Aradia

of the Stars

Aradia of the Stars, Aradia the Liberator, Aradia Salvata, Aradia Medica, Aradia Lightbringer...all these names and more is she known by. But who was Aradia? Did she even exist?
My predecessors will sing her praises and elevate her to goddesshood. They will ignore the discrepancies in her stories, weaving over a hundred years of history together to say one impossibly-aged woman completed all these feats. They worship.
So we should. She saved us. But I do not think she was one person. I think she is a symbol -- one we desperately needed. And maybe the original Aradia knew that.
There is evidence, buried in the Archives, that Aradia was not one person but a lineage of people...that the name was passed down from mother to daughter for generations, until humanity was ready to live without her.
Maybe someday the Empire will be ready for this knowledge. It is not today. We are not ready for a world where we can accept her divinity and yet also acknowledge that she was not any one single person. Someday, I hope we can. May I see it in my lifetime.

— Mokosh, Royal Historian, from her private journals

Divine Domains

Aradia of the Stars

In her guise as Aradia of the Stars, she is a goddess of space-travel and space-faring, as well as the cold dark between stars, the dangers of the vacuum. No ship is complete without a shrine to her and a blessing from her priestess.

Aradia Medica

Healers call upon Aradia Medica in their profession, asking for her healing capabilities to infuse their own works, for her mercy to rain down upon their patients. When a case is too far gone, Aradia Salvata is called instead.

Aradia Salvata

Aradia, Savior of Souls. This is the Aradia called upon in most dire need or circumstance, when things are at their darkest -- when all is lost. Supplicants pray to Aradia to save their souls, if she cannot save their lives.

No images are known to exist of Aradia, and while many statues were later commissioned based on what people thought she might have looked like, the perennial favourite was a repurposed statue of an ancient goddess whose name was lost to time. It stood in the First Temple, and pilgrims from all over the Empire would come to give their devotion.
(Image by travelspot from Pixabay.)

Divine Classification

Mythic Hero Figure / Apotheosized Human

Religions

• The Aradian Order

Species

Terran

Church/Cult

The Aradian Order

Gender

Female