Editing Mystra (section)

===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.