Umberlee

Umberlee

Umberlee, known as The Bitch Queen, is a powerful and feared deity in Elduran. She is a chaotic evil goddess of the sea, storms, and the fearsome power of the ocean’s wrath. Sailors, fishermen, and coastal dwellers offer her prayers and sacrifices, often out of fear rather than devotion, as she is known for her capricious and cruel nature.

Domains and Portfolios

Portfolio: Oceans, storms, winds, currents, and shipwrecks.
Alignment: Chaotic Evil.
Domains: Tempest, Water, Destruction, and Chaos.

Depiction

Umberlee is often portrayed as a striking yet terrifying figure. She appears as a beautiful woman with green or deep-blue skin, her hair flowing like seaweed in a current. Her eyes shimmer like the ocean's depths but often reveal her tempestuous moods with flashes of lightning or storms within. Her attire is made of flowing seafoam and coral, and she wields great tridents or scepters resembling waves.
Sometimes, she is depicted as a more monstrous entity, with aquatic features like fins, scales, or tentacles, symbolizing her connection to the untamed and fearsome aspects of the sea.

Symbol

Her symbol is a wave curling to the left with a lightning bolt striking through it or simply a blue-green trident. These emblems are used by her clerics, carved into altars, or painted onto ships as talismans for her favor.

Personality and Ethos

Umberlee embodies the chaos and unpredictability of the sea. She delights in destruction, particularly shipwrecks and storms, and is known for her cruelty and vanity. Her moods are as changeable as the tides, making her both a feared and begrudgingly respected deity among seafarers. While she sometimes aids those who please her with offerings, she is just as likely to betray or punish her followers on a whim.
Her worshippers typically seek her favor to ensure safe voyages or to protect their coastal homes from natural disasters. However, even the most devout know that her loyalty is fickle and that she is just as likely to smite them for perceived slights as she is to grant her aid.

Clergy and Worship

Clerics: The clergy of Umberlee are known as the Wavebringers or Stormcallers, serving in coastal temples or aboard ships. They often demand sacrifices of treasure or goods from sailors to appease their goddess.
Temples: Her temples are built near coastlines, often incorporating seashells, driftwood, and coral in their design. These sacred spaces are places of prayer and sacrifice, with altars where worshippers leave offerings of coins, jewels, or crafted goods to sink into the sea.
Rituals: Offerings to Umberlee are often tossed into the ocean, either to placate her or seek her favor for calm seas. During storms, frantic prayers and sacrifices are common, as worshippers beg for mercy from her wrath.

Relationships

Umberlee is part of the Faerûnian pantheon and interacts with other deities of the sea and weather:

Allies: Umberlee has few allies, as her chaotic and treacherous nature makes her difficult to trust. However, she sometimes aligns with gods of destruction and chaos when it suits her needs.
Rivals: She is a fierce rival of Valkur, the god of sailors and safe voyages, and Selûne, whose lunar influence often tempers the tides she commands.
Enemies: Talos, the god of storms, shares her domain of destruction, leading to conflicts over influence and power.
Common Worshippers: Fishermen, sailors, pirates, and coastal communities.
Champions and Priests: Those who devote themselves to her typically do so out of necessity or fear. They seek her blessing to survive the sea’s fury, knowing that only their continued offerings keep her wrath at bay.

Legends

Umberlee’s mythos is filled with tales of her wrath against those who dared to defy her or failed to honor her. Legends speak of entire fleets destroyed by storms she summoned or islands swallowed by the ocean as punishment for her anger. Yet, she also rewards those who show true reverence, granting calm seas, treasure, or even visions of hidden underwater wonders.
In all, Umberlee stands as a reminder of the sea’s unpredictable power—beautiful, vast, and capable of devastating destruction.

Quotes & Catchphrases

"Kneel before the tides, or be swept away into the abyss. Mercy is as fleeting as a calm sea."