Ethami

Do you honestly think you're worthy enough to stand in my presence? Bow. Grovel. You are not enough for my sight to behold. You're nothing more than a poor woman amongst the highest nobility. Now, get out, before I have someone make you.

— Ethami, when meeting Tara for the first time

Ethami (pronounced eh-TAH-mee) is the goddess who presides over the planet Kenos, and is the goddess of love, beauty, madness, greed, and social power. She sees godhood as nothing more than a way to flaunt her beauty, sense of fashion, and higher state of being over others.
She currently resides in the world-capital of Kenos, Peribolos.

Dogma

Ethami holds beauty and love above all things, next to noble birth. She believes wholeheartedly that she became who she was because she was born to be who she is, and has all but forgotten her origins, and her followers follow a similar tenet that birthright is tied to success. In this way, they believe in a sort of fate that others do not.
Ethami also believes in personal freedom and allowing anyone to do anything they want to do, within reasonable bounds. She believes social structure will cull the socially weak and prevent them from trying to climb to heights they aren't supposed to reach. Laws are meant to exist, but they exist to be pushed upon and broken if need be. Money, fame, and fashion are status symbols meant to confuse the lower ranks, and her close servants and angels emulate her fashion in an attempt to emulate their Most Holy.

History

Ethami Ascended

/*Ascension*/

with the other Major Deities

/*Worship of the Five Divines*/

at the beginning of the First Age and took hold of the planet that would become Kenos. She then shaped it in her own image as she strode along its surface. She took humans from Acate and moulded them in her new image and deemed them her followers, bestowed upon them incredible magic infusions, and watched as they built for her a beautiful city which they together named Peribolos.
People started to pray only twenty years after her Ascension, and she only answered the most noble and the most beautiful, granting them their vain wishes. Since then, people have continued to pray, even if their prayers were only answered through coincidence.

Appearance

Ethami has no absolute 'true form', changing it regularly to fit with her own version of beauty and fashion that day.
Her followers on Acate often represent her with a half face and iron halo, with an orb of sanguinity above her head, a sequestered torso from lower half, and three separated arms form from the sanguine orbs at her shoulder-area. She's shown to wear iron anklets that lead to pointed stilettos.
Different cultures often depict her in their own sight of feminine beauty, which often disgusts Ethami herself.

Relationships

Ethami has a long-lasting rivalry with Wrache, the god of darkness, hunting, and war. She sees him as disgusting and putrid, and because of this, followers of each deity often clash, whether it be with words or blades.
She tends to leave the other Major Deities alone, but sometimes checks up on Psomne, just to see how they're doing. She sees the others as unimportant and much less important than doing her own thing, and sometimes forgets they even exist.

Realm

Ethami has a pristine gold, ivory, and iron open-air citadel in Peribolos on Kenos where she resides. She often uses the city as a runway, enjoying the constant praise of her followers. Her servants and angels are everywhere, drinking, partying, and loving with all the inhabitants of the metropolis, while Ethami has a very hands-off approach to any politics in the area.

Providence

Ethami is known to protect beautiful lowborn and show scorn to ugly nobles, and provide them good and bad luck respectively in love and everything they do. She's also said to protect marriage rites and virgins, though proof has never been seen of such. In general, she shows favouritism to nobility and the beautiful.

Servants

Main article: Ethamites

Ethami is loved by the vain of the world, who believe that worship will only make them more perfect, though she rescinds any blessings if they so much as think they can become more beautiful than she. Gamblers and addicts love her for her boons of luck and madness, and it's said her touch has the ability to give any mortal a month-long high. Nobles and Lovers worship her and ask for her protection, and are rarely given it.
Her angels are arbiters of her will, and are very rarely sent to Acate in times of war against Wrache or to bless a perfect wedding. None leave Kenos without Ethami's go-ahead, mostly out of respect and not because of rules against it.

Constructed Religion(s)

Main article: Church of Perfect Blood

The Church of Perfect Blood is the main sect that worships Ethami, and focuses on purity of blood and purity of love, only allowing nobility into the clergy and offering healing and marriage services to the public.

Main article: Sybaris Casino

While not seemingly a holy organisation from the looks of it, the owners of each casino are ordained Ethami clergy. They sell drugs and alcohol, abet gambling, prostitution, and other carnal pleasures, and tend to be in the pockets of the governments of the cities they are a part of.

Table of Contents

1 Dogma
2 History
3 Appearance
4 Relationships
5 Realm
6 Providence
7 Servants
8 Constructed Religion(s)

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Titles
The Voluptuary
The Sybarite

Adjective
Ethamish

Home Planet
Kenos

Alignment
Chaotic Neutral

Domains
Chaos, Charm, Luck, Madness, Nobility, Trickery

Worshippers
Hedonists, Nobles, Lovers, Thieves

Sacred Symbol
Bleeding Rose