Lamia

History

While her wife would have the world do it for her, among those who stood against Lamia there was only the mother of Serpents, and her fangs are two sharp, short blades. Laia moves with grace and dances through combat like it was a song, and while her blades bites deep, the venom within them is what truly is to be feared. Lamia likes people, but doesn’t like what people do, and is not known to be the forgiving partner of the pair.

She makes exceptions for Serpent Therian in her clerics and was said to be why they exist.

Relations

Lamia give everyone the willies. She is pretty, demure, feminine, and absolutely uninterested in anything anyone else is doing except for her wife, who she supports and who supports her in turn.

She does like Acacia. That’s about it.

Centers of Worship

Lamia has quiet, secluded Shrines scattered about the lands, often in very out of the way places and guarded in part by snakes raised by her clerics.

She has no temple in any city.

Followers

Lamia’s followers are known to shave a line through one eyebrow based in part on what they are attracted to (left for women, right for men), and all get a tattoo around their eye, though it can vary from a snake to a scorpion to a flower – all are known for their poisonous nature, however, even though those poisons have long since stopped working.

Poison is an acceptable tool in the arsenal of lamia’s followers, but it must be done properly, and innocents cannot die from it.

Personality

Lamia is always concerned with the consequences of an action, the outcomes that are not seen, the impacts that are not predicted. She is a forward thinker, then, less concerned with he moment than she is with what will be, and she is rarely wrong in her sibylline outlooks.

As a result, her Clerics are often sought for auguries and prophecies, as they are thought to be particular useful and far less likely to be couched in some strange mystical puzzle format.

Lamia

Alignment

Life, Independence, Unity, Structure, Imbalance, Benefice, Pattern

Alternyms

Serpent Queen, Ravenlass, Skywitch

Patron of

Akadia

Dorado

Colors

Red

Yellow

Black

Fauna

Snake

Beast

Blood raven

Flora

Reeds, Cattails

Omen

A coiled snake

Ordeals

Stones

Cross

Combat

Followers

Virtues

Perceptiveness

Wisdom

Quietude

Sins

Loudness

Idleness

Impulsiveness

Worship

Kneel, Offering, Prayer, Request, rise and bow, ring bell.

Baptism

Ordeal of Solitude, one week, water only three times.

Prayer

So, I sing to thee of sunsets and sunrises, hear me Lamia, and grant my plea.

Offerings

Brooms, beer, meat, coin

Clerics

Feminine men only, any armor, melee weapons only, preferably a sword. Her mark will appear on either the rear end or the upper chest area.