Aquardion, Goddess of Situational Irony

(a.k.a. Lady of Surprises, The Serendipitous)

Aquardion is the goddess of situational irony in the House of the Unexpected pantheon. She is the matron of lawgivers and lawbreakers, with her portfolio also involving fertility, birth, and death, as these are frequently unexpected in nature. Gentleman thieves, shrewd legal negotiators, and event planners are just a few of the diverse individuals who might follow the Lady of Surprises' widespread cult.

Divine Domains

Good, Luck, Death, Water; Family, Balance

Divine Symbols & Sigils

The holy symbol of Aquardion is a cracked rock with a windswept tree or clump of wheat growing up from within the crack (as though the flimsy plant were splitting the hard stone).
Aquardion's dominion over the cycles of fertility and birth lend her strong symbolic associations with the life-giving water found so plentifully in the verdant plains of Medial A, particularly as manifested by the Blue Silk River whose flood cycles blessed the fields of early human farmers. Aqua Aquardion, the rose-infused holy water used in temples dedicated to The Serendipitous, is exclusively drawn from the Blue Silk or its tributaries; a bottle without the tell-tale sparkle of Voxelian silt is considered to be denatured with regards to its spiritual potency.

Tenets of Faith

In her role as the matron of both lawgivers and lawbreakers, Aquardion encourages her followers to both understand the law of the lands in which they reside and to find loopholes in aforementioned laws that can be used to surprising effect. The cult of the Goddess of Situational Irony delights in both mistake-of-fact, mistake-of-law, and any any case where the letter and spirit of the law must be reconciled with one another. Aquardion teaches her followers to embrace serendipity and be grateful for both stability in life and the pleasant little surprises that give life spice. Ingratitude is considered a grievous sin within the cult of Aquardion, as is being unable to control oneself in the face of the unexpected.
Despite her dominion over birth and death, Aquardion abhors killing without appropriate reason; the end may be unexpected, but it should not be unnecessarily hastened. This latter aspect of the Aquardionic doctrine often puts specialist Servants of Ironies at odds with Voxelia's tradition of capital punishment as a flamboyant display of performance art. Members of the Aquardion cult are also more likely to be opposed to the War of Reunification and to promote a reconciliation between the New Voxelian and Elovisian peoples because this would elminate one of the most widespread causes of human suffering and death under the Manifold Sky today. These attitudes, along with some conflicting accounts from the Incunabula, suggest that Aquardion may be one of the pre-Conquest deities adopted by the Old Voxelians from an integrated tribe rather than a native invention.

Holidays

Birthdays are considered sacred to Aquardion, for the exact time and day of one's birth are frequently unexpected. Chapels dedicated to the Goddess of Situational Irony maintain small charity funds to provide simple birthday celebrations for the impoverished or orphaned, with the spring equinox reserved as the Universal Birthday for those whose circumstances of birth remain unknown. In a similar vein, the cult of Aquardion also provides regular funerary services for those whose unexpected deaths denied them final closure, with the autumnal equinox reserved for a celebration for all unidentified deceased individuals and those whose bodies were never recovered.

Divine Classification

Deity

Religions

• Church of the Unexpected
• House of the Unexpected

Alignment

Neutral Good

Church/Cult

Church of the Unexpected

Sex

Female

Gender

Female