Editing Mystra (section)

==History==
===Mystryl (2e arcane age)===
Born from the conflict between [[Selûne]] and [[Shar]], the original Mystryl was a Chaotic Neutral entity that was relatively flighty and carefree; A real rainbow chick.

She either created '''The Weave''', embodied it, or was a side effect of its creation, but in any case she was in charge of it. Her attitude towards the use of the weave was ''"do as you please, but just don't piss me off"'', which meant that magic wielders could perform spectacular feats that were unheard of in later times.

However, this also opened the weave up to abuse, where one particular spellcaster called '''[[Karsus]]''' decided to create a 12th level spell that would give himself control over the weave itself.

The spell worked... for all of five minutes. While he wrestled control over the weave from the goddess; he couldn't actually control it and caused magic all over the world to get screwed up. Destroying his own empire of floating cities and essentially reverting everything back to the stone ages.

Mystryl figured she'd rather die than let some idiot ruin the fundamental forces of magic, so she sacrificed herself to restabilise the weave and gave birth to her successor '''Mystra'''

===Mystra (1e)===
The next Goddess was an entirely different creature. Immediately imposing rules and restrictions on the weave, preventing those kinds of abuses from ever happening again. Capping spellcasting ability to a maximum of 9th level spells, while changing how magic works.

Furthermore, upon realising that you can do pretty much anything using the power of magic and that Mystra is the god of ''"all magic"'' in an uncharacteristically active move, the overdeity '''[[Ao]]''' manipulated events to ensure that Mystra was forced to spread her power around so that she did not become ''"all powerful"'' and either upset the balance or try something stupid like usurp Ao himself. So the second Mystra was made to be more active and had to spread her power around.

She fell in love with a human [[Wizard]] called [[Azuth]] and sponsored him as the first '''Magister''' giving him a humongous power boost and helping him on his journeys through the realms, to the point where he became a god himself, then continuing the tradition of magisters by starting a chain of them. 
 
Then she started appointing Chosen amongst mortal followers, granting them a portion of her divine strength. Though the gifts not as powerful as the Magister outright, there were a lot more of them. But unfortunately she realised that sometimes, all this power just burned through mortals if they weren't already strong enough to wield it, or some of them became corrupted by the power and became tyrants. To counter this "power corrupts" problem, she decided to have children and spawned a set of daughters who were imbued with the abilities of her Chosen from birth and raised to appreciate their gifts.

All told, Mystra had about half of her divine power wrapped up between her Chosen, her Magister and her servant Azuth. Yet even with much of her power spread across the cosmos, she was ''still'' the most powerful deity in the Pantheon. 

So when the Tablets of Fate were stolen from Ao and he kicked all the Gods except [[Helm]] out into the mortal realm until somebody owned up to it; Mystra figured she could just barge her way back in.

Unfortunately, while she was a powerful mortal avatar of a god, in this instance she was still a mortal avatar, while Helm was a god at the height of his power. The result was that he punched her as she tried to force her way back in, which [[Fist of the North Star|didn't turn out well for her or the castle they were stood in]]. Cherry on top of the shit cake, Helm did this in front of several witnesses that promptly spread the word, gaining himself a longstanding reputation for being [[Lawful Stupid]].

You really have to feel sorry for her. She started her carrier as a young girl who suddenly became all-powerful during the most traumatic event of Faerûn's history, then she had to defend her portfolio for a few millennia from ''literally everyone'' who wanted it, then she was punished for a crime she didn't commit, and then she was captured and tortured by one of the dickhead gods. No wonder she got a bit frustrated.

===Midnight / Mystra (2e/3e)===
The third incarnation began life as a mortal woman called '''Midnight''' who was also a travelling companion of mortal versions of [[Kelemvor]] and [[Cyric]] as well as cleric of [[Sune]] called '''Adon'''. 

Midnight was pivotal in the recovery of the Tablets and was rewarded with Mystra's portfolio, creating a new goddess of magic but taking the old name.

This third Mystra, under the tutelage of [[Azuth]], took a while to learn the ropes of her new role. She tried to maintain her original human outlook while doing the job and started shifting the church of Mystra from Neutrality over to Good while attempting to influence how magic was being used in the realms, unfortunately while this sounds noble it wasn't actually the best of ideas. She, along with her former mortal-turned-god companions [[Kelemvor]] and [[Cyric]] were placed on trial by the other gods as being negligent in their duties as deities by ''incompetence through humanity.'' Cyric managed to argue that his [[Chaotic Stupid|lolrandumb behaviour]] was fitting for the chaotic God of Lies and Betrayal (even if it was pissing off everyone else in the Pantheon by risking drawing [[Ao]]'s attention again); Mystra and Kelemvor realized they were bungling their new jobs and agreed to sort their shit out. In the end, all three started playing by the divine rulebook, i.e: "If it's not in your portfolio then you can't do it, final fucking period!"

===Mystra (4e)===
She was killed when [[Shar]] and [[Cyric]] teamed up. The whole Spellplague was caused because there was no god of magic keeping the Weave in check. Only the minor god of note keeping: [[Deneir]] managed to keep the universe from turning itself inside out by writing himself into the Weave and causing all the mechanical changes to magic rules in 4e.

===Mystra (5e)===
The return of Mystra in 5e was actually done quite elegantly: playing on plot hooks laid several editions earlier. Even though Mystra as a deity was "dead" she lived on as a [[Binder|Vestige]]. Despite this, remember that half her power was invested elsewhere in the cosmos.

Her most powerful Chosen, a woman called '''The Simbul''', gathered up a whole bunch of magical energy and combined it with that of [[Elminster]] who in turn used it to resurrect the goddess, creating a new amalgam of 1e Mystra & 2/3e Midnight all in one package.