Lady Eshlara Lack-Heart

Halfling goddess of vengeance, misfortune, disharmony, malice, and guile.
The elves have Lolth, Ghaunadar, Vrashnag, and Gruumsh. The dwarves have Abbathor, Laduergar, and Deep Duerra. Even the gnomes have Urdlen. But few big folk know that the hin have their own evil deity: Lady Eshlara Lack-Heart.
Alternately considered a racial bogeyman, an interloper deity from another pantheon, an especially vicious mortal halfling risen to legendary status, or a dark aspect of Yondalla, Lady Lack-Heart represents all that is wrong and evil in the halfling race. While often advocating helping oneself at the expense of others, she never lets the hin forget that they are small people in a large world. She saves her worst depredations for the big folk, under the guise of "evening the playing field", or with the falsely-altruistic goal of reigning in their excessive pride. (She is fond of the saying, "The tallest blade of grass is the first one cut," and similar sentiments, twisted to her purposes.)
While the church of Yondalla officially has no stance on Lady Lack-Heart's nature, many hin see her hand in misfortunes, and may ask her to overlook them in especially dire times. It is considered bad luck to speak her name, though less so her title. Nearly every halfling community has its own superstitions regarding Lady Lack-Heart, including making gestures to ward off her evil (especially after speaking or invoking her name or title), cautionary tales for young ones, and certain signs that portend her attention turning on the community.
Hin folklore contains many tales of adventurous, lucky, tricky halfling damsels, and the subject of these tales is said to be Yondalla or the (nominally) human goddess Dinatair, often seen by halflings as a long-standing local deity of their own who has simply conned the Big Folk into worshipping her as well. However, those tales in which the protagonist is more vengeful than adventurous, and her luck and trickiness are tinged with malice, are about Lady Lack-Heart (often nameless in the story). These tales are sometimes, but not always, cautionary ones.

Followers

Long ago, cultists of Lady Lack-Heart were more common than now. They attempted to spread their semi-apocalyptic faith through all hin communities. The sites of their hidden shrines, if mapped, were said to spell out part of their goddess' name in obscure halfling runes. What would have happened if they'd completed the name is unknown, though to do so halflings would have had to spread in large numbers to multiple other continents.
The coming of the Nolum Empire accomplished what the church of Yondalla never could (or never attempted): all cultists of Lady Lack-Heart were either killed or driven so far underground that they have not been heard of since. Today, Lady Lack-Heart, while not forgotten, is not worshiped per se, except as an acknowledged part of the halfling pantheon, or propitiated through superstitions.

Aligned Organization

Yondalla's Children