Bruada

Bruada is the goddess of bloodlust, nature and strength. She represents beasts and wild nature in their most savage form.

Role

Bruada is the unforgiving patron of hunters, wild-men and all who are eager to prove themselves against beasts and monsters of the wilderness. She respects strength and animalistic cunning, and werebeasts of all kinds are among her favorites. Settled people are sometimes known to offer her blood sacrifice in hopes of keeping her beasts away, but more often than not this only serves to stoke her anger.

Bruadan Tenets

Hone your strength, cull the weak. Bruada suffers no weaklings in her realm. Grow strong, or become food for the fit. The ill and old must not slow down the pack.

Feast on your foes. Honor Bruada with each kill. Eat well of their insides, and their strength will become yours.

Hunt with cunning, strike without mercy. Let them mistake your savagery for stupidity. Make your foes underestimate you, and they will become your prey. Tear out their throat.

Let them fear the forest. Sow terror in the settlements, and you will please Bruada. Be the monster of legend.

Manifestations

Bruada is depicted in a variety of forms, usually as a predator feared by the people of the region in question. Whatever her form, she is always described as monstrously ravenous, great in size, and with inky black pupils that glisten in firelight.

Worship

Those who worship Bruada show their devotion by killing in her name. They shed themselves of reason with the aid of medicinal plants or by means of self-hypnosis, and allow their animalistic side to take over. Bruada values strength, and her followers consider physical training to be a virtue in itself. Only the fittest receive her respect.

Temples and Holy Places

[WIP]

Divine Domain

Bruada's Hunting Grounds: A vast and gnarled forest, where thick roots conceal untold centuries of slaughter and beasts howl without end.

Titles:
The First Monster. The Beastmother.
Portfolio (5E):
Beasts, Blood, Destruction, Hunt, Nature, Strength
Symbol:
The reflection of firelight within a dark, bestial eye.
Adjective:
Bruadan