Vesperi
Goddess of Wind & Skies (True Neutral)
The foremost concept people hold of Vesperi is freedom. Freedom of travel, freedom of mind and spirit, freedom of breath. Vesperi is known to be flighty and aloof, as quick to change the subject as she is to change her mind. Some dismiss her and her power, taken aback by her whimsy, until they witness a tornado or a hurricane. Then they never question the power of wind again. She is a god of storms and tempests as much as she is a god of the breeze, and her flights of fancy can also take her to places of stormy wrath.
With the creation of the soil and the seas from Karn and Tiad, Vesperi saw the works and realized that they were still incomplete. She sent her winds down, first in powerful tempests and then in calm breezes. Her winds smoothed out the jagged rocks of Karn and gave direction to the tides of Tiad. But more than simply being wind, she provided the breaths of life that finally allowed the creation of mortal races. She provided the air they breathe as much as the winds they ride their sails across.
Though she has always been a powerful god, with the rise of the skylands Vesperi has taken a much more prominent position in the understanding of Orizon’s gods. The people of the skylands see her as a major figure, hoping for fair winds or the protection of a fog. The mother of winds features highly in ritual on the skylands and there is a prayer to her carved somewhere in the hull of every airship.
During the God War, Vesperi acted against any hope the massed armies had of air superiority. She battered them with her winds and yanked their weapons from their hands, turning her tornadoes into whirling showers of blades.
Vesperi is fickle, and often content to simply let things be as the winds blow, but in her wrath deadly twisters can uproot entire cities, scattering them across the four winds, powerful elementals under her command. By the same token she can send pleasant winds, calm breezes or light zephyrs that will lead a ship home or refresh the soul.
Divine Domains
Nature, Rain, Skies, Storms, Tempest, Winds
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