Lamashtu

Lamashtu (pronounced lah-MAHSH-too) is the goddess of Madness, Monsters, and Nightmares.

History

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Relationships

Lamashtu has earned the ire of  Selena for her treatment of lycanthropes and her desecrating the sanctity of the ritual of childbirth, which, while under Eventa’s portfolio, Selena cares deeply about as a protector of women.

Lamashtu has an odd view of Narrena, whom she would love to twist into her own monstrous vision of beauty, something completely abhorrent to the Lady of Love.

Appearance

Lamashtu appears as a jackal-headed woman, with a third vertical eye in the center of her forehead, heavily pregnant, with feathered wings (like a raven's), a snake's tail, and taloned feet like a vulture's).

Church of Lamashtu

Lamashtu's church is scattered and lacks an overall hierarchy, yet it is rare for two priests to come into direct conflict, as they recognize each other's shared devotion and the hostility visited by those outside the religion. Many demoniacs pay obeisances to Lamashtu as she is a demon lord as well as a goddess.

Clergy

Her human priests generally wear a jackal mask (of leather or metal), a pair of swords or knives made to resemble Lamashtu's personal weapons, and a cloak of black feathers. Monstrous races wear much the same but typically forgo the mask.

Temples and Shrines

Lamashtu is not usually worshiped in a constructed building, but rather a ring of stones, pillars, trees, wooden blocks, a pit in the ground, or a flat rock. Entrances into underground places of worship represent the entrance to the goddess' underworld domain. They typically are found on the outskirts of civilization, or in the true wilderness, and many are stained with blood and littered with the remains of failed births, and the victims of the successful ones.

Lamashtu by Paizo Publishing

Basic Information

Titles
The Mother of Monsters
The Mistress of Insanity

Pantheon
The Elysiar Pantheon

Gender
Feminine

1st Edition Pathfinder Statistics

Alignment
Chaotic Evil

Symbol
Three-eyed Jackal

Home Plane
Kurnugia, The Abyss

Portfolio
Aberrance, Madness, Monsters, Nightmares

Domains
Chaos, Evil, Madness, Strength, Trickery

Subdomains
Deception, Demon, Ferocity, Insanity, Nightmare, Riot, Thievery

Worshippers
Gnolls, medusas, harpies, goblins, minotaurs, hidden human cults, the insane, bugbears, deros, lamias, morlocks, ogres, monsters, outcasts

Worshipper Alignments
CE, CN, NE

Favored Weapon
A beast's claw (Falchion/Kukri)

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Barbarian 40
Ranger 20