Eihel

Also known as: Lady Justice, Doombringer, grim-faced Eihel, Justice 
A member of the pantheon and one of the true gods of Genesis, Eihel is the goddess of justice and sacred promises. She's a light-aligned goddess and younger sister to the Great God Lore.
Stern and unyielding, Eihel's justice is considered separate from Orona's in that Eihel and her followers are dedicated to justice by any means, while Orona and her followers hold truer to the rule of law. For this reason, Eihel is sometimes also considered the goddess of vengeance. She and her followers command a respect toeing the line of fear in the minds of many. For these reasons, an oath sworn in Eihel's name is considered sacrosanct.

Depictions

Eihel is always shown as a woman of indeterminate age, smooth-faced but with short-cropped gray hair and wearing a crown of barbed wire. She's slim, muscular, and dressed in armor with a spear in one hand and a pair of scales in the other. Scenes involving Eihel often show her triumphant over evil-doers, and she's often shown accompanied by a pack of larger-than-life black hounds representing both her mortal servants as well as the supernatural hounds that act as her familiars and messengers.

Followers

Few people follow Eihel without having suffered a great personal wrong in their life. While the goddess is greatly respected, she's considered demanding and driven, and her followers are largely the same. She may occasionally be worshipped by guardsmen or arbiters of the law, but for those people Orona is a more common choice due to her more stable nature.
Dedicated servants of Eihel, on the other hand, have a close relationship with the goddess and are granted significant abilities for their devotion; these followers are known as Hounds, and are people who arewilling to give their lives to right injustice. They can see guilt or innocence on a person, and force them to speak truth at a touch. A Hound is almost always dangerous in both hand-to-hand and weapons combat, and experienced servants of Eihel often help train newer ones to ensuring that the necessary skills for such a dangerous calling are passed along.
Hounds of Eihel are a feared but respected presence within their communities. Large cities will often have a resident population of them to help with the process of keeping the peace, but many Hounds are called to wander in search of wrongs to right and serve as vigilantes who execute those who are wrongfully acquitted. They're as tenacious as their namesake, and will never give up when tracking their quarry. While they have little heed for most mortal authority, their divine backing and the unerring truth of their accusations means that Hounds are rarely challenged in their judgement.
Interestingly, Hounds rarely work alone. While it's not frequent for them to work in groups, most will instead pair up with followers of Lore, Eihel's brother god. The combination of powers granted to Eihel and Lore's respective followers compliment each other strongly, and make a Hound/Timewalker pair a force to be reckoned with. Those Hounds who don't pair with another human will often train a dog to act as their companion; these dogs often grow into uncanny intelligence and size thanks to the favor of the goddess.

Worship Practices and Holy Days

Though most of her worship is carried out by the grim work of her Hounds, there are a few rare temples to Eihel that often serve as a staging grounds of sorts for her followers. Prayer is an informal, personal act that is done individually instead of as a gathering, but the singing of hymns is a reasonably common practice within the temples and is most often done at midday. It's also common practice for temples of Eihel to feed stray dogs in their vicinity.
Individual Hounds often show their dedication to Eihel via tattoos taking the form of a double band with diagonal hash marks (resembling stylized barbed wire) around the neck or the wrist of the dominant hand. Though they don't have a true hereditary or traditional weapon, Hounds will often pass a favored weapon along from teacher to student. It's not uncommon to find weapons that have been passed from Hound to hound for decades and have obtained a near-sacred status.
Eihel has no holy days and no public celebrations.

Associated Mythology

THE TWIN HUNTRESSES
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EMPTY HEARTH, EMPTY HEART

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EIHEL
goddess of justice and sacred promises
light-aligned