Nazmi, The Sculptor

To look upon Nazmi is to see a new face after every blink, though all of them are intoxicating in their beauty and radiance for she carries the physical imprint of thousands of women, be they mothers, daughters, wives or sisters within her, each one rising to the forefront and melding with others before falling without warning.
For all her beauty however there is something monstrous beneath, something that was but a spark in the mortal woman she once was but has grown beside her own doubt as to what parts of her nature are purely her own and what parts are from the other women. It is perhaps this yearning that drives her mercurial behaviour and underpins her constant pushing of boundaries, her constant questioning of Morr, to find where they believe her old self would go, would stop, be the question philosophical or physical.
She is Deaths consort and Queen of the Underworld, a loving mother, a wayward daughter, a walking contradiction who sees no problem when giving comfort with one hand while destroying with the other, and the most creative spirit ever to exist.

History

The early history of Nazmi is largely forgotten in the present day, with the only known pieces being that she is potentially an old Thujan Goddess who, according to what fragments are still available, ascended during the age of their mythical ancient Empire: the Thuum-ja Empire, on the undiscovered island continent of Thuug-nana before "Firefall". As most of what is known of this mythical time is derived from oral sources, or records, written perhaps thousands of years later, reliable facts are few and far between.
Nazmi herself is hardly mentioned in sources, only being mentioned as a master sculptor, "building the body of (for?) The Great and Immortal King of Kings, the (...) Emperor Ka'bann sul Hamaz ben Lazen arl Hark". Besides this line of text, found on a copy of a copy of a scroll, the Thujans have nothing else to say of her, and she seems to disappear, replaced by a more prominent master sculptor before turning up in later Kesum myth as the consort of Morr, Goddess of Death. Its guessed that she died at some point, perhaps killed, perhaps during firefall, and was adopted into the Kesum pantheon.

Personality

At her core, Nazmi is still the woman from a now long forgotten City. A woman who was a master at her craft and was hired across the Empire to sculpt busts or full body representations of people living or dead to exacting and lifelike detail. Until her, most were doing impressions or stylised representations of their subjects but she wanted her work to look real, as alive as stone could be.
Around this core however is a sea of half remembered echoes imprinted from the souls she transfers from one body to another once her work is done like clay under the fingernails or dust in the hair. She often finds herself weeping for the loss of someone she doesn't know or can even picture, only feeling the emotion, or hating someone with such deep vengeance that she will take off to blindly search for them among the dead without even knowing who they are, or if they are even dead. She fears these moments, and while lucid will attempt to do what she can to clean herself of these vestiges of other people, though how she would even know if and when they're all gone, or even what is her and what is not, she doesn't know.

Appearance

Nazmi appears as a long legged pale Kesum woman of unparalleled beauty. Every part of her body she has moulded and remoulded until she is pleased with it, at least until a new fancy takes her. Her face seems to subtly shift every so often, nothing too noticeable perhaps but enough that when looked at again, someone different look back.Her eyes are a deep turquoise, and her dark hair is kept short on the sides but on top is pulled into a loose tied topknot, a callback to her Thuum-Javian origins. She always wears tasteful clothing and jewellery that accentuates her beauty without revealing too much.

Worship

Divine Domains

Art, Sculpture, Beauty, Death

Divine Symbols & Sigils

Nazmi's symbol is that of a square on its tip with a circle in the middle carved into five pieces. This symbol is usually red, and it worn as a pendant, or placed over an eye of a deceased person at their funeral, while Morrs symbol covers the other.
She is usually worshipped by sculptors, her symbol decorating the plinth of their "magnum opus", which will also be buried with them when they die so they may present it to her. Others may create some kind of figurine to worship her at a shine, usually with her symbol integrated somehow into it.

Tenets of Faith

The Flesh Lives

Flesh lives, and to live is to experience. Those who worship Nazmi see only the now, the past and future are only relevant as to how they relate to this very instance. As such, Patience is not a virtue and followers are driven to move quickly and forcibly against any problem in an effort to find a solution, and if one cannot be found, they change, they adapt.
Conformity is not prized, and a Follower should have the ability to cast aside all beliefs and ideals that prove themselves no longer practical in favour of a more progressive course, which itself is cast aside in turn, for an even newer course, or perhaps for an older course which is now practical again.
Freedom is the ability to be and do whatever you need or desire at any given moment.
Whether born of curiosity, lust, spit or greed the creative mind should be mercurial and never apologise for what they think, feel or are. This does not mean they should lack empathy however. In fact, Nazmi's followers are as likely to change to suit those they consider worthy of their time as they are to change to suit themselves. Adaptability is the key.

Nazmi

Divine Classification

Goddess

Honorary Titles

Lady of Perfection
Bestower of Beauty

Favoured Weapon

Hammer

Symbol

A Geometric design consisting of multiple interlinked squares surrounding a circle of circles

Sacred Animal

Greater Crested Baza

Sacred Colours

Light Grey and Brass