In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting

Campaign setting

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 for the Dungeons & Dragons

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fantasy

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 role-playing game

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, Osprem is the Suel

Suloise

In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, the Suloise, also known as the "Suel," are one of the major races of humans inhabiting the Flanaess....

 goddess of Sea Voyages, Ships, and Sailors.

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition (1977-1988)

Osprem was first detailed for the Dungeons & Dragons game in the World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting

World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting

The World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting and the World of Greyhawk Fantasy World Setting are two closely related publications from TSR, Inc. that detail the fictional World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game...

(1983), by Gary Gygax

Gary Gygax

Ernest Gary Gygax was an American writer and game designer best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with Dave Arneson. Gygax is generally acknowledged as the father of role-playing games....

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Osprem was further detailed by Lenard Lakofka

Lenard Lakofka

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 in Dragon

Dragon (magazine)

Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products, the other being Dungeon. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. The...

#90 (1984), in the article Gods of the Suel Pantheon IV.

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition (1989-1999)

Osprem was one of the deities described in the From the Ashes set (1992), for the Greyhawk campaign.

Osprem is described as one of the good deities that celestials

Celestial (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, celestials are a class of creatures and monsters known as outsiders who are of wholly good alignment....

 can serve in the supplement Warriors of Heaven (1999).

Osprem is further detailed in The Scarlet Brotherhood (1999).

Dungeons & Dragons 3.0 edition (2000-2002)

Osprem's role in the 3rd edition Greyhawk setting was defined in the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer

Living Greyhawk Gazetteer

The Living Greyhawk Gazetteer is a sourcebook for the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the 3rd edition of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. Despite the title, the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer is not exclusive to the Living Greyhawk Campaign...

(2000).

Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 edition (2003-2007)

Her priesthood is detailed for this edition in Complete Divine

Complete Divine

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(2004).

Description

Osprem is often depicted as a beautiful woman in a flowing gown, or as a dolphin

Dolphin

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, barracuda

Barracuda

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, or sperm whale

Sperm Whale

The sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus, is a marine mammal species, order Cetacea, a toothed whale having the largest brain of any animal. The name comes from the milky-white waxy substance, spermaceti, found in the animal's head. The sperm whale is the only living member of genus Physeter...

. In human form, she wears a ring carved from a whale's tooth, a gift from the grandfather of all whales.

Realm

According to Warriors of Heaven, Osprem's realm on the Elemental Plane of Water is called Whirlcurrents. However, Dragon #90 placed her realm in Nirvana

Mechanus

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, Mechanus, also known as The Clockwork Nirvana of Mechanus is a purely lawful aligned plane of existence...

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Additional reading

• Brown, Anne
  Anne Brown (game designer)
  Anne Brown is a writer and editor in the role-playing game industry.Brown began working as an Assistant editor for Dragon magazine in 1989, on issues #147 to #151 . She was later transferred to TSR's Games Division...
  
  . Player's Guide (TSR, 1998).
• Conforti, Steven, ed. Living Greyhawk Official Listing of Deities for Use in the Campaign, version 2.0 (Wizards of the Coast, 2005). Available online: http://www.wizards.com/rpga/downloads/LG_Deities.zip
• Living Greyhawk Journal no. 3 - "Gods of Oerth"