Waukeen

Waukeen is known as the Merchant's Friend, Liberty's Maiden, and the Golden Lady. Her portfolio includes everything related to commerce and the accumulation of wealth through free and fair trade, as well as the beneficial use of wealth to improve civilization. It also extends to festhalls, hedonism, and sensual fulfillment.

Those that venerate and appease her include merchants from lowly peddlers to the wealthy owners of trading companies, investors, accountants, entrepreneurs, caravan guides, warehouse owners, philanthropists, deal-makers, moneylenders, and so on. Waukeen is also the goddess of illicit trade and the patron of many smugglers, fences, black marketeers, and "businessmen" on the shady side of commerce. Collectively, her worshipers are known as Waukeenar.

Passionate and willful, she has the independent and hedonistic temperament of a feline, and encourages her followers to spread pleasure to all.

Worshipers

Waukeen is often worshiped by shopkeepers, merchants, guides, peddlers, moneychangers, and smugglers.

Ornate temples to the glory of the Golden Lady are usually found in centers of commerce. Her clerics, called Goldeyes, and other worshipers travel the trade routes aiding merchants and caravans or working in the opulent temples as hosts for wealthy donors, moneylenders, currency exchangers, venture capitalists, warehousers, fences (covertly, of course) and, most importantly, security guards.

The Church of Waukeen’s clergy are responsible for the running of many festhalls found throughout large cities in Kai. These festhalls seek to indulge every pleasure imaginable. Privately owned festhalls usually employed at least one or two Waukeenar clerics.

The Church of Waukeen probably celebrates the most festivals out of all the faiths of Kai. These revels were known collectively as the Endless Revels of Life. Even daily events, such as the rising and setting of the sun, presented a chance for Sharessans to revel. Their most beloved festival is the Midsummer's Eve festival, where the pursuit of pleasure has no boundary.

Waukeenar clerics pray for their spells at dusk.

Divine Domains

Trickery, Trade, Cats, Vengeance

Divine Symbols & Sigils

A Cat with a paw raised in a beckoning gesture.

Divine Goals & Aspirations

She 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.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Waukeen is portrayed as a beautiful, young woman with the head of a cat, constantly grooming herself to ensure her appearance is always up to standards. Some depictions include a pair of golden lions resting at her feet.

Body Features

Her avatar was 10 ft (3 m) tall.

Facial Features

Her avatar's cat eyes appeared as solid gold.

Special abilities

Sightings of her avatar suggest that she cast spells as both a wizard and a cleric, choosing spells from any school or sphere. 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 nunchaku. 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 air, levitating and appearing to take strides as she moved.

She was known to have rogue skills in her avatar form, while still being a formidable cleric and wizard. 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.

Manifestations

Favored animals

• Cats, especially golden cats
• Eagles
• Golden lions
• Palomino horses

Favored plants

• Daffodils

Favored minerals

• Citrine
• Gold nugget

Favored colors

Gold, white

Miscellaneous

• Shower of gold coins
• Gleaming golden eyes (in dreams)
• Coins found unexpectedly

On occasions where subtlety was more appropriate, the Golden Lady sometimes manifests as a sprouting of daffodils to give a sign of favor, hope, or inspiration.

Often she will 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 is a pair of golden eyes observing from a curtain of impenetrable darkness; or a large stack of gold coins that writhes like a snake, flying or wrapping itself around something or someone to which she wants to draw attention before it shatters and scatters, often causing a scramble to collect them. All such tokens from the goddess are highly valued by Waukeenar as "divine essence of the goddess". When more interaction or aid is needed she could send creatures such as golden-colored cats, lock lurkers, golden lions, palomino horses, and eagles (preferably golden ones).

Apparel & Accessories

She was always depicted as being splendidly dressed. 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.

Personality Characteristics

Vices & Personality flaws

Waukeen was an innate flirt and loved toying around with beautiful mortals; once she had her fill, she swiftly moved on to other sources of pleasure.

Divine Classification

Deity

Church/Cult

Gods of the Celestial Plane

Honorary & Occupational Titles

Liberty's Maiden, The Coinmaiden, Merchantsfriend, Merchants' Friend, Merchant's Friend, The Golden Lady, Our Lady of Gold, Lady of Trade, The Dancing Lady, Patroness of Festhalls, The Festhall Madam, Mother of Cats, Feline of Felicity

Pronouns

She/Her

Gender

Femme

Eyes

Solid gold cat's eyes

Height

10'