BESHABA

Goddess of Misfortune

DnD Beyond Forgotten Realms

Description: Beshaba (pronounced: be-SHAH-ba), or Lady Doom as she is also known, was the chaotic evil intermediate deity of accidents, bad luck, misfortune, and random mischief. She demanded worship to keep her bad luck at bay. Her aim in life was to destroy her sister TYMORA, or Lady Luck. She also delighted in cursing others, often causing seafarers to lose their navigational instincts.
Personality: Beshaba, who is said to have gotten Tyche's looks where TYMORA got her love, is considered to be attractive to many male deities and some have been devoured by her lustful passions. She rejected advances from TALOS, among other hopefuls. Mortals who perceive the Maid of Misfortune are often destroyed by their lust or driven to maddened loyalty.
Following: Beshaba is revered more out of fear than out of religious faith. Her doctrine stated that bad luck befell everybody and the only way to avoid it was by worshiping her. She was renowned for being spiteful and malevolent, and her priests manipulated common folk into revering and providing for them by acting mysteriously and playing on morbid fears. Her clerics offered an entreaty for their spells and made sacrifices of alcoholic beverages such as burning brandy or wine.