Asherah

Mother of Creation

Once an Outer God , Asherah forsook her old ways and made the True Speech into creation 66 million years ago. This allowed her to change the fabric of other outer gods and voidlings as well into “gods” and “angels.” This began the Age Of Light and this war between the newly created deities and the outer gods would last for 65 million years. Meanwhile, Asherah created a barrier between her new creation, Empyrea, and that of the Void in order for her plan to be fully formed. Her plan was to make a new abundance of creation outside of what is the chaotic abstraction that forms and is destroyed in the Void. She created Tenebra as a part of that plan in order for her and her fellow deities, who she called her children, to live freely and love one another as she commanded.
Though in the waning years of the Age of Light, the first hominid, and non-hominid, lifeforms were created by Asherah nearly 2.5 million years ago in the lands that make up Ali Empire. They were stranded alone on a luscious island for millions of more years as they began to evolve into different forms. As the war died out and the outer gods became apathetic to Asherah’s creation, victory was shouted at the highest peaks of Empyrea 300,000 years ago. It was at the height of victory that Asherah created the Titans in order to form the lands and planes that would surround the world itself and fell asleep. It was not a peaceful one as she had accidentally created the Dreamlands in her sleep as well and her daughter, Kagia, took the True Name that Asherah created for herself. This split her power across the Physical Plane of Tenebra and into Kagia as well.
Kagia rewrote reality and the minds of those dwelling in both Empyrea and the material plane to recognize her as the true goddess of creation. All could not object to her now monumentous power as Asherah was catatonic in a deep dream for hundreds of thousands of years. The only followers she would have were incidentally the Osmani Sultanate that praised her under a false name, Prati. However, It would not be until the man who would become Mephisto that she would be fully active once more in Empyrea. She gave a vision to the man who would become her herald, the Hellwalker, to contact the man who would become Mephisto and set out on a journey to save the world. At the end of that journey, Mephisto fulfilled both Asherah’s and Carnival’s prophecies. She now stands at the head of the Pantheon of the Black Star on her throne in Heaven where she rightfully deserves to be once more while battling those outside of her creation.

Devotee Benefits

Divine Ability Charisma or Wisdom Divine Font harm or heal Divine Skill Diplomacy Favored Weapon fist or morning star
Domains creation, glyph, introspection, star,
Alternate Domains Dreams, Family, Fate, Passion
Cleric Spells 1st: burning hands, 2nd: Enlarge 3rd: fireball, 4th: wall of fire, 5th: dreaming potential, 6th: Lure Dream, 7th: Fiery Body, 8th: Prismatic Wall, 9th: Shapechange

Divine Intercession

Asherah grants her blessings to those who show valor in trying times. Source Gods & Magic pg. 29 2.0
Minor Boon: You always present yourself at your best. Your clothing and person are always clean and unrumpled, the metal of your maul, fists, and armor shining and unblemished. This doesn’t prevent you from being exposed to diseases and other afflictions via filth, but it protects you as well as if you had washed thoroughly right away. Moderate Boon: Your heart beats with determined valor. Once, Asherah ends all negative effects affecting you, unless they are from an artifact, deity, or similarly powerful source; she also restores all lost Hit Points and replenishes your spells, Focus Points, and other daily resources. Major Boon: Asherah imbues your fists or maul with great power. Maul or handwraps you wield gain the axiomatic, holy, and major striking runes while you hold them. These property runes count toward the number of runes you can have on your weapon, and if this would cause your weapon to exceed its limit, choose which ones to keep each day when you prepare. You gain a +2 status bonus to attack rolls with longswords.
Minor Curse: Your maul or fists and armor have decayed. Your weapons, armor, and shields have half their usual Hit Points and Break Threshold. Moderate Curse: Tactical advantages never seem to work the way you planned. You can’t receive a circumstance bonus to your attack rolls, and enemies don’t take any circumstance penalties to their AC against your attacks. Major Curse: All bludgeoning weapons reject your wicked heart. Any weapon you wield automatically becomes broken after you Strike with it. This curse can’t break artifacts or similarly powerful weapons.

Herald/s

the Hellwalker, formerly John Albert Webber, and his wife Boudicca appear as a team as furious and powerful as each other and are prepared to fight to preserve existence.

Realm:

Araboth is a realm in Empyrea in the brightest and highest peak beyond the clouds surrounded by stars and former star angels, called cherubim, that sing to their goddess.

Divine Domains

Domains Creation, Glyph, Introspection, Star
Alternate Domains Dreams, Family, Fate, Passion

Holy Books & Codes

Bereshit

Divine Symbols & Sigils

Starry nebulas surrounding the Sefirot, the tree of life

Tenets of Faith

Edicts Thou shalt ensure the balance between opposing arguments to fight the greater evil, thou shalt oppose evil, thou shalt finish thine own vows, thou shalt remember yee are loved, thou shalt honor those that yee love
Anathema thou shalt not spread descent in an argument to destroy greater evil, thou shalt not spread despair, thou shalt not dishonor thine vows, thou shalt not suffer a voidling  to live, thou shalt not submit to evil

Divine Classification

Diety

Current Status

Active

Church/Cult

Pantheon of the Black Star

Honorary & Occupational Titles

Nzambi Mpungu (Ali Empire), Jasagnan (Koschevoy), Bai-Ulgan (Great Temuj), Izanagi (Wa), Prati (formerly Osmani, now identified as Asherah), Cōātlīcue (Tolan), Viracocha (Tawantixu), Nanabozho (Taelnnuwa Nation)

Age

Infinite

Circumstances of Birth

First Thought of Kindness

Current Residence

Empyrea

Sex

Female

Gender

Female

Presentation

A massive woman the size of a planet that is made up of the substance of planets and nebulas

Eyes

Multicolor

Hair

Multiple colors

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

PInk-white

Height

planetary

Weight

???

Belief/Deity

Pantheon of the Black Star

Aligned Organization

The Church of the Black Star

Other Affiliations

• The Church of the Black Star