Waukeen (wau-KEEN)

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Waukeen was a lesser deity of wealth and trade in the Asyurian pantheon. The Merchant's Friend was venerated and appeased by not only merchants, from lowly peddlers to the wealthy owners of trading companies, but investors, accountants, entrepreneurs, caravan guides, warehouse owners, philanthropists, deal-makers, moneylenders, and other such individuals. Liberty's Maiden was a goddess of commerce and the accumulation of wealth through free and fair trade, as well as the beneficial use of wealth to improve civilization. At the same time The Golden Lady was the goddess of illicit trade and the patron of many smugglers, fences, black marketeers, and "businessmen" on the shady side of commerce.

“For your great deed, it is only appropriate that you be granted a great reward.”

— Waukeen to her liberators.

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Description

Waukeen was portrayed as a slender, young woman with long, lustrous golden hair; always splendidly dressed. Some depictions included a pair of golden lions resting at her feet. Her avatar was 10 ft (3 m) tall and typically had eyes that appeared as solid gold. She wore a gown woven from strips of precious metals polished to a gleaming finish and sprinkled with all manner of gemstones. Her sash was of spun gold and her cloak was a lattice of gold coins. On her feet were boots of laced pearls with gold soles.
On occasions where subtlety was more appropriate, the Golden Lady sometimes manifested as a sprouting of daffodils to give a sign of favor, hope, or inspiration. Often she would provide money in unexpected places, like a coin, face-up, to indicate the correct path at an intersection, or nuggets of gold, citrines, pyrite (also known as fool's gold—perhaps as a sign of disfavor). Slightly less subtle was a pair of golden eyes observing from a curtain of impenetrable darkness; or a large stack of gold coins that writhed like a snake, flying or wrapping itself around something or someone to which she wanted to draw attention before it shattered and scattered, often causing a scramble to collect them. All such tokens from the goddess were highly valued by Waukeenar as "divine essence of the goddess".

Personality

Waukeen was an active and enthusiastic deity who enjoyed the ebb and flow of goods via commerce and the rapid pace of business in a thriving marketplace full of spirited bargaining—so much so that rumors of her presence at particularly intense negotiations involving one of her worshipers became legendary. Her side always got the best bargain, but the other party usually walked away also feeling satisfied about the terms of the deal. Waukeen was driven to accomplish a goal and move on to the next one and, rather than being frustrated when the usual business practices failed to work out a solution, she was willing to try alternate methods. This manifested itself in her church sometimes allowing the ends to justify the means. Her stubbornness and dogged persistence occasionally got her in predicaments.

Powers

Her weapon of choice was a pummeling stream of gold coins that emitted from either hand (the coins did not disappear, so they could also be given as a boon). The coin cloud acted like a +5 impact evil outsider bane mace. In addition, she could either spit molten gold up to 6 ft (1.8 m) or call down a flame strike that resembled a conflagration wrapped in a rotating helix of gold coins (which did disappear afterward) on any creature within 200 ft (61 m). Rather than fly she chose to walk on a cloud of gold coins, levitating and appearing to take strides as she moved across the nimbus.
She could extend her senses seven miles (11.3 km) or perceive anything within seven miles of her temples, holy sites, worshipers, or objects, or anywhere her name or one of her titles had been spoken within the previous hour. Her awareness extended to include any business deal, contract, exchange, sale, theft, or destruction of a merchant's property that impacted at least five hundred people in scope.

Realm

Waukeen's home was Brightwater in the lower fields of Arborea. However, the Merchant's Friend would spend most of her time in the shared realm called the Marketplace Eternall—a huge bazaar that covered many square miles/kilometers. The Marketplace Eternal was divided into four quarters and Waukeen's quarter was called the House of Barter. Somewhere in the midst of her quarter Waukeen had an opulent golden palace that contained a portal to Brightwater.

Graz'zt admiring Waukeen's coin

Relationships

Waukeen's closest ally was her own children, Lliira and Shaundakul was also an ally of long-range traders, and caravans. The Golden Lady was one of the first to support Gond and his inventions over the doubts of most other deities after forseeing the coming industrial revolutions.
Waukeen had no real enemies among the pantheon except Mask, the Master of All Thieves, because larceny is bad for business. She naturally had an unending hatred and thirst for revenge against the duke of evil Graz'zt who broke a deal, took advantage of her weakened state, and held her captive until her son liberated her.

The Church

Collectively, Waukeen's worshipers were known as Waukeenar. Her clerics, called Goldeyes, and other worshipers traveled the trade routes aiding merchants and caravans or worked in the opulent temples as hosts for wealthy donors, moneylenders, currency exchangers, venture capitalists, warehousers, fences (covertly, of course) and, most importantly, security guards.

History

Waukeen was a relatively late addition to the Asyurian pantheon, joining sometime after Tyr, who first appeared in −247 BCE. Her popularity grew with the expansion of trade and the thriving merchant class across the Realms where the combination of generosity, risk taking, and shrewd business sense made her church enviably wealthy and widely admired.

Relationships

Waukeen

Spouse (Important)

Towards Pelor

4

Honest

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Pelor

Spouse (Important)

Towards Waukeen

4

Honest

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Title(s)
Liberty's Maiden
The Coinmaiden
Merchantsfriend
Merchants' Friend
Merchant's Friend
The Golden Lady
Our Lady of Gold
Lady of Trade
Symbol
Gold coin with Waukeen's profile facing left

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Portfolio
Trade, money, wealth

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Worshipers
Merchants, the wealthy, traders, rogues

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Divine Classification

Lesser Deity

Alignment

Neutral

Realm

Brightwater

Church/Cult

Prime Pantheon

Spouses

Pelor (Spouse)

Siblings

Children

• Lliira
• Shaundakul

Aligned Organization

Mercantile Republic