Tayno

Tayno has a broad range of worshippers; from con artists who amaze you with close-up magic while stealing your watch, to defense lawyers looking for some sort of loophole to get a "Not guilty" verdict, anyone who looks to skirt, bend, or even just work within the rules in unintended ways.
As goddess of chicanery, deceit, and general trickery, she's not one for organized religion and prefers to refer to those who appreciate her ideals as admirers or fans rather than followers.

Divine Domains

Trickery, loopholes, thievery

Divine Symbols & Sigils

Doll's eyes (plant), a ruby-encrusted lockpick, a royal flush

Divine Goals & Aspirations

Tayno is the walking epitome of the pleasure principle. She seeks out things and people which she finds entertaining and would encourage anyone who admires her to do the same.

Physical Description

Identifying Characteristics

Tayno most often takes the form she had in her mortal life, a drow-tiefling woman with black hair and pale white skin with black veining resembling marble. Her horns are also black, curling back on either side of her head like that of a ram. She is always dressed in bright, colorful clothing with sewn in gems and beads and bells.
She has also been known in recent centuries to appear with different avatars; one of them is as elaborately decorated, disembodied carnival masks, sometimes one, sometimes many.
It is the opinion of some theologists that it is impossible to know Tayno's true form; her propensity for jokes and tendency to be less than forward even with those who would devoutly follow her leads some to believe that even those who believe to have seen her have only ever encountered avatars, that even the goddess of chaotic risk-taking plays certain cards close to her chest.

Social

Reign

Theologists would object to any method of ascending to divinity being referred to as a, "conventional method," but if there were such a thing, it would certainly not apply to Tayno. The story goes that she quite literally tricked a Lizdah Pantheon deity out of their divinity, stealing it from right under their noses during the chaos and confusion of the changing of the era and making herself quite at home with it. 
Stories differ on which deity it was. Some believe it would make the sense for it to have Csella, a deity with a portfolio quite similar to herself, but others believe it would be unlikely to have been Csella for the same reason; trying to trick a trickery deity would be like going to war against a war god. Others suggest Tayno may have followed another deity in her mortal life, perhaps creating trust and a bond that enabled her to get close enough to do what she did.

Family Ties

Based on the shape of her horns and her marble-like skin, Tayno is believed to have belonged to a line of tieflings descended from a deity of the previous pantheon, the Lizdah Era. Depictions of Tehet, the god of art, have frequently shown him resembling or possibly literally as a marble statue. Some pieces show him with black, ram-like horns, but they seem to be scattered instances and not especially common.
If this believed connection is accurate, it would make Tayno the only modern deity descended from the previous vanquished era.

Divine Classification

Deity

Pronouns

she/her

Gender

Female

Hair

Black

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

White with black veining

Aligned Organization

Ayadane Pantheon

Ruled Locations

• Hall of Smoke and Mirrors