Mercurius, The Benevolent Trickster
Minor God of Trickery, Thievery, Charm, Happy Chaos, and Mischief
THAT BASTARD! This entire fucking cosmos goes to the hells in a handbasket and that no-good piece of work finds the time to send ME a letter saying he stole my divine fragment back from that King of losers?! I stole that fragment FAIR AND SQUARE! OH, I'll kill him! 'I figured you didn't need it anymore, so I gave it away'?! THAT'S IT! HE'S DEAD!Titles: The Benevolent Trickster, God of Thieves and Cutthroats, The Lovable Rogue, The Happy Chaos, The Charming Ladykiller, The Archthief, The Charmer Favored Weapon: Dagger Alignment: Chaotic Good Church Moniker: Church of the Trickster Obedience: Spend an hour practicing sleight of hand tricks such as dancing a coin across your palm, flipping a coin, or so on. Do so while using your other hand for other mundane tasks and not losing concentration on either. Once the hour is up, catch the coin in your teeth and wink at a nearby creature(Yourself in a mirror, if no others are around). Effect: You gain Deft Hands and Walking Sleight as bonus feats ignoring prerequisites, and sleight of hand becomes a CHA-based skill if doing so would be beneficial to you. By winking at another creature within 30ft and snapping your fingers charmingly at them, you can temporarily charm them into believing one small-scale fact or piece of information you present to them(I belong here, We're good friends, etc) for the next minute - after which they will not find this odd so long as you are no longer interacting with them or in their line of sight. Those who have experienced this before will have greater likelihoods of being unaffected by this, and those who are forewarned of this ability being used by you within the last 24 hours are automatically immune.
Divine Domains
Trickery, Charm, Luck, Chaos, Destruction, Liberation
Artifacts
While Mercurius himself is believed to possess a great number of artifacts in his personal collections, unlike gods such as Savusonn who make such belongings public, Mercurius does not make such things public - instead leaving the subject of his "publically available" artifacts to other historians and members of his own faith.
Perhaps most famous of all of Mercurius's blessings is a severed right hand of varying appearance known as The Hand of the Trickster - a hand which often gets mistaken as the legendary Hand of Vecna by the unfamiliar - that is said to bestow incredible powers upon he who severs his own hand and attaches the hand in its place. When attached, the hand of the trickster is said to allow its wielder the ability to charm and beguile practically all living and unliving creatures, steal practically any item no matter how ridiculous, and achieve any other number of truly ridiculous stunts - though notably, the hand is believed to lack any or even sometimes outright limit its wielder's combat potential, preferring instead to enhance its wielders out of combat abilities to the level of gods.
Beyond this most famous of artifacts, the second of Mercurius's artifacts is a coin known to the world as The Soulcoin - this gleaming golden coin is said to grant he who wields and flips it near-absolute control over luck and probability. However, this simple but terrifying power comes at a lofty price - each use of the coin must be backed by nothing less than the wielder's soul. If the wielder is to fail even with the use of the coin, then they will experience a backlash so severe that death is often reported to be a mercy by comparison. Yet, to those willing to stake it all on the roll of the cosmic dice, there is no mightier artifact.
Holy Books & Codes
The Stolen Scrolls
Divine Symbols & Sigils
A dagger engraved with a coin on the blade
Tenets of Faith
Mercurius's tenets are better known as "The Five-Fingered Vows", and are listed below in their semi-unique format.
If I must rely on the odds, I shall ensure they are ever in my favor.
For each coin or object taken, I shall give another to he who needs it more.
If I lend others my time, I shall ensure the time I give them is a good and pleasurable one.
Stagnancy and Tyranny shall be my calls to action. I will disturb the status quo to bring about change so long as that change benefits the people.
If I take, I shall take from those whose pockets run deeper than their need. My skills shall never cast another into hardship unless they have done so to another who deserved it not.
Holidays
The Criminal Convention
Divine Goals & Aspirations
To promote thievery, trickery, and mischief done for good.
To see those with hard hearts or heavy burdens laugh or be happy, even for a second.
To teach the ways of Thievery and Trickery to all who will listen.
To see chaos stirred up and stagnation destroyed.
Divine Classification
Alignment
Chaotic Good
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