Woedica
One of The Old Gods of Quel.
Woedica supports those who believe in law and science above all else as the keys to creating an orderly society. She is known to punish those who break oaths, as she views this as a violation of a law established between the oath maker and oath taker. Her followers are often judges, lawyers, wizards, or scientists, but NEVER Sorcerers or Warlocks. Woedica despises magic that is not earned through careful study of the weave of magic that courses through Quel. She finds power attained without study to be unearned and counter to the progress of society as it does not bend itself to careful, considered thought and experimentation, but chaotic untamed outbursts of power.
Woedica manifests in the world as the Strangler, a leathery-skinned old woman, always clad in tattered finery, who appears on an empty road or abandoned alleyway to murder those who break a solemn oath. According to those few that claim to have seen her, her avatar is supernaturally agile and quick, and at the same time possessing the strength to strangle a full grown Orc. For this reason, oath breaking is punished by strangulation in many cultures on Arathel.
Woedica supports those who believe in law and science above all else as the keys to creating an orderly society. She is known to punish those who break oaths, as she views this as a violation of a law established between the oath maker and oath taker. Her followers are often judges, lawyers, wizards, or scientists, but NEVER Sorcerers or Warlocks. Woedica despises magic that is not earned through careful study of the weave of magic that courses through Quel. She finds power attained without study to be unearned and counter to the progress of society as it does not bend itself to careful, considered thought and experimentation, but chaotic untamed outbursts of power.
Woedica manifests in the world as the Strangler, a leathery-skinned old woman, always clad in tattered finery, who appears on an empty road or abandoned alleyway to murder those who break a solemn oath. According to those few that claim to have seen her, her avatar is supernaturally agile and quick, and at the same time possessing the strength to strangle a full grown Orc. For this reason, oath breaking is punished by strangulation in many cultures on Arathel.
Domains
knowledge, truth, laws, science, memory
Symbol
scales, books, an open eye incorporated into a book or door
Common Alignment of Followers
Lawful Neutral
knowledge, truth, laws, science, memory
Symbol
scales, books, an open eye incorporated into a book or door
Common Alignment of Followers
Lawful Neutral
Divine Classification
God
Church/Cult
Children