This will now be the fifth god I have completed on the book I am currently writing. Title and book is very much a work in progress, so if you have any additional ideas or critiques, you are more than welcome to toss me a comment below!
The book is about adding piety scores (Perks for worshipping and following your god’s dogma and what they believe in) to the Forgotten Realms deities. It’s always fun to do a sort of “bad guy” deity as a patron since it can really open up backstory or story lines for a character. I’ve always seen Beshaba as a sort of “Mean Girl” of all the gods. No specific goal or purpose for her except attention.
After the PDF’s scroll to the bottom for additional info accompanied by artwork like: What would their temple look like? What would a priest or and adventurer look like as a follower?
Beshaba’s Description
Beshaba rarely walks Faerûn in avatar form, but when she does appear, it is as an impossibly tall and thin, yet voluptuously graceful woman whose long, flowing, unbound hair is snow-white and whose face bears the loveliness of lost Tyche—yet her eyes, yellow and red-rimmed, blaze with madness, and her skin shifts slowly and continuously in hue from dead white to mauve and back again.
Beshaba’s Other Manifestations
Beshaba prefers to appear as a 12-foot-tall giant head wreathed in snow-white, swirling hair, with her features twisted into a sneer of madness as she laughs maniacally.
Beshaba’s Divine Realm
Blood Tor, Warriors rest
Towering over the blood red waters is the Blood Tor, a massive rocky peak that some sages say rivals Mt. Olympus in size. Beshaba and her court live in a cavern complex within the mountain, somewhere near the pinnacle.
A single tower of granite stood on the summit of the Blood Tor—the palace of the goddess of ill luck Beshaba.
Beshaba’s Domain
Random mischief, misfortune, bad luck, accidents
Beshaba’s Center of Worship
The most holy center of Beshaban worship is the Spires Against the Stars, a hilltop fortress north of Satadush in eastern Tethyr that was once a vampire-haunted, abandoned castle of a noble family. The Spires is headed by Nails of the Lady Dlatha Faenar, an elderly but (through magic) still lushly beautiful priestess who has ruthlessly slain her rivals and so far eluded all attempts to destroy or depose her over the course of almost a century. Dlatha is said to be able to wield magics too potent for most mortals to use or comprehend.
Beshaba’s Followers Garbs
Female priests of Beshaba wear robes of mauve, purple, and black, and are branded or tattooed on one instep with Beshaba’s Badge (the antlers) and on one thigh with a row of marks of rank which can only be read by fellon initiates. These are covered by normal clothing when the priestess is outside of temples or sites where ceremonies are being conducted.Male priests wear robes of crimson and are tattooed with Beshaba’s Badge on one cheek, a device which can be covered only by a mask, mud (or a similar substance), or long, unkempt hair. In services, doommasters of either gender who are leading a ceremony prefer simple black tunics with the symbol of Beshaba on the chest and black stockings.
Beshaba’s Adventurers Garbs
When working in the field, under cover, on a quest, or simply traveling, most Beshaban clergy wear utilitarian garb appropriate to their locale and the level of danger they anticipate encoun- tering.
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