Istus

Domains: Healing, Protection, Travel, Fate - Good

Names

Weaver
Spinner of Fate
Crone Mother

Description

Istus appears as a woman with dark skin of varying age and stature, carrying a gold spindle with which she weaves the strands of fate. Sometimes when she appears, Istus is knitting something, which could very well be the fate of all reality.

Holy Symbol

A golden spindle

Possessions

Favored weapon is a cat of 9 tails tipped in shear blades

Relationships

Worshipers

Worshippers of Istus tend to be stoic and cynical people and believe in predestination, though these people are few and far between as the faith is seen as questionable. The average follower of Istus will be a lone traveler on their own pathway to destiny.

Clergy

Clergy and Temples followers of Istus are few and rarely congregate. Istus prefers her follower's prayers reach her ears independently. Clerics of Istus have seen everything from the worst possible fates to best ones happen to others, and are just as stoic and cynical as regular worshippers. They often act as diviners and healers and are brutally honest.

Dogma

Everything is connected to every other by invisible strands that push and pull over time. The choices a person makes in life affect the pull of some strands, allowing one to alter fate in a small way, but some of these webs of fate have a strong and inevitable pull that cannot be escaped.
The perceptive can come to understand these strands and watch them to predict the future. Accepting your destiny is the greatest service you can make to yourself, for dishonesty about your role in the world leads to ruin and disaster.
Attempt diplomacy in all confrontations before employing violence, however, after said diplomacy fails she prefers her followers fight bravely to the last rather than show cowardice.

Divine Realm

A dark and foggy forest on the Spiral Wheel, Istus' realm of Latchsano Wood is a place of shadows and wandering paths.

Divine Classification

Deity