Bastet
Bastet is the sunny, indolent, and dangerous goddess of sunny days and wild abandon, a force for chaos, and an opportunist. With her cat-headed statues and her slinky female form, she is the goddess of desire and the patron goddess of perfumers, alchemists, and those whose trade is beauty. With the scent of the wild desert in her mane when she is a lioness, she is also the simple domesticated cat that destroys rats, serpents, and mice, a friend to the farmer and granary overseer. She is the most feroucious of all the Ascended and equally feared. She is the huntress of all those who would seek to destroy the South. In life she battle against her foes alongside her brother Yeenoghu who's bloodlust dwarfed even hers. However, one day after dedeating Apophis, her brother began to succumb to the serpent's poison bringing him to near death. After the serpent was slain it was time for Bastet to join the Ascended but she decided to not leave her brother behind and carried him with her but he was never meant to ascend and the divine power along with the serpent's poison drove him to madness. Now the two Ascended siblings battle across the sands whenever they encounter one another.
Depiction. Her ears are dark and her fur is red; she has large breasts and sometimes six or eight of them. A solar or lunar disk hovers over her head, and she wears bracelets in the form of cobras or vipers.
Worshippers. Bastet attracts a strange medley of worshippers in keeping with her wild and fickle nature: alchemists, temple prostitutes, simple farmers, soldiers (though never officers), dancers—and gnolls and the metropolis of Per-Bastet as well. Gnolls are devoted to her, and her status as a supreme huntress endears her to these followers.
Commandments
Depiction. Her ears are dark and her fur is red; she has large breasts and sometimes six or eight of them. A solar or lunar disk hovers over her head, and she wears bracelets in the form of cobras or vipers.
Worshippers. Bastet attracts a strange medley of worshippers in keeping with her wild and fickle nature: alchemists, temple prostitutes, simple farmers, soldiers (though never officers), dancers—and gnolls and the metropolis of Per-Bastet as well. Gnolls are devoted to her, and her status as a supreme huntress endears her to these followers.
Commandments
- Take pleasure in life, and live for the day.
- Hunt and kill your food when you can; take joy in destroying serpents.
- Visit the perfumers frequently and offer up gifts of scent and spice to the goddess’s altars.
- To divine the future, read the entrails of an enormous, unblemished animal, and sacrifice such a creature before any great endeavor.
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