Ishtarranna

"They say the rain is like beautiful pearls plucked from the crown of Ishtarranna. But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself; avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's especially hard. We can change so easily. There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace. Only I will ever truly know if the water upon my cheek is a raindrop or a tear, such are the burdens and blessings of duty a wife has for her husband. Love will find a way."

— Ishtarranna to Maruuk at Ahasis Fields before the first battle of the Godswar.

ISHTARRANNA (NG) Greater Power. Throne Mother, Goddess of Beauty, Love, Strategy, and the Stars.

Ishtarranna is usually depicted as a woman just reaching adulthood, a glorious gem-encrusted crown of gold atop her head. She is presented as the "Trinity Goddess" being either a fair-skinned dark-haired alluring blue-eyed beauty or a beauteous dark-skinned blonde woman with piercing grey eyes and sometimes as a pale-skinned redhead with enchanting green eyes. She was made out of the most brilliant star in the night sky by Anulil to be the most beautiful woman in all the worlds, and eventually to be his wife and mother to his eldest son and heir, the Justice Bringer Maruuk. Though Anulil would go on to sire more children outside their matrimonial bed, and she too would suffer through unwise choices herself, during the Godswar, it would be Ishtarranna who would stand to defend her husband and help him retain his newly acquired throne. Clerics of Ishtarranna recognize her as the embodiment of love, beauty, strategy and the stars above as well as the source of energies behind sex, desire, fertility, war, combat, and political power. In response to such a large portfolio, not to mention her prestige position as the current Queen of the Gods, her clergy has ordered the church to reflect the multiple aspects by organizing into an internal three-caste hierarchy. The most noticeable of the caste are those starry-eyed devotees who seek out the signs of love and beauty within the people, places, and objects around them. They are by far the most extroverted of Ishtarranna's followers who energetically go out to bless young lovers, perform marriage ceremonies, create works of art, and travel to see firsthand the beautiful people, fantastic sights, and wondrous items that are found throughout the realms and spread awareness of them to others. A few even take roles as diplomats, as their looks and personal charms tend to make even the most hostile folk stop to listen to them. Of these a few, barely even noticeable in their number are crusaders against hate and ugliness, seeking to protect the innocent from those who would destroy love and vanquish those whose presence they deem repulsive. The least numerous caste, as well as the most introverted of her followers, are those who set up observatories or wander the land to learning the deeper mysteries their deity teaches them through the movement of objects in the night sky, recording the details of all the wonders in space. They tend to be detached, more concerned with the stars than with worldly affairs and spend their nights at the temple recording their study of the stars to deepen their working knowledge of astronomy, navigation, and the divine oracular providence of Ishtarranna through these stellar objects. The most numerous caste of the Throne Mother that has only arisen since the Godswar are those who identify with Ishtaranna as the Goddess of Strategy in both love and war, ever deliberating and preparing themselves through her teachings to defend the innocent, fight for liberty, and uphold the value and sanctity of marital sex within civil societies throughout the world. To them, all is fair in love and war. Both Ishtarranna and her sister Kalilith were born out of the remnants of Thinnog, the Macrocosmos Void of Creation and Annihilation, and Khronaeon, the Elder God of Eternity known as Father Time before becoming Khron when the Elder Gods of that period used their combined might in order to imprison Tharozadaur and thus give birth to The Mortal Realm. Incidentally, Ishtarranna's sister is Kalilith, the mother of the three-headed giant wolf that guards the underworld, Vampires, Therianthropes, and called "Mistress Death" as the spouse of Nergal the Judge of the Dead.

ISHTARRANNA (NG) Greater Power. Throne Mother, Goddess of Beauty, Love, Strategy, and the Stars.

Type

Religious, Pantheon

Parent Organization

The Gods