Asha Vahishta,
God of Truth and honesty, consort of Azar, goddess of fire and magic.
Asha is the personification of truth and thus the chief opponent of the daeva Druj, who represents falsehood. Asha appears as an angel composed of golden liquid that burns like fire and he wears a golden diadem that radiates with flame.
Asha speaks into existence that which is true and necessary, burning falsehood and evil from the souls of the creatures he encounters. Asha is the vessel through which Ahura Mazda
dispenses justice. It is said that at the final judgment a river of molten metal will cover the earth. This river will seem as a river of warm milk to lawful creatures, while the neutral and
chaotic will be burnt alive.
Because Asha represents what is right, he also protects the guilty from cruel punishments. Asha makes sure all is right and proper in the universe. His clerics oppose too much use of
arcane magic, which twists the fabric of reality.
Asha’s ordeal of heat is used to discern falsehood and sin in people. There are thirty such trials of Asha, and those who survive all thirty of the fiery tests attain spiritual and physical
strength and serenity.
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