Amunta

Amunta is the goddess of plague, pestilence, and destruction in the Kuneiri Pantheon. Where the Lady of Rot walked, death and disaster followed, and she was blamed for all manner of ailments, ranging from common sicknesses and devastating diseases to brackish wells and failing crops. Worship of the Plaguemother waxes and wanes in an unending cycle; the Mistress of Swarms unleashes waves of death-bringing blights, after which come mass entreaties for respite. Before that cycle's great plagues go into remission, her power slowly declines, and spurs feelings of vulnerability, she begins the cycle anew.

Description

Amunta appears as a gaunt, 10-foot tall kuneiri woman with a large locust head and reaching, elongated fingers. Her depictions in religious texts portray her as a withering crone with scars and tattoos covering her body. The bodies of her avatars seem like they had been beautiful and voluptuous at one point, but their frames and charms have been ravaged by the march of time, horrific diseases, and starvation. Even so, Amunta's dancing movements are said to be alluring.
Amunta is also sometimes depicted as a beautiful and innocent woman, surrounded by a swarm of locusts.

Personality

Amunta is a strange goddess in terms of personality. She has been compared by sages to a greedy and petulant child, switching between the juvenile desire for attention at any cost to the aloofness of a discarded paramour. Curiously for a deity so closely tied to death, she has no personal taste for violence.

Abilities

Amunta seeks to spread disease, believing that to fully appreciate life, one must feel it slowly stripped away. She despises quick deaths that leave no feeling for intimacy, and prefers her priests to kill with poison or disease, letting it ravage their victim's body before death.

Powers

Amunta can summon swarms of locusts and other biting and stinging insects to spread famine, plague, and poison at any point that her name has been spoken in the last hour.

Combat

Amunta has a personal distaste for violence and thus rarely participates in combat herself, but sends out her servants and worshipers to spread plague and poison wherever they go.
In the rare cases Amunta does engage in combat on her own, she is constantly surrounded by swarms of locusts that mask her movement and form, making her much harder to see and strike. She can cause the locusts to reform into different shapes including massive walls to block others from getting to her.

Possessions

On the occasions that Amunta has been seen to enter combat, she wielded numerous specialized objects to aid her.

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Relationships

Enemies and Allies

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Worshipers

Her priests, known collectively as Amuntari, typically wear ragged gray-green robes. Though they wash these vestments, they never repair them. Older and high-ranking members of her priestgood tend to either ritually scar or tatoo their bodies all over. When embarking on a battle or dangerous adventure, a follower of Amunta would often don armor of a black and purple hue adorned with a variety of spurs, horns, and spikes.
Her followers often sell various poisons, antidotes, and medicines. When not doing so they are known to travel across Elaris, seeking out new diseases or afflictions while also spreading rumors about Amunta in hopes of boosting her reuptation and spreading her name far beyond the desert.
Amuntari devote much of their lives to building up an immunity to various diseases and poisons, by means of both inoculation and magic. Because of this, they often treat those afflictions with disease or bury their bodies. They also tend to be hired by paranoid members of high society, such as wealthy merchants or noble kenku through the Kuneirmeru, to test their food for any poison.

Symbols

Amunta's primary symbol is a large locust's head embossed over a field of burning grain, and some worshipers use a whip with a metal locust's head on the tip.

Notable Worshipers

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History

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Specialty Priest

Malady

Divine Symbols and Sigils

A locust's head embossed over a burning field

Divine Classification

Lesser Power

Alignment

Neutral Evil

Current Location

Species

Deity

Honorary & Occupational Titles

Lady of Rot
Plaguemother
Mistress of Swarms

Sex

Feminine

Eyes

Bulging black eyes

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Deeply tanned body, pale green locust head

Height

10'0"

Weight

326 lb.