druids, paladins, but shuns arcane magic. Current Lord Abbot is Lord Abbot Cochran Ferr

Sustained largely by donations. In some locals, these donations come in the form of food to sustain the healers, in others, nobles make a big show of donating large quantities of gold and goods, to make obvious their piety, and subtly compete for perceived rank in Pelor's graces. The richest nobles, often a royal family, will fund and pay for the maintenance of hospital-type facilities in their largest cities, which large numbers of Sons work and live in, and tend the medical needs of the citizenry.

An ancient order, having existed for at leat 3.000 years. They have a foundation myth that Pelor once fought against Nerull, and when the fight was over, and Nerull defeated, Pelor tended to the wounds of his enemy, seeing no need for further destruction. While The Sons vow, in mimicry of their god, to treat all as equal, they have at times become political players in their history.