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| '''Beshaba''', a.k.a. ''The Maid of the Misfortune'', is a fictional ] of the ] campaign setting. Beshaba is the Faerunian ] of ], misfortune, random michief, and accidents. | |||
| ==Overview== | |||
| ''Lady Doom'', as she is also known, demands worship to keep her bad luck at bay. She is a ] ], whose symbol is black antlers on a red field, divine realm is Blood Tor in the ], and Third Edition domains are Chaos, Evil, Fate, Luck, and Trickery. Her weapon is a "barbed" scourge, aptly named "Ill Fortune". | |||
| ===Worshipers=== | |||
| Beshaba is revered more out of fear, than out of religious faith. Beshaba's doctrine states that bad luck befalls everybody, and the only way to avoid it is by worshipping her. She is renowned for being spiteful and malevolent, and her priests manipulate common folk into revering and providing for them by acting mysteriously and playing on morbid fears. Their favored weapon are ]s. | |||
| Her clergy also make ]s: Clerics must offer an entreaty for their spells, and make sacrifices of alcoholic beverages such as burning ] or ]. There are two festivals in the calendar of Beshaba followers, "Midsummer" and "Shieldmeet". Both are celebrated by revelry and indulgence in food and drink. | |||
| ==History & Relationships== | |||
| Beshaba is the twin of ], are sworn enemies as well as 'sisters', much like ] and ]. | |||
| Beshaba came into being when the deity ] split during the ] (a separate disaster relating to the machinations of ]). Tyche was infected with a taint of the dark god ], and was forced her to split into two parts by her friend Selûne. Those two parts, Tymora and Beshaba, sprang out fully formed and immediately fought. | |||
| Beshaba, who is said to have gotten Tyche's looks where Tymora got her love, is considered to be attractive to many male deities, and some have been devoured with her lustful passions. She has rejected advances from ], and other hopefuls. Mortals who perceive the Maid of Misfortune are often destroyed by their lust or driven to maddened loyalty. | |||
| Beshaba's aim in life, is to desiccate and disintegrate her antithesis, "Lady Luck". She also delights in cursing others; for example, she causes seafarers to lose their navigational instincts. She has no allies. ], who was Tyche's mate, fears and abhors Beshaba, but has roused himself to seek the reunification of her with Tymora. | |||
| ==References== | |||
| * '''' - Information on Agathos Daimon | |||
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