Tiva (ti-va)
Overview
The Divine Fortune, The Three Eyed Fox, The Whisperer Tiva is the oldest of the New Gods. It is said that she was created from a tangled knot in Onthys' strings of fate that twisted the designs of fortune in her favor. She is a trickster god who was one of the first to amass as much power as Ethrys' Pantheon and the first to be recognized across the entire continent. Her worshipers are typically working class citizens, although some of them have achieved great wealth and status through her influence. Domains: Luck, Fortune, Trickery Clerics: Trickery, Arcana, Life, TwilightColors and Symbols
Tiva is typically represented as a young woman with dark braided hair who carries two daggers, one with a hilt made of diamond and the other with a hilt made of gold. She is also represented as a three eyed fox. Her holy symbol is two half circles connected by lines that form a golden knot in the center. Her holy animal is the fox (and raccoons, in urban settings), and diamonds and gold are also considered holy to Tiva. Other symbols include the color gold, knots, and the number five.Rituals, Holy Days, Festivals
Every seventh day of the month, her followers will have a feast at home in her honor and pray over a series of blessed dice for a glimpse of divine insight into what the upcoming month holds for them. The Sunrise Festival: The seventh day of the seventh month is the holiest day of the year. Her followers will gather for a huge festival where there will be celebrations, games, parties, and general frivolity all night until the sun rises in the morning. Afterwards, the followers will take a full day of rest and devote a part of their winnings from the evening before to the upkeep of Tiva’s churches and shrines in exchange for her favor for the next year. Snapping five times is a common superstition to ask Tiva for good luck, especially when "gambling" (over a card game, over a business proposal, over a deal, etc.)Tenets
- Tiva has her hand in everything, so followers must always create, notice, and act on unexpected opportunities.
- No one's luck is always good, and no one's luck is always bad.
- Taking chances in life will always result in a net positive over never acting at all.
- If you don't like the hand you've been dealt in life, trust in Tiva's power and change your fate.
Temple Clergy and Followers
Tiva has more shrines than temples, seeing as how most people who are otherwise unaffiliated with religion tend to loosely associate themselves with Tiva if they must. Many people invoke her name for good luck and follow several superstitions that are believed to ask for her presence. Her temples are small and plain on the outside, but lavishly decorated on the inside with gold decorations and diamond chandeliers when possible. Her followers adhere to the Prosperity Gospel and her priests are known as the Heaven Blessed. When people come to worship, it is traditional for them to offer a copper coin alongside a prayer in hopes of Tiva returning it with ten gold.Artifacts and Sacred Items
Lucky Golden Dagger: This +1 magical dagger has an ornate golden hilt with a knotted rope pattern. It allows you to cast Darkness nonmagically as an action, regaining use at dawn. You are not affected by this, and thus may see through it as normal. If you are in the globe of darkness created by this weapon and you have advantage on the melee attack roll, this weapon's base damage is 4d4. Lucky Diamond Dagger: This +1 magical dagger has a solid black metal hilt engraved with a fox's head that had three eyes on the pommel. The blade is carved and polished diamond. It deals 1 point of necrotic damage to the attacker whenever it is used to make a melee weapon attack. On a successful hit, roll a d20. If the result of the roll is 16 or higher, Fortune deals an additional 6d10 necrotic or radiant damage.Sects
The Fortune's Favored: A nomadic group of adrenaline and thrill seekers that believe Tiva has blessed with divine fortune in all their ventures. They will throw themselves off cliffs into rivers, ski down mountains, charge into fights with no armor, and freehand solo climb up sheer cliffs. They have achieved great feats of athletic prowess and invented ways to achieve greater thrills than ever before but this comes at a cost of many lives that were not as fortunate as they believed.
Type
Religious, Pantheon
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