Beshaba

The Maid of Misfortune, Lady Doom, Black Bess

Beshaba’s clerics and paladins are her agents in Faerûn. They are the few granted some protection from a truly calamitous fate, for a time; though, each knows that undeath may be waiting in the end. These agents embrace strife, trickery, and impending doom to stir fear and reverence toward Lady Doom. However, the Maid of Misfortune’s clerics and paladins must have the fortitude to endure their difficult tasks or they’ll certainly face a dreadful demise.
Clerics and paladins of Beshaba pray for their spells at midnight after making an offering to the goddess. They recognize Midsummer and Shieldmeet as holy days in which they often participate in widespread rampages of wanton destruction.
Both devout worshippers and fearful common folk will sometimes burn a valuable personal possession until it is at least partially damaged. Once this is done, the person kneels and prays to Beshaba. This is often done to avoid or alter some misfortune, or to appease Beshaba into preventing such a misfortune from occurring. During both Midsummer and Shieldmeet, followers of Beshaba are destructive and impudent in wild festivals.
The Passing is a most somber ritual where a departed follower is sent downriver as part of a ceremony that turns its corpse into an undead creature and then teleports it to a random part of the world, ensuring immediate chaos (and misfortune) wherever it arrives.
Followers of Beshaba are most often wanderers, many of them undercover. Their primary goal is to cause or celebrate misfortune and bring new worshippers into the fold from among the common folk who fear bad luck. Many wandering priests and priestesses manipulate simple people into fearful worship through mystery and superstitions.

Divine Classification

Trickery domain

Alignment

Chaotic Evil