Avandra¶
Summary¶
| Name: | Avandra |
|---|---|
| Aliases: | The Changebringer She Who Makes the Path Lady Luck |
| Symbol: | Woman’s profile embossed on a gold coin or pendant. |
| Province: | Change, Freedom, Luck |
| Domain: | Moon, Nature, Trickery |
| Alignment: | Chaotic Good |
| Patron of: | Merchants, Adventurers, Travellers |
| Holy Day: | New Dawn (Horisal 1st) |
Overview¶
Avandra, the Changebringer, also known as “She Who Makes the Path”, is the goddess of freedom, trade, travel, adventure, and luck. She encourages her followers to venture into the unknown. Her nature leads to few temples dedicated to her in the centres of civilization, but they can be found near well travelled roads. Her worshippers include merchants, free spirits and adventurers.
The Changebringer is usually depicted as a dark-skinned young woman with light brown hair (sometimes silver) that changes into a road behind her, symbolic of the many possible roads ahead.
As a goddess of change and trickery Avandra can be very mercurial, and although she isn’t necessarily manipulative, she does change her approach to different issues, sending messages to her followers in different ways and tones in order to find the one that will resonate with them the most.
People who are not disciples of the Changebringer nevertheless sometimes pray to her to fare well on a journey. Like all prime deities, worship of the Changebringer is centered in Vasselheim. She also has major centres of worship in Tal’Dorei along the Lucidian Coast and the Rifenmist Peninsula (outside the Iron Authority, which is dedicated to the Strife Emperor). As of 843 PD, the cylindrical Horizon Temple in Whitestone was dedicated to her. Additionally, because of her association with travel and trade, the Changebringer is widely worshipped along the [[Menagerie Coast]]. By contrast, the Changebringer is not one of the deities approved for worship in the Dwendalian Empire. Nevertheless, some continue to worship her in secret.
Commandments of the Changebringer
- Luck favours the bold. Your fate is your own to grasp, and to do so is to have the Changebringer behind you.
- Change is inevitable. The righteous can ensure that such change is for the better.
- Rise up against tyranny. Fight for the freedom of yourself and others when you can, and inspire others to fight when you cannot.
– from the Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn
Trivia¶
- The Changebringer’s holy day is New Dawn, on the first of Horisal. It is celebrated with feasts in Emon at midnight and on the Menagerie Coast at dusk.
- There is a gambling game in Ank’Harel known as “Avandra’s Favour”. It was also being played in a casino in Kymal as of 843 PD, called “Changebringer’s Favour”.
- In some parts of the Lucidian Coast, there is a drink called the “Changebringer’s Nectar”, elsewhere described as “maple syrup grain alcohol.”