Xuldarinar
2015-09-20, 12:21 PM
VANA
The Lady of the Evanescent
Alignment Neutral Good
Area of Concern Willful finite existence
Domains Darkness, Good, Repose, Sun
Subdomains Agatheon, Loss, Revelation, Souls,
Favored Weapon Dagger
Symbol A horizontal line, with a semicircle upon the top half of it, taking up one third of the line. Representative of a setting sun.
Obedience
Sit in an area of darkness and contemplate the end of your existence. By the end of the hour, the area you are in must come to light, be it by the rising of the sun or the lighting of a candle. Gain a +4 sacred bonus against spells of the fear descriptor.
Boons- Celestial Obedience
1: Vana's Comfort (Sp) Swallow your Fear 3/day, Soothing Word 2/day, or Sands of Time 1/day
2: Claim Reward (Su) You become one who given opportunity, will seek to claim their final reward to save another. Whenever an adjacent ally is the target of a melee or ranged attack, you can move to take their place. They gain cover against the attack (and only that attack). If the attack misses them but would have hit them if not for the cover bonus to their attack, you become the new target of the attack and the attacker must make a new attack roll (with all the same modifiers) against your armor class.
3: Visions of Damnation (Sp) Once per day you can show evil creatures the horrors that await them. This functions identically to Waves of Ecstasy except as follows; This can only effect evil-aligned creatures and neutral creatures that possess an evil-aligned patron. This ability causes affected creatures to be panicked for 1 round and frightened for the duration. Creatures that succeed on their saves are instead frightened for 1 round and shaken for the duration. This ability is the equivalent of a 9th-level spell.
Vana is an empyreal lord known as the Lady of the Evanescent. Her concerns lie with a single issue, stemming from it, the willful end of one's existence. Not of the vile act of suicide, but specifically the destruction of souls that do not wish to lead an eternal existence. Those that offer her worship are promised that in her domain, they may choose to live but a finite existence before being snuffed out. To most mortal life, this is a horrifying prospect, but there are those who find eternity to be the true horror. For this reason she exists.
Appearance
Vana appears as a tall, pale, beautiful woman forever resting on the edge of starvation.
History
The Lady of the Evanescent began her immortal existence, not as one of heaven but of the lower planes, but another one of the hunted who would become a daemon. With each soul she devoured her power grew, as did her ravenous hunger. She saw each person as mere prey, until something happened. Individuals desiring a true and final end to their existence came to Abaddon. While most daemons would simply enjoy this offering and move on to the next prey, the memory of it lingered with her as she fed. In time she became horrified with the actions she had taken, the screams of the hunted sickened her, and yet she hungered. For the end she still longed, but she could no longer bring herself to feed upon those who would flee given a chance.
How she parted from Abaddon and what led her to the position she is in today is a mystery, but her solution is not. While still she hungers, those who willingly come to her for their oblivion are more than enough to keep her sated.
Church of Vana
An oddity among most faiths, devotees of the Lady of the Evanescent seek to promote much the same things as most faiths of benevolence do, not to the promise of a good afterlife but that their afterlife will be brief and without pain. They believe that nothing should last forever, and in one's time they should aid others. To them, seeing the beauty in loss, in a finite existence, is a revelation in of itself. While Vana isn't concerned with one's exact conduct in life, or even redemption, doing good onto others is an aspect stressed by her followers and that her example is one to follow for those who have follow.
At this point in time it is a work in progress. This is the second what one could consider a pantheon in the works. A set of demigods, each coming from a different fiendish race.
Gnashthvog; The Devourer of Sin (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?443997-Empyreal-Lord-The-Devourer-of-Sin)
Liv-Or, The Smiling Flagellant (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?442835-Empyreal-Lord-The-Smiling-Flagellant)
The Lady of the Evanescent
Alignment Neutral Good
Area of Concern Willful finite existence
Domains Darkness, Good, Repose, Sun
Subdomains Agatheon, Loss, Revelation, Souls,
Favored Weapon Dagger
Symbol A horizontal line, with a semicircle upon the top half of it, taking up one third of the line. Representative of a setting sun.
Obedience
Sit in an area of darkness and contemplate the end of your existence. By the end of the hour, the area you are in must come to light, be it by the rising of the sun or the lighting of a candle. Gain a +4 sacred bonus against spells of the fear descriptor.
Boons- Celestial Obedience
1: Vana's Comfort (Sp) Swallow your Fear 3/day, Soothing Word 2/day, or Sands of Time 1/day
2: Claim Reward (Su) You become one who given opportunity, will seek to claim their final reward to save another. Whenever an adjacent ally is the target of a melee or ranged attack, you can move to take their place. They gain cover against the attack (and only that attack). If the attack misses them but would have hit them if not for the cover bonus to their attack, you become the new target of the attack and the attacker must make a new attack roll (with all the same modifiers) against your armor class.
3: Visions of Damnation (Sp) Once per day you can show evil creatures the horrors that await them. This functions identically to Waves of Ecstasy except as follows; This can only effect evil-aligned creatures and neutral creatures that possess an evil-aligned patron. This ability causes affected creatures to be panicked for 1 round and frightened for the duration. Creatures that succeed on their saves are instead frightened for 1 round and shaken for the duration. This ability is the equivalent of a 9th-level spell.
Vana is an empyreal lord known as the Lady of the Evanescent. Her concerns lie with a single issue, stemming from it, the willful end of one's existence. Not of the vile act of suicide, but specifically the destruction of souls that do not wish to lead an eternal existence. Those that offer her worship are promised that in her domain, they may choose to live but a finite existence before being snuffed out. To most mortal life, this is a horrifying prospect, but there are those who find eternity to be the true horror. For this reason she exists.
Appearance
Vana appears as a tall, pale, beautiful woman forever resting on the edge of starvation.
History
The Lady of the Evanescent began her immortal existence, not as one of heaven but of the lower planes, but another one of the hunted who would become a daemon. With each soul she devoured her power grew, as did her ravenous hunger. She saw each person as mere prey, until something happened. Individuals desiring a true and final end to their existence came to Abaddon. While most daemons would simply enjoy this offering and move on to the next prey, the memory of it lingered with her as she fed. In time she became horrified with the actions she had taken, the screams of the hunted sickened her, and yet she hungered. For the end she still longed, but she could no longer bring herself to feed upon those who would flee given a chance.
How she parted from Abaddon and what led her to the position she is in today is a mystery, but her solution is not. While still she hungers, those who willingly come to her for their oblivion are more than enough to keep her sated.
Church of Vana
An oddity among most faiths, devotees of the Lady of the Evanescent seek to promote much the same things as most faiths of benevolence do, not to the promise of a good afterlife but that their afterlife will be brief and without pain. They believe that nothing should last forever, and in one's time they should aid others. To them, seeing the beauty in loss, in a finite existence, is a revelation in of itself. While Vana isn't concerned with one's exact conduct in life, or even redemption, doing good onto others is an aspect stressed by her followers and that her example is one to follow for those who have follow.
At this point in time it is a work in progress. This is the second what one could consider a pantheon in the works. A set of demigods, each coming from a different fiendish race.
Gnashthvog; The Devourer of Sin (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?443997-Empyreal-Lord-The-Devourer-of-Sin)
Liv-Or, The Smiling Flagellant (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?442835-Empyreal-Lord-The-Smiling-Flagellant)